This programme has been established in Politecnico di Milano in the Academic Year 2001/02 with the goal to train highly skilled technicians in the area of automation, to fulfill the needs of a local context characterized by an extraordinary concentration of companies operating in the process industry, in the manufacturing systems, and in the services.Since then, the programme has been succesful in terms of enrolment of both students coming from the Lombardy region and students coming from other regions in Italy.The graduates in Automation Engineering have easily found job opportunities in all the sectors of production and services