Francesca Montagna

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Associate Professor (L. 240)
Department of Management and Production Engineering (DIGEP)

  • Componente Centro di Ateneo Polito per il Sociale
  • Direttore Centro Studi per le Strategie di Ateneo
  • Member Centrostudi4impact@PoliTo
  • Member Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - GEDI Observatory

Profile

Research interests

Engineering design
Innovation management
Product development
Technology management

Scientific branch

IIND-04/A - Manufacturing Technologies and Systems
(Area 0009 - Industrial and information engineering)

Skills

ERC sectors

PE8_10 - Industrial design (product design, ergonomics, man-machine interfaces, etc.)
SH1_9 - Industrial organisation; strategy; entrepreneurship
SH1_10 - Management; marketing; organisational behaviour; operations management
SH4_7 - Reasoning, decision-making; intelligence
SH1_11 - Technological change, innovation, research & development

SDG

Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

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Awards and Honors

  • Top 5 most highly cited papers published in Design Studies during the period 2014-2016 conferred by Elsevier (2017)

Fellowships

  • Advisory Board member - The Design Society, Regno Unito (2021-)
  • Effective member - AITEM, Italia (2006-)

Conferences

  • 20th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 15) (27/7/2015-30/7/2015), Participation to the organizing committee

Research networks

  • EIT-Manufacturing, CLC South, Business Creation Pillar (2020-). Partecipazione

Roles as evaluator or expert

  • Programma Era Net - Electromobility. 2011
    PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
  • Programma Era Net - Electromobility. 2011
    FINPIEMONTE S.P.A.
  • Programma Operativo Regione Emilia Romagna, Sovvenzione Globale Spinner 2013 – POR FSE Ob. 2 Emilia Romagna 2007-2013. 2011
    REGIONE EMILIA ROMAGNA

Teaching

Collegi of the PhD programmes

  • INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE E DELLA PRODUZIONE, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • TECNOLOGIE E METODI PER LA FORMAZIONE UNIVERSITARIA, 2023/2024 (39. ciclo)
    Università degli Studi di PALERMO
  • TECNOLOGIE E METODI PER LA FORMAZIONE UNIVERSITARIA, 2022/2023 (38. ciclo)
    Università degli Studi di PALERMO
  • SISTEMI DI PRODUZIONE & DESIGN INDUSTRIALE, 2012/2013 (28. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • SISTEMI DI PRODUZIONE & DESIGN INDUSTRIALE, 2011/2012 (27. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • SISTEMI DI PRODUZIONE & DESIGN INDUSTRIALE, 2010/2011 (26. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • SISTEMI DI PRODUZIONE & DESIGN INDUSTRIALE, 2009/2010 (25. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
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Collegi of the degree programmes

Teachings

PhD

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Master of Science

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Bachelor of Science

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Other activities and projects related to teaching

Francesca Montagna is associate professor at Politecnico di Torino, where she teaches Management of Innovation and Product Development. Expert of innovation and design of products and services, she acquired a specialization in teaching methods at Harvard University. At Politecnico di Torino, she has been teaching courses in Innovation Management, Product Development, and Production Planning and Control at undergraduate (B.Sc.) and graduate (M.Sc., Ph.D.) level. She has lectured in the ‘Design Methods and Processes’ course of the Alta Scuola Politecnica honours programme (ASP) from 2012 to 2020, and usually teaches at MBA programs in Italy, as well as she actively collaborates in educational programs for managers, entrepreneurs (LUISS; CUOA) and policy makers (United Nations, ITC-ILO). Coordinator of the Executive Master Program in Technological and Social Innovation for Cooperation and Third Sector.

Francesca Montagna at Politecnico di Torino has been member of the Faculty board of the Bachelor and Master Programmes in Ingegneria Gestionale (Industrial Engineering and Management) since 2006, of the Bachelor Program in Design since 2018, and was member of the Master Program in Data Science until 2023. She is effective member of the PhD Programme in Ingegneria Gestionale e della Produzione. She was effective (from 2007 to 2011) and invited (from 2011 to now) member of the board of the PhD Programme in Gestione, Produzione e Design (Management, Production and Design). Effective member of the University PhD School board for transversal and multidisciplinary skills (2021-2014). Director until 2024 of the University Doctoral School board for transversal skills.

She covered other teaching positions at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli - LUISS (2011-2012-2013), Università degli studi di Trento (2013) and Università Carlo Cattaneo – LIUC (2015). Abroad, at Chalmers University of technology (Sweden, 2023) and at the Bursa Uludag University (Turkey, 2009). She coordinated the international Summer School on Engineering Design Research (SSEDR ’18).

She was the supervisor of 6 students who obtained the PhD title: Riccardo Vittone (2007-2009: Decision-making processes in the development of an aerospace product); Asif Mahmood (2010-2014: System Engineering Logics in the Design of a Manufacturing System); Mohammad Hassannezhad (2012-2015: Product development process planning methodologies); Altavilla Stefania (2014-2016: Implications between product architecture and Product Lifecycle Costing); Gaetano Marino (2014-2016: co-supervisor with Prof. Zotteri, specifically providing Service Design skills applicable in retail); Alessandro Casagrande-Seretti (2017-2020: impact of design choices on the adoption processes and success of products and services). Currently, supervisor of 2 doctoral students, Graziana Blandino (38th cycle, 2022-2025) and Teresa Monti (39th cycle, 2023-2026).

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Supervised PhD students

  • Sara Ceraolo. Programme in Design E Tecnologia. Persone, Ambiente, Sistemi (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
    Research subject: The research investigates the relationship between universities and society, focusing on knowledge co-creation through design to promote social impact.
    INCLUSION AND SOCIAL COHESION
    INCLUSION AND SOCIAL COHESION
    INCLUSION AND SOCIAL COHESION
  • Teresa Monti. Programme in Ingegneria Gestionale E Della Produzione (39th cycle, 2023-in progress)
  • Graziana Blandino. Programme in Gestione, Produzione E Design (38th cycle, 2022-in progress)

Other activities and projects related to research

esearch interests and activities of Francesca Montagna cover Management of Innovation, Engineering Design and Decision Making in Product Development for systems, products and services.

The research topics are deepened through funded and collaborations in the private and public sector. The research activities carried out in companies or public institutions have focused either on 1) the requirement analysis and design of new products (e.g. Alenia Aermacchi SpA, Abet Laminati SpA, Medallcare) and services (Comune di Torino, Intesa Sanpaolo SpA, P&G, TIM) 2) manufacturing system design (Azimut Yachts, Barilla Spa), also in term of social sustainability of prduction systems 3) the management of product development and innovation processes (e.g. Comau, Alenia Aermacchi SpA, Thales Alenia Space, AVL, STC).

Francesca Montagna has been member of Associazione Italiana Tecnologia Meccanica since 2009 and of Design Society, the international scientific community on Engineering Design since 2009. In the Design Society she in elected in the Advisory Board, playing the role of strategic and operational support to the Board of Management, as well as participation and coordination of specific committees.

Consequently, she has regularly attended conferences organized by these associations: the AITEM biennial conference, the International Design Conference (years 2008-2010-2012-2014-2016), the International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED) (years 2009-2013-2015-2017) and the Design Computing and Cognition (DCC) (years 2010-2014-2016). In those occasions, she usually serves as reviewer and session chair at the International Design Conference (years 2012-2014) and at the International Conference on Engineering Design (years 2013-2015-2017). She was member of the Organizing Committee of the 20th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 15) that was held in Milan on July 27-30th, 2015 with around 600 attendees. Consequently, she was member of the editorial board for two volumes of the proceedings: Organisation and Management (ISBN: 978-1-904670-66-7), Innovation and Creativity (ISBN: 978-1-904670-71-1). Member of 3 Special Interest Group (SIG) within the Design Society scientific community: 'Design Practice', 'Design Process', 'Decision Making', aimed respectively at defining methods of design, management and planning of the product development.

She has been reviewer on the themes of product development for the different journals, among them:

  • Journal of Engineering Design (JED) - Print ISSN: 0954-4828, Online ISSN: 1466-1837;
  • Research in Engineering Design (RED) - Print ISSN: 0934-9839, Online ISSN: 1435-6066;
  • International Journal of Production Research (IJPR) - Print ISSN: 0020-7543, Online ISSN: 1366-588X;
  • Journal of Design Creativity & Innovation - Print ISSN: 2165-0349 Online ISSN: 2165-0357;
  • Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design (AI EDAM) - Print ISSN: 0890-0604, Online ISSN:
  • 1469-1760;
  • Technnovation - ISSN: 0166-4972;
  • Computers in Industry (CII) - ISSN: 0166-3615.


Or more generally on Operations, Process Modeling and Simulation:

  • International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management (IJATM) - Print ISSN: 1470-9511, Online ISSN: 1741-5012;
  • Flexible Services and Manufacturing. Print ISSN: 1936-6582 , Online ISSN: 1936-6590.


Responsible for Politecnico di Torino within the EIT-Manufacturing community, CLC South, of the initiatives funded in the pillar Business Creation by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology. (Head of Business Creation - Politecnico di Torino).

Board member of the University 'Polito per il Sociale' Center and Effective member (then director) of the University Centrostudi4impact@PoliTo board for the analysis of the university data.


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