Eng. Livio Baldi, Micron Semiconductor Italia
"For the semiconductor industry, it is extremely important to be able to combine the business rationales of efficiency and effectiveness with the ability, typical of universities, to build new knowledge. This is the key ingredient to competing on a global scale, and is typical of territorial systems open to innovation. Hosting PhD students in the process of writing their dissertation enables a mutual exchange of ideas and experiences between academia and industry. This opens up new opportunities for innovation and creates a strong link between universities and businesses. Since 2002, 12 doctoral theses have been carried out with the Politecnico di Milano at the STMicroelectronics/Micron technological research centre in Agrate Brianza, 4 of which are currently underway. To these we can add more than 30 master's degree theses, mostly carried out by students from the Politecnico di Milano, but also by some from other universities. And the figures reveal a growing trend, which is very reassuring."
Livio Baldi, External Relations and Funding Senior Director of Micron Semiconductor Italia.
TENOVA
"With the Politecnico we have had in place for over ten years a very important collaboration for the development of our Research and Development and Process Technology Team.
Working alongside graduation candidates and, subsequently, with those continuing their academic career with a PhD through an experience with us has allowed us to create a dynamic team that is the pride of our group.
For at least a decade we have been collaborating with the Department of Mechanics and Steelmaking, selecting students able and willing to grow together.
Those who have had an experience with us increase our strength with their freshness and enthusiasm that goes well with the "passion" that distinguishes our company's activities.
For our part, we try to offer deserving students the opportunity of a truly unique experience in a company such as ours, an excellent business card for their professional future.
I don't think I am wrong in saying that at least three-quarters of my "boys" come from the Poli and many of them joined our Team after a PhD or Post Graduate Internship experience in Italy or abroad that we agreed with the Poli professors as time went by.
It has been a great pleasure to welcome them and my personal satisfaction to see them grow in our company, both in Italy and in our subsidiaries abroad."
Mauro Bianchi Ferri
Senior Vice President "Steelmaking"
TENOVA S.p.A.
TENOVA
"Our Italimpianti Ovens BU has a long-standing tradition in research and development, mainly in the field of combustion, and has reached, thanks to the professionalism of several generations of engineers, a globally recognised level of excellence. Starting from these premises, we thought it was necessary to make a quantum leap with the assumption that the best weapon to meet technological challenges and compete while maintaining our leadership was knowledge. To accomplish this we identified the Executive PhD of the Politecnico di Milano as a viable opportunity.
The purpose of the Executive PhD is to develop a knowledge base on continuum mechanics calculation methods. The applicability of this knowledge applies to an extremely wide variety of engineering disciplines and is a fundamental approach for the analysis and forecasting of phenomena in the mechanical, chemical, metallurgical and fluid dynamics fields. The area of immediate interest is in the computational fluid dynamics of eddy and reactive currents (combustion). The same methodologies are however applicable to various fields and define the calculation procedures for parallel machines (supercomputing).
The result of this programme is the preparation of a professional figure somewhere between that of an engineer and an applied mathematician. The activities of such a figure include quantitative analysis of products and processes via numerical simulation, identification of critical factors for improving technological limits and collaboration with engineering departments for implementing changes or creating totally new products.
The immediate benefit for the company, and in particular for the Italimpianti Ovens BU, is the acquisition of highly qualified resources for the Research and Development sector, enabling the development of products with an increasingly technological content.
We believe that our participation in the Executive PhD becomes all the more important the more, in perspective, it does not remain an isolated incident but intersects with other examples of technological specialisation to form a solid platform of excellence for Research and Development in our company."
Massimiliano Rintuzzi
"Tenova ltalimpianti" R&D Manager
TENOVA S.p.A.
TECHINT ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION:
"The qualities we are looking for in our resources, engaged in the design of power plants and process plants for the chemical and petrochemical industry, are not confined solely to technical abilities. The characteristics we find in PhD's with experience from a school of excellence such as the Politecnico di Milano represent a set very important values in line with the corporate mentality. Their presence enriches the team and is a continuous incentive to improve. In particular, I am referring to the ability and desire to go into detail, an essential quality to cope with the complexity of technical issues that we are faced with, the systematic nature and the method with which one carries out one's work, a necessary characteristic in order to ensure the high quality standards that our market obliges us to maintain and the ability and propensity to exhibit results in an explanatory manner, ability necessary for the appropriate management of relations with the team and with the customer, whose personnel we increasingly find ourselves having to train."
Andrea Ferrera
Process, Mechanical & Technology Department Manager
TECHINT ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION