Mobility Engineer 2030 is a collaborative initiative, led by FISITA, utilising the organisation’s unique, international status and relationships between its key industry and academic stakeholders to consider how mobility engineers of the future can be best educated and prepared to deliver the skills-sets that the fast evolving ‘mobility services’ industry will require.

The initiative aims to identify the skills that mobility engineers will require in 2030 as a first step in a long-term process of engagement, evaluation and feedback.

The intention of this paper is to support further progressive discussions, considerations and thought leadership as industry and academia prepares the environment for the next generation of our industry’s technologists; the ‘mobility engineers’.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

2 How Automotive is Changing

• Four disruptions

• Redefinition of automobiles

• Attributes of a modern mobility device

3 The Demands of Industry

• Technical and interdisciplinary skill requirements

• Project, process management and soft skills requirements

• New paradigms

4 Examples of Current Best Practice

• RWTH Aachen University, Germany

• University of Bath, United Kingdom

• Deakin University, Australia

• University of Michigan, USA

• University of Piteşti, Romania

• University of Tsinghua, China

5 A New Educational Concept

• Designing the individual curriculum

• University education

• Education and training on the job

• Maximised learning and virtual education delivery

6 Conclusion

• Closing thoughts from the FISITA President

7 Contributors and Acknowledgements

• References

• Contributors

8 About FISITA

• Vision

• Mission

Paper published: September 2018. 

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