The document “Thematic Areas and Training Profiles – Academic Year 2026–2027” is now available, providing a clear and structured overview of the elective course offering of the MSc in Automation and Control Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.

The document organizes elective courses into a set of thematic areas, reflecting the main domains of automation and control engineering, including:

•  methodologies for automation and control systems
• technologies for automation and control systems
• robotics
• autonomous vehicles
• energy systems and natural resources
• industrial processes, plants and manufacturing
• project experiences
• transversal skills

These thematic areas provide an effective orientation tool, helping students identify coherent groups of courses within a highly interdisciplinary environment.

At the same time, they complement a strong common core of mandatory courses, which provides all students with an advanced and rigorous preparation in modeling, analysis, and design of automation and control systems. This foundational background ensures solid methodological competences, while the thematic areas allow students to develop and direct these competences toward specific scientific and application domains.

The document also introduces a set of training profiles, which illustrate coherent combinations of courses aimed at developing:

• strong methodological expertise (for research and innovation-oriented paths)
• technological competences (for system implementation and integration)
• domain-specific expertise (for specialization in application areas of interest).

This flexibility is one of the key strengths of the program, enabling students to adapt their curriculum to evolving technologies and industry needs.