Editing Polytechnic University of Turin (section)

== History ==
The ''Regio Politecnico di Torino'' (Royal Polytechnic University of Turin) was established in 1906. The present-day institution was preceded by the ''Scuola di Applicazione per gli Ingegneri'' (Technical School for Engineers), which was founded in 1859 in application of the [[Gabrio Casati|Casati law]], and the ''Museo Industriale Italiano'' (Italian Industry Museum) founded in 1862 by the Ministry of Agriculture, Trade and Industry.<ref name="storiapol" /> The Technical School for Engineers was part of the University, which led to technical studies being accepted as part of higher education. In those times Italy was about to begin a new industrial era, which the Industry Museum was to address more directly thanks to famous scholars and researchers dealing with new subjects such as [[electrotechnics]] and [[building science]]. The new school was deeply concerned with the needs of the Italian society and its development perspectives.<ref name="storiapol">{{cite web|url=http://www.polito.it/ateneo/storia/index.php?lang=en|title=History|publisher=[[Politecnico di Torino]]|access-date=2014-04-04}}</ref>

Like other well known Polytechnic Schools in the first years of the 20th century the Regio Politecnico di Torino had several goals and began contacting the European academic world and the Italian industry. [[Aeronautics]] began as a subject. Students from all over Italy came to Turin and found in the new laboratories built for the study of various subjects ranging from [[chemistry]] to [[architecture]] in a positive and helpful atmosphere. Subsequently, the Faculty of Engineering was transferred to a building, now disappeared, which occupied the entire block between via Giolitti, via San Francesco da Paola, via Cavour and via Accademia Albertina (the current Valdo Fusi square). During the [[Second World War]], the plexus was severely damaged, and largely razed to the ground by a heavy [[bombing]] by the [[Royal Air Force]], in the night between 8 and 9 December 1942.

Instead of rebuilding the Faculty of Engineering where it was, it was decided to move it and expand it in the Crocetta district, and in November 1958 a large complex of buildings located in Corso Duca degli Abruzzi was inaugurated in the vast area where the Turin Stadium had been built in 1911. The historical headquarters of [[Valentino Castle]] (Castello del Valentino) helped expanding the volume and the facilities given in 1859 to the Technical School for Engineers.<ref name="storiapol" />

In the 1990s, new teaching campuses were opened in [[Alessandria]], [[Biella]], [[Ivrea]] and [[Mondovì]].{{Citation needed|reason=Reliable source needed for the whole sentence|date=March 2022}} On 13 February 2012, the [[e-st@r]], a small [[artificial satellite]] built to the standards of the [[CubeSat]] ([[nanosatellite]] cube) by the students of the Polytechnic of Turin, was carried into orbit by [[Vega (rocket)|Vega]], the pitcher of the [[European Space Agency]].{{Citation needed|reason=Reliable source needed for the whole sentence|date=March 2022}}