The Department

The Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering (DIMS) gathers together researchers of a broad range of areas ranging between Civil, Industrial and Mechanical Engineering. Beside classical fields such as Structural Mechanics & Design, Geotechnics, Infrastructures, the Department has expertise in new areas such as Mechatronics and Smart Structures Design. The Department is formed by Research Groups (Solid and Structural Mechanics, Structural Engineering and Design, Mechatronics, Geotechnical Engineering, Infrastructures and Architectural Engineering, Industrial Design, Applied Mathematics) which conduct their activities in eight laboratories.

The Department is coordinating the following Doctoral School:

• Engineering of Civil and Mechanical Structural Systems;

The Department is also involved in the following Doctoral Schools:

• Chemical and Energy Technology (administration offices: University of Udine);
• Industrial Engineering: 1) Industrial Production Engineering; 2) Mechanical Planning and Motorcycle Engineering (administration offices: University of Padua);
• Space Measures, Sciences and Technologies (administration offices: University of Padua);
• Rehabilitation of historic and contemporary buildings (administration offices: University of Brescia);

There are currently 120 people working at DIMS, with the following composition:

• 31 Faculty staff,
• 14 Technicians and administrative staff,
• 49 Ph.D. students,
• 26 Postdoctoral research fellows.