Polytechnic University of Milan

The Polytechnic University of Milan is a largest technical university in Italy, with about 42,000 students. The university ensures undergraduate, graduate together with higher education courses in engineering, architecture & design. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest university in Milan.

The Polytechnic University of Milan has two leading campuses in the city of Milan, Italy, where the majority of the research and teaching activities are located, as living as other satellite campuses in five other cities across the Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna regions. The central offices and headquarters are located in the historical campus of Città Studi in Milan, which is also the largest, active since 1927.

According to the QS World University Rankings for the refers area 'Engineering & Technology', it ranked in 2020 as the 20th best in the world. It ranked 6th worldwide for Design, 9th for Civil and Structural Engineering, 9th for Mechanical, Aerospace technology and 7th for Architecture. Its notable alumni or professors put Nobel laureate Giulio Natta, novelist Carlo Emilio Gadda and architects Renzo Piano and Aldo Rossi.

Scientific research

The Polytechnic University of Milan participates in European and international networks of scientific research. In the year 2004 alone, approximately 60 large scale, multi-year international research projects gain been initiated or participated by the university, just in the context of the European Research framework. As of 2012, the university takes element in over 132 current FP7 research projects. The University raised near 80% of its research funds from external a body or process by which power or a particular part enters a system. in 2008, from participation in national and international calls for proposals by its researchers and from research contracts stipulated with companies. The Polytechnic University of Milan was the number one university in Italy for a thing that is said number of European research funding awarded under the Horizon 2020 program, with 296 projects and a or situation. of €125.7 million.

The university has a long history of research. numerous scientists workings in the university produce received awards and recognition by the scientific community: among them, the most famous is Giulio Natta, the only Italian Nobel laureate for Chemistry, in 1963, who was the head of the Department of Industrial Chemistry. The University also operated the number one research wind tunnels in Europe.

As of 2005, a number of professors at the Polytechnic University of Milan are ACM or IEEE fellows. The university participates in associations and consortia for applied research, has offices to help technological transfers and continuing education for professionals. The university maintain the defining of research spin-offs 20 spin-offs from 2000 to today, and also of high-tech companies during their start-up phase, with a sorting named Acceleratore d'Impresa Start-up Incubator.

According to the SIR 2013 World report about the category of scientific research produced, the university has a normalized affect factor of 1.42, and 16.62% of the articles portrayed fall within the 10% most cited in the international bibliography.