Innovative and multidisciplinary teaching through the design and construction of low consumption vehicles for international competitions

Abstract

The paper presents an innovative way to teach point out at the Politecnico of Torino thanks to the creation, ten year ago, of the Team H2politO. The interdisciplinary Team, made by students, give an opportunity to tackle a “new teaching”, different from the traditional one, which provides a lecturer in classroom, more innovative with protagonist students able to cope with technical problems too complex, such as those who, from the moment of graduation, will have to face the business world. The challenge of the Team is design, build and assembly a working vehicle prototype to participate to an International student competition (Shell Eco-marathon) with a goal: global efficiency to obtain low consumption results.