Politecnico di Bari, English name Polytechnic University of Bari, is an Italian state university founded in 1990 and it is one of the leading institution for studying engineering and architecture in Italy. Basically located in Bari, that is the main city of Apulia Region, Politecnico has location also in Taranto.

Since the beginning, the policy of Politecnico di Bari has been distinguished by its focus on the quality of research and education, on the internationalization and on innovation. Internatio¬nal exchange activities in the teaching and learning area include several agreements with Insti¬tutions abroad, most of all in EU. The team of Politecnico is dedicated to fulfilling the educational and research mission of University, and to advancing a vision for the future of the University whe¬re the tradition of academic excellence is combined with a strong commitment in serving society.

Nowadays the staff of Politecnico is composed of around 330 researchers/professors and 260 members of administrative staff. The total enrollment amounts to around 12.000 undergraduate and postgra¬duate students. Several facilities are available at the campuses including leisure and sport facilities.

Since 2012, Politecnico di Bari is structured in the following departments:
• Department of Civil Engineering Sciences and Architecture (DICAR),
• Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building Engineering and Chemistry (DICATECh),
• Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI),
• Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management (DMMM),
• Department of Physics (DIF), shared with the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”.

Politecnico di Bari is also structured in the following two interdipartimental centers:
• Magna Grecia;
• Interdepartmental Center “Startup Lab”.

Referring to the academic year 2021/2022, the educational offer is composed of 25 de¬gree courses: Laurea (three years 1st Cycle), Laurea Magistrale (two years 2nd Cycle) Masters and PhD courses.

Politecnico di Bari is therefore an university where education and research combine to meet the actual needs of the society (societal challenges) and, in particular, those of the students. Both basic and applied research activities are carried out in the Departments and in the Research Centres of Politecnico. They are supported by the Industrial Liaison Office to cover activities from research to market with a new fo¬cus on innovation-related activities, such as piloting, demonstration, test-beds, patents, and spin-offs.

The Politecnico di Bari through the national contract between CRUI and IEEE has an unlimited open access agreement with IEEE that enables researchers to publish articles as open access without open access fees in all IEEE fully and hybrid open access journals. The agreement applies to all original research articles accepted for publication between August 1, 2022 and December 31, 2024. To benefit from this agreement, the corresponding author has to be affiliated with Politecnico di Bari. Please use the correct institution name and your institutional email address during submission. It is recommended for authors to select the CC BY 4.0 license. The open access funding request will be approved by an administrator in the library.
Overlength page charges or color fees are not covered by the agreement and will be charged to authors.