Daniele Messina obtained a double satisfaction and a double degree in Mechatronics engineering on 19 December 2014. The double degree programme is carried out in Germany and in Italy and it involves the University of Trento and the TUM - Technische Universität München - granting him an innovative university experience and a qualification recognised in both countries. He also had the opportunity to attend part of his studies at TUM, where important scientists took their degree: Rudolf Diesel, Thomas Mann, Giovanni Battista Caproni, and more recently Samantha Cristoforetti.
Daniele Messina drafted his dissertation in Munich. The title is “Implementation of a switching technique for electric vehicle batteries and analysis of the influence on the energy efficiency”.
Daniele Messina achieved his degree in Mechatronics engineering at the Department of Civil, Environmental, Mechanical of the University of Trento, and according to the double degree agreement, also a Master of Science in Maschinenbau und Management at the Technische Universität München. He had already defended his dissertation in Munich, under the joint supervision of Philip Wacker (Fakultät für Maschinenwesen, TUM) and Davide Brunelli (Department of Industrial Engineering of Trento).
He is the first engineering student achieving the double degree with the Technische Universität München. He enrolled in Trento in the academic year 2011/12 and spent his first year in here, while he spent the academic years 2012/13 and 2013/14, as established in the double degree programme.
The double degree agreement was signed in 2010 between the former Faculty of Engineering of the University of Trento and the Fakultät für Maschinenwesen of TUM. Coordinator: Professor Vigilio Fontanari, Department of Industrial engineering. The programme is targeted to students of the master’s degree courses in Materials engineering e in Mechatronics engineering.
It lasts 3 years and in implies the acquisition of 180 ECTS, including the dissertation. Students need to acquire at least 60 ECTS at the University of Trento and 90 ECTS at TUM. They may defend their dissertation either in Trento (in Italian or in English) or in Munich (either in German or in English).
This double degree programme was developed within the framework of the T.I.M.E. Consortium. (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) of which the University of Trento is a member since 2002.
More information is available in the attached Press release.