Industrial and information engineering

Università degli Studi di Udine

Annex 4 – Ph.D in INDUSTRIAL AND INFORMATION ENGINEERING

GENERAL INFORMATION

Subject areas: ING-IND/13, ING-IND/14, ING-IND/15, ING-IND/16, ING-IND/31, ING-IND/35, ING-INF/01, ING-INF/02, ING-INF/03, ING-

INF/04, ING-INF/05, FIS/01, GEO/11, ING-IND/32, INF/01, ING-INF/07

Department location: Department of Electrical, Managerial and Mechanical Engineering - via delle Scienze 206, Udine ITALY (tel. +39 0432

558253).

Associated locations:

1. Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (France)

2. Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes (France)

Coordinator: Prof. Paolo Gardonio - e-mail: paolo.gardonio@uniud.it

Course duration: 3 years

Curriculum:

1.

New management paradigms and fabrication technologies for competitive enterprises with low environmental impact

2.

Information and communication technology for the inclusive society

3.

Innovative electro-mechanical paradigms and systems for energy saving and renewable energy sources

4.

Mechanical technologies and electronic devices for domotics, medical diagnostic and safety

Research topics:

Curriculum 1: New management paradigms and fabrication technologies for competitive enterprises with low environmental impact

1) “Lean production”, Agile Project Management, Balanced Scorecard, Business Planning, Complexity Management, Global manufacturing and sourcing for the innovation of the enterprise management;

2) Approaches to system and product innovation;

3) System and machinery efficiency for industrial production;

4) Cognitive features of products development in view of CAD-PLM technologies;

5) Characteristics and applicability of emerging prototyping methodologies (augmented reality, functional mock-up, interaction design, etc.);

6) Smart logistics: computation models and algorithms;

7) New technologies for the manufacturing of innovative materials;

8) Systems for monitoring and control of machine tools;

9) Methodologies for the design of energy and production efficient automatic systems;

10) Light and flexible robots with low energy consumption.

Curriculum 2: Information and communication technology for the inclusive society

1) UTB-SOI and FinFET nano-electronic devices (MOSFETs and Tunnel FETs) for energy efficient and high performance electronics. Non volatile Memories for massive 3D integration (Flash, charge trap);

2) Advanced electron devices based on innovative materials and architectures in the Beyond CMOS and More than Moore domains: graphene, 2D crystals, III-V compound semiconductor devices;

3) Semi-classical (drift-diffusion and Multi sub-band Monte Carlo) and quantum mechanical (NEGF) simulation of nanoelectronics devices;

4) Integrated circuit design for energy efficient communications, energy conversion and management;

5) Innovative communication paradigms and systems: systems with multiple antennae, distributed communication systems, HW and SW architectures for telecommunications;

6) Multimedia signals processing and analysis: video and image encoding, video streaming based on peer-to-peer networks, joint source/channel encoding, compressive sensing;

7) Test and development of metaheuristic algorithms for combinatorial problems;

8) Pervasive computing, cloud computing, overlay networking, distributed computing in miscellaneous networks of computers;

9) Artificial vision system, virtual sound, machine learning;

10) Wireless communication systems and networks, signal processing for communication, physical substrate algorithms, transmission system algorithms.

Curriculum 3: Innovative electro-mechanical paradigms and systems for energy saving and renewable energy sources

1) Energy harvesting systems for self powered, smart, distributed sensors;

2) Electro-mechanical devices for innovative production and storage energy systems;

3) New paradigms, systems, technologies for surface and air transportation vehicles with low energy consumption;

4) Integrated power electronics for industrial plants and machinery;

5) Electric drivers and converters for distributed electric generation and co-generation systems (photovoltaic, wind, etc.);

6) On board electronics: terrestrial and satellite localisation and navigation systems; communication networks and systems;

7) Green mechatronics: mechatronics for energy saving;

8) Design methodologies for materials handling systems characterised by low environmental impact;

AREA SERVIZI PER LA RICERCA

Ufficio Formazione per la Ricerca

RESPONSABILE DEL PROCEDIMENTO: SANDRA SALVADOR

COMPILATORE DEL PROCEDIMENTO: Raffaella Medeot – dottorato.rice@uniud.it

PEC amce@postacert.uniud.it

Vicolo Florio, 4 – 33100 Udine (Italia) - + 39 0432 556390 vox - + 39 0432 556299 fax – http://www.uniud.it/

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9) Holistic design of lightweight structures for low emissions and low energy consumption vehicles;

10) Design of energy efficiency industrial plants.

Curriculum 4: Mechanical technologies and electronic devices for domotics, medical diagnostic and safety

1) Smart systems and technologies for home, working and leisure environments;

2) Systems for safety at work, on the road, at home; systems for the management of home assistance activities;

3) Sensors, devices and instrumentation for medical care and tests and for the support of the elderly; systems for the planning and support of hospital activities;

4) Innovative paradigms for the interaction of domotics, surgery and security devices;

5) Passive and active control of noise and vibration for industrial, home and surface-air transport vehicles applications;

6) Devices and instrumentation for the detection of biomedical parameters: nanosensors;

7) Robots for eldery and disable people assistance;

8) Robots for surgery applications;

9) Large scale tri-dimensional image modelling, automatic synthesis of binocular video flows from monocular sources;

10) Geophysics; seismic data acquisition, vulcanology, geostatics, seismic risk evaluation.

Research programs: research programs will be decided by Teaching Board of the Ph.D course within the course topics covered by the curricula.

Course site: http://next.uniud.it/en/research/research-doctorate/research-doctorate-ph.d/physical-sciences-and-engineering/industrialand-information-engineering

Date of publication of the ranking list: October 10, 2014

PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENT:

Degree (prior to DM 509/99) or Specialist/Master’s degree (ex DM 509/99 and DM 270/04).

For academic degrees obtained abroad see art. 3 and 4 of the announcement.

Knowledge of the following foreign language: English.

DOCUMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS IN ATTACHMENT OF THE ONLINE APPLICATION FORM

Compulsory documents and qualifications:

1.

Compulsory documents and qualifications according to art. 5 of the announcement.

Optional documents and qualifications:

1.

Copy of the Thesis/Dissertation referred to the highest academic qualification obtained, that provides access to PhD course

2.

Maximum of 5 publications (accompanied by list - Annex F)

3.

Two letters of recommendation from university professors, researchers and other experts in the field of research drawn up according to the model (Annex C)

4.

Other qualifications (accompanied by list – Annex E)

5.

Request of aids for disabilities (Attachments Assistive Technology)

6.

Request of oral exam by video conference (Annex D)

EXAMINATION BOARD:

Staff members:

Andrea Schaerf – professore I fascia – Università degli Studi di Udine

Mircea Gheorghe Munteanu – professore I fascia – Università degli Studi di Udine

Francesco Trevisan - professore II fascia – Università degli Studi di Udine

Substitute members:

Paolo Gardonio - professore I fascia – Università degli Studi di Udine

Alessandro Gasparetto - professore I fascia – Università degli Studi di Udine

Roberto Rinaldo - professore I fascia – Università degli Studi di Udine










GENERAL COMPETITION (ART. 9)

Positions available: 8

Positions granted with scholarship: 6 (financed by Univ. Udine)

Positions without scholarship: 2

The conduct of competition :

Evaluation of qualifications and oral exam.

The oral exam can be undertaken in Italian or English according to the candidate’s choice.

Criteria of evaluation of qualifications and exam:

The examination board has 100 points to be allocated as follows :

Evaluation of qualifications

Curriculum vitae et studiorum

Thesis / dissertation and qualifications

Scientific publications

Filed examinations and grades referred to the academic degree

Any other qualifications

Letters of recommendation max score 30

15

4

3

4

3

1

Oral exam max score 70

Implementation procedures: The oral examination consists of an individual interview of about 15 minutes aiming to assess the candidate flair to undertake a research doctorate and to carry out the research tasks in the areas of interest for the doctorate.

The interview will be assessed considering the following criteria: a) technical and scientific competence in the topics of the doctorate, b) knowledge of the state of the art for the doctorate curricula, c) mastery of English language.

Candidates obtain a pass with a score in the oral exam not less than 49.

Calendar of examination:

Oral exam

Date

Time

Place

September 24, 2014

09:00 a.m.

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Gestionale e Meccanica - via delle

Scienze 206, 33100 Udine

If the number of candidates is requested, the oral exam may also be carried out over several days.

To take the examination, candidates must show proof of identity.

COMPETITION FOR RESERVED POSITIONS (ART. 10)

Positions available: 1

Positions reserved for scholarship students with international mobility specific programs: 1

The conduct of competition:

Evaluation of qualifications. However The examination board may contact applicants for an interview (also via skype) to examine in depth the material submitted. The interview does not involve an extra score.

Criteria for evaluation of qualifications

The examination board has 100 points to be allocated as follows :

Evaluation of qualifications

Curriculum vitae et studiorum

Thesis / dissertation and qualifications max score 100

50

13

10 Scientific publications

Filed examinations and grades referring to the academic degree

Any other qualifications

Letters of recommendation

13

10

4

Candidates obtain a pass with a score in the evaluation of qualifications not less than 70.








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