The Digital Manufacturing (DM) programme combines a set of technical core courses to provide students with all the skills and competencies to drive the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0. Graduates will be able to integrate computation and digital technologies into production processes to foster automatisation, robotisation and digital transformation of Manufacturing.
This programme allows students to deepen their knowledge of cutting-edge digital technologies and their industrial-oriented applications, with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E Minor) to transform ideas into concrete technological solutions, products and services for Industry 4.0, enabling manufacturing firms to drive sustainable growth and competitiveness in Europe with tangible economics gains in efficiency, productivity, increased revenues, and investment.
First-year program at POLIMI
Politecnico di Milano offers the first year in Data Science providing 60 ECTS. It integrates a set of technical courses (36 ECTS) with the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Minor (20 ECTS) and a thematic Summer School (4 ECTS).
The I&E Minor will be increasingly offered in a blended format, with online modules and innovative teaching methods leveraging a distributed learning environment in which students have the chance to collaborate on a project together with other EIT Digital students from different partner universities (blended I&E Education and cross-university activities).
The following summarizes the study plan for the first year. Please notice that, on the basis of the curriculum of previous BSc studies, the Admission Committee at Politecnico can specify some little directions on the individual study plans, regarding the choice of elective courses.
| First Semester | ECTS | Second Semester |
| Technical Major - mandatory courses (21 ECTS) | ||
| Data Bases II | 5 | |
| Software Engineering II | 5 | |
| 6 | Computing Infrastructures | |
| 5 | Model Identification and Data Analysis 1 | |
| Technical Major - elective courses (15 ECTS - make 3 choices) | ||
| Additive Manufacturing | 5 | |
| Embedded Systems | 5 | |
| Sensor Systems | 5 | |
| Control of Industrial Robots | 5 | |
| 5 | Machine Learning | |
| 5 | Foundation of Operation Research | |
| 5 | Model Identification and Data Analysis 2 | |
| 5 | Robotics | |
| 5 | Internet of Things | |
| I&E Minor - mandatory courses (24 ECTS ) | ||
| Strategy & Marketing | 10 | |
| 10 | Designing Digital Business Innovation Lab | |
| 4 | I&E Summer School (*) | |
(*) The Summer School takes place between the first and second year, being computed among the 60 ECTS of the first year. It brings students together for two weeks to work in groups on a business modelling and planning project in the context of a societally relevant thematic area. Summer Schools take place at different locations throughout Europe, supporting a multidisciplinary and international dimension, with a clear EIT Digital flavour to education. You can choose the one you like to attend from the catalogue of Summer Schools organised by EIT Digital and published at the beginning of the first semester.
Detailed course descriptions on our Manifesto degli Studi
Second year abroad at the Exit University
During the second year, students have the option to specialise in one of the technical areas that are offered by the Exit Universities. Please, refer to their local programs for the second year or find them out on the EIT Digital Master School webpage for Digital Manufacturing.
Contacts at POLIMI
 | Pierluigi Plebani Digital Manufacturing Coordinator https://plebani.faculty.polimi.it/ |
 | Federico Schiepatti Programme Manager Student Coordinator For info: federico.schiepatti@polimi.it |
The Digital Manufacturing major at Polimi is a specific track of the Study Course in Computer Science and Engineering (MSc). Therefore, this entry university is best suited for applicants with a bachelor degree in Computer Engineering (or equivalent programmes). This means a strong base of ICT, computer science, programming and engineering courses in your transcript of records, including physics and math courses at academic level.
