NTT Data announced the appointment of Walter Ruffinoni as CEO Everis Italia. Ruffinoni, Alumnus of Politecnico (graduated in electronic engineering in 1990), also remains in office as CEO of NTT DATA EMEA and Italy .
This appointment has been strategically placed to strengthen the presence of the group on the Italian market and to consolidate partnerships in Italy. “I am proud and excited to start this new challenge as CEO of Everis Italia at a crucial moment for the company” - comments Ruffinoni.
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Ruffinoni, during his tenure at NTT Data Italia, managed to double the company's turnover as well as the the number of employees , continuing to grow and hire talent despite the pandemic.
He was also an active promoter of a collaboration agreement with the Politecnico di Milano signed in November 2020 which involves research and training projects on topics such as SmartMobility, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Internet of Humans, DataAnalytics, Design for Social Benefit, Product and Service Design (find out more about the agreement here)
Milan pays homage to the inventor of Amuchina , Alumnus Oronzio De Nora, naming a street in the Ortica district, where the company of the same name contributed to the project with a donation is based.
Oronzio De Nora , Alumnus in Electrical Engineering, patented the famous sanitizing liquid in 1923 in Germany, creating the powerful antibacterial we know today as Amuchina. The engineer then sold the patent and, in 1924, founded the company that bears his name.
Even to this day, De Nora industries are also active in the international field as a focal point for sustainable technologies, energy saving and water treatment .
Credits: De Nora on Linkedin
Via De Nora is part of the redevelopment plan of the Ortica district which foresees, for this street, to be completely pedestrian and to install benches, potted plants, ping pong tables and the creation of street art along the perimeter of the De Nora company that portray the faces of people who have distinguished themselves for their important scientific contribution, including engineer De Nora.
Credits: De Nora on Linkedin
"This is an integrated intervention of pedestrianization, tactical urbanism, public art and toponymy", commented the councilor for participation, active citizenship and open data Lorenzo Lipparini, "crowned by a collaboration agreement that holds together reality of active citizenship, business and municipal administration with the common goal of rethinking and redeveloping the public space".
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Credits header e home: https://bari.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/02/27/news/amuchina_inventore_altamura_de_nora-249732543/
On October 23, 2021, the final race of the Indy Autonomous Challenge will take place at the Motor Speedway: it will be the first self-driving car race. Among the competing teams is the PoliMove Racing Team, led by Sergio Savaresi, Professor of Vehicle Control at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano and Alumnus in Electronic Engineering.
For months, the team of undergraduates and doctoral students has been working on the control software and the algorithm that will be used to drive a car at 300 km per hour. Last June 30, the first decisive victory has brought the Politecnico closer to the final goal in October and that for the moment has yielded the first prize of 100,000 dollars ( at this link the video that tells the qualifications ).
“The qualifying race took place in a simulation environment, on which we had the opportunity to do several tests in recent months”, comments Savaresi. “From the point of view of the car race, we weren't particularly fun: in qualifying we set the best time ever and we started first, in pole position. We were first throughout the race and we finished first. No one has ever overtaken us despite numerous attempts to overtake by other cars that our “AI driver” has always managed to counter. We won! ”.
During this simulation race, 16 teams from the most prestigious universities in the world participated, but, among cars that went off the track, collisions between contenders and collisions with structures, only 4 crossed the finish line : Polytechnic University of Munich and University of Texas at the top, in second and third place, in fourth place MIT.
Our team gave the organizers the virtual driver one month before the race. “It is a real replacement for the human pilot, an artificial intelligence software. We developed it with different layers of tactical and strategic intelligence: during the race he was ready to evaluate if things were going badly, change tactics and choose to take a few more risks. Then, luckily, it didn't help ", continues Savaresi, who explained in detail the nature of this virtual pilot in the issue 9 of MAP (from page 28).
The race on 23 October will see a total of 10 university teams on the track. The first prize will be $ 1 million. This time the virtual drivers will race on the track, aboard a real car, the same model for everyone: a Dallara IL-15 (renamed AV-21) modified with sensors suitable for autonomous driving.
"There is a bit of tension. A lot of crashes can occur in simulation, but nobody gets hurt and you don't risk wasting nearly half a million dollars due to a mistake ”. The car, in fact, costs about 300 thousand euros, in addition to the travel and research expenses necessary to complete the tender ( find out here how to financially support the PoliMove Racing Team with a donation ).
Right now the first team members are leaving for Indianapolis and the others will join them in September. Ready for the final, Savaresi concludes: "As a working group of the Politecnico, we have been working in this area for twenty years now, so we have a lot of know-how behind us and we are certainly among the teams that are potentially a little ahead of the time. to the others. From the point of view of skills we are very strong. But yesterday, during the simulation race, we were very anxious: as in every single race, the unexpected is just around the corner, you touch someone inside, there is a mechanical malfunction, and you lose. We are certainly among the top teams and we hope to have a bit of luck also in October ”.
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Early diagnosis is of fundamental importance to ensure greater chances of survival for people suffering from malaria: for this reason the World Health Organization continues to urge the development of new rapid diagnostic tests that can be used in endemic areas.
TMek can diagnose malaria quickly because it uses of a physical lab-on-chip mechanism, which uses magnetic fields and microchips to make it possible to quantify infected red blood cells. Through low-cost “disposable” microchips equipped with micro-magnets, the system attracts infected red blood cells and counts them in order to quantify parasitemia, i.e. the percentage of infected blood cells compared to healthy ones. In this way, it is possible to provide a quick and economical solution for the diagnosis of malaria, compatible with use in tropical areas in the absence of specialized personnel.
After the first experiments in 2019 that showed how TMek is able, in just 10 minutes , to provide a quantitative result with a sensitivity limit of 10 parasites per microL of blood, the new validation study has arrived. which confirmed its potential as a rapid quantitative and selective test for the early diagnosis of malaria.
Credits Seth Doyle on Unsplash
A RESEARCH PROJECT WITH A HIGH IMPACT ON SOCIETY
TMek was created by the interdisciplinary research team led by professors Giorgio Ferrari (Electronics), Beniamino Fiore (Bioengineering) and Roberto Bertacco (Physics) and funded by Polisocial Award , the social responsibility program of the Politecnico di Milano. To ensure an ethical use of any proceeds deriving from the exploitation of intellectual property, the initiative is protected with "social" patents and the inventors have renounced their rights in favor of financing research projects with a social purpose.
The project was also realized thanks to the support of the Alumnae and Alumni who have donated and continue to donate to ensure the ethical development of TMek and create a unique diagnostic tool in the fight against malaria. Donate.
This robot walks alone, but behind the scenes there is the whole University and a number of companies. Its name is YAPE, and it is an autonomous vehicle on two wheels designed for deliveries that is able to move between sidewalks, passers-by and traffic lights.
YAPE is able to carry drinks, hot or cold food, but also medicines as the internal compartment can be air-conditioned. It is designed to move easily between the streets of Italian cities between alleys, rails and cobblestones on its two tilting wheels, which are able of absorbing shocks and changes of route.
Its mission is to deliver what is requested to users' homes in the shortest time possible, bypassing logistical problems and road congestion at the same time.
“YAPE has been designed and engineered to move in tight spaces and to move on pavement, which requires planning its trajectories and knowing its location with centimeter accuracy”, says to RaiPlay Digital Filippo Parravicini , Alumnus in Information Engineering and PhD student at Politecnico, who has been working on the project for four years.
Together with him Luca Mozzarelli , researcher and Alumnus in Automation and Control Engineering, who adds: "The very interesting thing about this project is that it is a platform that allows us to go and work on everything round on the aspects of autonomous driving, without having to deal with the complications of a real car. "
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Vincenzo Russi , co-founder and CEO of e-novia and Alumnus del Poli, in the Politecnico di Milano Alumni Magazine talks about the path of integration of skills and sector that were fundamental to get to YAPE:
“The products we are working on today present complexities and technological problems that are impossible to solve with a single form of engineering, design or architecture. For this reason, here in e-Novia we have Alumni of Politecnico, , able of governing multiple technologies. Graduates in design, are able to become experts in economics, finance and marketing; they go beyond their specific competences to understand phenomena in other disciplines. Politecnico is shaping people that are going to be invaluable in the future".
Edison Foundation has donated 20.000 euros to finance two scholarships of 10.000 euros each : The scholarships were given to students of the master's degree course in energy engineering of Politecnico di Milano. The scholarships are named after Guido Fossati, Alumnus of Politecnico, former Director of HR and ICT of Edison.
This donation, in its second edition in 2021, is designed to select the best talents among those enrolled in energy engineering. If you wish to participate in the call for applications for next year, a weighted average of 27/30 is required; candidates then have to go through a long selection process, including tests and evaluation interviews. Let's hear more about it from the two winners of this year , that will be given their award on July 12th, 2021at 12 pm. The cerimony will be streamed here.
ALICE DI BELLA
"I still can not believe it! I still haven't been able to celebrate and understand it, it seems incredible to me ”, says Alice Di Bella , 24 years old. Alice is about to graduate in energy engineering with a focus on green power , with a research thesis in energy modeling (with Prof. Manzolini).
“It was a fellow student of mine, winner of last year's scholarship, who suggested to me to participate in the call. He told me about this great opportunity which, among other things, introduced him to Eng. Fossati, a very interesting person".
Alice told us about the selection process for awarding the scholarship: the application based on the academic average, then a test of logic and a personality test. Finally, an interview with Edison's HR manager: "He asked me a lot of questions typical of job interviews, but also some that I didn't expect, such as, for example, what value I assigned to the different areas of life: work, friends, free time and family".
After graduation, Alice would like to continue with a PhD : "I don't know what I want to do" when I grow up, at the moment I'm thinking about the next step: a PhD could give me the opportunity to deepen my interests and help me understand what I really like. However, I am oriented towards the topic of energy transition , renewables, and I am also interested in international cooperation ”.
ELIA PIETRA
Elia Pietra , 23, is in the first year of the master's degree in Power Generation. He already has a vision: “I would like to work in the field of power generation plant design . This could be the topic that I will choose for the thesis and I hope to be able to do it in the field, in the company. In the meantime, in January I will leave for Erasmus in Norway: I can't wait to leave the house! Although I have an excellent relationship with my family, I'm curious to have an experience on my own, abroad ".
After the aptitude tests, Elia was the first candidate to be interviewed with Edison's human resources. "I'm not one who gets anxious, but this time I was a little agitated. I experienced it a bit like a job interview, and for me it was the first time", he tells us.
"I was also excited because Edison is an important company and I was very interested in chatting with one of them to understand what I expect from the world of work . But the person who interviewed me immediately put me at ease. We talked about work, but also about me, my passions, my history ”.
In 2020, thanks to the support of the Community of Aumni we were able to create 87 scholarships to allow deserving students to study at Politenico di Milano. Even with a small contribution you can help a student in need: Give now
The Examining Commission of the Marisa Bellisario Prize has chosen among the winners of this 33rd edition, Alumna Elena Bottinelli , awarded for the Management category .
Bottinelli, CEO of the IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital and the IRCCS Galeazzi of Milan , graduated in Electronic Engineering with a specialization in Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano in 1991. Before joining the San Donato Group, she has worked ten years in leading multinational companies in the medical and orthopedic devices sector.
She is one of the founding members of Leads - Women Leaders in Healthcare - aiming at promoting female leadership in the health sector and promote the overcoming of gender inequalities , aiming for equality in top positions of public and private organizations. In 2019 the famous business magazine "Forbes" adds Elena Bottinelli in the ranking of the 100 most successful Italian women
In 2017 Elena Bottinelli participated in the 6th edition of the Convention Alumni Politecnico di Milano (the video at this link) , underlining the importance of the health system (which just this last year has been instrumental in tackling the unexpected crisis we have found ourselves facing). "The first objective of cities is to make citizens feel good", she commented, speaking of a future in which technology, from wearables to machine learning, will play an increasingly important role in prevention and health control, facilitating medicine. remote customized and a system of clinics distributed throughout the territory. “The future is within reach. We must not fear technology, but know it and use it ethically: it will teach us to make more informed choices ”.
The Bellisario Award is an award established in memory of Marisa Bellisario, pioneer of technology in Italy. Since 1989, every year it has been awarded to women who distinguish themselves in the profession, management, science, economy, social, culture and information, entertainment and sport, both nationally and internationally.
“This 33rd Edition - declares Lella Golfo, President of the Marisa Bellisario Foundation - comes after a long and tiring period. These months have been complicated for everyone, especially for women. We are now at a turning point. The right battles, those for women's employment and for gender equality, have finally been put back at the center of the political agendas".
The award ceremony "Women who make a difference" will be held on 1 July and will be hosted by Laura Chimenti, and will be broadcast on 17 July in the late evening on Rai1.
Among the audience: the Rector of Politecnico Ferruccio Resta, the Alumnus Renzo Piano, the Minister of University and Research Maria Cristina Messa, the Governor of Region Lombardia Attilio Fontana and the Mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala.
The project that comes from afar: we started mentioning it in the spring of 2017 (read more on its history on MAP # 1) thanks to the idea concieved and donated by Renzo Piano to Politecnico , and later designed by another great Alumnus, Ottavio Di Blasi - ODB & Partners (his interview on MAP # 7 ). The two architects conceived and developed a radical reorganization of the spaces in via Bonardi based on the philosophy that Piano defines as "mending of the territory": "mending" and connecting, in fact, are the concepts of the new Campus, designed as a space open to the whole city , an urban park that connects the Ponzio park with the greenery of Piazza Leonardo da Vinci.
Inaugurazione Nuovo Campus Architettura – Intervento di Ferruccio RestaCredits: https://www.abitare.it/it/gallery/habitat/urban-design/renzo-piano-campus-politecnico-milano-gallery/?foto=9
Through the inaguration of the new Campus today, we are symbolically opening a new phase for our university. This is how we have set in motion a post-Covid educational program that is worth, in its first pilot phase, over 15 million euros", continues the Rector: a phase in which the commitment is to find a balance between teaching in the presence and new technologies without giving up experimentation and that goes hand in hand with the commitment to research and innovation.
The Rector also cites, in this regard, the new Technology Foresight Center (we talk about it in a recent Digital Talk at this link ), created to understand the potential of high-impact technologies: from quantum technologies to hydrogen; from sustainable mobility to the potential of data; from additive manufacturing to green chemistry, to biomedical nanotechnologies, to space exploration.
"We traced the profile of a modern, international and forward-looking university . A plan that can be successful on one condition: by being accompanied by structural reforms that give adequate responses to our students and our researchers, to their expectations of today and their needs of tomorrow ", continues the Rector. President Mattarella concludes:
Starting from 2021 Paolo Cederle , Alumnus in mechanical engineering graduated in 1987, will assume the role of Head of Financial Services Continental Europe of the Japanese multinational group NTT DATA, with the mission of strengthening the sector Banking and Insurance across the European region.
Alongside this new role, he will maintain that of President of Everis Italia which he has held since 2018. Cederle will also be the European connection with the NTT Disruption For Good structure, a division of the parent company NTT, headquartered in San Francisco, which deals with exponential technologies and their impact on social and economic transformations.
Politecnico di Milano e STMicroelectronics hanno firmato un nuovo accordo di collaborazione che porterà alla costituzione di un centro di ricerca congiunto sui materiali avanzati per sensori (STEAM).
It is a state-of-the-art project in Lombardy and a unique opportunity in Italy, giving professors, researchers and PhDs of Politecnico as well as to companies interested in the subject the cutting-edge tools to design and develop MEMS technology (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System).
The agreement, as described by the Rector of Politecnico di Milano Ferruccio Resta , "is the result of the extraordinary commitment on key issues such as sensors technology and artificial intelligence”, and is the natural conseguence of the proven collaboration between the University and the company, collaborating from many years on research and development projects.
The investment also provides for the update of the main infrastructures where research projects, training and thesis elaboration are carried out, starting with the realization of a state-of-the-art 200mm pilot line that will support the current PoliFab 150mm clean room ( discover PoliFab, the clean room of the Politecnico di Milano, on MAP # 7 ). The project has a potential innovative impact on the manufacturing sector , which is the driving force of the Italian economy: the new laboratory will be open to companies and is part of an ambitious project, that of create a a real innovation district in the Parco dei Gasometri in Bovisa , where an international research-enterprise-territory ecosystem is developing.
"A center of excellence that is an expression of the interaction between public and private , between universities and companies, which is one of the strategic activities of the University increasingly oriented towards the development of advanced research and competitiveness of the territory ”, adds Resta. Furthermore, the project is part of a framework that positions the Politecnico di Milano among the top universities in Europe in terms of its ability to attract European research funds and attractiveness towards academics and talented researchers from all over the world.
Among these projects there is also BAMBI - Balloon Against Maternal BleedIng , a kit that fights off postpartum bleeding (PPH) , making the device more economical and practical than those currently used.
THE PROJECT
Postpartum haemorrhage (EEP) is a global obstetric emergency: it is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the world. Of the approximately 140,000 deaths from EPP annually, 99% occur in developing countries, with devastating social costs for already fragile communities due to precarious economic conditions that were made even more vulnerable by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
In these mostly rural countries, births take place mostly at home, without the presence of a doctor, and it is often difficult (if not impossible) to reach a hospital in time in the event of EPP. While the reference standard tool for the management of EPP in industrialized countries is the Bakri® device, due to its very high cost it is not apllicable to large-scale use in the aforementioned countries.
Credits: Polisocial
BAMBI: WHAT IS THE PROJECT ABOUT?
The main objective of the BAMBI project is to design a new device for developing countries, capable of correct and make effective management of the EPP and costing less than 5 dollars per unit. For this reason, the idea was filed as a social patent.
The researcher Francesco De Gaetano explains what is currently applied in developing countries: "A probe cover is tied with a tube wire connected with a bag full of physiological solution. The probe cover is then inserted into the uterus where, by swelling due to filling with the aforementioned solution, it compresses the uterine wall thus stopping the bleeding".
The idea of this emergency device is valid in itself, the problem lies in the materials used, in the methods of assembly of the various components and in the lack of sterilitization of the entire operation. This device should remain inside the uterus for up to 24/48 hours after its insertion ; during this period, due to the craftsmanship of the connection between the different components, fluid leaks may occur, leading to a reduction in volume and failure to achieve the goal of stopping the bleeding.
Credits Alex Pasarelu on Unsplash
In the most severe cases of EEP, losses of half a liter of blood per minute can be reached, leading to the death of the patient within a few minutes. For this reason, the device should not be subject to leaks that reduce the effectiveness of plugging the bleeding. The new device we are designing is focused on solving these technical problems to ensure safety of treatment throughout the application, as well as its simple and safe use".
The device object of the BAMBI project, in addition to acting quickly, must therefore be easy and intuitive to use in less than ideal conditions.
"We aim to reach the end of 2021 with the design of the working device, so as to start the validation process and consequently the field trials at the beginning of 2022".
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