The Degree Course aims to train a professional engineer able to face the main environmental problems due to natural catastrophic processes (floods, landslides, earthquakes, etc.) and to the complex interactions between the various human activities - including the design of infrastructures and major works - and the territory. The course of study, divided into two areas of specialization (Hydraulics and Geotechnics), provides the necessary skills for the resolution of environmental issues and for the design of natural risk mitigation interventions.

Educational objectives

The Course will ensure that you have mastered the methods and the specific professional knowledge needed to deal with the main environmental problems caused by natural catastrophes and the complex interactions between different human activities, including planning structures and engineering works and the territory, which can be traced back to the fundamental components of the air-water-subsoil system. Particular attention is paid to the numerical modeling techniques used to reconstruct possible scenarios of environmental risk, to simulate destructive events (floods, landslides, earthquakes etc.) and to reproduce complex structure-environment interactions (stabilization of slopes, tunnels, structural interventions in areas of serious hydro-geological vulnerability, riverbed works, detention basins, planning sites for rubbish tips, etc.).
As a graduate you will work on environmental problems both in the traditional role as freelance planner and also in specialized planning Companies working in the environmental, topographical and hydraulic-geotechnical field. You can also work as an employee with a managerial role and with management/organizational functions at public bodies which deal institutionally with the environment and planning, including Civil Defense.

Professional opportunities

Environmental problems and Planning interventions to mitigate natural risks represent an intense activity normally promoted by public bodies which, at various levels (nationwide, regional, provincial and city council) deal with the protection of the territory, Planning the main infrastructures, territorial Planning and managing situations where public safety is threatened by natural calamities.

The graduate in Environmental and Territorial Engineering can work on the solution to a vast range of environmental problems both in the traditional role as freelance planner and also in specialized Planning Companies working in the environmental, topographical and hydraulic-geotechnical field. The same activity can also be carried out as an employee with a managerial role and with management/organizational functions at public bodies which deal institutionally with the environment and Planning (regional, provincial and city council services for the environment, hydraulics and territorial Planning) or with Planning big infrastructures (Public Works services) or also Planning works and interventions for safeguarding the territory (Civil Defense technical services).

Among the main employment opportunities that may be offered to the graduate in Environmental and Territorial Engineering there are:
- Planning hydraulic works for protecting riverbeds and mountain basins;
- Planning aqueduct systems to make urban water distribution networks;
- Planning barrier works, intake works and catchment systems for rivers;
- Planning maritime and/or coastal infrastructures to protect the shoreline;
- Planning interventions to stabilize slopes and to protect them from landslides;
- Planning interventions of naturalistic engineering to safeguard the slopes, riverbeds and mountain basins;
- Planning monitoring systems to control critical natural processes (floods and landslides) and pollution;
- Planning sites for rubbish tips;
- Planning interventions for polluted sites;
- Planning environmental restoration and safeguarding sites affected by mining activities;
- Planning specific territorial information systems for the analysis and management of the main environmental risks (hydraulic, landslides, seismic) or monitoring for hydraulic protection and safeguarding the water table from chemical pollution.