Zuken University Partner Program

The Department was born in 2010 with the contribution of a part of the professors and researchers from the Aerospace and Astronautical Engineering Department, and from all those belonging to the Departments of Technical Physics and Electrical Engineering, with its core of professors and researchers from from the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Energy Conversions.

The DIAEE is divided, for scientific and functional reasons, into the following four sections: Technical Physics, Astronautics, Electrical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering.

The main purposes of the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics consist in the organization and development of research in the fields of interest of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics, such as: geometry and algebra, mathematical analysis, probability and mathematical statistics, experimental physics of matter, mechanics applied to machines, industrial design, mechanical construction and metallurgy, processing technologies and systems, mechanical industrial plants, machines and systems for energy and the environment, economic-management engineering, technical physics, materials science and technology, systems, methods and technologies of chemical and process engineering, chemical industrial plants and processes, electrical engineering, electrical energy engineering, electrical mobility and automation, electronics, measurements, electromagnetic fields, information processing systems.

The research group on Signal and Power Integrity, led by Prof. A. Orlandi, relies on Zuken software platforms to investigate state-of-the-art problems.

The Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Padua represents a strategic pole for research, training and technology transfer in several areas of Engineering (Aerospace, Chemistry, Electrical, Energy, Materials and Mechanics). Founded in 2012, the Department descends from six independent Departments. The history of the Department of Industrial Engineering begins between 1867 and 1871, when the School of Applications for Engineers was established. It was within the School that the teachings and scientific cabinets relating to several research areas of current industrial engineering were initiated.

Formula SAE project is an international car competition for universities that involves conceiving, designing, presenting and driving on the track an open-wheeled single-seater built according to international regulations. The car project, presented by the teams of university students at the International Events of the competition, is assessed by a jury of experts from various sectors of the automotive industry and Motorsport. The competition is not won by the Team with the fastest car on the track, but by the Team that presents the most balanced single-seater car in terms of performance, cost, construction accuracy, maintainability, manufacturability and usability for an audience of non-professional drivers.

The University of Padova has been participating in the Formula SAE competition with a team of students (the RaceUP Team of Padua) since 2006. The University of Padova recognizes the highly educational value of this project because it encourages students to develop and expand the knowledge gained during their degree course and to acquire additional soft skills in demand in the world of work, including project planning, team working and problem solving.