lst NOVEMBER: All Saint's Day

8th DECEMBER: The Immaculate Conception Day

23rd DECEMBER/6th JANUARY: Christmas Holidays

FROM WEDNESDAY BEFORE TO WEDNESDAY AFTER EASTER:

Easter Holidays

25st APRIL: Anniversary of Liberation

lst MAY: Labor Day

19th SEPTEMBER: Feast of Saint Gennaro (Patron Saint of Napoli)

EXAMS

The exams are held in two ordinary sessions (summer and autumn), and one special session in February.

The summer and autumn session start on 15th May and lst October and ends on 3oth September and 31st January respectively. The special session is from lst February to 31st March.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF NAPOLI "Federico II" AND ITS PRESENT STRUCTURE

The University of Napoli "Federico II" houses 12 Faculties, 67 Departments and 21 Research Centers.

The University is at present made up of the following faculties:

Agricultural

Architecture

Economics and Business

Pharmacy

Law

Engineering

Arts and Philosophy

Medicine and Surgery

Veterinary

Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences

Political Sciences

Sociology

The University has about xxxxx regular enrolled students, a teaching staff of over xxxx and an technical administrative staff of about people. The faculties are subdivided in degree courses, holding many specialization courses and research doctorates (many of which with administrative seat within the University), several special purpose schools and various postgraduate courses.

The University awards the following educational qualifications:

University Diploma
The diploma course is a two to three year course held within the Faculty according to EC norms for University first level Diplomas.

University Degree
The degree course is a four to six year course held within a Faculty

Specialization Diploma
The specialization Diploma is a postgraduate diploma and is awarded after at least a two year course aimed at training specialists in specific professional fields.

Research Doctorate
A Postgraduate degree only for purposes of academic research.

The University of Napoli "Federico II" is a well established part of the international scientific community due to the qualified and deep research activity in many different and most advanced technology fields.

Tanks to modern laboratories, in cooperation with public and private research institutes, an outstanding research network was developed which makes possible to join to ranked scientific and technical installations and organize meetings and conferences of special interest.

International Cooperation

Since the University of Napoli "Federico II" is institutionally dedicated to the elaboration of a transnational culture, that is a culture that prescinds from the confines of nations, it has long been part of the international university community.

Our University has long favored the development of interuniversity cooperation both as a training and a didactic activity; this has determined scientific research collaboration, that has often signified prestigious didactic mobility.

The student interchange culture has benefited enormously from the EC programmes ERASMUS, LINGUA, COMETT and TEMPUS, that have been quite successful in our University ever since they were approved.

As a matter of fact, thanks to the programmes ERASMUS and LINGUA a certain number of students from our University have been able to spend, and many others will spend in the future, a part of their course of studies in important foreign Universities and receive full academic recognition for their studies, just as many foreign students, thanks to the same projects, have attended and will attend our University in the future.

Without doubt, the EC programmes have contributed to establishing the culture of mobility in teaching, and have allowed many of our lectures to move out of the restricted more or less local sphere and carry out entire series of lectures in EC countries or even, by virtue of the programme TEMPUS, in Eastern European countries.

Apart from the EC programmes, specific conventions provide for the development and promotion of research and didactic by linking our University with other important Universities in Europe and in the world; moreover, our University's international policy has promoted forms of cooperation with Universities in developing countries.

Admission and Registration Procedures


The principal provisions of the Law and the Norms regulating education are published in the "Guida dello Studente " (The Student GuideBook), together with instructions for fullfilling the various administrative requirements.

It is the student responsibility to be aware of any provision and notice that may be posted on the School Bulletin Board at the Secretary’s Office, which posting, shall, therefore, be considered sufficient notification to those concerned.

ECTS students requirements are that they are registered at their home University and that the home University guarantees recognition of the time spent at the University of Napoli "Federico II".

ECTS students shall present their applications through their own universities, in the manner and within the terms indicated by the latter, which terms shall take into account the date of 1st November set for the beginning of the academic year.

The Universities shall forward the documentation to the University of Napoli "Federico II" through the Italian Consulate, which shall transmit the documents, translated and autheticated, in due time for the beginning of the academic year.

The ECTS student will notify his/her arrival in Napoli going to the ERASMUS Office of the University located in Via Mezzocannone, 16. Nextly he/she must go to the Student Secretary of the Faculty where he/she will attend the courses in order to obtain the specific documentation regarding his/her position of foreign student at the University of Napoli "Federico II". In the following are the addresses of the Student Secretaries of each Faculty:

Agricultural
Via Universita’, 100 - Portici (NA)

Architecture
Piazza Bellini, 59 - Napoli

Economics and Business
Via Partenope, 36 and Via Cintia (Complesso Monte S. Angelo) - Napoli

Pharmacy
Via D. Montesano, 49 - Napoli

Law
Via Mezzocannone, 16 - Napoli

Engineering
Piazzale Tecchio, 80 - Napoli

Arts and Philosophy
Via Porta di Massa, 7 - Napoli

Medicine and Surgery
Via S. Pansini, 5 - Napoli

Veterinary
Via S. Maria degli Angeli, 1 - Napoli

Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences
Via Mezzocannone, 16 - Napoli

Political Sciences
Via Rodino’, 30 - Napoli

Sociology.
Via Porta di Massa, 17 - Napoli

The documentation required for the permission to stay in Italy is the following:

CEE Citizen

3 passport size photographs;

Consulate Declaration

Valid Documentation from the Own Country

Receipt of the Health and Hospital Insurance, or enrollment at the National Sanitary Service, or models E111 - E112 - E113;

Residence Documentation

Extra CEE Citizen

3 passport size photographs;

State Stamp of Lit. 15.000

Passport with a photocopy of the page with the VISA and the entering registration

Receipt of the Health and Hospital Insurance, or enrollment at the National Sanitary Service, or models E111 - E112 - E113;

Residence Documentation

Linguistic Requirements

ITALIAN LANGUAGE SCHOOL

For a more rapid integration it is advisable that the foreign students arrive at the Italian University with a basic knowledge of Italian Language, as lessons, seminars and tutorials are almost exclusively held in Italian.

The University Language Center, however, organizes, in the months of October and March, two italian intensive 45 hour courses with lessons in the classroom and extensive practice in the modern language laboratory.

The courses are indispensable in view of a fast integration in the University and the city. So the scholarship holder is kindly rrequested to let the Erasmus know, respectively within August 31st and December 31st of each year, his/her availability to attend one of the two courses.

Reception Service for ECTS students

ACCOMODATION

The University of Napoli "Federico II" does not offer student accomodation by itself, but it institued, in collaboration with the Jean Gilder Congressi Society, a specific office for the accomodation of foreign students and professors.

Such office has two locations in Napoli:

Via G. Quagliariello, 35/E (Phone No. +39(0)81/5463779 - Fax No. +39(0)81/5463781)

Via Lucilio, 15

and its primary duty is the identification of apartments or family accomodation for the students coming to Napoli, and to give help for the relations with the local authorities for the fullfillment of the necessaries requirements for the permissions to stay in Napoli.

Accomodation request should be submitted at least two months in advance to the Istitutional Coordinator.

Tje Jean Gilder Congressi Society will nextly get in contact with the foreign student in order to give him/her all the necessary information for his/her stay in Napoli.

CAFETERIA

ECTS students may use, after presentation of specific documentation, the University Cafeteria, whose addresses and opening time are:

Via Mezzocannone, 12

open from Monday to Friday from 11:30 to 14:30 and from 18:30 to 20:30

Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 to 14:30

Via Terracina, 239

open from Monday to Friday from 11:30 to 14:30 and from 18:30 to 20:30

Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 to 14:30

Via Pansini, 5

open from Monday to Saturday from 12:00 to 14:30

Via S.Maria degli Angeli alle Croci, 28

open from Monday to Saturday from 12:00 to 14:30

Via Universita’, 130 - Parco Gussone - Portici (NA)

open from Monday to Friday from 11:30 to 14:30 and from 18:30 to 20:30

Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 to 14:30

To use the University Cafeteria it is necessary to buy special tickets at each Cafeteria. For detailed information the students may ask the following office:

E.D.I.S.U. (open from 9:00 to 14:00)

Via Alcide De Gasperi, 45 - Napoli

Actually each ticket costs Lit. 2500.

HEALTH AND INSURANCE

The CEE citizens should obtain, before leaving their own country, the E111 model from the local Sanitary Authority.

The Extra CEE citizen should provide for a specific insurace when arriving in Napoli, at the offices of the Questura.

In orderto get the medical assistance it is necessary to submit the E111 model or equivalent to a specific Local Sanitary Agency which will give the requested document to be used in case of need.

The addresses of the Local Sanitary Agencies (A.S.L.) are:

ASL No. 1
Via Don Bosco, 4F - Napoli
Ph. No. 751 6213

ASL No. 2
Via Campana, 25 - Pozzuoli (NA)
Ph. No. 526 4355

ASL No. 3
Corso Vittorio Emanuele III - Frattamaggiore (NA)
Ph. No. 880 4591

ASL No. 4
Via Mameli, 62 - Pomigliano d’Arco (NA)
Ph. No. 803 3764

ASL No. 5
Via Nuove Terme - Castellammare di Stabia (NA)
Ph. No. 870 5601/870 7685

LIBRARIES

The University of Napoli "Federico II" has several libraries in addition to the Central University Library located in Via Paladino, 39 (Cortile del Salvatore - 1st Floor) where many old and historical books are collected.

For specific themes students are invited to contact the libraries of their Faculty or Department, which usually are the real reference for a specific field of study.

All the Faculties, Institutes and Departments of this University have their own libraries, where students can find all sorts of publications, books, reviews and microfilms on specific subjects. Information on hours and ways of admittance is to be sought at the respective Faculties, Institutes and department.

Since a list of all the libraries is almost impossible, in the following only the Faculty Central Libraries and their address is reported:

Agricultural
Viale Universita’ (Reggia) - Portici (NA)

Architecture
Via Monteoliveto, 3 - Napoli

Economics and Business
Via Cintia (Complesso Monte S. Angelo) - Napoli

Pharmacy
Via D. Montesano, 49 - Napoli

Law
Corso Umberto I - Napoli

Engineering
Piazzale Tecchio, 80 - Napoli

Arts and Philosophy
Via Porta di Massa, 1 - Napoli

Medicine and Surgery
Via S. Pansini, 5 - Napoli

Veterinary
Via Veterinaria, 1 - Napoli

Political Sciences
Via G. Sanfelice, 47 - Napoli

SPORTS ACTIVITIES

Sports activities are promoted by C.U.S., the University Sport Center. Every year it organizes a wide range of team and individual sports open to all students.

For any information, please contact:

Segreteria CUS

Via Medina, 63

80133 NAPOLI

Ph. No. 552 4343

Open from 9:30 to 13:00 from Monday to Friday

Monday, Wednesday and Friday it is open also in the afternoon from 16:00 to 18:30

or

Segreteria Impianti Sportivi

Via Cupa del Poligono, 5

80124 NAPOLI

Ph. No. 762 1295

Open from 9:30 to 18:30 from Monday to Friday

Saturday from 09:30 to 13:30

TRANSPORTATION

Napoli is easily reached by car, by train or by plane. It has a good network of highways and well connected by train to the most important cities. Daily flights link also Napoli to the most important cities in Europe. Summertime these connections are more intense for the increasing of the tourist traffic.

Napoli Capodichino airport is almost in the city, therefore it is very easy to reach downtown.

Transport in town is operated by ATAN. Single, weekly or monthly tickets are sold at newspaper kiosks, bars and tobacconists' displaying the ATAN mark, ATAN is at the following address:

Azienda Tranviaria

COST OF LIVING

Cost of living is similar to a medium size city of Europe; besides the problems due to the money change, a foreign student (who benefit of accommodation and canteen services in the University structures) should dispose of at least 600.000 Lit. monthly.

The graduating courses in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering are mainly supported by the researchers, associate and full professors of the following Departments

Department of Aeronautical Engineering established in 1994 from the merging of the Aircraft Design Institute and the Gasdynamics Institute.

Department of Space Science and Engineering "L.G. Napolitano", established in 1995 from the transformation of the Aerodynamics Institute.

Department of Energetics Applied Thermo fluid dynamics and Conditioning (DETEC).

Further contributions are given by the staff of the Departments of Applied Mathematics, Chemistry, Physical Sciences and others of the University of Naples Federico II.

The duties of the mentioned Departments are to organize and promote teaching and research activities in the field of aerospace engineering. The main areas of research are: experimental and computational fluid dynamics, structural dynamics and active control of vibration and noise, remote sensing and satellite image processing, wind tunnel and aircraft design, aerospace propulsion, microgravity and space research, aerospace systems engineering.

Most courses leading to the degree in Aeronautical Engineering are organized within these Departments.

Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics

The research in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics concerns with methods for compressible inviscid and viscous flow. Potential, Euler and Navier-Stokes equations in general nonorthogonal, curvilinear coordinates using finite-difference, finite volume methods.Topics may regard the emerging discretization techniques (finite-volume, spectral and vortex methods), boundary condition treatment, solution methods (direct solvers, multigrid, and so on), advanced computer architecture and CFD applications.

The experimental Fluid Dynamics is concerned with the research in the different fluid regimes, from the subsonic with adaptative wall wind tunnel up to supersonic and plasmadynamics wind tunnel. Several visualization techniques and turbulence measurements (hot-wire and laser doppler anemometry) are commonly employed, with specific interest to supersonic transport geometries.

Structural Dynamics and Active Control of Vibration and Noise

The structural dynamics, both from the numerical and experimental point of view, has a long and consolidated tradition, with many applications in the research and in the industrial fields. The ground vibration testing has been developped since 1970, and many aircraft (from general aviation to military trainer) has been tested and verified. As consenquence of these activities a strongly motivated aeroelastic group has been developped with starting research in the flutter clearance field with applications to flight flutter testing and composite materials. Nextly the research has been devoted primarly in the field of the fluid-structure interaction for studying the interior noise problem of flexible wall cavities for approaching the problem of the noise and vibration suppression with both passive and active methodology. The control-structure interaction is actually one of the main new research area, together with the classical research topics still in progress.

Aerospace Remote Sensing Systems: Mission Analysis and Applications

These research activities deal with the mission analysis and the sensor integration in airborne and spaceborne remote sensing missions. Special emphasis is given to modelling theoretically and numerically the platform trajectory and attitude dynamics, the sensor geometric, radiometric and temporal resolutions, the sun illumination condition for passive sensors, the surface backscattering and morphological characteristics, in order to focus all the factors affecting the image formation. Procedures for raw data geometrical and radiometric calibration are then considered, both for passive systems and by using active and passive radar calibrators. Furthermore, software procedures are developed for processing remotely sensed data, in particular for synthetic aperture radar interferometrical applications such as topography, volcanology, small crystal motion detection, natural disaster monitoring.

Space systems design, dynamics and control

This analysis is conducted by developing sophisticated models which include the external perturbations (gravity, aerodynamics, thermal effects, radiation pressure, etc.) and the interactions and the interfaces among the subsystems (electrical, structural, thermal, fields of views, etc.) System studies are performed including the overall design of relatively low cost small and micro-satellites. Control laws are derived for orbital and attitude dynamics control, with special emphasis to microgravity, remote sensing and tethered systems applications, considering both conventional actuators (inertia and momentum wheels, magnetic torque generators, gas jets, etc.) and more innovative solutions (tethered systems for orbital manouvres, mobile tether attachment point, etc.).

Aerospace Propulsion

Research in Aerospace Propulsion is presently concerned with two main activities. The aim of the first is to find a propulsion system for a future SSTO or TSTO vehicle optimum configuration. The second deals with performance analysis of a mid-power arcjet (2-40 Kw) obtained from a plasma conduction system used at DISIS laboratory for behavioral analysis of aerospace structures under simulated atmospheric reentry conditions.

Wind Tunnel and Aicraft Design and Testing

Wind tunnel testing has always been one of the most important experimental activity, both from the industrial and research point of view, pursued at the Aeronautical Engineering Laboratory. Strong collaboration with the local general aviation industry, resulting in many new design aircraft, has been maintained since about forty years. Experimental studies on wing sections, partial and complete models of airplanes, ranging from small single engine to heavy multi-engine turboprop aircraft, measuring pressure and force distributions have been extensively performed. Structural static tests have been performed many times with specific reference to buckling instabilities, shear lag and combined torsion-bending behaviour of structures. Even tests regarding industrial and civil experimental fluid-dynamics have been carried out, exploring the aerodynamics of bluff bodies and improving flow visualization techniques. Tests of wing sections and aircraft models in high lift configuration and wall interference correction procedures are actually in progress. Intensive collaboration with the Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA) is well organized and very valuable.

Total Quality Management

Main field of research concerns three viewpoints of the failures control:

Statistical, since it is impossible to forecast with certainty when and how the failures will happen;

Technological, constituted by the study of both the mechanism of failures and factors useful to prevent them or to reduce their consequences;

Economical, it is important to evaluate the unreliability cost as direct (e.g. for the maintenance) and indirect (e.g. for the loss of the image) effects of the failures.

Current research projects are:

Progetto Finalizzato Robotica, Flexible models of reliability for flexible manufacturing systems;

Progetto Finalizzato Trasporti 2, "Total" Reliability Management of a transportation system: global planning and control methods

Convenzione Alenia S.A.I.p.A., Metodi computazionali per la gestione dell’affidabilita’ in esercizio.

Microgravity and Space Research

Since the 1978 a group of investigators was formed under the leadership of Prof. Luigi G. Napolitano and participated to parabolic aircraft flights, sounding rockets and to the Spacelab missions SL-1(1983), D1(1985), D2(1993), IML-2(1994). In particular prof. R. Monti was Principal Investigator of seven fluid science experiments in microgravity. To prepare the microgravity experiments on ground research activities have been carried out, providing original scientific contributions in the general area of microgravity fluid science and in particular in the fields of Marangoni convection, interface boundary layers, bubbles and drops migration, stability of free convection. The main research activities proceed along four different lines:

These problems are investigated both numerically and experimentally and some definite conclusions have been drawn on the physical mechanism and on the organization of oscillatory Marangoni flows in cylindrical non-isothermal liquid bridges.

In this field the studies are concerned with the investigation of residual-g and g-jitters effects on the thermo-fluid-dynamic fields of microgravity fluid and material sciences experiments, including crystal growth and solidification processes.

In this field a fluid-dynamic model of the hanging-drop crystallisation process has been formulated and the numerical results are correlated with experimental ones obtained in appropriate microscale facilities available at MARS Center.

Theoretical, numerical and experimental results are in progress for problems related to the non coalescence of liquid drops of the same liquid in presence of thermocapillary flows, that were observed for the first time during the D2 mission in the Spacelab Fluid Physics Module and explored experimentally at MARS Center with small drops. A microgravity experiments is being proposed to obtain quantitative measurements in large stable drop configurations.

Consortia

MARS: Microgravity Activity Research (University of Naples, Alenia)

CORISTA:Consortium for Advanced Remote Sensing Systems (University of Naples and Bari, Alenia, Alenia Spazio, Laben, Officine Galileo)

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Aeronautical Engineering degree program

To obtain the degree in Aeronautical Engineering the student must pass 29 examinations (one for each course of the study plan) and a final degree examination, the thesis dissertation.

Twenty-five of these examinations are mandatory; the other four are elective within the chosen major. Twenty-four examinations are mandatory for the Space Address, while five are elective.

Five Majors are offered to the students for the standard degree in Aeronautical Engineering. They are: Technology and Structures, Fluid Dynamics, Aerospace, Reliability and Services, Propulsion.

Two majors are offered for the degree in Aeronautical Engineering - Space Address. They are: Space Systems and General Section.

Study Plan

Exams can be both written and oral; marks are out of 30 and the minimum pass mark is 18. Further details on lessons schedules, dates of exams, seminars and tutorials can be found on each Faculty notice-board.

Program for the degree in Aeronautical Engineering

Program for the degree in Aeronautical Engineering - Space Address

Course Units

All subject units are generally taught for one year. Final evaluation of the student is always by one or more exams which may be either oral or written, as specified for the course unit in question. The pass mark for oral examination is from 18 to 30 cum laude. Usually an excellent performance is graded ³ 28.

The lessons take place in the Department classes and the practice is usually carried out in the Department laboratories.

When the student has passed all the exams in the programme of studies, he has to prepare a thesis project to be discussed beside a Commission of 11 professors.

Such Commission expresses a global evaluation on the whole student’s academic career with a final mark, essentially based on the average of the grade obtained at each exam, not lower than 66 out of 110 and at the highest of 110 cum laude out of 110.

CREDITS CONSIDERATIONS

For the definition of the credits, some basic considerations have been adopted and here are reported. They are connected with the University of Napoli "Federico II" rules, and might be modified according to the necessary integration with the other European Universities in ECTS.

The assumed duration for the degree is 5 years (according to ECTS scheme).

For every year of course 60 credits (points) must be assigned.

The total credits points to be assigned are 300, because 60 x 5.

The student of University of Napoli "Federico II" who attends one year course in another institutions of ECTS program must choose all the courses of one year and he must sum 60 credits, under the coordination of the local coordinator, with the consulting opinion of the Italian coordinator.

The student who, inside the ECTS program, comes to attend a year course at University of Napoli "Federico II", must choose the courses of one year, and in the framework he may make some choices, according to the University of Napoli "Federico II" rules, under the coordination of the Italian coordinator, with the consulting opinion of the coordinator of his origin institution.