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Cooperation of photonics clusters and the exploitation of European SMEs potential.
Grant Agreement: 619463
Project Acronym: LightJumps
Funding scheme: Coordination and support action
WP2 - Photonic Community Building and needs assessment
Deliverable D7.7.3
Training activities:
Training activities at universities
Date of completion:
Deliverable Responsible: POLIMI
Contribution of the following organisations and people:
Ali Gökhan Demir, Barbara Previtali Contributions from all partners
Project Coordinator name: Eleonora Ercoli
Project Coordinator organisation name: CIAOTECH S.r.l.
Start date of project: 01/11/2013 Duration: 24 months
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Dissemination Level
PU Public X
PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission
Services)
RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission
Services)
CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission
Services)
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Contents
1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 4
1.1 Photonics Education in Europe .............................................................................................................. 4
1.2 Universities in LightJumps ..................................................................................................................... 5
1.3 Aims of the training activities ................................................................................................................ 7
2 Student reach ............................................................................................................................................ 8
2.1 Student reach through university courses ............................................................................................ 8
2.2 Student reach through photonics events ............................................................................................ 10
3 Training activities ..................................................................................................................................... 13
3.1 State-of-the art applications of photonics in the industry .................................................................. 13
3.2 Use of photonics in industrial design .................................................................................................. 16
3.3 Photonics and entrepreneurship ......................................................................................................... 18
3.4 Mentoring exercise with MSc students ............................................................................................... 19
3.5 Students and awards ........................................................................................................................... 22
4 Conclusions .............................................................................................................................................. 25
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1 Introduction
1.1 Photonics Education in Europe
Europe’s leading position in technology relies on the
high quality education provided over the continent.
Photonics21 Work Group 7 dedicated to Photonics
Research, Education and Training sets the target
announcing that For education and training, one of
the most critical challenges will be to overcome the
present major difficulty facing the photonics
community, namely of securing the necessary
knowledgeable and skilled workforce. This
shortage applies at all levels, from technical
management and R&D positions through to
technical staff, and is encountered both in industry and academia1. According to QS Top Universities
rankings,2 Europe stands holds higher positions in Photonics related subjects. In particular,
regarding the core Photonics disciplines namely Physics and Astronomy, 4 of the top 10 and 18 of
the top 50 universities are European. Photonics serves and is used in many different fields and this
reflects to Photonics education.
Moreover several universities are providing dedicated programs in photonics. For instance the
LightJumps partner TU Eindhoven proposes a Photonics Graduate Program with a subsequent PhD
project that is carried out in the COBRA Research Institute. Another partner Politecnico di Milano
provides a 2 year specialization track in photonics and Nano Optics within MSc in Engineering
Physics. Many other European higher education institutes are moving towards dedicated photonics
degrees such as European Master of Science in Photonics offered by Gent and Vrije Universities,
MSc Photonics and Optoelectronic Devices offered by Heriot Watt University, POESII EuroPhotonics
1 Towards 2020 – Photonics driving economic growth in Europe, Multiannual Strategic Roadmap 2014 – 2020, Photonics21
2 http://www.topuniversities.com/
Figure 1 – Distribution of Photonics programs at European
universities
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degree offered by Universities of Aix-Marseille, Karlsruhe and Barcelona. As depicted in Figure 1, 56
photonics programmes at European Universities are available. This showing that Europe is
consistently investing in future resources in photonics knowledge base. However, in order to better
exploit the potential of photonics, this knowledge has to be accompanied by business development
skills and their application areas should be expanded and explored.
Today photonics related subjects are taught in both undergraduate and graduate levels in science
and technology courses not only in Physics, Astronomy and Photonics related courses but also other
engineering, technology fields as well as design.
Figure 2. University degrees in which photonics education is getting more integration.
1.2 Universities in LightJumps
Within LightJumps partners the two universities Politecnico di Milano and Technical University of
Eindhoven provide the closest contact with students. Moreover, the research institutes within
LightJumps provide a larger reach through their university connections. Fraunhofer FEP works
closely with Technical University of Dresden, whereas CNR-IMM with University of Rome “La
Sapienza”.
Physcis, Astronomy, Physics Engineering
Chemistry, Chemical Engineering
Electrical, Electronical and Telecommunication Engineering
Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering
Materials Science
Product and industrial design
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Politecnico di Milano
The Politecnico di Milano is the largest technical university in Italy, with
about 40,000 students. It offers undergraduate, graduate and higher
education courses in engineering, architecture and design. Founded in
1863, it is the oldest university in Milan. The Politecnico has two main
campuses in Milan city, where the majority of the research and teaching activity are located, and
other satellite campuses in five other cities across Lombardy and Emilia Romagna. The central
offices and headquarters are located in the historical campus of Città Studi in Milan, which is also
the largest, active since 1927.
The Photonics research at the Politecnico is carried out in
several different sectors mainly within Physics, Chemistry,
Chemical and Materials Engineering, Energy Engineering and
Mechanical Engineering Departments. Being at the heart of
Italian industry, Politecnico collaborates closely with Italian
and international enterprises in research. This allows for a
direct connection between students and companies during
the studies.
Technical University of Eindhoven
The Eindhoven University of Technology was founded as in 1956,
as the second technical university of the Netherlands. It is
currently home to about 240 professors, 7200 students, 250
PDEng-students, 600 Ph.D. students, 200 post-doc students and
3000 regular employees. It
supports about 100 student associations and 15 alumni
associations. The university is located closely to the some of the
largest technology companies in Europe such as Philips, ASML and
DAF and collaborates closely with them.
Photonics research is conducted in Departments of Applied
Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering
Figure 3 – Attosecond laser laboratory
at the Physics Department
Figure 4 – Photonics facilities at the
COBRA Research Institute
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1.3 Aims of the training activities
The training activities within LightJumps concern the following three main aspects:
1. Training related to the state of-the-art photonics applications to photonics students
2. Teaching the potentials of photonics technologies to students from other sectors
3. Entrepreneurship and business development of photonics projects
This report aims to therefore summarize the training activities related to these three points.
Furthermore it shows different methods experimented within the project and how they can be
implemented in future training and teaching activities.
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2 Student reach
2.1 Student reach through university courses
The universities within LighJumps provide different courses in different degrees related to photonics
applications. These courses are predominantly important for theoretical knowledge as well as
informing the students about the possible uses of photonics technologies in different sectors.
The Advanced Manufacturing Processes course held at the Politecnico di Milano teaches Mechanical
Engineering student laser based manufacturing processes basics. Half of the course content is
dedicated to lasers, while the other is dedicated to the other non-conventional manufacturing
processes namely plasma cutting, water jetting and chemical/electrochemical machining. This
course is thought to around 450 MSc students in 3 different groups at the first year of the degree
program. Prof. Barbara Previtali is responsible for one of the three sections of this course. Through
laboratory and company visits, the students also have a first direct interaction with the photonics
technologies. Within 2014-15 academic year, a lecture by Angelo Petrogalli, CEO of DS4 a LightJumps
SME was included in the program. Mr. Petrogalli presented DS4’s laser micromachining technology
as well as use of vision based monitoring technologies in industrial production.
Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Lab is a course that is held in the second year of the same
degree program. The students that choose this elective course carry out a project work using one
of the different non-conventional manufacturing methods. The course is co-held by Prof.
Massimiliano Annoni and Dr. Ali Gökhan Demir. Half of the students that attend this course work
directly on laser based manufacturing processes, such as laser welding, micromachining and
additive manufacturing. The use of photonics based technologies such
as use of photodiodes and spectroscopy for monitoring is common
within the projects. In the 2014-15 academic year, 6 of 12 developed
projects were on laser based manufacturing projects were developed.
These courses provide the basis for thesis students and future field
engineers possessing the know-how of photonics use in mechanical
engineering. The impact of LightJumps on these courses have been
the emphasis on industry related subjects. In fact, the Business Cases
prepared by Politecnico di Milano and the updates on the course
contents are parallel. Laser based additive manufacturing, zero-defect
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manufacturing through process monitoring, and laser based high precision manufacturing with ultra
fast lasers are included also in the course contents.
Photonics can also serve as a tool for industrial design. Consumer goods, as well as design products
can make use of different photonics technologies such as smart lighting solutions and display
technology. High power lasers for industrial manufacturing provides different possibilities to the
designer. Combined with creative thinking, the flexibility of laser based manufacturing processes
especially laser cutting and additive manufacturing can provide new functions to design products.
Introducing industrial designers to these technologies expands use of this photonics technology.
Prof. Barbara Previtali teaches in MSc in Product Design for Innovation and MSc in Design &
Engineering degrees of Design Faculty at the Politecnico di Milano. Around 150 design students
yearly learn about laser based manufacturing methods, but also develop products with new
functions provided by it. During LightJumps, the design students have developed new products with
new functions enabled by laser cutting within Product Development Studio. The projects were
supported by industrial partner and publicized through different channels.
Table 1. List of university courses through which LightJumps partners reached students
Institute Degree Course CFU Stud/year
PoliMi MSc in Mechanical Engineering Advanced Manufacturing Processes 10 450
PoliMi MSc in Mechanical Engineering Advanced Manufacturing Processes Lab 10 35
PoliMi MSc in Product Design for
Innovation
Product Development Studio 12 47
PoliMi MSc in Product Design for
Innovation
Materials And Technologies For Industrial Product
Innovation
6 80
PoliMi MSc in Design & Engineering Manufacturability Assessment/Final Project Work 18 22
PoliMi BSc in Engineering Physics Ottuca Fisica e Tecnologie Ottiche 10 120
PoliMi BSc in Engineering Physics Principi e Applicazioni dei Laser 10 120
PoliMi BSc in Engineering Physics Ottica Biomedica 10 120
PoliMi MSc in Engineering Physics Photonics I 10 50
PoliMi MSc in Engineering Physics Photonics II 10 50
PoliMi MSc in Engineering Physics Micro and Nano Optics 10 50
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In Engineering Physics degree of the Politecnico di Milano,
different courses related to photonics are available. These courses
provide the basics of photonics technologies in BSc level to more
advanced topics in MSc level. During the LightJumps project
students of these courses were informed more about the
different application possibilities using these technologies, giving
them a better insight for their future carriers.
The TU/e Masters and Bachelors programmes enable and encourage students to select courses
outside of their core subject. Entrepreneurship and photonics courses are available to every
students in the University as part of two recent and major University-wide initiatives : the Bachelor
College and the Graduate School. Additionally, a Masters photonics seminar course which has been
running since before the start of LightJumps addresses the interaction between research disciplines,
industry and business. The seminar course - Optical Interconnection Networks - was set up as part
of an interfaculty education initiative within the University. Teaching activities already enable and
encourage entrepreneurships in the student population. In terms of business interactions, TU/e is
placed #1 in the Leiden ranking for collaboration with industry, and a high proportion of Masters
projects feature close industry involvement. PhD programmes are usually within the framework of
industry consortia or have active industry user committees to advise on routes to exploitation. The
Photonic Integration group has been actively engaged with two recent Eindhoven start-up/scale-
ups in the area of photonic integration and is active in licensing technology. Within LightJumps, TU
Eindhoven has focused on training initiatives, which are now necessary to grow the market for
photonic integration technology.
2.2 Student reach through photonics events
Within LightJumps several events have been attended
by the project partners for the divulgation of the project
aims. These events are also key elements for student
involvement. Alta Brillanza 2015 organized by
Politecnico di Milano has been an important occasion
for this purpose. The event held on 24 and 25
September 2015 in Milan involved graduate students in
organization of the event, giving them an important
exposure to the high power laser producers, system
integrators and end-users. Before and during the event
a total of 10 MSc students, 7 PhD students from engineering and design degrees as well as 6 research
Figure 5 – The distribution of AB’15 participants in origin and sector.
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fellows were involved.
During the tow day event,
around 210 attendees were
present. LightJumps partners
Gate2Growth and Optitec
were also present during the
event. On the first day, the
discussion topics were
related to Laser Safety and
European Potential in
Photonics. The students
were able to attend the
discussions. Especially within
the European Potential in
Photonics session, the
students could attend the
presentations from Thomas Rettich, from Photonics21 WG2, Roberta Ramponi from Photonics21
WG7 and Italian National Photonics Platform CORIFI regarding the overview of European and Italian
photonics research. The session also included presentations from LightJumps partners. Ali Gökhan
Demir from Politecnico di Milano and Uffe Bundgaard-Jørgensen from Gate2Growth, illustrated
funding, partnership opportunities and Horizon 2020 SME instrument. The last presentation of the
session as held by Sergio Pellegrino of LaserPoint, a LightJumps SME. During his speech, Mr.
Pellegrino shared their experience within the project.
The second day Alta Brillanza was dedicated to technical topics regarding laser based additive
manufacturing, cutting, welding, surface treatments and micromachining. In addition to following
discussions regarding high-end industrial laser applications, the students were in direct contact with
attendees from 104 different companies and 6 different nations. They were also able to share the
results of their research and experience in photonics based projects with the attendees during the
laboratory visits.
The additive manufacturing session of Alta Brillanza was chaired by Tommaso Ghidini, Head of the
Materials Technology Section of European Space Agency. This occasion was also exploited to reach
Figure 6 – Student involvement in Alta Brillanza 2015.
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students at PhD level. Dr.
Ghidini gave the lecture
entitle “The European
Space Agency Perspective
on Additive
Manufacturing for Space
Applications: Benefits and
Challenges” to an
audience of around 20
PhD candidates as well as
other young researchers.
During his speech Dr.
Ghidini gave an overview on the applied research in the additive manufacturing field. Moreover, Dr.
Ghidini emphasized the funding possibilities through the European Space Agency
Figure 7 – Dr. Ghidini during his lecture on additive manufacturing for space applications.
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3 Training activities
3.1 State-of-the art applications of photonics in the industry
Training activities are a part of main
activities of the LightJumps partners
coming from academia and
research. The project played an
important role on the shaping of
the training activities, since the
LightJumps objective could be
reflected on the existing training
activities as well as planning of the new ones. Entrepreneurship and funding opportunities have
been integrated to training activities, where state-of-the-art application of photonics have been
demonstrated. Jeppix have organized their training course on design, manufacturing and
packaging of photonic chips twice during the duration of LightJumps in 2014 and 2015. In addition
to the technical discussions value chain for photonic integrated circuits prototyping and business
opportunities were discussed by the expert instructors of the field:
Meint Smit, Xaveer Leijtens, Erwin Bente, Rui Santos (Integrated photonics, passive
devices, SOAs, lasers; TU Eindhoven);
Huub Ambrosius (Manufacturing photonic circuits, Nanolab@TU/e);
Katarzyna Lawniczuk (Access to photonic integration technologies and business
opportunities; JePPIX –TU Eindhoven);
Remco Stoffer (Propagation and simulation; PhoeniX Software);
Daniele Melati (Simulation of photonic circuits; ASPIC);
Andrew Daabs (Simulation of photonic circuits; Photon Design);
Inigo Artundo (Design aspects and design services; VLC Photonics);
Ronald Broeke (Design aspects and design services; BRIGHT Photonics);
Pim Kat (Packaging photonic chips; Technobis);
Antonello Vannucci (Packaging photonic chips; Linkra);
Luc Augustin, Peter Thijs (Fabrication of photonic chips; SMART Photonics);
Figure 8 – JePPIX training 2014
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The JePPIX training course reached 41 participants from undergraduate and graduate students as
well as professionals.
Table 2. List of training courses through which LightJumps partners reached students.
Name Partner Date Place Subject #
attend.
Partner’s role
2-weeks
JePPIX
training
course
Jeppix Oct-Nov
2014
TU Eindhoven,
Netherlands
Photonic
Integration
Technologies
23 Organizer
2-weeks
JePPIX
training
course
Jeppix Oct-Nov
2015
TU Eindhoven,
Netherlands
Photonic
Integration
Technologies
19 Organizer
Photonics
Event
Jeppix 11-12/06/
2014
Veldhoven,
Netherlands
Photonics and
Robotics
~500 Contributor,
presenter
Photonics
Event
Jeppix 3-4/6/2015 Veldhoven,
Netherlands
Photonics,
Vision and
Robotics
~500 Contributor,
presenter
Photonic
Integration
Conference
Jeppix 23/10/2015 High Tech
Campus,
Eindhoven,
Netherlands
Photonic
Integration
~90 Contributor,
presenter,
sponsor
The Day of
Photonics
CNR-
IMM/Lazio
Connect,
PNO
21/10/2014 Rome, Italy Photonics
Innovation.
40 Contributor,
presenter,
sponsor
Design
Workshop
Interaction
with Organic
Electronics
OES 28/11/2014 Dresden,
Germany
Design with
organic
electronics
14 Organizer,
contributor
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Workshop
“Basic on
Organic
Electronics”
OES 9/6/2015 Dresden,
Germany
Knowledge of
Organic
Electronics
30 Organizer,
contributor
Meint Smit and Katarzyna Lawniczuk from JePPIX –TU Eindhoven
attended the Photonics event as instructors, which has been
held 3 times within the duration of LightJumps project. The
event held in Veldhoven, the Netherlands offered training to
graduate students as well as professionals on topics regarding
application specific photonic integrated circuit, access to
photonic integration technologies and business opportunities; Application specific photonic
integrated circuits; access to photonic integration technologies, business opportunities created by
photonics, EU innovation supporting mechanisms (LightJumps, H2020, Actphast). The event was
able to reach 1000 participants overall.
LightJumps partners CNR-IMM, Lazio Connect and
PNO have participated to The Day of Photonics at
the La Sapienza University of Rome. The event
was held at the Basic and Applied Sciences for
Engineering Department on 21 October 2014,
reaching more than 40 participants from graduate
and undergraduate studies as well as
professionals. The participating students were
from different disciplines of engineering and
science, allowing this event to reach an audience outside of the main photonics sectors. During the
event, perspectives from both academia and industry were presented. LightJumps were also present as
instructors during the event as seen in the list of presenter below. The training activity covered topics such
as photonics innovation, photonics in medicine, silicon photonics and photonics in telecommunications. A
special emphasis was given to the role of SMEs in photonics within the discussions of Mr. Filocamo from and
Mr. Cogan from PNO Consultants.L-Palumpo - Università Sapiena & INFN
E.Fazio - Università Sapienza
C.Sibilia - Università Sapienza
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F.Filocamo – Ministry of University and
Research, MIUR
J.Cogan - PNO Consultants
S.Ingorsso - Spiena-Innovazione
M.Bertolotti - Università Sapienza
U.Romeo - Università Sapienza
I.Rendina - CNR-IMM-Napoli
R.M.Montereali - ENEA
R.Marcelli - CNR-IMM-Roma
A.Cutolo - Universita Sannio
F.A. Bovino - Selex-ES Finmeccanica
LightJumps partner OES also organized two
workshops on the field of organic electronics.
The training activities were dedicated to
graduate level students as well as
professionals of the sector. The Design
Workshop 2014 “Interaction with Organic
Electronics” was held in Dresden on 28 November 2014. The workshop instructors were Prof. Jens
Geelhaar and Johannes Deich from Weimar University The workshop offered a design-oriented
approach for developing new product ideas. In this special type of workshop, the students operated
with interaction design. Persons, venues and different scenarios were briefly explained and their
relation were put in a context. At the end of the day a digital sketchbook with individual ideas and
drafts for each participant were determined.
The Basic on Organic Electronics workshop was held on 9 June 2015 in Dresden. The focus of the
workshop was the basic knowledge of Organic Electronics. In discussion panels ideas for potential
applications based on the fundamental foundations were developed. The LightJumps objectives for
SMEs were highlighted during the event giving an emphasis to the uptake of organic electronics
based photonics solutions such as organic solar cells, OLEDs and transistors in SMEs.
3.2 Use of photonics in non-conventional sectors: Industrial design
As mentioned earlier, an important aspect in photonics training is to reach a broader market by
demonstrating the photonics enabled applications. For this purpose, an exercise of how to use laser
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based manufacturing – a photonics technology, in industrial design was conducted at the Politecnico
di Milano. In order to reach students that do not study predominantly photonics related subjects.
Students of MSc in Product Design for Innovation degree carried out their Product Development
Studio projects were given a technological constraint: obligation to use laser cutting technology for
designing products with new functions. The projects were technically supported by BLM Group,
giving the students a direct link with the industry. A total of 80 students working in different groups
designed and realized products using sheet metal, design constraints and opportunities specific to
the technology. Initially the students were instructed about the laser technology in general and laser
cutting in particular. With the guided tours to SITEC - Laboratory for Laser Applications of the
Department of Mechanical Engineering, they were able to observe these technologies in action. The
main constraints encountered concerned were mainly related to the bi-dimensionality of the two
metal and its limitations from design perspective: the opacity, coldness, and heaviness.
Figure 9. Examples of laser cut design products prepared by MSc students in Product Design for Innovation of PoliMi.
The student projects were demonstrated in an exhibition on 7 July 2014 at the Department of
Mechanical Engineering. This also constituted an important opportunity to demonstrate the
industrial laser users the capacity of laser technology for realizing new objects. An article on
Applicazioni Laser magazine was published depicting the whole exercise in general. BLM Group also
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presented the design pieces at EuroBLECH International Sheet Metal Working Technology Exhibition
between 21 and 25 October in Hanover, Germany.
Learning from this experience, other laser based manufacturing technologies for use in industrial
design were considered for future. Laser surface texturing of both dies as well as moulds was found
to be the next photonics based technology to be proposed to industrial designers. By the time
LightJumps project reaches its end, this interaction between engineers and designers has already
been initiated.
3.3 Photonics and entrepreneurship
An important aspect regarding the photonics education and training is related to the build up
entrepreneurship skills the studies. It appears that these skills are not commonly transmitted
through the technical studies. This is due to the fact that the technical tracks concentrate more on
their core subjects. Moreover, teaching entrepreneurship is not an easy task and is usually based on
case studies. However, apparently some of the courses provided in these technical tracks can
provide the necessary case studies and can accompany questions related to business development.
These possibilities were investigated within the MSc in Mechanical Engineering degree of
Politecnico di Milano, Advanced Manufacturing Processes Lab. The course held by Prof.
Figure 10 – The design projects of the students published on Applicazioni Laser.
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Massimiliano Annoni and Dr. Ali Gökhan Demir
requires the students to take up and industrially
relevant manufacturing problem and solve it. In
the previous years, the projects were only treated
from the technical point of view. The students used
a methodological approach to resolve problems
such as laser welding of stainless steel or water jet
cutting of ceramics. During the academic year of
2014-15, the course lecturers have taken up a different strategy in order to remind the students of
the business aspects. The projects were presented and evaluated within the sector they serve for.
In order to emphasize the entrepreneurship spirit in their future careers, a lecture was given by
Pietro Bazzoni from KNOW NET Officine Italiane Innovazione.
The experience of the previous year has been proven to be highly useful. The newly introduced
elements to the course were highly
appreciated by the students as also
demonstrated by the yearly course
evaluation forms. The course lecturers
have decided to maintain these
elements as well as expanding the
contents. In the academic year of 2015-
16, which has started right before the
end of LightJumps project, all course
projects will have to accompany a short
market analysis and business plan along
with the technical solution.
3.4 Mentoring exercise with MSc students
During Alta Brillanza 2015, a mentoring session was organized with four thesis students of MSc in
Mechanical Engineering degree of the Politecnico di Milano. All four students are carrying out their
thesis work in industrial laser based manufacturing processes under the supervision of Prof. Barbara
Figure 11 – An excerpt form Pietro Bazzoni’s lecture “The Project of Life”.
Figure 12 – AMP Lab students with their laser micromilled microfluidic device mould.
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Previtali. The students were selected for this activity based on their progress in their thesis work,
industrial relevance of the treated subject and more importantly personal interest.
The main of the meeting was to provide a general vision on the business potential of the thesis
works being developed. The mentoring was held by Bundgaard-Jørgensen from Gate2Growth and
the students were accompanied by their tutor Dr. Ali Gökhan Demir of Politecnico di Milano. The
students followed a protocol similar to what has been done with the LightJumps SMEs. Prior to the
meeting, the students prepared short descriptions of their projects and information requests from
the mentor. The meeting was held on 24 September 2015 at the Department of Mechanical
Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano. The student mentoring session was held after the meeting
with Italian SMEs working within LightJumps. The participating students and their projects are as
listed below.
Figure 13 – Uffe Bungaard Joergensen from G2G with the students during the mentoring session and excerpts of their short project descriptions.
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Francesco Mora and Lorenzo Monguzzi, A flexible additive manufacturing cell for metals with
reduced size
Martina Riccio, Wire-feed Additive Manufacturing for high productivity
Giordano Menci, Micro Laser Engraving for customized micro moulds
Within the discussion, technical aspects were evaluated in order to identify the common questions.
Dr. Bundgaard-Jørgensen emphasized that concrete market analysis is required for the all the
projects as the identified markets, for instance the aerospace commonly addressed by students, can
be limited to only a few large companies. The students were interested in funding opportunities,
where a thorough discussion on crowd funding was made. Another topic of interest was to identify
the geographical segments of the market, how and where to start the business. Dr. Bungaard
Joergensen emphasized that starting from the location of foundation is a valuable option. The
discussion was found to be highly useful by the students. The market analysis and business plans
will be added to their thesis work.
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4 Students and awards
Awards are an important part in LightJumps objectives, number of applications being one of the key
performance indicators. Moreover, awards and prizes are stimulating and encouraging factors for
young talents to take up and advance photonics technologies. Resultantly, LightJumps partners
encouraged students to apply to awards in photonics and other related sectors.
The prestigious Photonics21 Student Innovation Award 2015 was given to Tobias Schwab of TU
Dresden. Dr. Schwab won this award for his outstanding PhD thesis on increasing efficiency of white
OLEDs with light outcoupling. The chair of the Award Committee and Work Group 7 chair, Roberta
Ramponi, handed over the prize during the prize ceremony, taking place at the general assembly of
the Photonics21 Annual Meeting 2015 on the 29th of May in Brussels, Belgium. The scientific focus
of Dr. Schwab tackles a general efficiency limitation in LED technology, based on total internally
reflection, trapping the majority (70 - 80%) of the generated light inside these device. Moreover,
the investigation of highly transparent, flexible electrodes, completely compatible with organic
materials not only allowed for significant improvement of white light-emitting diodes regarding
color quality, efficiency, and color uniformity, but also further induced the realization of new device
concepts. Dr. Scwab’s work has the basis of the LightJumps Hot Tech Application named “Improved
light outcoupling” prepared by OES and has contributed to the “Key Enabling Technologies in
Photonics Hot Technologies and Applications” booklet prepared during the project.
At the Politecnico di Milano, students
working in photonics related graduate
theses were encouraged to participate
to thesis awards. During the academic
years of 2013-14 and 2014-15
increasing number students applied to
national student thesis awards in
industrial manufacturing sector. In
particular the UCIMU award was won by
photonics theses in both 2014 and
2015. The Italian machine tool, robots,
automation systems and ancillary
products manufacturers’ association,
Figure 14 – The awarded student projects: top emitting OLEDS, laser metal deposition, laser dimpling and laser
remote welding.
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UCIMU awards a number of theses in undergraduate and graduate levels every year in the field of
manufacturing.
Table 3. List of student award applications.
Name Institute Thesis/Project Award
Tobias Schwab TU
Dresden
Top-Emitting OLEDs – Improvement of the
light extraction efficiency and
optimization of microcavity effects for
white emission
Photonics21 Student Innovation
Award- Winner
Daniele Innocenti PoliMi Study of an additive manufacturing
process through an anthropomorphic arm
2015 UCIMU Award in Machine tools
and Production systems - Winner
Paolo Colombo PoliMi Real time laser ablation depth monitoring
by self-mixing interferometry
2015 UCIMU Award in Machine tools
and Production systems
Marco Montani PoliMi Selective Laser Melting of biodegradable
metals and alloys
2015 UCIMU Award in Machine tools
and Production systems
Ferdinano Fichera
Mariagrazio Franco
PoliMi Submerged microcutting of AZ31 Mg alloy
with a green pulsed laser for biodegradable
stents
2015 UCIMU Award in Machine tools
and Production systems
Gabriele Gattere PoliMi Development of an Optical Based
Monitoring Device for Remote Laser
Welding of Zinc Coated Steels
AITeM – F. Soavi prize for best MSc
thesis - Winner
Luca Ferrarini PoliMi Characterization of the laser dimpling
process on galvanized steels for
automotive applications
2014 UCIMU Award in Robotics,
automation and information
technology and communications:
applications in manufacturing -
Winner
In 2014, Luca Ferrarini was awarded this prestigious prize in the field of “Robotics, automation and
information technology and communications: applications in manufacturing” for his work entitled
“Characterization of the laser dimpling process on galvanized steels for automotive applications”.
The Italian Association of Manufacturing Technologies awards the best graduate level thesis in this
field. This year Gabriele Gattere was awarded the prestigious AITeM – F. Soavi prize for best MSc
thesis for his work entitled “Development of an Optical Based Monitoring Device for Remote Laser
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Welding of Zinc Coated Steels”. Both Mr. Gattere and Mr. Ferrarini developed theri theses in
collaboration with the University of Warwick and was co-supervised by Prof. Darek Ceglarek of
WMG.
Figure 15. Award winning students.
In 2015, Daniele Innocenti has won the prestigious award on the category or “Machine tools and
systems production: conception, integration, technology and application in industrial production”.
The thesis entitled “Study of the laser based additive manufacturing process by robot”
demonstrated a complete study on the capability of realizing metallic objects using laser metal
deposition method. The thesis work was developed in collaboration with CNR-ITIA, Institute of
Industrial Technologies and Automation branch of the Italian National Research Council. All three
students were supervised by Prof. Barbara Previtali and worked within SITEC – Laboratory for Laser
Applications of Politecnico di Milano.
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5 Conclusions
LightJumps partners have attempted to identify efficient ways of transferring LightJumps objectives in
training of young students. We have identified that conventional teaching methods already available provide
a direct channel for reaching students. Through this channel, students that are already in contact with
photonics technologies were reached. The main aim was to emphasize the importance of photonics
technologies as key enabling technologies as well as entrepreneurship in general. University courses and
training activities organized by the partners could reach more than 1000 students, expanding LightJumps’
message. In addition to the already existing teaching activities, the partners involved a more limited number
of students directly to LightJumps related activities. Some of these were participating or organizing
LightJumps events, taking part in mentoring activities and applying to awards.
Some of the key findings of these activities show:
Photonics training can be broadened to virtually any field in technology related degrees. Reaching
students in other fields and training them about photonics possibilities will provide a wider market
in future.
Students in technology and engineering fields working on photonics put business aspects on a second
priority. Close contact with companies allow them to realize the importance of technical and business
related questions together.
Multidisciplinary interactions are fundamentally important for photonics students. They collaborate
often with other scientific branches. However, interactions with distant branches such as design,
humanities and business schools can provide possibilities to expand photonics applications.
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