Presentation of the School of Engineering, University of Padova

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Padova, ITALY

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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 areas
of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Industrial
Engineering and Information
Engineering, and places a great deal
of emphasis on integrating teaching
and research.

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Figures
 10,652 Students
 30 Courses
 4 Departments
 7 Ph.D. Schools
 258 Full and Associate Professors
 144 Researchers
 390 Ph.D. Students

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 Aerospace Engineering
Today:  Biomedical Engineering
 Chemical and Materials Engineering
13  Civil Engineering
1 -Cycle  Computer Engineering
st
(Bachelor’s)  Electronic Engineering
 Energy Engineering
Degree  Engineering and Management
Programmes  Engineering of Industrial Processing and
Materials
 Environmental and Land Planning
Engineering
 Information Engineering
 Mechanic and Mechatronic Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering

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 Aerospace Engineering
16  Automation Engineering
 Bioengineering
2nd-Cycle  Chemical and Process Engineering
(Master’s)  Civil Engineering
 Computer Engineering
Degree  Electrical Engineering
Programmes  Electronic Engineering
 Energy Engineering
 Engineering and Management
 Environmental Engineering Taught in English
 Materials Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering
 Mechatronic Engineering
 Product Innovation Engineering
 Telecommunications Engineering

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1  Building Engineering
Single- and Architecture
Cycle
(Master’s) (5 years)
Degree
Programme

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 1st -Cycle (Bachelor’s) Degree
2 in Human Movement Sciences
Inter-School
Degree
Programmes
with the
University’s
Medical
School  2nd-Cycle (Master’s) Degree in
Preventive and Adapted
Physical Activity

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1  2nd-Cycle (Master’s) Degree
Inter-University Clinical Engineering
Degree
Programme
with the
University of
Trieste

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 Civil, Architectural and Environmental
4 Engineering (including: Architecture, Urban
Planning and Survey; Structural and
Depart- Transportation Engineering; Hydraulic, Maritime,
ments 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

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7  Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sciences
Ph.D.  Industrial Engineering
Schools  Information Engineering
 Management Engineering and Real
Estate Appraisal
 Materials Science and Engineering
 Product Innovation and Mechatronic
Engineering
 Space Measures, Sciences and
Technologies

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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 and
relevance to the international
labour market in the form of
Double Degrees in Engineering
and related fields.

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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 by
expert Professors active in the field of
Sports Engineering, technical sessions
with hands‐on approach to the
application and use of sensors and
systems for Winter sport equipments,
and field test sessions on the slopes,
where equipments and Data Collection
Systems are used, by taking advantage of the seasonal snow and
unique environment of Cortina d'Ampezzo’s valley.

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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 quality
among the Italian Universities.
Our Team has also got the first
prize for its Business Plan
Presentation on the Hockenheim
Circuit (2009), and the prize for
“Best New-Comer Team” on the
Silverstone Circuit (2010).

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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 place
in September.
Our team joined the competition
in 2008 and since that very first
experience it has placed third,
second and then won the regatta
in 2010.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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School of Engineering
University of Padova
Lungargine del Piovego, 1
35131 Padova (ITALY)
E-mail: ingegneria@unipd.it
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