Description and educational objectives

The doctoral course refers to the consolidated tradition of the Information Engineering unit belonging to the Department of Engineering and Architecture. Since its foundation, the unit has participated in important national and international research programs and has given rise to numerous national and international research collaborations. The doctoral course lasts three years. As part of the general theme of the doctorate, topics in the following fields are offered to students, corresponding to the skills and development lines of the research groups, and the equipment available:

-Electronics, instrumentation and drives
-Computer systems and automation
-Telecommunications and electromagnetic fields.

In addition to these, soft skills are provided, with insights into topics such as the drafting of research projects, the writing of scientific articles, the preparation of patents, the English language, with particular reference to scientific language. Doctoral students are provided with various opportunities to come into contact both with other national and international academic institutions and with the business world which, through the financing of various grants, is involved in the drafting of the doctoral students' research projects. International mobility of the doctoral students is also strongly encouraged.
 

The course aims to provide students with a higher level scientific preparation in the vast area of Information Technologies, which includes in particular the scientific-disciplinary sectors IINF-01/A (former ING-INF/01), IINF-02/A (former ING-INF/02), IINF-03/A (former ING-INF/03), IINF-04/A (former ING-INF /04), IINF-05/A (former ING-INF /05) and IMIS-01/B (former ING-INF /07), to which the IIND-08/A (former ING-IND/32)  sector refers for applications and the MATH-06/A (former MAT/09) sector for methodological aspects.

Doctoral students will have to acquire skills in the specific disciplinary areas of the doctoral course, both through the provision of courses held by professors from the Information unit or by external professors, and through research activities under the supervision of a tutor and with the availability of adequate bibliographic resources and adequate hardware and software resources within the various laboratories belonging to the Information unit. Doctoral students will also have to acquire adequate language skills, demonstrating that they are able to produce scientific articles in English and present their research activities in the context of international conferences.
The doctoral student's autonomy, his ability to develop original ideas and, in general, his growth as a researcher in the broadest sense, are primary objectives of the course. The doctorate also encourages training moments for the exchange/presentation of results organized by the doctoral students themselves in order to encourage synergies. Finally, doctoral students will have to acquire skills in the field of drafting research projects and patenting. 
In summary, the final objective of the course is to prepare future doctors to successfully enter the world of research in the national and international academic and industrial fields.