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.

Biomedical Engineering Postgraduate (LM-21)

The objective of the Degree Course (CdS) is to train a professional capable of entering sectors of industry and services focused on the development or management of technologies, devices and systems for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of pathologies and for the interaction and collaboration with humans in contexts of daily or working life. 

The interdisciplinary nature of the CdS allows graduates to find employment also in the fields of Industrial Engineering and Information Engineering in which knowledge and understanding of human factors and the principles of life sciences and medicine are relevant.

The CdS offers students fundamental teachings on mechatronics for biomedical systems, industrial and medical robotics, biomedical measurements and instrumentation, image processing, rehabilitation bioengineering and the dynamics of complex systems, integrating theoretical contents with examples applications of systems in the biomedical sector. There is also a course called 'Biodesign' dedicated to carrying out an important design activity in the classroom, with the support of a teacher and tutor, according to the learning-by-doing model.

The CdS offers the possibility of directing one's training in one of the areas of Bioengineering, allowing the student to choose one of the following curricula:

Among the fundamental teachings there are modules of Human Sciences, which provide the principles and criteria necessary to correctly carry out the activities aimed at improving the quality of life of the person.

The close collaboration of the Departmental Faculty of Engineering with the Departmental Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University and the presence of an Advanced Research Center in Biomedicine and Bioengineering, which is located next to the University Hospital Foundation, ensure biomedical engineering students ideal conditions for study, in-depth study and research activities with marked interdisciplinary characteristics.

The training courses of the curricula were also created thanks to the collaboration of the companies of the University-Enterprise Committee and of other industries in the sector, in order to favor the acquisition of skills suited to the needs of the productive world. The strong involvement of the industrial world has translated into the definition of objectives and integrated training courses, and into the possibility for students to carry out internship periods and thesis work in companies and public and private, national and international research institutions, which collaborate with the University.

The presence of 3 teaching laboratories and 10 research laboratories allows the student to be able to carry out experimental training activities that integrate the theoretical knowledge acquired through institutional teachings. The teacher-student ratio of the University is approximately 1/13 considering only the permanent teachers. This ensures direct and personal interaction between teachers and students.

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.