Program Overview

Course Overview

The Chemistry course is a basic course on the fundamentals of Chemistry for Engineering, with elements of Inorganic Chemistry and organic chemistry. The course provides an overview of the magnitudes and language used in solving chemical problems and includes the presentation of the main areas of study of Chemistry for polytechnic schools.

Aims and Content

Learning Outcomes

The course provides the basic chemical knowledge indispensable to describe the behaviour of materials, and to face the interpretation of natural, environmental and technological processes.

Aims and Learning Outcomes

Attendance and active participation in the proposed training activities and individual study will allow the student to:

• solve numerical exercises on the balancing and stoichiometry of chemical reactions.
• Analyze the elementary chemical properties of liquids, gases and solutions.
• Understand the structure of ionic, covalent, metallic and molecular solids.
• Solving thermodynamics, equilibrium and kinetic exercises related to chemical and electrochemical systems.
• Know the basic fundamentals of organic chemistry and nuclear chemistry.
• Describe the main pollution phenomena

Prerequisites

For a successful learning, basic knowledge of mathematics and physics is required, but no formal prerequisites are required.

Teaching Methods

The teaching includes lectures in the classroom. Lectures include the presentation of theoretical content and numerical exercises aimed at encouraging the learning and discussion of specific examples of chemical phenomena

Syllabus/Content

• Inorganic nomenclature: Oxides, anhydrides, hydroxides, acids, Salts
• Stoichiometry of the chemical reactions, quantitative exercises, reaction yield
• concentration of the solutions: percent composition, mole fractions, molarity.
• Atomic structure of the matter: atomic models, quantum numbers, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, Pauli exclusion principle.
• Periodic table: periodic classification of elements and properties of groups
• Organic chemistry nomenclature
• Nuclear energy and radioactivity: Radioactive emissions, half-life
• Atomic bonds: covalent, ionic, metallic bond, hydrogen bond, weak bonds
• The gas laws: Boyle's, Charles's, Gay-Lussac's and Avogadro's laws, ideal and real gas law, the volume of gases in the chemical reactions.
• Fundamentals of Thermodynamics: 1° and 2° principle of Thermodynamics, Enthalpy, Entropy, free Energy
• Chemical equilibriums: the equilibrium constant, relation between free energy and equilibrium.
• Heterogeneous equilibrium: state diagrams
• Chemical kinetic: reaction order, Arrhenius's law.
• The solutions: pH and the hydrolysis
• Electrochemical systems: batteries, fuel cells, electrolysis
• Water, Air, & Soil Pollution.

Recommended Reading/Bibliography

The notes taken during the lessons and the material in the aulaweb are sufficient for the preparation of the exam, but the following book is suggested as supporting and in-depth text.

• M. Panizza, Chimica per Ingegneria (teoria ed esercizi)

Teachers and Exam Board

• MARCO PANIZZA

Exam Board

• MARCO PANIZZA (President)
• ANTONIO BARBUCCI
• DAVIDE CLEMATIS (President Substitute)
• MARINA DELUCCHI (President Substitute)
• ELISABETTA FINOCCHIO (Substitute)

Lessons

Lessons Start

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

Exams

Exam Description

The exam consists of a written test that includes both exercises and theoretical questions with optional oral (the student who has passed the written test with a grade greater than or equal to 18/30 can decide whether to take an oral exam on the established days or accept the written test score).

Assessment Methods

The exam tests with the student will allow:

• evaluate the knowledge of the atomic structure;
• verify the understanding of the mechanisms of strong and weak chemical bond formation;
• evaluate understanding of the structure of solids, liquids and understanding of the gas state equations;
• evaluate the ability to identify the relationships between electrical, magnetic and mechanical structure and properties;
• to evaluate the knowledge of the main thermodynamic and kinetic quantities involved in the transformation of matter and the conditions of the chemical equilibrium;
• verify the ability in the quantitative evaluation of gaseous equilibriums, in aqueous solutions and in electrochemical systems;
• discuss all the proposed activities with a scientific method and appropriate language.

Exam Schedule

• 07/01/2026 | 09:00 | SAVONA | Scritto
• 21/01/2026 | 09:00 | SAVONA | Scritto
• 11/02/2026 | 09:00 | SAVONA | Scritto
• 25/06/2026 | 09:00 | SAVONA | Scritto
• 14/07/2026 | 09:00 | SAVONA | Scritto
• 01/09/2026 | 09:00 | SAVONA | Scritto

Further Information

Working students and students with SLD, disability or other special educational needs certification are advised to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course to agree on teaching and examination methods that, in compliance with the teaching objectives, take into account individual learning modalities