A NEW COURSE FOR THOSE LOOKING FOR A NEW WAY INNOVATION TECHNOLOGIST
A highly qualified training course with two important goals: to guarantee a rewarding job for young people and to promote the creation of professionals able to contribute to a company's growth.
Training and an industrial culture are in fact the key elements required to meet the demands and the continual search for innovation in the industrial world in Emilia-Romagna. A territory which boasts an excellent industrial reality both nationally and internationally: avant-garde companies with a solid industrial culture.
A response to the innovative needs of companies and creating a connection between the worlds of education and learning and that of research and industry: these are the goals of Programma Quadrifoglio.
To enhance the potential of a company's development is the vocation of an Innovation Technologist.
Degree in Innovative Physics Technologies
The degree is particularly designed for students with a scientific/technical background, providing them with the opportunity to complete their studies with a highly professional degree through:
-state of the art technological training
-scientific training methods
-skills in solving complex problems
TRAINING COURSES 2008-2009
First Year Course
Differential Calculus
Linear Algebra
Dynamics Laboratory
Integral Calculus
Elements of Geometry
Mechanics of the material point
Systems Mechanics and Thermodynamics
Chemistry
Programming for Physics Measures
Second Year
Calculus III
Electricity and Magnetism
Electronics Laboratory
Production Process Tecnology
Logics and Services of Documentation
Electromagnetic Waves and Optics
Computer Science Applied to Technology
CAD/CAM I Design
Modern Physics
Third Year
Structural Elements of Matter
Physics of Electronic Devices
Physics of the Solid State
Technologies of Space
CAD/CAM II Design
New Materials and Technologies
Provisions and Technology of Industrial Sectors
Quality, Testing and Control Systems
ON-SITE SUBJECT
Some subjects will take place on-site in one of the local companies supporting the Program under the supervision of a tutor and the relative credits will be accredited.
Second Year
Mechanical Production Tecnology 150 hours (6 credits)
Logic of Services and Documentation 150 hours (6 credits)
Total 300 hours
Third Year
CAD CAM Design II 150 hours (6 credits)
Provisions and Technologies of the Industrial sectors 150 hours (6 credits)
Quality Testing and Control Systems 150 hours (6 credits)
New Materials and New Technologies 150 hours (6 credits)
Total 600 hours
POST GRADUATE PROSPECTS
An Innovation Technologist has ahead of him/her excellent job possibilities in companies of manufacturing world. After the degree, it is possible to spend a year specialising at an international research centre.
Programma Quadrifoglio, through the annual Forum on innovation R&D Days cooperates with important centres among which include:
AIR LIQUIDE, APTANOMICS, ASCAMM, BATTELLE, BIOTRAY, CERN, CNRS/ENS, CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY, FRAUNHOFER, FLUOREM, GENERAL ELECTRIC, ITC-irst, INFN, MIT, PERA INNOVATION, QINETIQ, RAPRA, RBI Instrumentation, STEINBEIS, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT MUNCHEN.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DEGREE
-The Degree in Innovative Physics Technologies combines university learning with technical training and industrial culture.
-Closed Number: there are 40 places open for this degree at present
-Access to the course is through an aptitude test, scheduled for September at the University of Ferrara
-A university environment especially adapted to promote a profitable student-teacher rapport
-The first year of the course is the same as that of Physics and Astrophysics.
-In the second year some lessons will be held in the company by teachers and company tutors,and the student will be remunerated for this period of work/study
-The work/study period will take place in companies in the sectors of automation, mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, packaging, mechanical and mechatronic applications.
WHERE YOU DO THE DEGREE
The training sessions and workshops will be held at the Polo Scientifico-Tecnologico at the University of Ferrara (10 minute walk from the railway station).
Dipartimento di Fisica.
Polo Scientifico-Tecnologico
Edificio C - via Saragat, 1
44100 Ferrara - Italy
Phone. +39 (0532) 974211
fax. +39 (0532) 974210
Universitą di Ferrara
Elisa Marchetti – Universitą di Ferrara
Tel. +39 532 974782
Email: elisa.marchetti@unife.it
For information about Programma Quadrifoglio:
Maddalena Suriani - Fondazione Aldini Valeriani
Tel +39 51/4151917 Email: maddalena.suriani@fav.it
Chiara Tonelli – Fondazione Aldini Valeriani
Tel. +39 51 4151938
Email: chiara.tonelli@fav.it
