Industrial and Information Engineering PhD Programme

Training Objectives and Themes

CURRICULUM 1
New management paradigms and fabrication technologies for competitive enterprises with low environmental impact

  • Lean management, agile project management, operations management, production planning and control, supply chain management, purchasing and supplier management, innovation management, new product development, global manufacturing, complexity management, performance measurement systems;
  • System and machinery efficiency for industrial production;
  • Cognitive features of products development in view of CAD-PLM technologies;
  • Characteristics and applicability of emerging prototyping methodologies (augmented reality, functional mock-up, interaction design, etc.);
  • Smart logistics: computation models and algorithms;
  • New technologies for the manufacturing of innovative materials;
  • Systems for monitoring and control of machine tools;
  • Methodologies for the design of energy and production efficient automatic systems Approaches to system and product innovation;
  • Robotic systems for the industrial sustainability
  • Robotic systems for production and energy efficiency

CURRICULUM 2
Information and Communication Technology for inclusive society

  • Nano-electronic devices (MOSFETs, Steep Slope, etc.) for energy efficient and high performance electronics. Non volatile Memories for massive 3D integration (Flash, charge trap);
  • Advanced electron devices based on innovative materials and architectures in the Beyond CMOS and More than Moore domains: graphene, 2D crystals, III-V compound semiconductor devices;
  • Semi-classical (BTE) and quantum mechanical (NEGF) simulation of nanoelectronics devices;
  • Integrated circuit design for energy efficient communications, energy conversion and management;
  • Innovative communication paradigms and systems: systems with multiple antennae, distributed communication systems, HW and SW architectures for telecommunications;
  • Multimedia signals processing and analysis: video and image encoding, video streaming based on peer-to-peer networks, joint source/channel encoding, compressive sensing;
  • Test and development of metaheuristic algorithms for combinatorial problems:
  • Pervasive computing, cloud computing, overlay networking, distributed computing in miscellaneous networks of computers;
  • Artificial vision system, virtual sound, machine learning;
  • Wireless communication systems and networks, signal processing for communication, physical substrate algorithms, transmission system algorithms.
  • Pervasive computing, cloud computing, overlay networking, distributed computing in miscellaneous networks of computers
  • Artificial vision system, virtual sound, machine learning
  • Wireless communication systems and networks, signal processing for communication, physical substrate algorithms, transmission system algorithms

CURRICULUM 3
Design of innovative thermo-electro-mechanical systems and development of advanced methods for the assessment of structural damage and reliability for energy saving

  • Energy harvesting systems for self powered, smart, distributed sensors;
  • Electro-mechanical devices for innovative production and storage energy systems;
  • New paradigms, systems, technologies for surface and air transportation vehicles with low energy consumption;
  • Integrated power electronics for industrial plants and machinery;
  • Electric drivers and converters for distributed electric generation and co-generation systems (photovoltaic, wind, etc.);
  • On board electronics: terrestrial and satellite localisation and navigation systems; communication networks and systems;
  • Green mechatronics: mechatronics for energy saving;
  • Design methodologies for materials handling systems characterised by low environmental impact;
  • Holistic design of lightweight structures for low emissions and low energy consumption vehicles;
  • Design of energy efficiency industrial plants;
  • Stress and strain analysis of materials and structures subjected to time-dependant deformation processes;
  • Methods for structural integrity design and verification;
  • Developments of damage-tolerant design methods;
  • Multi-physics analyses for the evaluation of the stress/strain state in materials and engineering structures;
  • Micromechanical damaging processes in materials;
  • Behaviour characterisation and modelling of materials processed by advanced manufacturing techniques;
  • Modeling and control of mechanical and mechatronic systems;
  • Modeling and control of vibrations in mechanical systems;
  • Numerical modeling for the simulation of electromagnetic devices and fields.

CURRICULUM 4
Mechanical technologies and electronic devices for domotics, medical diagnostic and safety

  • Smart systems and technologies for home, working and leisure environments
  • Systems for safety at work, on the road, at home; systems for the management of home assistance activities;
  • Sensors, devices and instrumentation for medical care and tests and for the support of the elderly; systems for the planning and support of hospital activities;
  • Innovative paradigms for the interaction of domotics, surgery and security devices;
  • Passive and active control of noise and vibration for industrial, home and surface-air transport vehicles applications;
  • Devices and instrumentation for the detection of biomedical parameters: nanosensors
  • Robots for eldery and disable people assistance;
  • Robots for surgery applications;
  • Large scale tri-dimensional image modelling, automatic synthesis of binocular video flows from monocular sources.