20 Representatives from all Serbian academic partners (7 UKG, 4 UNI, 4 UNS, 2 DUNP) as well as representatives from non-academic partners (2 HS1 and 1 FAS) visited Politechnioco di Torino from June 16th to 20th, 2014.
The 17th June was designated to the organised visit to FIAT plant at Mirafiori sight. The group visited facilities for the production of car body and for car assembly as well as a complete production line of Abarth. It was the chance to see in detail the advanced way of organisation of car production process.
The meetings on 18th June were organized at the premises of Politechnico di Torino main site. Prof. Giovanni Belingardi, prof. Federico Millo and prof. Patrizio Nuccio had lectures about the organization of study process and scientific work at their institution. The afternoon session was related to the visit of few laboratories at POLITO departments (DENERG - Dipartimento Energia and DIMEAS -Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale) in order to get insight into the concept of their organization. The laboratories were presented in detailed and equipment was shown to representatives from Serbian delegation and explained student requirements when they perform laboratory exercises. Beside it was the chance to share the experience of POLITO to FAS and UKG representatives concerning the organization of student internship.
The morning of 19th June was dedicated to the visit to TRW Automotive Italia industrial plant at Bricherasio. TRW is a global leading developer and supplier of active and passive vehicle systems. After the lectures of plant manager Mr. Sergio Fassio related to Occupant safety systems in vehicles, the project team had the privilege to visit and to thoroughly familiarize with laboratories, warehouse and production lines of the factory. In the afternoon, the group visited POLITO site at Mirafiori. After the presentation of prof. Belingardi: The triangle of knowledge at Politecnico di Torino – a cluster approach and presentation of prof. Romagnoli and prof. Bedolla: Implementation of PLM framework in academic courses, the Serbian representatives had fruitful discussion and exchange of experiences with teachers at automotive engineering study program at POLITO (prof. Belingardi, prof. Pia, Prof. Borzari, prof. Romagnoli and prof. Bedolla).