Undergraduate degree courses

A range of new three year degree courses were launched in the 2001/2002 academic year, in concordance with European structural guidelines.
Among the degree courses offered in the 2003/2003 academic year were the single cycle (5 year) specialist degree course in Construction Engineering and Architecture; and nine new three year (level I) degree courses. Two of these were held at the Fondazione Universitaria di Mantova; and one was held in conjunction with the Politecnico di Milano.

The Faculty of Engineering also collaborated in three interfaculty degrees:
Intercultural and Multimedia Communications;
Physical Education and Sports Technique;
Preventive and Adaptive Motor Education.

Specialist degrees

Six two year specialist (level II, a follow-on from level I) degree courses were launched in the 2003/2004 academic year.

The Engineering Faculty also collaborates in two interfaculty level II specialist degree courses: e-Business Management and Technologies in conjunction with the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, for which the Engineering Faculty runs Class 100/S; Techniques and Methods for the Information Society; and Multimedia Authoring and Communications in conjunction with the faculties of Law, Letters and Philosophy and Political Sciences.

University Masters courses

Four University Masters courses were launched in the 2003/2004 academic year: 'Transport: Structures and Infrastructures'; 'Computer-Aided Structural Design'; 'Innovative Materials Engineering'; and 'Computer Technologies for Civil Administration and e-Government'.

Quality of teaching

We are in the early phases of a period of profound academic innovation, whose initial results (.pdf file) are still being analysed. Monitoring and analysing these changes will help us maintain the high teaching standards of the faculty, by getting the best out of our teaching staff and developing an environment in which students can choose the course most suited to their own abilities and which will motivate them to develop a clear vision of their professional future.

Figures for the 2003/2004 academic year.

There were 3484 enrolments in the 2003-2004 academic year. More than 200 teaching staff, of whom a fifth are employed on an external contract, teach three hundred courses.