Chemical Engineering for Sustainable Development (LM-22)

The fight against climate change and environmental degradation is today considered an elements at the basis of economic and social development. The need to plan a sustainable future can be the basis of a university education that has its roots inchemical engineering, a discipline that deals with the design and optimization of a vast range of production and transformation processes of substances and materials. Thus, this course was born with the training objective of acquiring technical skills to intervene on the chemical, biochemical or physical state of elements in industrial sectors with a specific focus on sustainability and improving the quality of life.

The course lets students to direct their education towards two paths: Environment and Energy Pharma and Biotech Industry. The former trains specialized technical figures to operate in the plant engineering and industrial plant design sectors with a particular focus on the climate change and energy sectors. The second, on the other hand, trains students to operate in the waste and recycling sector, in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries and more generally in the biotech sector which is rapidly developing all over the world.

The presence of numerous corporate teachers, the possibility of internships in companies domestic and abroad, and with a placement close to 100% one year after graduation demonstrate the strengths of the course in Chemical Engineering for Sustainable Development.

Intelligent Systems Engineering (LM-32)

From the investigations conducted, and aimed at evaluating the professional figures required by the world of work,
it emerges unequivocally that there is a strong shortage of graduates in technical-scientific disciplines with adequate skills to govern the digital transformation of industrial processes and, more generally, of all work, social and personal processes of interaction between natural persons and IT or computerizable systems.

The Master's Degree Course in Intelligent Systems Engineering aims to respond to this demand for professional figures, focusing onattention on systems in which the hardware components and
software integrate to offer advanced functionality that respond effectively to current ones
need for innovation. The design and management of these systems therefore require the integration of technical and transversal skills, relevant in the fields of production and services.

To this end, training activities mainly concern three fundamental aspects of intelligent systems:

The study of intelligent systems approached from three different perspectives stimulates lateral thinking
learners in promote innovation and creativity in solving complex problems. In order to address these topics, the basic training activities (common training core) concern statistics and mathematical optimization, the principles and methodologies underlying artificial intelligence, robotic systems and advanced automatic systems, as well as the architectures of distributed systems and the use of IoT devices for interaction with the physical world. The course is therefore characterized by transversality and for the inclusion in the training course of topics related to the development of solutions based on information technologies, automatic and robotics and on the use of intelligent systems in multiple application areas, including interaction with people.

PACE University: Second Year in Manhattan

Thanks to the agreement between UCBM , Pace University of New York, students of the Master's Degree in Intelligent Systems Engineering have the opportunity to carry out the second year in ManhattanThe program allows you to delve into innovative areas of study such as Data Science, Cybersecurity e information systems, in an international academic context. Upon completion of the program, students will earn a dual degree, recognized in both the United States and Italy. > Find out more

Mobility between LUISS e UCBM: an opportunity for master's students

Thanks to a new agreement signed with the LUISS Guido Carl, students of the Master's Degree in Intelligent Systems Engineering have the opportunity to delve deeper into economic/managerial issues linked to digital transformation, being able to follow at the LUISS two courses in the management field. The courses attended and passed at the LUISS will recognized in career as training activities chosen by the student (TAF D) and will contribute to the weighted average and to obtain a degree. The current agreement stipulates that only a specific number of students can pursue this path.

Biomedical Engineering Postgraduate (LM-21)

Reflecting the professional and research experience of our professors, the Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering trains professionals capable of designing, developing, evaluating and managing advanced technologies – including artificial intelligence systems – for:

The program integrates engineering, medical and humanistic skills and includes an important practical component, such as laboratories for the design of medical devices and assistive technologies, laboratories at the Fondazione Policlinico Univeristario Campus Bio-Medico, and those of nanotechnology and tissue engineering.

The teaching is divided into three common areas of training (biomedical engineering, biomedical disciplines, humanities and law), and four areas of specialized knowledge, chosen by the student: biomedical engineering for global health and artificial intelligence, biorobotics and ergonomics, clinical engineering, nanotechnologies and bioartificial systems.

Laboratories and research infrastructures at the service of teaching

Over the past two years, the Faculty and the University have made significant infrastructural investments in research and teaching laboratories, used across the 4 training paths. Among these, the latest in chronological order:

Biomedical Engineering (L-8)

The Biomedical Engineering Degree Course (class L 8) is offered entirely in English and was designed to train a professional who is able to fit into highly differentiated and rapidly evolving production realities, such as those in the biomedical sector. The professional profile that the degree course intends to train is that of a professional able to operate in the public and private sectors to cover roles at the level of junior designer and expert user of biomedical technologies. The educational path also allows students to continue their studies with access to Master's Degrees or University Masters in order to deepen their skills through highly qualified courses in specific fields.

The Degree Course uses engineering methodologies and technologies to describe, understand and solve problems of medical-biological interest through a close interdisciplinary collaboration between the Departmental Faculties of Engineering and Medicine and Surgery of the University. The interaction with the environment, the engineering of new materials, prostheses and artificial organs, biomedical equipment and instruments, the treatment of biomedical images and signals, ICT applications, represent an essential contribution to progress by stimulating important investments and creating job opportunities. The initial part of the educational path (I and II year) is strongly oriented towards a basic preparation, in which the student acquires the essential elements of the scientific disciplines which constitute the indispensable foundations of Engineering studies. The basics of mathematics, physics and chemistry are accompanied, in the first year, by the teaching of Physiology and anatomy (provided by teachers of the Departmental Faculty of Medicine and Surgery) which constitutes the foundation for the specific contents of subsequent biomedical engineering courses. In the final part of the course (III year), students are provided with up-to-date tools and methods for solving analysis/design problems relevant to Biomedical Engineering. The methodological rigor of the setting of the basic teachings is aimed at developing the student's aptitude for logical-scientific reasoning.

Among the didactic activities, as for all the Degree and Master's Degree Courses of the University, there are teachings that aim to provide the conceptual tools, borrowed from ethical, deontological, epistemological and historical-philosophical principles and methods, which contribute to the formation of a critical spirit of the student. 

The presence of teaching laboratories and research laboratories allows the student to carry out experimental training activities that integrate the theoretical knowledge acquired through institutional teachings.

Industrial Engineering (L-9)

The objective of the Degree Course in Industrial Engineering (CdS) is to provide a solid basic preparation to operate in all sectors of Industrial Engineering. The training is geared toward making the graduates Industrial Engineering capable of inserting themselves effectively into the ongoing processes of integrating new technologies in all phases of the production process.

The CdS offers students the opportunity to direct their training more specifically toward three areas by choosing one of the following paths:

The course provides a solid basic training on the fundamental disciplines ofingengineering: chemistry, physics, computer sciences and mathematics, with the addition of theoretical and applied content relating to the sectors that characterize the modern ingindustrial engineers, and with the integration of content specific to information engineering, as indicated in Italy's Industry 4.0 plan.

Among the fundamental teachings are also human sciences modules to delve deeper into principles and ethical and deontological criteria, that are the basis of every profession. The training courses also make use of continuous discussion with the teachers of the master's degree courses of the Departmental Faculty of Engineering and collaboration with the companies of the University-Enterprise Committee and with other industrial entities to foster a constant relationship between the training path and the world of work.

The teacher-student ratio of the course is 1:14 (data updated to 2020, ANVUR sources), considering the total number of teachers (weighted by teaching hours) and all enrolled students. This ensures good direct and personal interaction between teachers and students.

The presence of three teaching laboratories and ten research laboratories allows the student to carry out experimental training activities that integrate the theoretical knowledge acquired through institutional teachings.