Politecnico di Milano

The programme provides a preparation particularly focused on issues of design, operation and maintenance of aircraft and their onboard systems. The objective is to prepare highly culturally and professionally qualified technicians able to carry out and manage activities related to research and design in the fields of aerodynamics, materials, lightweight structures, aircraft systems and aerospace propulsion in national and international contexts, both in autonomy or in cooperation.

The graduate finds employment in aeronautical and space industries; in public and private bodies for experimentation in the aerospace field; in aircraft fleet management and maintenance companies; in air-traffic control agencies; in the air force; in industries producing machinery and equipment in which aerodynamics and lightweight structures play a significant role. ... [-]

The cities and territories in which an architectural designer works today are complex, strongly characterized and stratified, formed over time in different ways. The objective conditions of the environment we live in place design interventions on the built as primary and prevalent. The consumption logic applied until today has proved to be a waste of material and contents, supplying the need for an approach that places at its centre the assimilation of building, architectural and landscape heritage as resources to be protected and to which new centrality in the theory of sustainable design of the city and the territory, should be assigned.

This answers an ethic responsibility for architectural design which must correspond to the possession of specific technical and humanistic skills.... [-]

The programme has the objective to prepare an architect able to adequately respond in an innovative fashion to the complexity of problems related to Architectural design and construction in the case of large constructions and complex works.

Graduates in Architecture-Building Architecture have a background oriented to the design of architectural buildings and complex works of significant dimensions.

Master of Science graduates can carry out all activities pertaining to the profession of European architect and cover roles of significant responsibility in public and private institutions and bodies (institutional bodies, public and private bodies and companies, professional studios and design companies) operating in the city and land transformation and reclamation field.... [-]

The programme focuses on the modification and the regeneration of urban fabric, as well as of fragile territories, on interventions of building extensions and transformation, restoration and enhancement. The programme offers the possibility to characterize the study plan according to personal interests by choosing, besides the compulsory courses, a large number of elective thematic Design Studios. Furthermore, specific courses aimed at providing advanced knowledge on Computational Design are available during all the two-year programme. Besides curricular activities, the School provides a number of international seminars, conferences, workshops and study visits to enhance academic development. Graduates of our MSc programme are currently working as independent professionals, for Public Administration, research institutes, private firms both in Italy and abroad. Politecnico di Milano has been home to many well-known architects of the 20th Century, such as Renzo Piano, Franco Albini, Achille Castiglioni, Franca Helg, Ernesto Nathan Rogers, and Aldo Rossi. The programme is taught in English.... [-]

Mission and goals

The program in Architecture and Urban Design provides students with an advanced training in the field of Architectural Design and develops theoretical, humanistic, artistic and design competencies based on the Italian tradition, facing different housing cultures, the new forms and spaces of contemporary cities, the development of new urban settlements in developing countries, the innovation in building techniques and environmental sustainability. The educational path meets adequately the increasing need to face the complexity of problems and the new professional responsibility of architects, as required both in Europe and worldwide. The program focuses on the core Architectural Design experience at various scales, both in theory and in practice. The educational offer makes it possible to characterize one’s study plan thanks to optional courses and to elective thematic and final Design Studios. ... [-]

Graduates have a strong background in the classical engineering fields, in the information and in the telecommunication technologies. The interdisciplinary nature of this program provides graduates with all the necessary skills to design and to manage systems resulting from the integration of highly diverse technologies. Graduates will have wide employment opportunities in many fields: industry producing manufacturing systems, automatic machines, robotic systems, mechatronic systems, process industry, transportation systems, transportation and distribution networks, food industry, electrical appliances, home automation and environmental resources.

The Master Degree ("Laurea Magistrale") in “Bioinformatics for Computational Genomics” is a joint initiative of the University of Milano and the Politecnico di Milano, and will be activated starting from the Academic Year 2019-2020.

Overall, it aims to form "genome data scientists", that is, graduates that will have an adequate knowledge about the molecular basis of biological systems; the structure and function of biological molecules and how they participate in cellular processes; the technologies and platforms for the analysis of genomes; the tools for bioinformatics and genomic analysis; and the statistical and computational methodologies for the analysis of biomolecular data.... [-]

The master of science programme in Building and Architectural Engineering prepares a senior Building Engineer with interdisciplinary scientific and technical background and skill suitable to work in the field of design, construction, refurbishment and management of large, complex and high performance buildings.

The Master degree Building and Architectural Engineers are mostly employed by architecture and engineering design and consulting firms as well as by construction and maintenance, services and facilities firms, manufacturers of building materials and components. They are also employed by Public Administrations, property management and quality control service and appreciated as private consultants. ... [-]

The Laurea Magistrale (equivalent to Master of Science) degree in Building Engineering prepares a senior Building Engineer with interdisciplinary scientific and technical background and skill suitable to work in the field of design, construction, refurbishment and management of large, complex and high performance buildings.

The Master degree Building Engineers are mostly employed by architecture and engineering design and consulting firms as well as by construction and maintenance, services and facilities firms, manufacturers of building materials and components. They are also employed by Public Administrations, property management and quality control service and appreciated as private consultants.... [-]

The programme includes mandatory courses on Chemical Reaction Engineering and on Applied Chemical Kinetics, Advanced Calculus, Industrial Organic Chemistry, Unit Operations of Chemical Plants, Mechanics of Solids and Structures, Applied Mechanics.

Eligible courses, to be selected by the students, include Chemical Plants and Unit Operations, Safety, Process Design, Catalysis, Material Science, Numerical Methods, Environmental Protection, Food Production, Energy, Biomaterials, ect.

A proper selection of the eligible courses will lead to specialization in Process Engineering, Project Engineering or Product Engineering.

The Laurea Magistrale programme in Chemical Engineering completes the basic preparation of the bachelor chemical engineer and provide guided paths towards high-level professional profiles which are employed in various industrial sectors including the chemical, pharmaceutical, food, biological and automotive industry; energy production and management; transformation and process industries; engineering companies designing, developing and implementing processes and plant; research centres and industrial laboratories; technical structures in Public Administration; environmental and safety consultancy firms.... [-]

Graduates in Civil Engineering work in the field of constructions and infrastructures. The subjects taught in the Master’s Degree program aim at strengthening the basic preparation of the students, providing them, at the same time, with an adequately deepened knowledge of topics central to Civil Engineering. Students can choose their field of specialization in one of the following areas: Geotechnics, Hydraulics, Transportation infrastructures, Structures. Suggested study plans help students define their curriculum. Additionally, a General curriculum is also proposed, aimed at students preferring a wider spectrum formation in Civil Engineering.

The program includes two tracks - 'Geotechnics and ‘Structures’- taught in English. ... [-]

The programme links the fundamental disciplines of Civil Engineering (design and construction of civil and environmental structures and infrastructures) with a broad overview of the most advanced Risk Management tools, with particular attention to forecasting and prevention issues concerning structures and infrastructures and soil, on which they are built or embedded, due to natural and anthropic causes.

Students holding a Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Architecture or Land Use Planning are eligible for application.

In the first year the following topics are proposed:

The Laurea Magistrale (equivalent to Master of Sience) programme in Communication Design prepares a designer able to cope with strategic communication problems, providing innovative solutions and coordinating all the roles and competences involved in a complex communication project.

Compared to the Laurea (equivalent to Bachelor of Science), in the Laurea Magistrale the ability to coordinate and control complex communication systems using inter-media forms of communication is developed and refined.

The areas in which the graduate intervenes include traditional and multimedia publishing, brand and product identity, products and services for new television, information design, internet and mobile device.... [-]

The program is taught in English. Different specializations are available:Interactive applications - Big data - Bioinformatics and e-health - Cyber-security - Networked enterprises and services - Artificial Intelligence - Internet Engineering - Robotics and Vision - Pervasive Systems - Ambient Intelligence - Data and Signal Engineering - Web Science and Engineering - Communication and Society Engineering - ICT Engineering, Business and Innovation

All of them are available on the Milano Leonardo Campus.

Bocconi University and Politecnico di Milano have assembled a dynamic and multi-disciplinary community of researchers, experts and professors who study, analyze and apply strategies, governance and assessment tools of cyber risk. The challenging study program they have devised addresses the key cyber-related matters faced by all types of organizations, every day.

The Master of Science in Cyber Risk Strategy and Governance gives students the tools required to understand, assess and govern the opportunities and threats of the existing and emerging technologies used in our society. As innovative technologies are adopted, new issues arise, so students learn to look ahead, evaluate and communicate threats before they unfold. ... [-]

The programme - created by the cooperation in the educational project of the disciplinary areas of Design, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Engineering - has the objective of specialist training in three fundamental areas: Design, Process and Industrial Production; Design Materials; Representation and Prototyping. This programme has the objective of preparing a design figure who integrates the Design and “engineering” cultures, a professional able to provide a complete project dossier comprising product concept, via final and working design, and preparation of the documents necessary to go into production; who has particular skills in the choice of materials, in design methodologies in a virtual environment and in the impact of the technological aspects of production systems on the project. ... [-]

The Fashion Design degree programme at Politecnico di Milano trains fashion designers: not isolated artists expressing their talent, but designers who are inspired in their projects and in their profession by the relationship with the fashion system and its protagonists. The polytechnic education is derived from the Italian design culture, a synthesis of craft and of the profession, of experimentation and of multidisciplinary knowledge.

Candidates should have a Bachelor in Design or other equivalent Degree to be eligible for application. The admission will be granted only after appraisal of the candidate’s background. Students are required to provide a portfolio of their works. Please check the programme website for more detailed ... [-]

The programme aims at training highly qualified professionals who are able to employ the potentials of technologies in all domains of design applications, to drive design processes in multidisciplinary contexts and to use the design tools to represent also the non-material dimensions of interactive experiences.

Besides working in traditional industries, graduates in Digital and Interaction Design have career opportunities in design studios, in companies focused on the innovation of products and in technology-driven enterprises, such as telecommunication and media companies.

The Master of Science in Electrical Engineering aims at forming highly-qualified professionals able to face complex design problems and foster technological innovation in the field of electrical power systems. It builds on basic disciplines (covering digital signal processing, electromagnetic compatibility and engineering electromagnetics, measurement and diagnosis techniques, power electronics and electrical drives, design of electrical machines and apparatus, etc.) and provides solid skills in the areas of electrical energy and renewable sources, electrical systems in transportation, design and automation of electrical systems. The programme includes

The course focuses on the most advanced aspects of Electronics (analog and digital integrated circuits design, solid state devices, microelectronics, optoelectronic devices and sensors, electronic instrumentation, communications and control systems) to provide a complete and updated professional preparation. Upon graduating, students will have developed a “design-oriented” mindset enabling them to successfully deal with the complex needs of today’s industrial system. They will have also acquired a skill to use engineering tools to design solutions to advanced electronic challenges in scientific and technological fields, as well as a maturity to hold positions of great responsibility both at technical and at management level.... [-]

The Laurea Magistrale (equivalent to Master of Science) programme in Energy Engineering has the objective of preparing technicians able to actively follow and influence technological developments, working effectively in a competitive and multi-disciplinary industrial context. Various application sectors can be identified within the programme, such as Production and conversion of different forms of energy, Civil and industrial thermotechnics and the hydrocarbon sector focussed on the oil and gas industry. In Milano Bovisa Campus the programme foresees a track taught in English. In Piacenza Campus a particular programme delivered in English is available which offers an overall view of the various technical issues related to Renewables and Environmental Sustainability:... [-]

The main educational objective of this Master of Science programme is to prepare an engineer able to “produce” innovation both in the industrial environment as well as in basic research and which is highly competitive in the global market, with particular reference to the physical and optical technology, nanotechnology and photonics sectors.

The physical engineer can approach all sectors in which advanced technological systems are developed: lasers, photonics, materials technology, biomedical optics, etc. The course has two possible finalizations:

Career opportunities

The graduate in Engineering Physics can approach all those sectors in which advanced technological systems are developed, such as lasers and their applications, photonics, vacuum applications, materials technology and biomedical optics. ... [-]

The Laurea Magistrale (equivalent to Master of Science) in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering provides an education focused on the broad range of professional capabilities and expertise required to deal with and address adequate engineering frameworks for the sustainable utilization of natural resources and man made infrastructures. Our mission is to educate engineers who can design infrastructures and plan human development while balancing environmental health and the society’s need for better living conditions. Technical and scientific education is thus devoted, through specialized courses and laboratories, to the development, design and evaluation of proper management and intervention strategies, as well as individual measures, in the following general fields of interest: planning and design of strategies and infrastructures for land protection and prevention from natural risks damage and related anthropogenic forcings; management of complex environmental systems and of information systems for land management and resource planning; design and evaluation of engineering processes and technologies for environmental quality reclamation and maintenance, for treatment and resource recovery from liquid, solid and gaseous emissions and for soil remediation; design and data management of systems and components for environmental and land resources measurement, diagnosis and control.... [-]

Every day humans generate quintillions (1018) of bytes of data. 80% of them are spatial data, that have to be analyzed and processed, both in real-time and off-line, to extract information. Therefore a new scientific and technical figure who combines expertizes of Computer Science, Environmental Engineering and Geomatics is needed. Geoinformatics Engineers are high level experts in methods and technologies for measuring, georeferencing, analyzing, visualizing and publishing spatial and time-varying information, with a particular attention to environmental data. The Geoinformatics Engineering Master of Science is the first in Italy and exploits the long lasting experience of Politecnico di Milano in both Environmental, Geomatics and Computer Science to form new and multidisciplinary experts highly requested by both private and public sectors.... [-]

The MSc Programme in Integrated Product Design approaches the Product Design discipline in a comprehensive and systemic way, with a strong cultural attitude. Within an accelerated social and technical progress, products progressively evolve into complex systems that merge both tangible and intangible aspects. Consequently, the boundaries of the product design discipline expand to integrate different facets, such as the relationship between design and technology and the need for new augmented functions; strategic and market-related actions; a focus on social and environmental issues; and a clear understanding of the processes that concur in the definition of the qualities of products.

This programme aims at training highly skilled professionals, who are able to critically deal with Landscape and interior-spatial design, New Interiors and Ephemeral/Temporary spaces. Interior and spatial designers will be able to creatively work in projects with an innovative functional, aesthetic, technical and technological approach even for social innovation. The programme is characterized by different didactical activities, ranging from mono-disciplinary courses, to experimental workshops and design studio, where students are given the opportunity to experiment the tools used in design professions.

The Interior and Spatial Designer can work in design studios or in companies as a director of activities oriented towards various areas: domestic environment, retail, places of cultural production (auditoriums, museums, galleries, exhibitions), public areas (offices, hospitals, schools, universities), hotel trade as well as in the redevelopment of industrial/service areas. The programme is taught in English and offers two double degrees opportunities with Tongji University and with Tsinghua University in China.... [-]

A Bachelor Degree in Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture, Landscape Planning, Civil or Environmental Engineering, Forestry, Agricultural or Environmental Science. The Curriculum Vitae is mandatory and can enrich it with photos and images. A portfolio is also welcome for students with a background in Architecture, Design and Landscape.

A new program in "Landscape Architecture - Land Landscape Heritage" (Laurea Magistrale) will be offered at Politecnico di Milano from the 2017/2018 academic year. The Italian landscape, globally recognized as an ideal of beauty and culture, is the reference laboratory in which innovative subjects and challenges will be tackled with during the program. Landscape Architecture is fundamental both when designing contemporary territories and when looking after and recovering those inherited from the past. The land materials which the landscape architect knows how to shape and to manage are the soil, the vegetation, rocks and waters, their evolution and change throughout time and this requires interdisciplinary knowledge and aptitude. Therefore, the program in "Landscape Architecture - Land Landscape Heritage" integrates technical, natural and agronomical sciences, as well as historical, cultural and social studies. The program is based on design studios and lectures on current themes such as the design of soil and of public open spaces, of the urban and rural landscape, preservation of landscape heritage, regeneration of derelict areas, sustainable tourism and hydrogeological risk prevention. Professors of different subjects stimulate the capacity to work out concepts and to collaborate within interdisciplinary teams.... [-]

The Laurea Magistrale (equivalent to Master of Science) in Management Engineering aims to train engineering professionals ready to address today’s business problems with innovative solutions.

This programme offers the opportunity to really integrate high-level management skills with in-depth technical competences, enabling students to deal with complex systems in many different areas (for example: production, logistic, supply chain management, accounting, finance, economics, innovation, internationalization, technology management…).

Management Engineering is inherently multidisciplinary and students attending this programme have the possibility of choosing among a broad range of courses, taught with different teaching methods ranging from theoretical lectures, practical sessions, case studies, project works and laboratories, where they can apply the skills, methods and knowledge acquired through the courses.... [-]

Mission and goals

The operational areas addressed by this Master of Science programme may be summarised in two skill profiles, gravitating around the economic-financial management (asset and property management) and technical-operational support services for the built-up environment management (facility management) areas.

The objective of the course is to transmit to the student knowledge and skills in building technology and construction, in production and management engineering, in law, in economics, in information technology, and in land planning; to provide methods and tools to be used for technical-economic evaluation on purchase or on designing the requalification of buildings. ... [-]

This Master of Science programme is taught entirely in English to stimulate the student in acquiring a greater familiarity with the terminology used internationally. The objective of the programme is to prepare a professional figure expert in materials and in the design of processes and manufactured goods.

Within the scope of the study plan a number of specialisations are available:

The Master of Science graduate in Materials and Nanotechnology Engineering has the ability to devise and manage innovation in the materials industry; he/she finds employment mainly in companies specialised in producing, processing and design various materials and components, as well as in the area of the development of new applications in the mechanical, chemical, electronics, energy, telecommunications, construction, transport, biomedical, environmental and restoration industries as well as in research and development centres of companies and public bodies.... [-]

This study programme aims at preparing professionals who are able to deal with complex design and managing problems by using advanced mathematical tools, yet with an engineering attitude. It combines a solid background in basic science with a sound knowledge of modern methods and technologies, with a persistent synergy between applied mathematics and engineering.

When applying, the prospective student has to choose one out of the following three tracks:

A Bachelor Degree in Mathematical Engineering or in a related area, with a solid background in the core disciplines: applied mathematics, computer science, physics, engineering.... [-]

This program trains professionals with solid engineering foundations, a good scientific approach and a broad range of technical and applied contents. The level of cultural education is raised during the first year by broadening the knowledge of advanced analysis methods, which in the second year are applied in specialisation subjects and a thesis. The first year is offered in the Milano Bovisa and Lecco campuses with the same study plan (the first year is not available in the Piacenza campus, which offers only the second year). The specialization tracks cover a wide range of traditional and innovative mechanical engineering subjects:

A Bachelor Degree in a scientific or technical discipline. A Committee will evaluate students with a different background case by case.

The Laurea Magistrale (equivalent to a Master of Science) trains professionals able to tackle the complexity of mobility systems and the interaction of the critical issues concerning safety, technology, management, ethics and strategical aspects of mobility systems and urban development. The program covers the following main topics:

Music and Acoustic Engineering is a two-year Master Program that falls within the area of Information Engineering (the "reference disciplinary area", as identified by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, is LM-32, corresponding to Computer Science and Engineering).

This M.S. program has two tracks, Acoustic Engineering identified as M.C.R. and Music Engineering identifies as M.M.I.. The M.C.R. track is offered in Cremona Campus and has a special focus on computational, vibrational, musical and room acoustics. The M.E. track is offered in Milano Leonardo Campus and is more concerned with all aspects of musical informatics; audio and multimedia signal processing; music information extraction and retrieval; and music production technologies.... [-]

The aim of the MSc program in Nuclear Engineering is to prepare engineers with the necessary skills to design, build and operate power generation plants, radioactive waste treatment plants, systems using radiation for industrial and medical applications, etc.

The educational program, therefore, gives emphasis to topics referring to energy applications, i.e. fission and fusion plants, nuclear fuel, materials, and safety. Topics applied also in non-energy applications are accounted for, as in medical and industrial applications of radiation, material physics, plasma physics and nanotechnologies with a strong link to the nuclear field.

Career opportunities

The programme aims at training highly qualified designers who may deal with the complexity of a product-service system (PSS), that is an integrated blend of products, of communication strategies, of services and of spaces. These are created and managed by different kinds of stakeholders (profit/non-profit companies, institutions, associations, organisations, etc.) to offer innovative solutions. PSS designers will be trained to work in team, to collaborate with experts and professionals from other fields, to broker different languages and to work in highly competitive international contexts. The programme develops in the participants the skills to creatively conceive and to manage integrated product, service, event and communication strategies, by using a wide design toolkit and by employing basics of project management, supply chain management, sustainability, anthropology and ethnography, communications and media. PSSD students have the possibility to apply for the double degree programme at Tongji University (Shanghai) or for the internal double degree with Management Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.... [-]

The objective of the Laurea Magistrale (equivalent to Master of Science) in Space Engineering is to educate highly skilled professionals, qualified to develop and manage technical activities related to research and design in the space sector. Space Engineering graduates have all the competences to fully develop activities related to the design, technical analysis and verification of a space mission. Within these activities, in particular, graduates from Politecnico di Milano can develop specific skills in the areas of: mission analysis, thermal and structural design of space components, design of the space propulsion and power generation system, design of the orbit and attitude control systems, space systems integration and testing.... [-]

This program aims at providing a multidisciplinary background for architects, with a special focus on environmental sustainability and landscape design. The concept of sustainability is associated with a high-quality transformation of the landscape, from the macro-scale of urban planning to the micro-scale of technical details, how the varied scales connect and interrelate with each other. This method is oriented to a physical, social and technical approach, passing over a close specialized theme vision. The international program involves also workshops, study trips and summer schools.... [-]

The Laurea Magistrale (equivalent to Master of Science) programme in Telecommunications Engineering features an advanced and innovative curriculum with multidisciplinary courses in the areas of internet services and applications, communication systems, multimedia signal processing, optical and radio technologies and remote sensing. Students can select five possible tracks (all taught in English): Networks; Communications; Signals; Technologies; Internet Engineering (the last one in cooperation with the Laurea Magistrale in Computer Science and Engineering); or define their personalized study program through a large set of available courses.

Five specialisations are available:Networks, Communications, Signals, Technologies, Internet Engineering (joint degree with Computer Science Engineering).... [-]

In the urban planning spectrum, on the one hand, consolidation of a series of urban management activities that require advanced interpretation and application can be identified: the development of general urban planning tools; infrastructural, housing, transport, services and environmental policies; management of complex programmes and projects. On the other hand, the demand for new urban and territorial policies that require specific professional competence is increasing.

This Master of Science offers an advanced academic route in designing spatial arrangements and urban policies, to transform and manage the city, territory, and environment.

Urbanism, Urban planning and design, Urban policies, Planning theory and practice, Policy analysis, Contemporary city, Infrastructure planning and design, Energy and urban planning, Housing and neighbourhoods, Regional economics, European economics and welfare, Urban ethnography, Conflicts management, Land use ethics and the law, Smart cities and urban innovation, Techniques of urban simulation, Assessment of urban transformations.... [-]