MEtRICs is benefiting from the AVL University Partnership Program (Platinum Partnership) established with AVL List GmbH (www.avl.com) through which it has access to up to 30 licenses of AVL Suite, a n induistry-standard software suite for automotive analysis and simulation. These tools are being used in projects related to automotive engineering such as Exhaust2Energy and several ongoing MSc dissertations at the LaMoTA Engines Lab.