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 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.... [-]

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 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 master of science degree in Building Systems 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 Systems 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 Chemical engineering 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. Other courses can be selected by the students among many subjects related to e.g. chemical plants and unit operations, safety, process design, catalysis, material science, numerical methods, environmental protection, food production, energy, biomaterials, etc.. A proper selection of the eligible courses will lead to specialisations in Process Engineering, Project Engineering or Product Engineering.

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. ... [-]

This programme offers a synthesis of the fundamental and most advanced civil engineering tools for Risk Management, integrated by competences in different areas (land use planning, economics and finance, communication, law, psychology). Graduates in C.E.R.M. deal with the design of structures and of infrastructures, with planning, control and management of town and of land systems, and they are able to evaluate the environmental impact of structures and of infrastructures. The programme is taught in English. For more information: www.master-cerm.polimi.it

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

The Master of science programme in communication design prepares a designer able to cope with strategic communication problems, providing innovative solutions and coordinating all the roles and competencies involved in a complex communication project.

Compared to the Bachelor of Science, in the Master of Science, 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 devices.

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. Moreover, a special track in Sound Engineering and Musical Acoustics is offered in cooperation between the Milano Leonardo Campus – 1st year – and the Cremona Campus – 2nd year... [-]

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 university website for more detailed information www.moda.polimi.it/en/ ... [-]

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 program includes a broad range track entitled "Electrical Engineering" and a special track devoted to "Smart Grids", organized and run in collaboration with Enel S.p.A. The first track provides solid skills in the areas of electrical energy and of renewable sources, electrical systems in transportation, design and automation of electrical systems. The track "Smart Grids" provides tools to manage the new challenges of electricity systems involving increasing presence of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and of Dispersed Generation (DG). Such a new generation paradigm drives the evolution of distribution networks towards smart grids. Mastering the evolution requires new professional skills, ranging from the use of information and of communications technologies, fundamental to enhance traditional networks, to the full knowledge of the regulation of power systems operated in liberalized energy markets. ... [-]

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 Master of Science in Energy Engineering prepares professionals to design, to select and to use the main technologies in energy transformation; to actively follow scientific improvements and to operate effectively in a competitive and multi-disciplinary industrial context, characterized by significant environmental, regulatory and safety constraints.

Students will analyze broad themes as well as specific subjects for which both a rigorous methodological approach to thermodynamics and an open attitude towards related interdisciplinary topics are required. Graduates can find employment in several sectors: in the technical area of designing, of testing, of running and of maintaining the energy systems such as heating and cooling systems, thermal power and hydro-electric power plants, engines, oil and gas fields. Job opportunities can also be found in the energy management area, in utilities and public boards that supply energy as electricity and natural gas. The program is taught in English. ... [-]

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:

Students holding a Bachelor degree in Physics Engineering, Industrial Engineering or Information Engineering and at least 15 years of education are eligible for application. The Commission will evaluate case by case students with a different background. ... [-]

The MSc in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering focuses on a broad range of interdisciplinary professional capabilities and expertise required to deal with all the issues related to a sustainable utilisation of natural resources. We provide a full track in English, which offers a panoply of specialised courses and of laboratories addressing all the environmental components (air, water, soil and the biota) and the impacts due either to natural hazards or to human activities, as well as their mitigation. We achieve the mission through advanced scientific and technological education. The track in Environmental engineering for sustainability is taught in English.

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.

Geoinformatics engineers are expert in methodological and computational aspects of spatial information with a special concern for environmental geo-referenced data. Urban and agricultural land planning, infrastructure design, transport and traffic monitoring and management, environmental modeling, Earth sciences are the main application fields of Geoinformatics Engineering. All those fields attain to the general context of sustainable management of environment and land. Geoinformatics Engineers will thus be involved in geodata projects to support the new paradigms of Participative Digital Earth, Smart City and Smart Society, and decisions at local, national country and global level. According to the selected study track, the graduated Geoinformatics Engineers can participate to the Italian state certification exam needed to enter either the Civil and Environmental Engineers' register or the Computer Science Engineers’one.... [-]

The Product Design for Innovation master of science programme aims to prepare multidisciplinary professionals able to deal with the complexity of modern products. 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 marketrelated 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.

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.

Students holding a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design or equivalent are eligible for application. Students are required to provide a portfolio of their works.... [-]

Management Engineering is the successful translation into a degree course of the emerging professional figure of the engineer-manager. This new figure has evolved naturally from the needs of the industrialised world, as the engineer of change and innovation whose role is to plan and manage complex systems where there is a strong interaction between technical, and economic and organisational variables.

Management engineers cover a wide-reaching range of activities, such as designing and managing production and logistics systems, strategic planning, business organisation and management, economics, planning and managing technology and innovation, internationalisation processes, management control, corporate and market finance, economics and management of companies in regulated sectors and network services, large-scale project planning and management, internet applications and ICT management. ... [-]

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 specific specialisations are foreseen:

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 programme has the objective of preparing professionals able to deal with issues relating to complex systems with an engineering mentality, harmonising a solid scientific background with a command of advanced methodologies e technologies. The programme is characterised by continuous synergy between Applied Mathematics and Engineering disciplines.

The student has 3 specialisations available:

Students holding a Bachelor degree in Mathematical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Industrial Engineering and 15 years of education are eligible for application. The Evaluation Board will examine different curricula. Curricular supplements may be necessary if the Bachelor of Science obtained by the candidate does not have a sufficient degree of “consistency” with the educational programme of the MSME. ... [-]

The educational goal of the MSc Programme in Mechanical Engineering is to train highly qualified engineers, capable of playing different roles in the job market, by providing them with sound scientific, economic and technical competences, together with broad practical and professional skills needed for a successful career in a technologically advanced and rapidly evolving society.

The specialist in Mechanical Engineering, being involved in the design, production process and operation of products and systems, needs to develop a strong interdisciplinary background in machine design, with respect to functional requirements, dynamic and structural analysis, propulsion and engine systems, fluid mechanics, material properties and selection, manufacturing processes and production systems, operation and management of industrial plants, experimental techniques, mechatronics and industrial automation. ... [-]

The aim of the MSc program in Nuclear Engineering is to prepare engineers with the skills necessary 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.

Students holding a Bachelor degree in Energy Engineering, Physics Engineering, Mathematical Engineering, Materials and Nanotechnology Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Electric Engineering and 15 years of education are eligible for application. Skills in basics and characterizing disciplines of Industrial Engineering are required. ... [-]

The programme has the aim of preparing a highly qualified designer able to take on a design role concerning the product service system (considered as a blend of products, communication strategies, services and spaces used by profit and non profit entities –enterprises, institutions, associations, etc.- to represent themselves in an integrated form to their reference market) in international contexts in which the individual innovation is no longer sufficient to combat increasing competitivity. The fundamental educational objective is to offer a wide range of design tools able to provide appropriate skills in creatively managing products, services, events, and communication strategies in an integrated way. ... [-]

The objective of the Space Engineering MSc 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 competencies 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. ... [-]

The Master of Science program 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 four possible tracks (all taught in English):

or define their personalized study program through a large set of available courses.

Students holding at least a BSc degree in a related field and 15 years of education are eligible for application. Preference is accorded to graduates in Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Computer Engineering. A solid background in the fundamentals of engineering is requested, i.e. in Mathematics, Physics, Telecommunications disciplines, Computer Science, Electronics.... [-]

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.

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