Objectives

The protection, monitoring, and remediation of natural environments; soil conservation; rational land planning and management; the assessment and sustainable use of natural resources; impact and risk evaluations related to human activities and natural phenomena; sustainable mobility; and transportation planning represent key issues in both the Italian and international context, requiring specific and targeted technical knowledge and skills.
The Bachelor’s Degree Program in Environmental Engineering aims to provide the essential foundations for these fields, with particular emphasis on basic training and methodological approaches.
The main objective of the program is to provide students with a solid multidisciplinary background, primarily oriented toward admission to the Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering (LM-35), while also training professionals who, upon completion of the program, can analyze, model, plan, and design—using up-to-date approaches, techniques, and tools—actions and interventions related to environmental and land protection, such as:

  • Management of solid, liquid, and gaseous waste
  • Land planning and management
  • Soil conservation and environmental protection
  • Management and recycling of raw materials and natural resources
  • Remediation of degraded environmental systems
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Sustainable mobility and transportation planning

The competences acquired at the end of the program also allow graduates to successfully enter the job market.
The program is characterized by the breadth and interdisciplinarity of its training and stands out, compared to other degree programs in the Civil and Environmental Engineering class, for the specific expertise that graduates acquire in environmental issues.
The study plan, organized into semesters in compliance with Ministerial Decree 270 and based on the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS), is structured over three years as follows:

  • First year – dedicated to general foundational training (mathematical analysis, geometry, physics, chemistry, computer-aided design laboratory, foreign language).
  • Second year – dedicated both to completing the general foundations (physics, probability and statistics, numerical analysis, continuum mechanics) and to engineering training in environmental and territorial topics (fluid mechanics, geology, sustainable development and territorial engineering, structural mechanics).
  • Third year – focused on completing engineering training in environmental and territorial topics, with particular attention to soil defense, eco-compatible management of natural and human resources, sustainable land use, prevention and control of pollution phenomena, land planning and management, and environmental modeling (environmental applied physics, geotechnics, hydrology, raw materials, environmental sanitary engineering, geomatics, structural engineering, transportation engineering, analysis of environmental systems and data).

The teaching methods and tools adopted to achieve the intended learning outcomes include lectures and classroom exercises, laboratory work, technical visits, and seminars.
The achievement of the expected learning outcomes is assessed through formative evaluations (mid-term tests, exemption tests) and final examinations.