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Type

PhD Programme

Access mode

Programmed

Length

3 years

Location

Reggio Emilia

Language

English

Department

Department of Sciences and Method for Engineering

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Prerequisites for admission.

Italian second cycle master's degree (“Laurea Magistrale”, under D.M. 270/04 or “Laurea Specialistica”, under D.M. 509/99) or Italian degree obtained prior to D.M. 509/99 (the previous Italian regulations) or Second cycle Master's degree obtained abroad, equivalent to the above-mentioned Italian degrees and recognized as suitable for the admission to doctoral program.
Further information available in the Call.

Educational goals

The Course aims to train qualified researchers in the areas of Industrial and Information Engineering, with transversal and integrated skills (CUN area 01, 08 and 09), who find themselves with excellent employment prospects in the research and development offices of the manufacturing and service industry. In the "Management" curriculum, the training objectives concern the development of knowledge and knowledge related to the organization of production and logistics systems, the optimal sizing of production systems, the analysis of advanced optimization models, the study of organizational systems for business networks, project management, the development and application of ICT systems. The course covers a wide range of the themes of the "Industry 4.0" initiative, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. In the curriculum in "Mechatronics and Energy" the training activities are oriented to the acquisition and multidisciplinary integration of knowledge and skills on methods for the design of mechatronic devices and systems and their control, innovative systems for the production and transmission of energy, the transformation of energy from primary sources to forms suitable for end uses, transmission from the places of transformation to the final users. Also for this curriculum is dedicated a specific attention to "Industry 4.0", Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.