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Biomedical engineering teaching activities in Italy started
in the years 1968-69. The course of "Biomedical Electronics"
was activated at the University of Padova and at the University
of Naples and the courses of "Bio-energetic" and
"Biological Electronics" started at the Polytechnic
of Milan. Since then many other courses and educational
programmes have started in many Italian University. Post-graduate
courses started in the years 1971-72 when "Post-graduated
courses of Biomedical instrumentation" was set-up at
the University of Naples, while Bioengineering PhD courses
were activated in 1982 as consortium of various Universities
with two administrative headquarters in Milan and Bologna.
 In
2000, about 150 undergraduate courses in Biomedical Engineering
were active at 19 Italian Universities (Ancona, Bologna,
Brescia, Firenze, Genova, Milano, Modena e Reggio Emilia,
Napoli, Padova, Pavia, Pisa, Roma 1"la Sapienza",
Roma 2 "Tor Vergata", Roma 3, Roma Campus Biomedico,
Sassari, Siena, Torino and Trieste), while PhD Courses in
Bioengineering and Post-graduate courses were available
in 9 Universities.
Accordingly to the reform of the European Higher Education,
since 2001, a new educational path was adopted in Italy,
consisting of a first level degree (3 years) eventually
followed by a second level, specialist degree (2 years)
and /or Masters and finally by the PhD.
At moment, the Universities of Ancona, Bologna, Genova,
Milano, Napoli, Padova , Pavia, Pisa, Roma 1"la Sapienza",
Roma Campus Biomedico, Torino and Trieste offer the first
level degree (3 years) in Biomedical Engineering and in
the next future will offer the specialist degree (2 years).
Other Universities offer specific curricula or some modules
of Biomedical Engineering within other engineering degree
courses.
Synoptic
table of Biomedical Engineering degree courses
in ITALY from the Academic year 2000-2001
This information is preliminary and in progress - last
update September 2002
Note that Italian names of the courses, topics and degrees
have been
freely translated to English |
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UNIVERSITY
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BME
topics
in other degree
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BME
degree
3 years (class)
|
BME
specialised degree
+2 years
|
BME
masters
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BME
PhD
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University
of ANCONA
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Yes
(Ind.)
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Clinical
Engineering*
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University
of BOLOGNA
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Electronics
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Yes
(Inf.)
|
Yes
|
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Bioengineering
|
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University
of BRESCIA
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Electronics,
Mechanics, Civil, Management
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|
|
|
|
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University
of FIRENZE
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Electronics,
Mechanics
|
|
|
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Bioengineering
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University
of GENOVA
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Yes
(Ind.,Inf.)
|
Yes
|
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Bioengineering
Bioelectronics
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Polytechnic
of MILANO
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Yes
(Ind, Inf.)
|
Yes
|
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Bioengineering
|
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University
of
MODENA e REGGIO EMILIA
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Medicine,
Health-care planning
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|
|
|
|
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University
of NAPOLI
(Federico II)
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Yes
(Inf.)
|
Yes
|
|
Bioengineering,
Healthcare economy, Bioengineering technologies in
dentistry, Laboratory diagnostic and BME
|
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University
of PADOVA
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Yes
(Inf.)
|
Yes
|
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Bioengineering
|
|
University
of PAVIA
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|
Yes
(Inf.)
|
Yes
|
|
Bioengineering
Bioinformatics
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University
of PISA
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Yes
(Ind.)
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Yes
|
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Robotics,
Industrial automation systems, Bioengineering
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University
of Roma 1
(La
Sapienza)
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Electronics,
Informatics, Mechanics
|
Yes
(Ind.,Inf.)
|
Yes
|
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Bioengineering
|
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University
of Roma 2
(Tor
Vergata)
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Medical
Engineering
|
|
|
|
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University
of Roma 3
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Electronics,
Mechanics
|
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|
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Roma
Campus Biomedico
|
Biomedical
Engineering
|
Yes
(Ind.)
|
Yes
|
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University
of SASSARI
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Medicine
and Dentistry
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University
of SIENA
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Medicine
and Surgery
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|
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Polytechnic
of TORINO
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Yes
(Ind.)
|
Yes
|
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Biomedical
Engineering
|
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University
of TRIESTE
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Electronics
|
Yes
(Inf.)
|
Yes
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Clinical
Engineering
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Bioengineering
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The
classes of the BME, 3 years, degree can be: Information
(Inf.) and Industrial (Ind.)
* preliminary information
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