Abstract
Keywords - Students, Futuristic, Designs, Trends, Concepts.
Abstract - It takes the harmonious role of the engineer and the designer to produce the concept vehicles of the future, which are often debuted at international auto shows. Although the automobile companies use their advanced design studios or a specific design house (carrozzeria) to design, model, and fabricate a new concept vehicle for an auto show, the initial design theme may have taken place at yet an earlier stage. With the many professional design schools and colleges preparing students for the automotive design world, many auto companies set up sponsored student projects with these schools. The companies send members of their design and engineering staff to observe and assist the students during the project. Inasmuch as the instructors and teachers at the institutions are often from the automotive design profession also, this opportunity gives the aspiring automotive design student an inroad to the design world. With this in mind, the graduating student often carries along conceptual ideas he or she once acquired during their scholastic days. And with the design freedom allowed a student with somewhat lesser restrictions, it understandably figures that many of the totally new design themes or concepts can and often do emanate at the academic level.