Thursday, 16 December 2021

Premio Italiano Meccatronica 2021 of Unindustria Reggio Emilia

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The national award “Premio Italiano Meccatronica” 2021 was won by PhD Davide Vignotto, from the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Trento.
The award, organized for several years, is now in its fifteenth edition, organized by the Mechatronics Group of Unindustria Reggio Emilia, together with Nòva - Il Sole 24 Ore and co-organized by Community.
The award ceremony took place on December 14th, during the traditional year-end meeting of Unindustria Reggio Emilia, entitled "Human Capital and Digitalization".

The aim of the competition has always been to promote mechatronic technology within companies, and this year the focus was on projects resulting from collaborations between the academic and industrial worlds. The idea is, on the one hand, to enhance the work of young people and, on the other, to give prominence to projects born from the cooperation between universities and the Confindustria system.
The winning project, entitled "Experimental analysis and analytical modeling of a release mechanism for a space mission" was written by Davide during his PhD studies (advisor Prof. Daniele Bortoluzzi) and was born thanks to a collaboration between the Space Applications laboratory of the University of Trento and the company OHB Italia S.p.A., based in Milan.
The company, which is part of the European Space and Technology Group OHB SE, works in the aerospace field and is among the leading companies in this sector at national level.

The motivations that led to the awarding of the prize, amounting to 5000 euros, were clearly expressed by the President of the Mechatronic Group Reggio Emilia, Alberto Rocchi: "The work carried out during the PhD (the highest level of university education), concerns a particularly complex and fascinating field of research such as that of flight sensors in the context of one of the most ambitious space projects of the future relating to a space observatory to detect gravitational waves.  This is a frontier research of the highest scientific level, carried out in collaboration with a leading European company in the space economy sector. The research has allowed to achieve important scientific results but also concrete applications for the redesign of the components analyzed" (credits: www.unindustriareggioemilia.it).