AIAS Summer School 2019

AIAS - the Italian Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineering Design - organizes the Ph.D. Summer School course offering a unique opportunity to have in-depth training on selected topics of mechanical engineering design.

The summer school provides an intense, high quality course on specific subject with the valuable contribution of national and international experts in the field. This year, the course is focused on the mechanics and multiphysics modelling of intelligent materials and micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS).

The AIAS Ph.D. summer school is held at IUSS - Ferrara 1392. IUSS - Ferrara 1391, is a structure that offers university courses at the undergraduate and graduate level with the highest qualification. It is a center of studies open to italian and international students. From January 2009 IUSS-Ferrara 1391 hosts the Giorgio Bassani Foundation with the aim of promoting the collection, protection, conservation, management and development of documents, as well as the promotion of studies and cultural activities regarding the multiform activities and various interests of the famous writer. Fundamental characteristics of IUSS - Ferrara 1391 are to make the most of talent using only the highest criteria for the selection of students, an international character based on the involvement of international scholars and students, the opportunity to reside in Ferrara with the creation of a Residential College that is a point of reference for the most deserving Italian and international students, besides being tools of cultural mixing. Each year IUSS-Ferrara 1391 invites as Copernicus Visiting Scientists Italian scholars resident abroad and international scholars to stay in Ferrara for at least two months, with the aim of achieving excellent teaching standards at an international level. The Institute of Higher Studies is located in Ferrara, Via Scienze 41b.