Francesca Montagna

Associate Professor
Department of Management and Production Engineering (DIGEP)

  • Componente Centro di Ateneo Polito per il Sociale
  • Member Centrostudi4impact@PoliTo

Profile

Research interests

Engineering design
Management of technology and innovation

Scientific branch

ING-IND/16 - MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY 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

Fellowships

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

Research networks

  • EIT-Manufacturing, CLC South, Business Creation Pillar (2020-). Partecipazione
  • The Design Society (2021-). Partecipazione
  • Advisory Board della Design Society (2021-). 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

PhD Boards

  • TECNOLOGIE E METODI PER LA FORMAZIONE UNIVERSITARIA, 2021/2022 (38. ciclo)
    Università degli Studi di PALERMO
  • SISTEMI DI PRODUZIONE & DESIGN INDUSTRIALE, 2011/2012 (28. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • SISTEMI DI PRODUZIONE & DESIGN INDUSTRIALE, 2010/2011 (27. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • SISTEMI DI PRODUZIONE & DESIGN INDUSTRIALE, 2009/2010 (26. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • SISTEMI DI PRODUZIONE & DESIGN INDUSTRIALE, 2008/2009 (25. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
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Courses of Study Boards

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 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 of the Master Program in Data Science since 2020. Moreover, 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).

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 also lectured in the ‘Design Methods and Processes’ course of the Alta Scuola Politecnica honours programme (ASP) since 2012.

Moreover, 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) and at the Bursa Uludag University (Turkey, 2009). She coordinated the international Summer School on Engineering Design Research (SSEDR ’18).

Research

Research fields

Research projects

Projects funded by competitive calls

Projects funded by commercial contracts

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Supervised PhD students

  • 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

Research interests and activities of Francesca Montagna cover Management of Innovation, Engineering Design and Decision Making in Product Development. They 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) or services (Comune di Torino, Intesa Sanpaolo SpA, P&G, TIM) 2) manufacturing system design (Azimut Yachts, Barilla Spa) 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.

on the themes of Process Modeling and Simulation:

International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management (IJATM) - Print ISSN: 1470-9511, Online ISSN: 1741-5012

or more generally on Operations:

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).










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