Environmental engineering

you will learn

• Natural Processes
• The student will understand and be able to describe quantitavely all the natural processes involved in environmental processes
• Chemical Processes
• A detailed insight will be developed about the main chemical processes triggered by human activities on the environment
• Impact and Management of Productive Activities
• Basic knowledges will be used for the benefit of analyzing the impact and the management of anthropogenic pressures on the environment
• The Ocean
• Blue Engineering will be dedicated to study and understanding of the marine environment form a physical and ecological point of view
• Watershed Management
• The management of the landscape read as a whole among the ground, the water bodies and the human
• Eco-System Based Management (EBM)
• The understanding of human activities in a framework taking into account the impact on the surrounding environment
• Numerical Modelling
• Knowledge for the development and usage of numerical models for the simulation of physical, chemical and environmental processes
• Observing and Monitoring
• Developing the abilities and knowledges necessary to measure and monitor the environment
• Suistanable Resources
• Enhancing environmental resources and their sustainability; renewable energy production

Contents

The Master of Science (MSc) course in Environmental Engineering is aimed at students trained as general engineers with broad skills on the technologies relevant to the environmental sector.

The study career provides knowledge for an adequate understanding of the physical and chemical processes that are at the base of the dispersion and diffusion of polluting substances in different types of fluids (air, water, porous media) and presents various insights on the interaction between the development and planning of activities and anthropic settlements with the surrounding environment, analyzing the pressures and risks associated with extreme events (natural hazards) and evaluating its ecological impact in order to develop eco-system based management.


Starting from specific knowledge, the environmental engineer trained in this course acquires an overview on issues related to environmental problems in order to be able to deal with them in a systematic way. The objective is to grasp the different aspects (physical processes, chemical processes, ecological processes, social processes, economic processes) and face them in one common context.