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PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES IMSCIA includes several educational activities, tackling both theoretical issues and practical hands-on experiences. The following activities are organized:
COURSES The following courses will be given
in the master program, for a total of 250 hours of lectures: All lectures will be in English. All lectures will be videotaped and distributed as long-distance classes, through the web service of the University of Milan for distance learning. Tutoring will be arranged to support
distance learning. Access to tutoring will be possible in physical meetings,
on-line by low-cost videoconferencing, off-line by email and bulletin boards.
The following laboratories will be
organized, for a total of 250 hours: Each laboratory will allow to experiment the use of soft computing techniques in a small real practical application, e.g., in one of the following fields: prediction, identification, control, classification, signal or image processing. The activities in the laboratory
will be performed in a research center, university, enterprise, governmental
agency, nearby the student location. These activities will be supervised
by a local expert. The institution where the Laboratory's activities will
be performed and the supervising expert will selected by the Director of
IMSCIA, in accordance with the student, and will be approved by the Organizing
Committee of IMSCIA. The Laboratory's activities will be monitored by the
Director of IMSCIA. The final stage (600 hours) will allow for deepening and refining the student's knowldge both from a theoretical and practical point of view by working on an innovative real case. The stage values 19 Academic Credits. The stage will be done in a university,
a research institute, an industrial research center, an enterprise, or a
governmental agency, at national or international level, nearby the student
location. The stage will be supervised by a local expert. The institution
where the stage will be performed and the supervising expert will selected
by the Director of IMSCIA, in accordance with the student, and will be approved
by the Organizing Committee of IMSCIA. The stage's activities will be monitored
by the Director of IMSCIA. The student will complete the Master's program with the preparation of a dissertation. This dissertation will summarize the description of the application problem envisioned, the literature review, the market survey, the analysis of the industrial sector, the research performed to identify an innovative solution, the description of the proposed original approach, the experimental results, and the analysis of costs and benefits of adopting this solution. During the preparation of the dissertation the student will be assisted by the local expert who supervised the stage (or another expert nominated as the local expert) and by one member of the Council of IMSCIA, appointed by the Director. The writing of the dissertation will be monitored by the Director of IMSCIA. The local expert supervising the dissertation preparation and the appointed member of the Council of IMSCIA will serve as supervisors of the dissertation and will formally present the student to the final defense of the dissertation. The dissertation must be submitted
in written form and will be made available to the public, unless different
agreed for protection of the intellectual property and industrial secret.
To allow professionals to benefit from IMSCIA,
the one-year educational program can be attended in two academic years without cost increase.
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