Aerospace Education Catalogue
Bachelor program Aerospace engineering
- Organisation: Politecnico di Torino
- Type of Course: Initial education
- Language(s): Italian, English
- Place: Torino
- Level of entry: French Baccalaureat + 0
Course Details
Objectives: The BSc degree programme in Aerospace Engineering aims to form a professional figure who, though historically part of the industrial engineering sector, is today open to wider fields and especially all the disciplines that contribute to the design, production and management of aerospace products. Modern aerospace engineering is to all effects a type of system engineering, and increasingly has to integrate all the elements that come together in the design or management of an aircraft or spacecraft. The knowledge base of the aerospace engineer is not specialised, even though it integrates many and varied kinds of expertise. The final goal of creating an aeronautic or space product, far from narrowing the scope of training required, expands it; even when engaged in a specialist context, aerospace engineers must be able to form a global picture of the various aspects of a problem, to assemble knowledge from disciplinary domains that are often far apart, and apply it in the general context in which the product is designed, built and used.
To achieve this, the BSc programme in Aerospace Engineering builds on a broad interdisciplinary base that sometimes digresses from the narrow industrial engineering field (including for example electronics, whose role in aerospace is now indisputable), engaging a variety of disciplines that include both those typical of the aviation industry (and to a lesser extent the space industry, which is covered more thoroughly during the MSc programme) and those that enable a systems engineer to establish a dialogue with experts in contiguous areas.
The programme allows graduates to go directly into employment; the field of aircraft maintenance has been identified as particularly accessible to the BSc-level aerospace engineer and to this end specific options are offered within the course of studies. More generally, however, the training produces a professional who is aware of all aspects, not only technical, involved in aerospace activities and therefore applicable in wider contexts. Even without the in-depth knowledge provided in the MSc courses, Bachelor-level aerospace engineers have all the cognitive tools needed to continuously update their knowledge, to participate actively in the process of technological innovation, or to continue their studies if they so decide.
Employment opportunities for which graduates in Aerospace Engineering are specifically trained lie mainly in the aerospace field itself:
Intended for: Students
Prerequisites: Grade of secondary education science
Duration and terms: 3 years
Notes: Taught in Italian
First year is in common with other Degree courses and it is also offered in English Language
First year is in common with other Degree courses and it is also offered in streaming
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Dedicated web site: https://didattica.polito.it/offerta/index_en.html
Topics
- 1 - Physics and Environment: radiation, particles, fields, debris, climatic and vibratory conditions, meteorology
- 17 - Project Management, Production, Industrialization, Factory of the Future, Integration, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Recycling
- 18 - Human Factors, Human Machine Interfaces, Operations, Exploitation, Air Traffic Management