Universit degli Studi di Genova

marine design
research

&

education

u n i v e r s i t d e g l i s t u d i d i g e n o v a
scuola politecnica-polo universitario la spezia
www.unige.it

Universit degli Studi di Genova (University of Genoa)

has been involved in nautical design disciplines since the 1990s.
The current degree programs offered are:
1) Three-year Bachelors degree of

design del prodotto e della nautica

DESIGN D(Product and nautical design) based in Genoa.

2) Two-year Masters degree of

design navale nautico

(Yacht and cruise vessel design)

based in La Spezia.

3) Three-year Bachelors degree of

ingegneria nautica

(Product and nautical design) based in La Spezia.

4) Two-year Masters degree of

yacht design (engineering)
based in

La Spezia.

5) Three-year PhD program of

DESIGN PER LA NAdesign della nautica e il prodotto sostenibile
(Sustainable Nautical and Product Design), based in Genoa.

Bachelors degree program in

DESIGN DEL PRODOTTO E DELLA NAUTICA
(Product and Nautical Design)
(enrollment limited to 150 students) - tree years duration
based in Genoa
Chair: Prof. Carlo Vannicola
vannicola@arch.unige.it

Educational objectives
The goal of the degree program is to
educate a designer in industrial design,
advertising and publishing graphic
design, and the design and construction
processes of boats and related
components.
The training is focused on aspects of the
technical and administrative management
of the design process, with the end
result of educate a professional who can
work in collaboration with the various
participants of the entire process, fully
understanding and coordinating their
respective areas of expertise.
Graduates must know methods,
tools, and techniques for the design
of industrial products, styles of visual
communication, and boats fundamentals
and technologies. They must also
understand the process experience of
manufacturing and materials application,
techniques of representation, and graphic
and multimedia processing.
Professional opportunities
The areas of employment for graduates
in Design del Prodotto e della Nautica are
as freelance professionals or in positions
in public and private agencies, design
studios and firms, companies operating
in the area of industrial design and visual
or multimedia communication, naval and
nautical shipyards, and companies that
operate in sectors related to the boating
industry.

Educational activities
The program has a duration of three
years. The academic year is divided
in two semesters: the first semester
begins in October and ends in January,
the second semester begins in March
and ends in June. During the month
of February there is a break between
semesters while examinations are held.
To obtain the degree the student must
earn 180 credits (ECTS), 60 credits
per year including an internship of
approximately 300 hours.
In order to facilitate the combination of
educational and professional aspects, the
School has made agreements with public
and private companies to provide two
types of internships:
-Practical training called for by the
didactic requirements, which awards
credits stipulated as other training by
the curricula of the degree programs;
-Optional internships that allow
undergraduates and recent graduates
(within 18 months of graduation)
to engage in a sustained period of
professional activity of three months, six
months or more, up to a maximum of
twelve months. An international internship
within the European community is also
available.
During the Course, an international
students mobility experience is available
according to the Erasmus European
exchange program.

First Year

Semester

Laboratorio di Design 1 (Design Studio 1)

10

ECTS

Laboratorio di Disegno (Drawing Studio)

1-2

10

Matematica Applicata (Applied Mathematics)

1-2

Tecniche di Rappresentazione (Rapresentation Tecniques)

Materiali e componenti del Design

(Materials and components for the Design)

Storia del Design (History of Design)

Fisica Tecnica (Physics)

Laboratorio di Design 2 (Design Studio 2)

10

Laboratorio di Grafica 1 (Graphics Studio 1)

10

Sociologia dellambiente e Comunicazione

(Sociology and Communication)

Igiene applicata ed Ergonomia (Hygiene and Ergonomics)

Meccanica delle Strutture (Mechanical Structures)

Design Multimediale (Multimedia Design)

1-2

Storia dellArchitettura Contemporanea

(History of Contemporary Architecture)

Laboratorio di Design 3 (Design Studio 3)

10

Laboratorio di Grafica 2 (Graphics Studio 2)

10

Psicologia generale (Psychology)

1-2

Architettura degli Interni (Interiors Design)

Infrastrutture e servizi (Infrastructure end Services)

1-2

Elective Unit

12

Other educational Activities

Foreign Language

Final Exam

Second Year

Third Year

Masters Degree of DESIGN NAVALE E NAUTICO

(Yacht and cruise vessel design)

(enrollment limited of 40 students) - two years duration

Inter-university Masters Degree program between the Politecnico
di Milano and the University of Genoa at the La Spezia campus
Chair: Prof. Massimo Musio-Sale
musio-sale@arch.unige.it
Educational objectives
Design Navale e Nautico is an Italian know-how
worldwide very much appreciated because
Italian Style is #1 in the world for pleasure
craft construction and, in particular, for super
yacht and cruise vessel productions. The
degree course uses knowledge and skills of
his partner faculties working together at the
education program: scientific and technical
knowhow of naval architecture, buildings
and systems, fluid dynamics, and etc. are
integrated with knowledge from the disciplines
of representation, communication and history.
Theoretical knowledge acquired is applied in
the project workshop activities.
Graduate skills include:
- Integrated project skills concerning aesthetic,
formal, functional qualities of nautical products.
- Mass production and one off production
project control skills.
- Strategic project management skills thanks to
the ability to foresee the evolution of the current
market situation combined with project and
product content communication skills.
- Ability to operate in a wide range of sectors,
from accessories for boats to interiors
according to the field of application of the
different products. Expertise in these areas
is prized in the professional and business
environment of the nautical design and
construction sector.
Professional opportunities for graduates
This Mastered Designer can carry out:
project direction and coordination, design
management and production of pleasure
boats and cruise ship interior designs.
Graduates may find employment in shipyards,
sub-contractors or design companies as for
the following professional roles: Designer in the
technical department of shipyards (design/
production connection). Design department
of marine component suppliers. Free-lance
designer for interiors and exteriors of ships and

pleasure crafts.
-Production coordinator in shipyards.
-Designer for the recovery, refitting and
maintaining of existing boats.
-Expert in production processes (shipyards
and production sites).
-Expert in processes and quality systems.
-Contract designer for cruise ships.
In addition, graduates may aim at becoming
entrepreneurs of the marine field.
Educational activities
The program has duration of two years. The
academic year is divided in two semesters:
the first semester begins in September and
ends in December; the second semester
begins in March and ends in June. Classes
are suspended for the month of January and
February while examinations are held.
To obtain the degree, the student must
acquire 120 credits (ECTS), 60 credits per year
including an internship experience. In order to
facilitate the combination of educational and
professional aspects, the School has arranged
agreements with public and private companies
in order to offer two types of internships:
Practical training provided by the teaching,
aimed at earning credits required as other
training by the curricula of degree courses;
optional internship that allows graduates (within
18 months after graduation) to experience
a sustained period of professional activity of
three, six months or more, up to a maximum
of twelve. An international internship experience
is also available. During the Course, an
international students mobility experience is
available according to the Erasmus European
exchange program.This Course is supplied
both in Italian and English tongues in order
to facilitate the international participation and
to promote international relationships, as the
Double Degree that this Course is going to
promote with ISD Valenciennes (F).

First Year

Semester

Laboratorio del Design 1 (Design Studio 1)

1-2

18

ECTS

Modellazione e Architettura Navale (Modeling and Naval Architecture)

1-2

12

Aeroidrodinamica della vela (Aero Hydrodynamics of sailing)

Laboratorio di Design 2 (Design Studio 2)

1-2

12

Storia della Scienza e della Tecnica (History of Science and Technology) 1

Costruzioni e Materiali (Costruction and Materials)

Laboratorio del Design 3 (Design Studio 3)

18

Dimensionamento delle Strutture (Sizing Structures)

Storia dellArte moderna e contemporanea (History of modern and

Contemporary Art)

Elective Unit

Internship

13

Final Exam

Second Year

Bachelors degree program in

INGEGNERIA NAUTICA
(nautical engineering)
tree years duration
based in La Spezia
Chair: Prof. Dario Boote

Educational objectives
The BEng course will supply you
with the method of study and the
basic scientific skills required to keep
updated your training in time. This
course will also provide you with the
basic technical/professional skills for
the working world, and will teach you
to apply methods, techniques and tools
which are today available, both as freelances and in the manufacturing and
service companies, for:
- production,
- design,
- planning and scheduling,
In the meantime you will be acquainted
with the professional and ethical
responsibilities that your work will
require
Professional opportunities for graduates
Particularly the occupational openings
of the Ingegneria Nautica BEng
graduated are:
- Vessel and Yacht building and refitting
yards (Building and Refitting Shipyards);
- Pleasure craft sector operators;
- Classification Registers and Surveying
Boards;
- Design and consultancy professional
studios; may aim at becoming
entrepreneurs.
Educational activities
To be an Ingegneria Nautica BEng
you will be required to have both the
necessary know how as well as the
skills to put them into practice.
The necessary know-how consists of
really diversified elements belonging

dario.boote@unige.it

to different disciplinary sectors. That

it is why the offered lectures regards
common basic disciplines especially
in Industrial Engineering Class
(Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and
Informatics), indispensable to deal with
successive studies and ship science
disciplines, which will enable you to
acquire skills regarding:
- Naval Architecture, that concerns
hydrostatics (geometry, equilibrium,
buoyancy) and hydrodynamics (motion
resistance, propulsion, sea keeping);
- Ship Structures, that concerns
hull and structure scantlings, (loads,
drawing and scantling, robustness
testing) and building methodologies;
- Marine Engineering, that concerns
propulsion (engines compartment,
shaft lines, propeller), boat services
particular installations and also auxiliary
machineries;
- Design, that concerns the distribution
space criteria, ergonomics and
aesthetics from the overall point of
view and the individual yacht element
as well.
The final thesis will allow you to apply
knowledge and skills achieved and will
offer you the opportunity to produce
your own preliminary design.
Be advised that you can do a part
of your study abroad, benefiting
of specific athenaeum scholarship
(Erasmus program) and agreement
stipulated by the degree with many
of the most prestigious European
Universities.

First Year

Semester

ECTS

Mathematics + Geometry

12

Applied Industrial Design A

General Physics A

12

Chemistry A

12

Ship Strutcures A

English Language

Hull Geometry A

Computer Aided Design A

Mathematics + Mathematical physics

12

Naval Hydrodynamics A

Applied Physics + Machines A

12

Naval Architecture A

12

Structural Mechanics A

Fundamentals of Computer A

1
1
1
1
2
1-2
1-2
-

6
9
6
6
6
6
6
6
6

Second Year

Third Year
Ship Strutcures B
Applied Industrial Design B
Marine Engineering A
Ship Electrical Engineering A
Ship Strutcures C
Elective Unit
Elective Unit
Internship
Final Exam

Masters Degree of YACHT DESIGN (engineering)

two years duration
based in La Spezia
Chair: Prof. Dario Boote

Educational objectives
The MSc will supply you with the method
of study and the basic scientific skills
required to keep updated your training
in time. This course will also provide
you with the technical/professional skills
for the working world, and will teach
you to apply methods, techniques and
tools which are today available, both as
free-lances and in the manufacturing and
service companies, for:
- production,
- advanced design,
- planning and scheduling,
- complex system management,
In the meantime you will be acquainted
with the professional and ethical
responsibilities that your work will require.
Particularly the occupational openings of
the Yacht Design MSc graduated are:
- Vessel and Yacht building and refitting
yards (Building and Refitting Shipyards);
- Pleasure craft sector operators;
- Classification Registers and Surveying
Boards;
- Design and consultancy professional
studios;
- Research Institutes
Professional opportunities for graduates
The know-how necessary to the Yacht
Designer consists of really diversified
elements belonging to different
disciplinary sectors. That it is why the
offered lectures regards common
basic disciplines especially in Industrial
Engineering Class (Mathematics, Physics,
Chemistry and Informatics), indispensable
to deal with successive studies and ship
science disciplines, which will enable you
to acquire skills regarding:
-Naval Architecture, that concerns
hydrostatics (geometry, equilibrium,
buoyancy) and hydrodynamics (motion
resistance, propulsion, sea keeping);
- Ship Structures, that concerns hull and
structure scantlings, (loads, drawing and
scantling, robustness testing) and building

dario.boote@unige.it

methodologies;
- Marine Engineering, that concerns
propulsion (engines compartment,
shaft lines, propeller), boat services
particular installations and also auxiliary
machineries;
- Design that concerns the distribution
space criteria, ergonomics and
aesthetics from the overall point of view
and the individual yacht element as well.
Educational activities
As required by European guidelines,
learning objectives relate to, indeed, the
following:
- Knowledge and understanding
- Applying knowledge and understanding
- Making judgments
- Communication skills
- Learning skills
Skills required for access
All that is necessary to be admitted in
Yacht Design MSc:
- Hold a Degree, a MSc by law MD
509/1999, a MSc by law MD 270/2004,
achieved at an Italian University or a
Five Year Degree (before MD 509/1999)
achieved at an Italian University or an
equivalent.
- Hold at least 40 CFU, or equivalent
knowledge, achieved at any academic
course (Degree, MSc, first and second
level Master) in scientific sectors suitable
for base educational activities in three
years degree fields about Industrial
Engineering Class; (Mathematics,
Chemistry, Physics, Informatics,
Statistics)
Hold at least 45 CFU, or equivalent
knowledge, achieved at any academic
course (Degree, MSc, first and second
level Master) in scientific sectors
suitable for educational activities in
Naval Engineering Class field; (Naval
Architecture, Ship Hydrostatics, Ship
Propulsion Systems, Ship Plants)

First Year

Semester

ECTS

Yacht Stability and Dynamics

12

Yacht Studio workshop A - 1st part

Motor Yacht Design

Elective Unit

1-2

Elective Unit

1-2

Structural Mechanics

Mathematical Physics

Yacht Construction Technologies

Yacht Design Studio Workshop A 2nd part

Ship Structures

Ship Propulsion Plants

Yacht Design Studio Workshop B

12

Yacht Rigging

Marine Numerical Hydrodynamics

Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning

Internship

Thesis

Second Year

Elective Unit
Interior Design
Sailing Yacht Design
Yacht Electronic Systems
Terrestrial and Satellite Yacht Navigation Support Systems

PhD course of
DESIGN PER LA NAUTICA E IL PRODOTTO SOSTENIBILE
(Sustainable nautical and product design)
based in Genoa
Chair: Prof. Massimo Musio-Sale

The PhD program of Design per

la Nautica e il Prodotto Sostenibile
(Sustainable Nautical and Product
Design) is part of the Ph.D. School of
Architecture and Design of the University
of Genoa.
Educational objectives
The Ph.D. course of Sustainable
Nautical and Product Design prepares a
professional that has an advanced level
of understanding of the specific subjects
studied.
The aim of the course is to gain
experience and specific skills through
participation in a number of activities
organized in terms of research,
educational and cultural activities, and in
design management.
The course aims to train individuals to:
-Design and manage complex processes
of industrial product design (especially for
boating and sustainable products) playing
a coordinating role in interdisciplinary
teams.
-Use the tools of design for the
enhancement of individuals and / or
contexts, with attention and respect to a
local, national and international context;
-Enter the industrial production in an
environmentally conscious process,
which respects the existing structures
and cultural landscape and enhances
economic development.
-Manage processes of technological
innovation and cultural development
of idea-design planning, as well as the
executive development of processes of
quality control and evaluation.

musio-sale@arch.unige.it

Educational activities
The course has a duration of three
years. The curriculum is structured in
different formats: lectures, study groups,
participation in conferences, courses,
seminars, workshops.
To obtain the degree it is necessary to
prepare and defend a thesis (written and
illustrated). Each student will have one (or
more) thesis supervisors.
The curriculum requires earning the
following:
-18 credits (ECTS) for completing
the three courses common to all the
Graduate School;
- 42 credits (ECTS) for internships,
courses (of disciplinary knowledge and
preparation of naval and nautical design),
activities (conferences, seminars, etc.) to
be agreed upon with the schools college;
-10 credits (ECTS) for passing the midterm (semi-annual) and final reviews of the
first year (5 credits each);
-60 credits (ECTS) for research activities
in the second and third years (15 credits
for each six-monthly and annual review).
-50 credits for the preparation of the
thesis research, which will occupy much
of the third year, for a total of 180 credits
(ECTS) in accordance with the University
rules.
During the Course, one or more
international mobility experiences are
available for any Ph.D. candidate,
according to the international relationships
of UniGE in his marine research and
education, international network.

The locations

GENOA
UNIGE -University of GenoaArchitecture

Stradone S. Agostino 37 16123, Genoa, ITALY

www.arch.unige.it

The locations

LA SPEZIA
PROMOSTUDI - University of Genoa,
placed in La Spezia - POLO MARCONI
Via del Colli 90, 19121, La Spezia, ITALY
www.unispezia.it

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONSHIPS
S.U.N.R.I.S.E.
partnership DSA-UCINA
www.ucina.net

A new train for 2015

partnership DSA-Ansaldo Breda
www.ansaldobreda.it

Nautical accessories
Recycled polymers for the YD
partnership DSA-COREPLA partnership DSA-Azimut Yachts
www.azimutyachts.com
www.corepla.it
Titanium and boating
partnership DSA-Besenzoni
www.besenzoni.it

SWAD
partnership DSA-OTO Melara
www.besenzoni.it
Innovative Bus
partnership DSA-IVECO
www.iveco.it

Nautical accessories
partnership DSA-Razeto Casareto
www.razetocasareto.com
Urban Mobility-City Mobil
partnership DSA-CRFIAT
www.crf.it

Scooters and the

individual mobility
partnership DSA-PIAGGIO
www.piaggio.it

BOOKS

YACHT DESIGN
dal concept alla rappresentazione
Massimo Musio-Sale
Tecniche Nuove, Milano, Italy, 2009
pp. 414 ITA

SUPERYACHTS
yacht design studio workshop
Musio-Sale, Zignego, Morozzo
Dogma, Savona, Italy, 2010
pp. 203 ITA-ENG

CRUISE VESSELS
design
Mario Ivan Zignego
Dogma, Savona, Italy, 2010
pp. 318 ITA-ENG

CHARTERYACHTS
sustainable design studio workshop
Musio-Sale, Zignego, Morozzo
DeFerrari, Genova, Italy, 2011
pp. 204 ITA-ENG

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

FIU - Florida International

UniversityMiami, USA
www.fiu.edu

WMG -Warwick International

Manufacturing Centre-University of WarwickCoventry, UK
www2.warwick.ac.uk

ISD-Institut Suprieur
de Design(Higher Institute of Design)
Valenciennes, France
www.design-valenciennes.
com

Universit degli Studi di Genova (University of Genoa)

Scuola Politecnica
www.unige.it
-DSA- Dipartimento di Scienze per lArchitettura
(Department of Architectural Sciences)
www.dsa.unige.it
+39-010-2095910
-DITEN- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Navale, Elettrica, Elettronica e delle Telecomunicazioni
(Department of Naval, Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering)
www.ingegneria.unige.it/index.php/it/diten + 39-010-3532733
La Spezia, Polo Marconi (Polo Marconi, La Spezia)
www.unispezia.it
+39-0187751265

2012