School of Engineering - Presentation

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Padova, ITALY

- SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

The School of Engineering

Founded in 1876 and one of the largest in Italy, it is a multi-faceted centre of excellence with over 10,000 registered students playing an active role in technological innovation, including the emerging Life Sciences (Biomedical Engineering and Bio-Engineering).

It offers 30 programmes, in the areasof Civil and Environmental Engineering, IndustrialEngineering and InformationEngineering, and places a great dealof emphasis on integrating teachingand research.


Figures

10,652 Students

30 Courses

4 Departments

7 Ph.D. Schools

258 Full and Associate Professors

144 Researchers

390 Ph.D. Students

Today:13

1st-Cycle (Bachelor’s)

DegreeProgrammes

Aerospace Engineering Biomedical Engineering Chemical and Materials Engineering Civil Engineering Computer Engineering Electronic Engineering Energy Engineering Engineering and Management Engineering of Industrial Processing and Materials Environmental and Land Planning Engineering Information Engineering Mechanic and Mechatronic Engineering Mechanical Engineering


162nd-Cycle (Master’s)

DegreeProgrammes

Aerospace Engineering Automation Engineering Bioengineering Chemical and Process Engineering Civil Engineering Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Electronic Engineering Energy Engineering Engineering and Management Environmental Engineering Taught in English Materials Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mechatronic Engineering Product Innovation Engineering Telecommunications Engineering


1Single-Cycle

(Master’s) Degree

Programme

Building Engineering and Architecture

(5 years)


2Inter-School

DegreeProgrammes

with the University’s

Medical School

1st -Cycle (Bachelor’s) Degree in Human Movement Sciences

2nd-Cycle (Master’s) Degree in Preventive and Adapted Physical Activity


1Inter-University

DegreeProgramme

with the University of

Trieste

2nd-Cycle (Master’s) Degree Clinical Engineering


4Depart-ments

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (including: Architecture, Urban Planning and Survey; Structural and Transportation Engineering; Hydraulic, Maritime, Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering) Industrial Engineering (including: Engineering Physics; Electrical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Innovation in Mechanics and Management; Chemical Engineering Principles and Practice; Engineering Chemical Processes) Information Engineering

Management and Engineering


7Ph.D.

Schools

Civil and Environmental Engineering Sciences Industrial Engineering Information Engineering Management Engineering and Real Estate Appraisal Materials Science and Engineering Product Innovation and Mechatronic Engineering Space Measures, Sciences and Technologies


T.I.M.E. - Top Industrial Managers for Europe

The University of Padova is member of T.I.M.E. (Top Industrial Managers for Europe), a network of 55 leading Engineering Schools & Faculties and Technical Universities which offers, through a system of voluntary bilateral agreements between its members, promotion and recognition of academic excellence andrelevance to the internationallabour market in the form ofDouble Degrees in Engineeringand related fields.


Outstanding Training Projects Winter School in Sports Engineering: Our Dept. of Industrial Engineering yearly organizes this Winter School in the Dolomites in collaboration with ISEA (International Sports Engineering Association) and Chemnitz University of Technology.The School provides the participants with the opportunity to enhance their knowledge of and expertise in ski, snowboard, cross-country ski and other Winter sport disciplines. It combines theoretical lectures read byexpert Professors active in the field ofSports Engineering, technical sessionswith hands‐on approach to theapplication and use of sensors andsystems for Winter sport equipments,and field test sessions on the slopes,where equipments and Data CollectionSystems are used, by taking advantage of the seasonal snow and unique environment of Cortina d'Ampezzo’s valley.


Outstanding Research Projects (1/5) Race Up Team: The University of Padova has got its own team in the Formula SAE, a student car design and racing competition organized by SAE International (formerly Society of Automotive Engineers). Padova’s racing car that participated in the 2006 championship was entirely designed, planned and built by a team of Professors and students of our Dept. of Industrial Engineering, and ranked first for project qualityamong the Italian Universities.Our Team has also got the firstprize for its Business PlanPresentation on the HockenheimCircuit (2009), and the prize for“Best New-Comer Team” on theSilverstone Circuit (2010).


Outstanding Research Projects (2/5) Project R3: The University of Padova’s Project R3 team takes part in the “Mille e Una Vela per l'Università" (One Thousand and One Sailing Boats for University) race cup, a scientific sports competition requiring students to design and build a sailing boat of limited size with accessible technologies, as well as limitations of cost and choice of materials.The ultimate goal is an inter-University regatta taking placein September.Our team joined the competitionin 2008 and since that very firstexperience it has placed third,second and then won the regattain 2010.


Outstanding Research Projects (3/5) RoboCup: Our Dept. of Information Engineering participates in RoboCup, an international robotics competition founded in 1993 with the aim of creating, by 2050, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players able to win a soccer game against the winner of the most recent World Cup, complying with the official rule of the FIFA.The intention is to promote research and education in the field of artificial intelligence. Padova on Titan: Italian science and technology have reached Saturn inside the Huygens probe. Padova’s researchers strongly contributed to this space mission, by creating HASI (Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument), an instrument used to measure the density, pressure and temperature of Saturn’s moon Titan’s atmosphere.


Outstanding Research Projects (4/5) Mole Ground Demonstrator for Mars Exploration: Our researchers have created the “Mole”, a device for detecting forms of life on Mars. The “Mole” derives its name from its ability to burrow to a depth of 100 metres beneath the crust of the planet. Quantum Information and Planetary Quantum Communication: The paper on the creation of a 144-km terrestrial quantum channel was rated one of Nature magazine’s best 20 in 2007. The experiment was carried out by a European team with the participation of the University of Padova, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Garching.Our Dept. of Information Engineering proposed the creation of a quantum channel between a satellite source in Space and a receiver on Earth. This channel promises to be quite interesting, for safe intercontinental communications and teleportation in Space.


Outstanding Research Projects (5/5)

The Shortest Artificial Event: In 2006 the record for the shortest artificial event ever realised was lowered by an ultraviolet radiation impulse with a duration of 130 attoseconds (130 billionths of a billionth of a second). The result, published in Science magazine, was obtained by an Italian research team including our Dept. of Information Engineering, that built the appropriate optical and spectroscopic systems.For the first time researchers succeeded in obtaining an impulse with a duration shorter than the Bohr time, that is the time required by an electron to orbit the nucleus of an atom.



Exchange and Co-operation Agreements with:

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, U.K.

Afghanistan, China, India, Japan, Nepal

Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Sudan, Tunisia

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico,Peru, Venezuela, U.S.A.

Australia

Waiting for you in Padova!


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