International Summer School on Ultrasonic and Piezoelectric Sensors

Department of Information Engineering , University of Florence, Italy, 22-24 July 2020

The International Summer School is an event organized by the IEEE Italy Sensors Chapter in 2020 with a special focus on Ultrasonic and Piezoelectric Sensors.

Topics:

State of the art of applications
Technologies of ultrasonic and piezoelectric sensors
Piezoelectric materials for sensors and transducers for industry, medicine, robotics, micro fabrication technologies (CMUT, PMUT, screen printing, laser ablation)
Equivalent model of sensors; frequency range and signals levels for different applications
Analog and digital electronic systems for real time ultrasonic transducer signals conditioning and processing.
Ultrasound medical echographic imaging for diagnostics (2D and 3D imaging, vector Doppler imaging)
Industrial applications of ultrasonic and piezoelectric sensors
- Ultrasound guided waves systems and signal processing for Non-Destructive testing and Structural Health Monitoring
- Tactile sensing
- Energy harvesting
- Pressure sensors, flow sensors, microbalances
- Wearable and IoT applications
- Biometric imaging

Researchers and academics with long experience in these fields will provide online lectures. Two keynote speakers with outstanding CV will give lectures.

Finally, two interactive demonstrations of ultrasonic systems will be organized in order to perform experiments remotely.

Location: Teleconference by Google Meet

Host: Department of Information Engineering – University of Florence

Duration: 3 days for a total of 24 hours

Language: English

School chair: Prof. Lorenzo Capineri, University of Florence

Organizing committee:

Prof. Emiliano Schena, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

Prof. Danilo Pani, University of Cagliari

Prof. Paola Saccomandi, Politecnico di Milano

The duration of the School will be declared with the Certification of Attendance in order to assign the equivalent credit.

As an indication, the Doctorate School of Information Engineering of University of Florence will provide credits based on the equivalent 1 credit = 4 hours of school lectures.

Participation will be verified by monitoring the connection from specified email given at the subscription.

Each student will be provided with a text for the final exam with 6 open questions to be completed within 1 hour. On the basis of the evaluation (positive for over 60%) a certification will be provided for passing the test.

Program