Description

Goal

The Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering aims at training graduates in possession of the scientific, technical, and cultural requisites useful to understand, solve and manage the basic problems related to the design, construction, conduction, control, maintenance and safety keeping of civil works and of the built environment in which they are inserted, with particular reference to the demand and standards of the international professional and construction market. 

Knowledge

In order to pursue the educational objectives of the Degree Program, the basic disciplines are selected and sized so as to provide the necessary cognitive elements to know and understand the methodological-operational aspects of mathematical analysis, experimental physics, analytical geometry and theoretical mechanics. These disciplines, which define the group of basic training activities, are placed in the first year of studies and in the first semester of the second year.

Teaching

Characterising educational activities deal with the methodological-operational aspects of the basic sciences of civil engineering: structural mechanics and engineering, hydraulics and hydraulic infrastructures, soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering, transport infrastructures and transportation engineering, sanitary and environmental engineering. These disciplines are placed in the second year of studies, where notions of fluid and solid mechanics are mainly taught as preparatory to applications, and in the third year, where training turns into a more applied approach, studying the construction materials with their physical-mechanical behaviour and the engineering applications. These disciplines belong to the group of: civil engineering; environmental and land engineering; civil, environmental and land protection and safety engineering. 

The related and supplementary activities aim at enriching and completing the interdisciplinary preparation of the graduate, providing specialized content and methodology, according to the educational objectives of the Degree Course. 

The free-choice credits allow the student to deepen his or her cultural interests and better target the labour market or a second-level degree in the sector.

Techniques

The studies encompass innovative methods, techniques and calculation tools, experiments and simulations of applicative problems and as a whole they are aimed at stimulating in the graduate a critical mind and awareness of contemporary contexts, at the development of relational and decision-making skills and at encouraging continuous education.