Specializing Master in Transportation and Automobile Design

The Specializing Master in Transportation & Automobile Design is a Master in Car Design of the Politecnico di Milano and it is a pathway to excellence for those who seek scientifically rigorous training to meet the professional challenges that automakers' design departments are offering in this era of far-reaching change and radical innovation in the industry.

Reliance on facilities at the Design Department at the Politecnico di Milano, such as its prototype workshop and its virtual prototyping workshop, enrich the learning experience by assuring the availability of equipment up to the task of the Specializing Master.

The Specializing Master is designed to train a figure of designer who is able to develop own creativity, integrating it in an innovative way with the academic knowledge of the training scenarios, and at the same time to experience the entire development process of typical style of the world of the automotive industry.

Didactic Plan
The Transportation & Automobile Design Specializing Master is made up of lessons, project seminars, workshops, and a final Master thesis. The course plan consists of 17 learning modules, selected so as to provide a mix that will assure the theoretical and practical knowledge essential to developing transportation-design projects with full awareness of the context.

Didactic Modules

Car Design Studio
Didactic workshop where students can practice what they have learned in the first months of the Master's program, through the design development of a vehicle in its different aspects.

Exterior Car Design
Students will learn how to design the body of a vehicle.

Interior Car Design
Students will learn how to design the interior of a vehicle.

Colour & Trim
The unit focus on the selection process for colours, materials and finishes in the automotive design field, for both interior design and exterior design.

Transportation Design Workshops
Workshops will take place over several days in which students will develop some specific and limited design themes.

Alias modelling for Car Design*
Module dedicated to digital modeling developed with the tool considered the reference standard for automotive design.

Multimedia Tools for Car Design
Acquisition of knowledge and skills regarding new ways of fruition of a project.

Adobe Tools
Students will learn how to use the Adobe Suite to communicate a project.

Vehicles Architecture
In this didactic module, students will acquire skills on the disciplines that combine design with vehicle engineering.

Car Design Culture
Didactic module dedicated to the history and culture of the vehicle.

Presentation Techniques for Car Design
Acquisition of the techniques and tools for presenting design proposals both within one's team and externally.

Experience Interaction Design for Vehicles
Use of new technologies of User Experience for the fruition of vehicles.

Ergonomics
The concepts of comfort, accessibility and fruition of a vehicle will be addressed.

Portfolio Empowerment
How to set up one's portfolio in a professional way.

Creative Group Empowerment
Students will work in a creative group, learning how to manage interpersonal relationships.

IP law in Automotive Design
In this educational module, students will gain legal skills regarding their rights and duties in the industry, either as employees of companies or as collaborators or suppliers.

Project Enhancement Studio or Internship
Additional in-depth pathway for all students who should not be selected for a curricular internship in companies in the industry.

*Basic Alias
Enrolled students will have the opportunity to participate free of charge in an introductory course on Autodesk Alias®: the digital modelling software is a key tool in transportation design. This program is widely used by companies in the automotive sector. That's why it is a crucial asset for those who wish to step into the world of work in this field.

Requirements
The enrollment at the Specializing Master in Transportation & Automobile Design requires a University Diploma, a Bachelor of Science degree,
or a Master of Science degree in Industrial Design, Architecture, Engineering, or an equivalent qualification. Anyhow, the Master board has the right to consider the enrollment of candidates holding the above mentioned titles in other disciplines. For those who graduated not in Italy, equivalent study titles will be considered if recognized in the respective course of studies.