The goal of the degree programme is to enrich you with skills in the disciplines and topics that contribute to the design, production, and management of aerospace products, encouraging engagement with issues of security and reliability and experimenting with the management of more complex systems, including environmental implications and those linked to concepts of sustainable development.

The degree programme trains two possible professionals:

production engineer, with skills that range from production and testing activities, to CAD aided design and modelling;
engineer in charge of maintenance and aeronautics services (EASA Part-66), with skills in managing, checking, and supervising aeronautics maintenance activities.Modern aeronautics and space engineering is a kind of systems engineering, which must increasingly integrate, from the outset, elements that contribute to the design or management of an aircraft or space complex.

Striving to create an aeronautic or space product, therefore, widens the scope of training, in order to see, together, the different aspects of a problem, to assemble knowledge drawn from often distant disciplines, and to frame them in the general context in which this product is conceived, constructed, and used.

More in substance: during Year 1 you will study the core scientific disciplines (common to all PoliTO engineering courses), in Year 2 you will explore basic engineering subjects, while Year 3 will be more specifically geared towards aerospace engineering.

Thus, in Year 3, you will have to choose your specialist pathway between production engineering or maintenance and aeronautics services engineering.

The degree programme conists of two main fields of study:

Scientific and Methodological Foundations (first three semesters): dedicated to teaching mathematics and basic sciences (physics and chemistry) as indispensable disciplines for engineering.
Industrial and General Engineering (Year 2): provides engineering basics common to all kinds of engineering, while also conveying the characteristic “forma mentis” through industrial technical drawing, the science and technology of materials, the mechanics of machines, electrotechnics, electronics, applied thermodynamics, the transmission of heat, and structural mechanics.
In Year 3, you will be invited to select your specialisation: