The aim of the project was to design and build a fully functional, life-size car that would represent the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and students of automotive production in their acquired skills, knowledge and abilities.

The car was designed to impress with its originality, aggressiveness, speed, modern innovative features and sporty appearance, appealing especially to the younger generation as well as to sporty motorists.

The project was built to model the real process of automotive companies, with real constraints and with the didactic intention of maximum team creativity based on the learnig by doing method. The project had no grant, the funding was provided by the Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Dr.hc. Prof. Ing. Miroslav Badida, PhD. from the laboratory building fund.

The expert guarantor of the project was prof. Ing. Milan Kováč, DrSc. - Director of the Institute of Technology and Management and Head of the Innovation Centre of Automotive Production.

Expert consultants:

• Ing. Štefan Babjak, PhD. – ICAV
• Ing. Michal Dúbravčík, PhD. – KTaM
• Ing. Štefan Kender, PhD. – KTaM

They collaborated:

• Ing. Miloš Liba
• Ing. Peter Čerkala
• Ing. Slavomír Potoczky

The sequence of project phases was as follows:

Generation of conceptual variants of the car, design proposals, graphic and computer designs, evaluations, creation of models, technical solutions, calculations, experiments, decision-making production - subcontracting, ....

Portfolio of knowledge and implementation competence of our students

• Innovation Intelligence
• Creativity techniques: brainstorming, morphology, TRIZ,...
• Benchmarking
• Design creation: drawings, tape and physical models
• Design solutions, calculations, simulations
• CAD solutions Catia
• Lean design
• Fixture design
• Sample production using conventional methods and rapid prototyping
• Mould design
• Automotive parts production
• Part testing and quality control
• Subcontract optimization
• Assembly
• Manufacturability, assembly, economy - design for manufacturability, assembly, economy