In our Bachelor in Wood Technology you will learn how to handle wood from the forest, through transformation processes, towards performant and sustainable products, understanding and analysing their life-cycle for a sustainable use of resources. You will acquire relevant interdisciplinary skills within the field of woodworking and processing with a focus on performance analysis, production processes, process optimisation, development, as well as management on a technical and administrative level.
You will become a national qualified professional (the course qualifies for the profession of Perito industriale and allows direct registration in the relevant professional register without the need to take the State Examination), able to work as a freelance technician or as an expert technician in a company of the wood industry, having expertise in mechanical engineering and mechatronics, production systems engineering and automation, energy management, energy production and conversion systems for wood processing companies. Through two different curricula, you can address different professional profiles in primary and secondary processing, craftmanship, timber building and furniture industries, as well as energy and service companies in connection with the use of wood biomass.
Here you can find the structure of the whole study course with the allocation of lectures on years and semesters, as well as some general information.
Here you can find the short version of the syllabi of all lectures offered in the study course, with the topics covered in each course, giving you a general overview.
The detailed information on the courses offered in each academic year, with the indication of the lecturer, educational objectives, teaching format, learning outcomes, assessment, evaluation criteria and reading list, can be found in the course descriptions that you can download from the page Course Offering.
Each Bachelor student has an individual Tutor.
Tutors are researchers or professors of the Faculty that help you to get information and take decisions related to their study career. More details can be found under Tutoring.
The official teaching languages are German, Italian and English. The levels of the Common European Framework of Reference apply.
Your 1st language is the language in which you have the highest level of proficiency (B2 or C1).
Your 3rd language is instead the language in which you are weaker (or in which you are an absolute beginner).
A B1 level in the 3rd language is the minimum requirement for taking curricular exams in that specific language.
Language levels at graduation:
To be admitted to the degree examination you must certify the following minimum levels in the three languages:
If you are not able to certify these levels you are not allowed to graduate.
For more information on languages please contact our Language Centre.
Possible Additional Learning Obligations (“Obblighi Formativi Aggiuntivi” - OFA) in the mathematics or physics area are assigned as part of the admission procedure.
If you are assigned these obligations, you are invited to attend a catch-up course offered by the Faculty before the start of the 1st semester and pass the relevant test.
If you do not pass the test, you have to attend an individual study programme defined together with your tutor to fill in the gaps and you still have to complete the OFA by passing the test or alternatively the “Analisi I" or “Physik I” exam within the 1st study year.
If you do not complete the OFA within the 1st study year, you may enrol in the 2nd study year, but you are not allowed to take exams of the 2nd and 3rd study years.
To achieve your "Free Choice" Credit Points, you can choose:
If you choose lectures of the Bachelor Degrees of the Faculty of Engineering:
well before the exam session, send an e-mail from your unibz account to the Faculty Secretariat indicating:
If your choice is approved by the Course Council the course will be added to your study plan and labeled "Free Choice".
If you choose other lectures:
well before the exam session, send an e-mail from your unibz account to the Faculty Secretariat attaching the Course Presentation Form of the lecture and indicating:
Before approving, the Course Council evaluates if the chosen lecture is consistent with the study path of your degree course. If your choice is approved, the course will be added to your study plan and labeled "Free Choice".
If the course is from another Faculty you have to arrange your attendance with the respective Faculty / Professor.
If you enroled before 2023/24, you are enroled in one of our previous Bachelors.
Some lectures might not be offered any more, but you still have the right to pass all the exams of your original study plan, see Exams.
Please contact us for all questions on Study Plans and Study Career. Changes of Study Plan can be made with the approval of the Degree Programme Committee.
If you have not taken many exams, we strongly encourage you to switch to our new Bachelor in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering: previous exams will be recognised as favourably as possible.
NB: requests for transfer to another study course at unibz follow the same deadlines as the applications of prospective students.