AIC and DEUSTO University offer Automotive Engineering Specialization Diploma

AIC and DEUSTO University offer Automotive Engineering Specialization Diploma

New diploma seeks to develop skills of automotive industry’s current and future professionals Initiative is part of a frame cooperation agreement signed by both organizations | 03/10/2014

Bilbao, 3.10.2014-- AIC-Automotive Intelligence Center and the University of Deusto (UD) have launched a new “Automotive Engineering Specialization Diploma” with fifteen students taking the course.

Basically, the diploma targets Industrial Engineering graduates and people with experience in the sector wishing to acquire new skills or broaden specific knowledge of the automotive industry.

Some 30 credits are to be spread over five subjects: management and production techniques in the automotive industry, automotive technologies, manufacturing materials and processes in the automotive industry, vehicle dynamics and product design and fabrication in the automotive industry. Students will also be offered in-house training at local companies.

AIC CEO Inés Anitua described the diploma course as “a new way to generate value for the automotive industry by targeting highly trained people capable of competing in an increasingly globalized market”.

A direct result of last year’s Specific Cooperation Agreement between the two organizations to launch and run their own course, the Diploma is also one of the latest initiatives introduced under the AIC-UD Frame Agreement signed in July 2010 on honing the skills and abilities of today’s and tomorrow’s Basque automotive industry professionals through training and research. The Agreement’s main objectives are to:

• Provide new course and MUII students with the kind of specific training relative to the automotive industry that will enable them to specialize in this area.

• Improve their professional and work prospects.

• Increase cooperation between the academic world and businesses in the automotive industry.

Given its extraordinary complexity and high-powered competitive levels, plus the sheer pace of technological change, the automotive industry is in constant need of professionals with high-level training in a range of disciplines.

To make matters even more complicated, new technologies, new business models, new mobility requirements and new opportunities within the automotive industry are appearing all the time. New developments force organizations to cooperate on an open basis and network at a frenetic pace to make use of the capabilities of other players in the industry if they are to give a fast and effective response to the dizzying rate of change.

Promoted by Bizkaia Provincial Council, Amorebieta-Etxamo and Ermua city halls, a group of cutting-edge automotive companies and Basque automotive cluster ACICAE, AIC provides a single umbrella for knowledge, training, technology and industrial development initiatives designed to improve competitive levels in the automotive industry.

For nearly 40 years the University of Deusto’s Engineering Faculty has offered graduate engineering courses, originally in computer sciences, and subsequently in industrial and telecommunications engineering. From the first, training has been backed by major scientific and technology research capabilities. Using a student-centered teaching-learning model, the student develops his or her skills in an ecosystem linked to the labor market. Deusto-trained engineers achieve competencies recognized and prized by the companies that hire the university’s graduates.