The electric vehicles industry is sparking off a demand for new professions and skills sets. At stake: environmental sustainability and the future success of carmakers
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Electrical engineer Cinzia Zuffada has been working for 28 years at the American Space Agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, dealing with the changes on Earth
Medicine is keeping up with the times: in the future doctors will also be engineers. Here is the new degree born from the collaboration between Humanitas University and Polytechnic of Milan
From 2010/2011 to 2017/2018, those enrolled on engineering courses grew by 7 thousand, accounting for 14.5% of all students registered at Italian universities. According to Donatella Sciuto (Politecnico di Milano): These degrees teach you to think independently and provide good opportunities to find a job quickly
An interview with the Director of the Biorobotics Institute at the Sant’Anna School in Pisa: Funds are low, competition is high and the environment around us is too conservative. Research in Italy needs a shake up
Forget paper and pencil. From now on, objects will be generated by algorithms, based on the designer’s input. Buratti (Politecnico di Milano): Some schools are already experimenting with computational design
Engineers, mechatronics engineers, risk managers, along with installers, cooks, and construction workers: here is how environmental sustainability can create employment and generate value (not only for our health)
Our country should stop selling cars with diesel or petrol engines by 2035 and switch to electric cars. New skills, new professional profiles and more research will be needed
“Psychology and the Good Life”, taught by Laurie Santos at Yale, has become the most popular course in the history of the prestigious American university. Yet there is no shortage of examples in Italy as well
Software developers, engineers and computer scientists will be leading the first phase of creating a virtual reality for avatars. But eventually a detailed world will have to be created, and this will only be possible with architects, designers, mathematicians and many other professional profiles.