Tuesday, 26 July 2022

Team Novurania wins Ipsp 2022

Industrial Problem Solving with Physics, the event that brings together research and industry, celebrated its seventh edition

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The team that won this edition of Industrial Problem Solving with Physics - Ipsp 2022, the ingenious challenge that brings together industry and university research, was announced this morning at the Fabio Ferrari Science and Technology Campus in Povo. The competition, launched in 2014, attracted 24 students, recent graduates and PhD candidates from all over Italy. They were divided in three teams and, supervised by the expert researchers of the scientific committee Mattia Mancinelli, Michele Orlandi and Luca Tubiana, worked side by side all week to find the most innovative solutions to the problems posed by the companies involved in the competition, Danfoss, LeMur Italy and Novurania. In the end, it was this latter team that won the first prize, with a project on the optimization of the vulcanization processes of rubberized fabric.

In these five days, the teams competed against each other to solve real technological problems, but also to learn to work together and to handle failure, which is part of scientific progress. Industrial Problem Solving with Physics, now in its seventh edition, is organized by the Department of Physics, the PhD programme in Physics and the Directorate of Research Services and Valorization of the University of Trento, in collaboration with Confindustria Trento and Polo Meccatronica - Trentino Sviluppo. The challenge is to promote scientific professions and the connections between the world of research and businesses.

The participants in the 2022 edition were Danfoss srl, LeMur Italy srl and Novurania spa and 24 students, graduates and young researchers under 35. In this week of work, they have studied and experimented with the most innovative solutions to solve the technological problems posed by companies. In particular, Danfoss (Postal, Bolzano) proposed to study the friction of an electric servomotor for industrial machinery. LeMur (Ala, Trento), asked the participants to devise a system to extend the duration of a magnetic yarn for smart textiles. Novurania (Tione, Trento) was looking for a way to make the vulcanization process more effective in order to obtain a superior quality of rubberized fabric. The team that worked to solve this problem won the competition. All the participants, however, received the congratulations of the jury and of the director of the Department of Physics of the University of Trento Franco Dalfovo, who stressed how each team has been able to achieve usable results for the companies and to work well in groups, enhancing the skills of each member.