Master in Environmental Engineering

Building an environmentally sustainable future is one of the most pressing issues that mankind is tackling nowadays. We aim to produce competent and skilled professionals who have a strong engineering background with an interdisciplinary understanding of the complex interactions between human needs and the natural environment that characterize the Anthropocene.

This is achieved by intermeshing traditional disciplines (hydraulics, hydrology, sanitary engineering, structural and geotechnical engineering, and spatial planning) with emerging environmental issues and problem-solving skills.

With a theoretically grounded but pragmatic approach, our graduates will be able to develop innovative and sustainable solutions, based on a deep knowledge of the fundamental environmental dynamics and the capability to quantify and simulate the effects of anthropogenic interventions.

The Master&rsquo's degree program in Environmental Engineering is a two-year full-time program (120 ECTS) open to international students.

The program admits every year a maximum number of 10 non-EU students permanently residing abroad.

Students benefit from everyday interactions with internationally renowned professors and researchers. With a low ratio between students and teachers and courses organized in projects and group work, students can acquire both technical and practical competencies and experience real-world challenges while attending the courses. Field activities complement the learning opportunities.

The first year foresees 6 common courses and one course depending on the track that is chosen for the second year. The program is articulated into 4 tracks that cover different aspects of the broad spectrum of Environmental Engineering:

1. Water Resources and Land Protection
2. Environmental Quality and Remediation Technologies
3. Environmental Sustainability and International Cooperation
4. Modeling and Simulation

Tracks 2, 3, and 4 are taught in English; for track 1, some courses are taught in Italian.

Efrem Bertini

Master&rsquo's graduates can design and manage works and services in various areas of environmental engineering, such as:

• Land protection from natural and man-made hazards, analysis and mitigation of hydrogeological risk, protection, and requalification of water bodies;
• Urban infrastructures, hydraulic structures, and civil works within an environmental context;
• Sustainable management of environmental resources, treatment of emissions in solids, liquids, and gases, quality monitoring, pollution prevention, and remediation of environmental matrices (air, water, soil);
• Management of the territory and the built environment, even in the presence of conflicting uses of resources, with a view to environmental sustainability and in specific socio-economic contexts.

Furthermore, graduates can:

• Select and use mathematical and numerical models;
• Acquire and analyze data for environmental monitoring;
• Analyze and interpret complex environmental data;
• Analyze and evaluate the environmental impact of civil and industrial works and develop strategic environmental assessment procedures for plans and programs;
• Interact with experts from different disciplines and cooperate to solve complex environmental problems.

Roberto Bernardinatti

Graduates work as designers, managers, and modelers in a wide range of areas connected with environmental issues.

Graduates can also continue their career within start-up companies or with doctoral studies, in Italy and abroad.

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