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The University of Mondragón and Epsilon Euskadi to develop a pioneering educational project in Europe
Both bodies plan to start up a centre for top competition technological training for engineering students from the University of Mondragón?s Higher Polytechnic School. This centre will be a key element in the development of Epsilon Euskadi´s high performance motor racing and technology centre, which will be located in the province of Gipuzkoa.
This educational project, which will start this coming academic year, will cover training, technology, motor racing and industry. The aim is to promote research into motor racing components and materials to enable the Epsilon Euskadi team to develop more competitive vehicles, which will participate in the Superfund World Series, which has in recent years become a preliminary step to Formula 1 racing.
With this aim, the University of Mondragón students will be trained in areas like motor racing engineering, telemetry or track mechanics. The project will also include a final project carried out at the high performance centre that Epsilon will inaugurate in Gipuzkoa. At the same time. the project includes the creation of a car technology laboratory where RDI projects will be carried in the motor racing field. The training period will last 300 hours, from September 2003 to January 2004.
Once the training period is over, the students have to do a tutored technology project at the Epsilon Euskadi headquarters. During this project, the students will continue to receive practical training, carrying out different technical tasks for the team. In this way, the students will participate as engineers, experts in telemetry or track mechanics, among other tasks, together with the rest of the members of the team. In total, twenty-four people will work together at the base of operations. The engineer Joan Villadelprat, with many years of experience in Formula 1 teams, will be the technical director of the projects, which will be tutored by lecturers from the mechanics department of the University of Mondragón´s Higher Polytechnic School.
Parallel to the competition and training programmes, the project includes the start up of a car technology laboratory that will be located in the high performance centre. This research will promote the start up of projects for the design, manufacture and testing of competition parts, as well as professional specialisation. It will also offer the industrial sector the experience acquired in components and materials.
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