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Thesis Award
Outstanding Master's Thesis Award of the SAE Naples Section.
About the award
Every year SAENA awards a prize for outstanding Master's theses (five-year or second-level degree) on automotive topics from Italian universities. Applicants must be SAE International student members, or prove SAE affiliation, when they apply. A board of three commissioners plus the SAENA President judges each thesis on clarity, methodology and contribution to the research field. The prize is 500 euro in cash plus free participation in the next ICE conference.
Prize
500 euro plus free participation in ICE2027, the 18th International Conference on Engines and Vehicles for Sustainable Transport
Last call (2026)
Deadline 15 April 2026
Winners
23 winners since 2008, newest first.
| Year | Winners | Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Veronica Patrizi Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE) Domenico Episcopo Politecnico di Bari | Hydrogen direct injection in high specific power engines: 3D CFD analysis of a multi-hole injector cap Numerical and experimental study of a hydrogen-fuelled compression-ignition internal combustion engine: operating challenges, performance and design of an H2 direct injection system |
| 2023 | Stefano Sfriso Marco Palomba | |
| 2021 | Maria Rosaria Crispi Emanuele Musso | |
| 2020 | Francesco Penza Politecnico di Bari Marco Piras University of Naples Federico II | |
| 2019 | Luigi Falbo Leonardo Crivellaro | |
| 2017-18 | Carmela Perozziello University of Naples Francesco Accurso Politecnico di Torino | |
| 2014-15 | Giacomo Belgiorno Daniela Ingrosso | |
| 2012-13 | Andrea Cricchio Danilo D'Agostino | |
| 2011-12 | Matteo Nobile | |
| 2010-11 | Simone Lombardi Agnese Magno | |
| 2009-10 | Rodolfo Bontempo Giorgio Mancini | |
| 2008-09 | Vesselin Krassimirov Luigi Sequino |