Elective courses and training on specific themes:

Elective training is pursued by different activities stated by the faculty. The student will be introduced to qualified research laboratories for about 10 months. An average charge of 3 to 6 credits per month is considered leading to a total of 30 to 70 credits for this activity. This training cold be performed on a topic different from the focus of the final thesis. The student will work in one of the following fields of bioengineering currently ongoing at the Bioengineering Department of Politecnico di Milano: models and analysis of physiological systems; biomedical technologies and instrumentation particularly focused on movement analysis systems; motor rehabilitation, ergonomics and sports analysis; respiratory system rehabilitation; cardiovascular system fluid dynamics; design and functional assessment of prostheses; surgery optimisation through modelling; therapeutic devices and life support systems in cardiology and cardiological surgery; orthopaedics and orthodontics; biomaterials characterisation and applications to prostheses; biomolecules and biological structures with applications to tissue engineering; biomedical data processing, focused on linear and non linear dynamic behaviour of biological systems; biomedical image processing and multiple modality image registration; medical informatics with focus on management of data and images. The student is also allowed to propose his or her own research topics that will be accepted or not depending on its validity and on the availability of internal or external facilities to carry on the research. The credits necessary to reach the 60 for the second year will be obtained by giving or participating in seminars and attending short courses, according to faculty and tutor recommendations, and by publishing papers on high standard journals in the selected field of research.

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Development of doctoral thesis 

At the end of the first year of the Doctoral Program, the faculty decides the access to the second and, if the decision is positive the student should prepare a “Research Project” which will represent the guidelines of the development of final thesis. Faculty evaluates the Project and accepts it or require its major or minor revision. Project is assessed again during the second year and updated if necessary. At the end of the second year faculty assesses the activities and training of the students and allows for their admission to the third year. During last year the thesis is assessed three times by the faculty, at the beginning, in the middle and at the end. The last revision also serves for the admission to the final thesis discussion. Thesis is developed with the guideline of the Project, the assistance of the tutor and should be worthy to be published in high standard scientific journals of the field.