Purdue University announced Thursday that the school’s motorsports engineering program would be housed at Dallara’s U.S. headquarters in Speedway, Indiana.
Dallara is the largest multinational Italian race car manufacturer, having built and supported a number of the world’s competitive race cars.
Derek Schultz, Purdue’s strategic communicator said the partnership will provide new experiences and opportunities for students.
“It enhances it just with the fact that you know, Dallara is the exact type of employer that wants to have a pipeline to Purdue talents,” he said. “I think is a really special opportunity for them to understand vehicle dynamics and aerodynamics and systems engineering and performance engineering and race car design and be able to find real world solutions while they're students.”
The new facility will house space for classrooms, hands-on training and diagnostic testing for students in the motorsports engineering program.
Schultz said that students should be able to reap the rewards of this new partnership as early as this fall.
“Classes and all of those things are slated to begin for the fall of 2024,” he said. “And of course, the official Purdue University in Indianapolis launch is July 1, so you're going to have the first class of our Indianapolis students go through and be housed in this program.”
Dallara’s U.S. headquarters will also be home to the Ray Ewry Sports Engineering Center, a joint effort between the college of engineering and Purdue intercollegiate athletics, which is focused on integrity of competition, health and safety of participants and audience engagement.
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