The Degree Course aims to train experts in materials and nanotechnology with a broad spectrum of knowledge in the various fields related to preparation, transformation and application of materials, with particular regard to the innovative applications among which nanotechnologies are one of the most significant. Bachelor’s Graduates in Materials and Nanotechnology Engineering have a strong fundamental and technical-applicative background allowing an easy knowledge updating required to perform in the professional activity. The peculiar skills of the Materials and Nanotechnology Engineer are related to understanding the correlations between structure and properties of materials (material science, metallurgy, structure and properties of polymers, materials characterization techniques), to manufacturing processes (physical and chemical thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and transformation technologies at the nanometric scale) and the selection and use of materials in structural (solid mechanics and applied mechanics) and functional applications.

At the end of the first level studies, the student will have a strong knowledge on materials technology, allowing her/him to competently deal with issues related to the management of production processes and transformation of materials, with the professional profile of “materials and/or product production technologist “.

The Bachelor’s Degree in Materials and Nanotechnology Engineering is a three-year course. The first two years focus on the fundamental knowledge of scientific disciplines and materials engineering with a compulsory common path, while starting from the third year several optional courses can be chosen, allowing to deepen the engineering knowledge on surface treatment, nanotechnology, polymeric materials, technologies and design. Finally, set of courses are available, which train students for further education on bioengineering and biomaterials, and on nuclear engineering, as well as complementary courses providing transversal skills can be chosen.

The Bachelor’s degree in Materials and Nanotechnology Engineering recognized the importance of the technological and product issues by requiring a project work within the final laboratory scheduled on the second semester of the third year, where the issues related to materials technology, applications and design are also addressed from a practical point of view in order to develop a mentality closer to that of the world of work. This laboratory activity includes writing a report whose discussion contributes to the graduation grade.

The traditional learning methods (lessons and exercises) are therefore accompanied by laboratory, project and internship activities, carried out individually or in groups and often in collaboration with important industries. The issues addressed are highly applicative, allowing students to get in contact with the business reality and aimed at strengthening the transversal skills (soft skills of a relational and cognitive type) fundamental for entering the world of work.

The Bachelor graduate in Materials and Nanotechnology Engineering is an expert in materials and nanotechnologies with a broad spectrum of skills in the various industrial fields related to the preparation, transformation and application of materials, with particular regard to the innovative areas out of which nanotechnologies are one of the most significant.
The Bachelor’s graduate in Materials and Nanotechnology Engineering owns a first level degree in the Industrial Engineering class and may practice as freelance after passing the State examination and upon registration in Section B of the Register of the Order of Engineers of the Province of residence.

Upon evaluation of the training curriculum, Bachelor graduates in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnologies can continue their educational training within the Master’s degree Programme in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology with full recognition of the accrued credits, and within most of the Master’s degree programmes in the area of Industrial Engineering. Bachelor graduates can also access the first level Specialization Courses and first level University Masters.

The Materials and Nanotechnology Engineer finds employment in industries involved in the production, transformation and recycling of materials in the fields of chemistry, mechanics, electronics, telecommunications, energy, construction, transportation, biomedicine, environment and cultural heritage. In particular, the Materials and Nanotechnology Engineer operates in the industry of surface treatments, where the demand for technicians capable of developing integrated projects becomes increasingly pressing, or in the industry of polymers and metallic materials, needing technicians experienced in the development and production of raw materials, in the production of processing machines as well as in the design and production of polymeric or metallic products.