Master of Science in Safety and Civil Protection Engineering

First-year

First semester

• Risk analysis
• Occupational health and safety
• Circular economy

Second semester

• Legislation on safety at work
• Security systems
• Environmental energy sustainability

Second year

First semester

• Reliability and safety of process plants
• At the student's choice

Second semester

• Security and management of electrical systems
• Safety in installations for the treatment of solid
• Training
• Final exam

Learning outcomes

The training course for the Master's Degree in Safety Engineering and Civil Protection is structured in such a way as to guarantee the student, alongside traditional engineering skills, contents aimed at integrating safety principles in the modeling, design, construction, and operation phases of systems complex. The path declines these objectives by offering general content, valid both in the fields of industrial engineering and civil-environmental engineering and specific content valid for individual training areas.
The master's graduate in Safety and Civil Protection Engineering will have to:

• master the tools of basic sciences (mathematics, probability, statistics, physics, and chemistry) to describe and interpret engineering problems, even complex ones
• possess in-depth knowledge of the basic and application aspects of engineering in general and of safety, both relating to construction sites, works and infrastructures, and production processes and plants and know how to apply them also within an interdisciplinary approach
• be able to evaluate, address, and resolve the safety problems of construction sites, works, infrastructures, processes, and plants, about both the workers involved in the work and the exposed population and the environment, taking into account the technical, economic, and regulatory aspects and ethical
• be able to support technical specialists in the design phases of various types of works, infrastructures, and systems, providing risk analysis in all phases of design and construction, the choice of design and procedural solutions in favor of safety and their practical implementation
• be able to use fluently, in written and oral form, at least one European Union language other than Italian, and also concerning disciplinary lexicons

The master's degree course in Safety Engineering concludes with a design activity aimed at demonstrating, in addition to the achievement of specific technical skills, the acquisition of the ability to operate autonomously and to prepare a clear, concise, and exhaustive document.

The professional opportunities compatible with the preparation of the master's graduate in Safety Engineering and Civil Protection concern all sectors and technical activities for which safety design, implementation, control, and measurement are required, both in the implementation phase and the phase of use of the system.

In particular:

• Professions that carry out research or apply existing knowledge regarding the design, development, and evaluation of integrated safety systems for the management of production processes, including human work, quality controls, industrial logistics, maintenance activities, cost analysis, and coordination of production activities, directing and coordinating these activities
• The professions that, within companies and/or organizations operating in the economic sectors of mining, manufacturing, electricity, and gas supply, direct and coordinate safety activities relating to the production of goods and services of the company or the organization in which they operate and ensuring the efficient use of the resources available to achieve the set production objectives
• The professions that conduct research (geological, topographical, and geophysical) to identify quarries, mineral, gas, and oil deposits; they plan and define the methods of their safe exploitation, study and design systems, and equipment for the extraction and initial treatment of minerals and for the safety of production processes. They supervise and direct such activities
• Professions that support specialists in research relating to the extraction of minerals, water, gas, and oil or apply and carry out safety procedures and techniques in the design of extraction and initial product treatment systems and equipment
• Professions that apply their procedures, regulations, and technologies to manage, control, organize, and guarantee the efficiency, correct functioning, and safety of production processes in mines and quarries
• The professions that carry out research in the field of urban and regional planning, design, construction, and maintenance of buildings, roads, railways, airports, bridges, and other civil and industrial constructions. They define and design standards and procedures to ensure the functionality and safety of the facilities. They design solutions to prevent, control, or remedy the negative impacts of human activity on the environment; conduct environmental impact assessments of civil engineering projects and works or other activities; they deal with the prevention and recovery of hydrogeological instability and slope instability phenomena
• The professions, within companies or organizations operating in the construction economic sector, classified under Section F of the Classification of Economic Activities, plan, direct, and coordinate activities relating to the safe production of the company's goods and services or the organization in which they operate and ensure the efficient use of the resources available and the achievement of the set production objectives
• The professions that support specialists in research in the field of civil engineering and in the design of buildings, roads, railways, airports and ports, and other civil works through risk assessments, or apply and carry out their procedures and techniques to design, supervise the construction and maintenance of these works, to check the systems, equipment and related technical systems and guarantee their functioning and safety
• Professions that apply their procedures, regulations, and technologies to manage, control, organize, and guarantee the efficiency and safety of work processes on construction sites
• Professions that apply procedures and techniques to monitor and optimize the safety of production processes, the productivity of human labor and plants, logistics, and operating costs.