The Università degli studi di Napoli “Federico II” (UNA) is the largest academic institution and one of the most important in Italy and in the continent. UNA is famous for being the oldest university founded by a State measure and is, therefore, the oldest public and secular university of the world. In the Faculty of Engineering, the new Department of
Industrial Engineering has been founded on 1st January 2014 as a result of cooperative
collaboration of previous academic institutions active in the fields of mechanical, nautical,
aeronautics and space sciences. Stable collaborations with the most important EU and US Universities are the witness of an established tradition of education of aerospace sciences.