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The purpose of this paper to present an educational vision that involves increased collaboration between industry and academia in the training of automotive engineers to meet the global demands of the 21st century. It will outline the increasing need for industrial contributions towards the development of automotive specific courses to suit industry specific needs, recognized educational standards to meet the needs of the automotive industry, validation and accreditation of courses, approved centers of excellence, automotive academies, worldwide collaboration in the internship of students, inter-university collaboration, joint responsibilities to provide training facilities for teaching and research, scholarship schemes and inter-country educational & industrial exchanges and possible globalization of the educational process.

Asymmetry is applied to a heavy-duty commercial twin calliper disc brake rotor as a means to alleviate an undesirable high amplitude noise. The problematic frequency is 2400 Hz, the rotor blade exhibiting a 5-diametric mode order of vibration. The asymmetry is introduced by drilling sets of radial holes into the disc rim. Modal analysis is carried out over a range of frequencies using added masses applied magnetically to the rim of the rotor This shows the amplitudes at set frequencies to reduce considerably when asymmetry is introduced. When a set of 5 masses is added to the rotor the vibration amplitude at the troublesome frequency is seen to be considerably reduced. Finite element analysis complements the experimental results.