Honours Programme

Honours Programme


Honours Programme “Scientific Research in Industrial Engineering – Energy

This programme falls within the strategy for high level training of Politecnico di Milano. It is intended for students with high predisposition to studies and research and aims at improving the students’ skills in order to train engineers devoted to science and technological research. The programme is structured through the ordinary Course in Energy Engineering and gives the opportunity of deepening some subjects from the point of view of both methodology and contents, under the supervision of a reference professor. For this purpose the programme foresees additional training activities in several disciplines and within the MSc Thesis for a total of 20 additional credits, including those listed in the Honours table and others within a broad choice among MSc courses, guided by the interest of the student and in accordance with the reference professor. The title of the programme will be officially reported in the transcript of records together with the description of the conducted activities.

Honours Table

ECTSCodeSSDCourse Title Notes ECTS Group
8052398ING-IND/09ENERGY CONVERSION Bfor BV-PASP EIT 8
8097344ING-IND/11HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEMS Bfor all BV-PASP but EIT
8099362ING-IND/10ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGEfor PC-PASP EEE
8on guided choice – preferably in SSD ING-IND/07-08-09-10-11-24-25-278
4ADDITIONAL INTERNSHIP/THESIS4
TOTAL20
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BV-PASPTracks in Bovisa CampusEEG – Green Power Systems
EEH – Oil and Gas Production
EEP – Power Generation
EES – Energy for Development
EIT – Termotecnica – Energy Use and Built Environment
PC-PASPTrack in Piacenza campusEEE – Renewables and Sustainability

Reference professors

For BV-PASP

Prof. Alfonso Niro

Italian Students
Email: alfonso.niro@polimi.it
Tel: (+39) 02 2399 3905

Prof. Luigi P. M. Colombo

Foreign Students
Email: luigi.colombo@polimi.it
Tel: (+39) 02 2399 3887

For PC-PASP

Prof. Federico Vigano’

Email: federico.vigano@polimi.it
Tel: (+39) 05 2335 6810 / 3886

Notes

Study Mobility is not allowed in this programme apart from Master Theses/Internships abroad.

The requirements to obtain the Honours Programme qualification in “Scientific Research in Industrial Engineering – Energy” are the maintenance of the weighted average of not less than 27/30 with no score lower than 24/30 and to have passed all exams of first semester at the end of the first a.y. and one course related to SSD INGIND/31-32-33 of the second semester. In any case, all exams must be completed within the second academic year.