Bugatti Institute of Art, Design & Engineering Technology

The official opening of the Bugatti Institute of Art, Design & Engineering Technology took place on 1 December 2003. Forming an auxiliary arm of Coventry University's renowned Art & Design faculty and it's highly regarded School of Engineering, the Bugatti Institute aimed to take advantage of the natural creativity of youth that the university was known for.

Although not run exclusively for students working on Bugatti projects and research, the Institute was nonetheless geared towards training designers with potential to work for the Institute's parent company.

What makes the Institute different (other than the fact that Bugatti engineers and designers act as lecturers and tutors) is that the Institute building itself encompasses a (at the time) revolutionary design laboratory - the state-of-the-art design and modelling facility called the cu-adam lab. The cost of this facility is estimated at £2 million alone, provides a full-size drive-in 3-D digitising and CNC milling bay, together with computer-aided styling studios and a virtual presentation theatre. Despite the fashionable increase in industry participation of university education and courses around the country, the Bugatti Institute is still one of the few self-contained design schools of its kind in the UK.