5.000 euros for the best dissertation of a student of Politecnico di Milano on sustainability in the fashion sector: Save The Duck, the famous brand producing 100% animal free duvets, awards a graduation prize in collaboration with the Sustainable luxury academy of the School of Management of Politecnico, which was assigned to Eleonora Coira , Alumna of Design for the Fashion System 2020 .
Coira, Alumna of twenty-seven years from Como, won the award with a dissertation entitled "Designing circularity - Design strategies for the integration of circular economy models in the fashion system" , which touched on the two central themes of the Save the Duck call:
"I believe that the fact that the announcement for the degree award was expressly focused on the themes of Circular Economy and biomaterials , two topics that I discuss in my thesis and that, in a certain way, also become a cornerstone for promoting positive design approaches and sustainable innovation in fashion " , says Coira.
The prize was awarded by a jury made up of some representatives of the Save the Duck brand and the School of Management of the Politecnico id Milano , including professor Alessandro Brun and doctor Silvia Mazzanti , Product and Sustainability Manager of Save The Duck, who chose Eleonora's thesis among twenty other candidates .
"Coming from a scientific background but having an artistic nature since childhood, I felt that I had a university path that could allow me to explore my creative side without giving up a scientific-technological approach of innovation. Studying Design at Politecnico taught me to express my point of view and my ideas in a unique and representative way, to persevere and pursue my goals. "
Even after graduation, sustainable design for fashion products remains a central theme for Alumna's work and interests:
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"When I grow up - concludes Coira - I would like to work in a role that can bring together my passion for innovation and creative industries with my design and analytical skills, in the pursuit of objectives that can improve the conditions in which we live and consume, with a view to a positive and conscious future".
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Making sure that sport becomes truly for everyone and a tool for social inclusion for children with motor disabilities: this is the goal pursued by the researchers of the GIFT - EnGIneering For sporT for all project, which recently presented the results of their work over the past 18 months.
GIFT has focused its activities on 19 hemiplegic children attending primary school. The project followed two paths: technological research , which developed innovative orthoses (medical devices used in orthopedics or traumatology in the treatment of certain pathologies) which, by correcting the functional deficit of hemiplegic children, allowed them to approach sports practice trying to cover most of the motor and cognitive disabilities; social research , which then involved families, teachers and sports associations so that these children could really do sports, reducing the distance that exists today between those we call able-bodied and disabled.
The project was a success: the next step will be to generate a concrete impact , which goes beyond the 19 hemiplegic children of the various Lombard schools who have been involved in the experimentation of innovative orthoses.
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A POLISOCIAL PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano has made available € 570,000 - raised through the funds of 5 for mille - to finance projects on the topic of “Sport and Social Inclusion” with the aim of making a concrete contribution to improving the quality of life of citizens, combining scientific research and social commitment. Among these also the GIFT project, which received part of the funds ( € 90,000 ) qualifying as one of the winners of the Polisocial Award 2019 .
"GIFT - declared professor Manuela Galli of the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico and scientific director of the project - wants to be a gift for all children with functional limitations . The orthoses that are used have indications relating to restraint of the lower limb with support for walking: when it is used in a situation other than walking, such as running, the prescription for use is exited ".
The research project was developed by the Interdepartmental Laboratory E4Sport of Politecnico di Milano and saw the involvement of partners such as the Association La Nostra Famiglia - IRCCS "Eugenio Medea", the Catholic University of Milan, ITOP, BTS, Math & Sport, Edumoto, Yuki Onlus and various sports associations.
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"Understanding how sport and sporting activity can generate value for society and for the economic-productive system is today a priority to promote a change of perspective, recognizing that sport and sporting activity do not they are only 'fun', but they are an important investment - and to be protected - for the well-being of society and its competitiveness " explains Emanuele Lettieri , full professor of Accounting, Finance & Control and project manager of the GIFT project.
His name is Giorgio Panichi , he was born in 2001, and on his twentieth birthday he graduated from Politecnico in Physical Engineering, becoming the youngest graduate in Italy.
Growing up in Ascoli Piceno, he attended first year school and graduated from high school in the fourth year, while he was attending the year abroad in the United States. He then moved to Milan very young, completing his degree course in three years, with a thesis entitled «Design and optimization of waveguides in planar and three-dimensional technology» , focused on microchips that they use light instead of current to transmit data, which are functional for the development of quantum computers.
"Physics has made me fall in love since I met her in high school. Even as a child I remember watching lessons on YouTube. The Politecnico di Milano not only has a very good history and reputation, but it offered this course in Physical Engineering which brought together some very interesting topics ”.
A FEW QUESTIONS ABOUT POLITECNICO AND THE FUTURE
Giorgio's plans for the future: “I will continue in the master's degree and then with some other Masters. I hope to work in the field of quantum computers ”.
We have asked him to explain to us what are the most important lessons he has learned at the Politecnico both inside and outside the course of study, and he has clear ideas: “I learned to put a lot of effort right away and to compare myself with my classmates to study”. And, as for the advice he is feeling to give to new students now that the semester has just begun, he has no doubts: “Spend a lot of time at Politecnico meet new people and have a lot of new experiences!”.
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Who's who lists are all the rage: whether they are ike it or not, their a way to take a picture of a reality in a simple and immediate way, giving readers the tools to explore the topic. In the last few weeks we have talked about the Forbes list of Italian Under 30s , which counts 11 young innovators of Politecnico, and that of La Repubblica dei IT security guru in Italy , in which 4 Alumni of great international prestige make their appearance.
TWO ALUMNAE IN THE FORBES LIST 2021: PEOPLE'S LEADERS, BEFORE COMPANIES
Emanuela Trentin ( Alumna of managing engineering) is CEO of Siram Veolia , a multinational group with a hundred years of history that operates in the energy resource management sector. In Italy you have almost three thousand workers and closed 2019 with a turnover of 700 million euros. " target= how to save resources and energy. Especially in hospitals ", she headlines La Repubblica Economia in an in-depth study of 2020, to which Trentin declares:" I believe that the success of companies is based on organization. The perfect one, drawn on paper does not exist, it must be adapted to people “.
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Of Virginia Magliulo (Alumna ing. Elettronica) speaks Monza Today, which describes her as “ one of the 100 world wonder women ”. Magliulo has an international career behind her (she worked as a construction engineer in London, Paris, Strasbourg and Israel) and rapid growth: she joined ADP in 2015 and became general manager of ADP Italy in 5 months , general manager of the entire southern European area in 2017 and President Global View HCM in 2019. Today he leads over 1,000 people.
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Always involved in the fight against wage inequality, in an interview said :" I believe that in Italian companies there is still a good step to take so that they truly become a mirror of society ". Because, argues Magliulo, companies change if people change. This is the message that she passes in her contribution to the Alumni book " TOWARDS 2099 - 87 Tips from the great Alumni of the Politecnico di Milano ”, where he describes the role of young people in bringing companies closer to new consumer trends on a global scale.
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An" urban turning point ", as defined by Corriere della Sera , that took place this week: the first agreement was signed in the context of the projects of the international call for Reinventing cities for the 'Terme di San Siro' in the former stables De Montel. “For the first time”, writes the journalist Giacomo Valtolina, "a scheme of agreements between public and private has been developed that includes a series of environmental characteristics (energy consumption, monitoring, compensation systems, reforestation, use of sp environmentally friendly materials) and social (usability of services for the vulnerable) structured ". “It is a new era for the city of the future” explains Gianluca Zanella at the helm of the Vicom project. “Teamwork and ideas - adds Maran - Virtuous competitions work”.
The bulding site will be delivered in 2023 . According to the project, it will be the largest Italian spa complex in a large city, but, above all, the first green spa in Europe, with zero CO2 emissions . The core of energy generation at the San Siro spa and SPA will be represented by renewable sources : 110 m2 of solar thermal panels capable of covering 24% of the needs of domestic hot water, for production of energy equal to 84,914 kWh / year. The latest generation photovoltaic panels will also be installed on all the pitches of the new building with favorable exposure, with a minimum efficiency of 21%, for the production of 72.9 kW peak. This system will be able to produce 76,827 kWh / year of electricity ( source here ) .
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IMAGINING CITIES
The company that will develop the project, J + S Srl (in turn led by two Alumni, Andrea Iannone and Federico Pella ), was the winner of Reinventing cities , international tender launched by Milan together with the network of green cities . The goal is to promote the regeneration of abandoned and degraded sites by applying policies and programs aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the damage caused by climate change . Today the C40 network, of which Milan is a part, has about 100 urban centers all over the world : among the major responsible for greenhouse gas emissions, cities are also important innovation hubs that can find solutions to the climate issue.
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Professor Pierangelo Metrangolo , of the Giulio Natta Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano has been awarded the 2021 Giorgio Modena Medal .
The award ceremony took place during the XXVII National Congress of the Italian Chemical Society. The Medal, established in 2019, is awarded every two years to honour the memory and work of Giorgio Modena, one of the masters and pioneers of research in organic physical chemistry. The Managing Board of the Division of Organic Chemistry awarded the prestigious honour to Professor Metrangolo for:
"originality and methodological rigour of his research on the chemistry of halogenated compounds. Starting from pioneering studies on weak intermolecular interactions based on halogen bonding, his research enabled molecular and supramolecular materials to be fine-tuned resulting in innovative spin-offs and applications in sectors ranging from materials science to biology ".
"This is a great recognition for a scientist working on intermolecular interactions," commented Professor Metrangolo. "And it is an honour that I share with my colleagues in the research group. In particular, with Giuseppe Resnati ((of whom we have spoken on MAP 9, page 40) with whom I had the good fortune to discover something new in chemistry, which will be further studied and researched for decades.”
In 2013, IUPAC defined "halogen bonding" as the the intermolecular interaction involving halogen atoms in a molecule as electron density acceptors. This definition highlighted the similarities of this new intermolecular interaction with commonly known hydrogen bonding, but also the more pronounced directionality of the former. Halogen bonding can now be considered for all intents and purposes as a a new tool for chemists worldwide to design and manufacture new materials and drugs (Figure 1).
Figure 1. X-ray structure of the kinase inhibitor, tetrabromobenzotriazole bound with its 4 bromine atoms to the target protein (taken from Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science 13(3-4):36-45; DOI: 10.1016/j.cossms.2009.05.001).
Metrangolo said, with a note of irony: "We didn't invent it: nature was already aware of halogen bonding. One of the most significant examples of the use of halogen bonding in nature is the thyroid hormone, thyroxine, , which has 4 iodine atoms in its chemical structure: these interact, via halogen bonding, with biomolecules in our body." The discovery of halogen bonding will help chemists and nanotechnologists design new materials based on this interaction that binds molecules together "as if they were molecular bricks," the researcher explained, "allowing the properties of the material to be modulated: for example, new drugs, from thyroid-supporting drugs to anticancer drugs that bind to the target with halogen bonding, or even for applications in cosmetics and reparative medicine" (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Hydrophobic pocket engineering of amyloid peptide fibrils by halogen bonding (image made by Alfonso Gautieri, Politecnico di Milano).
"Marva Griffin has demonstrated with her personal history and professional career that she strongly believes in education, study and the possibilities it offers". These are the reasons listed by Professor Giuseppe Finessi, professor from the Department of Design, during the award ceremony of the honorary degree to Marva Griffin Wilshire.
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The Politecnico di Milano awarded her a master's degree in Product Service System Design - Design for the Product Service System for her contribution to the world of design, having also created the SaloneSatellite.
Since 1998 this event has become the showcase of the Salone del Mobile dedicated to the growth and promotion of designers under 35 and of Universities and Design Schools at national and international level.
“L’attività di Marva Griffin rappresenta in modo emblematico la capacità di comprendere e governare tutte le espressioni e le fasi del design, dall’ideazione allo sviluppo, dalla realizzazione alla diffusione e comunicazione – aggiunge la professoressa Anna Meroni, coordinatrice del Consiglio di corso di studio in Design per il Sistema Prodotto Servizio del Politecnico di Milano -. Un design di cui valorizza contemporaneamente l’aspetto caratterizzante di una cultura, un paese, una generazione e le sue potenzialità industriali e, quindi, le ricadute produttive ed economiche. Sempre alla ricerca di idee, innovazioni, linguaggi e autori capaci di esprimere nuovi orizzonti e visioni, ha fatto e continua fare della loro valorizzazione la sua opera magistrale”.
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During the 22 editions, the SaloneSatellite brought to Milan more than 12 thousand emerging talents and 350 schools and universities in the world : "I had only one goal, to help the young people I knew and saw to enter the Milan Furniture Fair . Let their creativity be seen and shown to the world. " said Griffin Wilshire .
Politecnico di Milano is in first place among Italian universities according to the QS - Graduate employability 2022 ranking, the ranking that evaluates the ability of universities to prepare students for the job market.
Our University, which has conquered 9th place in Europe and 43rd in the world , is well positioned in the employment indicator and in that of partnerships with companies: in both indicators, the Politecnico exceeds 95 points out of 100.
«We are proud because education is our first mission - comments Rector Ferruccio Resta to Sole24ore -. The value and quality of our graduates is a necessary condition for our University. " - And with regards to the goals achieved, he adds: «You can get there by integrating more and more training and profession. We have put Politecnico and the job market online. And then there are the assessment center, the specialized career days. What is certain is that the university can be prepared for the national and international challenges of the world of work if it is increasingly linked to the business world".
«We are proud because training is our first mission - comments Rector Ferruccio Resta al Sole24ore -. The value and quality of our graduates is a necessary condition for our University. " - And with regard to the goals achieved, he adds: «You can get there by integrating more and more training and profession. We have put the Polytechnic and the job market online. And then there are the assessment center, the specialized career days. What is certain is that the university can be prepared for the national and international challenges of the world of work if it is increasingly linked to the business world».
UNIVERSITY AND THE JOB MARKET
This result projects the University even more into the future and into Europe, as comments the Rector:
"We must ask ourselves what will be the job market that we will have before us, what the necessary skills and what the role of the university will be. I am thinking of energy and digital that are already in the DNA of our University but also of a greater contamination of knowledge ».
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Sunday september 19, Politecnico came back running: the Adidas Polimirun Spring 2021 has welcomed in its ranks 4.580 partecipants, officially opening the marathon season in Milan.
“PolimiRun, is back, after so many months of waiting. The run has been a staple for Milano and Politecnico. People are back running in a city coming back to life” said Rector Ferruccio Resta.
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The track has started from Piazza Leonardo, historical site of Politecnico, to finish at Campus Bovisa, where the winners were celebrated.
Many Alumni and Alumnae have joined the race. Professor Enrico Zio, President of Alumni Politecnico di Milano commented:
Polimirun is a wonderful meeting place for all the community of Politecnico. I would like to thank the almost 1000 Alumni that joined the 2021 edition contributing, toghether with the other 4500 partecipants, 70.000 euros to support the sustainability of our Campus.
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But that's not all: after the Spring edition, the appointment for the next PolimiRun will be on November 7, 2021, in Lecco, for the Winter edition ! Warm up and get ready to book your race number: registrations will open soon !
“At Politecnico di Milano, educational flight activities have multiplied in recent years”, explains prof. Lorenzo Trainelli , professor of the Flight Experimentation course. "Last year over 180 students were involved in flight missions on four-seater aircraft operated by Aero Club Milano , with which we have long established a fruitful collaboration."
In this activity, students directly experience the notions they acquire in the Fundamentals of Atmospheric Flight Mechanics course and other courses of the Degree in Aerospace Engineering.
That's not all: a unique feature of the educational offer of Politecnico di Milano is the flight test series of the Flight Testing course.
"In this activity, offered in our Master's Degree in Aeronautical Engineering, each student designs and executes a flight test mission , acting as a Flight Test Engineer alongside the pilot."
In fact, the course exposes students to the complete process of Flight Testing: from planning, to practical execution, to data analysis and reporting.
We affectionately call it P92DAER: it is a Tecnam P92 Echo basic ultralight aircraft with Rotax 912 UL engine, operated by the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (DAER) for over ten years and then grounded following a mechanical failure.
In collaboration with Aero Club Milano, the University has decided to recover it in flight conditions that include some important interventions. The operation has already begun: the Department purchased a new Rotax engine in May 2021 and will soon be installed. But it doesn't stop there .
Credits: DAER Politecnico di Milano
P92: WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO
The addition of radios, transponders and ballistic parachutes for the passage of the P92 into the 'VDS Advanced' category, the replacement of flight control cables, a general overhaul of the airframe and structure, plus some other minor interventions, still need to be done. The cost of the operation is around 25 thousand euros : to complete it we need you Alumni !
Once completed, the P92DAER will become a real Flying Laboratory permanently instrumented for the acquisition of flight data and would allow a reduction in the costs of flying hours for educational activities .
It would also have a strong impact in terms of research , in particular on the analysis of flight data for the development of predictive models , both in the context of Commission projects. , and in collaboration with companies and institutions in the aeronautics sector: experimentation on aerodynamics, innovative materials, sensors, control and automation laws, measurement techniques and much more.
One of the most authoritative experts in systems and integrated circuit design, not to mention an international pioneer in computing, had his start at the Politecnico di Milano. His career kicked off with a trauma at the drawing board. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli - an alumnus of Electronic Engineering who graduated in 1971 - celebrates 50 years since his graduation this year and tells us how it all began...
I think I must be the only person who graduated with honours who had to resit two exams: Drawing 1 and Drawing 2.
I was a real mess: I had got to the point that for the drawings they gave us to do at home, I enlisted my mother’s help. She was an artist and I still remember her - now I look back and laugh, but at the time I was in despair - helping me with a drawing of a facility in perspective, as all the while I kept thinking “I’m never going to manage it!”. And I was nearly right. In my first Drawing 1 exam, the assistant walked over to me, looked at my work and said, dishearteningly: “Sangiovanni, what are you doing at the Politecnico? You can’t even draw”.
In the Drawing 1 exam, we had to draw a trampoline in perspective on the drafting machine, but five minutes before handing it in I realised that I had run out of paper... and I completed the drawing on the desk. That time, I was one of just five people who failed out of the 2000 people who took the exam.
In the Drawing 2 exam, meanwhile, they gave you a mechanical part to draw, picked at random out of a hat. Mine was an oil sump. I did the drawing, and it even came out pretty well... I was nearly finished... and then I took the piece and turned it upside down to take a look at it. But guess what was in the oil sump? Oil, obviously. A single drop of black oil dripped onto my paper. Failed again. Professor Zucchelli - Professor of Drawing and all-round great person - took my case to heart and in September, gave me private drawing lessons in his office. In the end, I managed to earn a solid 28, and then didn’t want to hear another word about it for the rest of my life. Since then, I have built up my career in a way that ensures that the graphic side of all my projects is done on the computer!
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In my day, we had professors who were masterful thinkers. One whom I remember was Giuseppe Grandori, who taught Construction Science, which didn’t really have much to do with my course of study, but I followed his teaching meticulously because his lectures were splendid, both in terms of technical content and for their implications on engineering in a wider sense. Given that he was 50 years ahead of his time, even back then he was already talking about the ethical value of the decisions that you make in engineering - how any decision you make has an impact on people’s lives.
Nowadays, this has become quite the burning issue all over the world. And then there was Mario Silvestri, Professor of Technical Physics. I admired him a great deal because, aside from being an excellent chemical physicist, he was also a renowned historian, widely considered to be the leading expert on World War I. My career is also rooted in these lessons in culture and ethics - lessons that could only be found at the Poli - not to mention Francesco Carassa’s lessons, which were perhaps the ones that drove me to seek out industrial values in my inclination for theory.
I remember the Department fondly. The professor who supervised my thesis was named Vito Amoia: in a way, he was the one who would ultimately determine what I would do ‘when I grew up’. Amoia had noticed that my classmate Santomauro - who became one of my best friends - and I were both interested in a university career, so he asked us to teach the exercises in his Network Theory course.
Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and Prof. Mauro Santomauro on their graduation day
That’s how we ended up as assistants in the fourth year and I realised that I really enjoyed teaching, but I didn’t feel that I was any good at it: in fact, I thought I was pretty terrible. In a way, this experience taught me that in everything, you have to really commit yourself and make all the sacrifices until you reach a satisfactory level.
In fact, after having taught since 1976 at Berkeley, I had my lectures filmed and studied ways to make my exposition more fluid and engaging. As a result, in 1981 I won the “Distinguished Teaching Award” at the University of California, Berkeley: the most prestigious teaching award at my university.
But the thing I remember most proudly is my triumph in a much less formal competition: throwing paper aeroplanes from the top floor of the Nave building, a competition that took place before the afternoon exercises in the two-year course.
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