Presentation
The educational program is based on a balanced compromise between the need to ensure a strong grounding in physics and mathematics and the necessity of covering the multiple technical and scientific fields common to the Civil and Environmental degree classes. Consequently, during the first year and part of the second year, the curriculum includes a significant number of courses in mathematics, geometry, physics, and chemistry, providing preparation fully comparable in both content and scope to that of the traditional first two years of the former five-year degree programs.
These are followed, during the second year, by core subjects typical of Civil-Environmental and Industrial Engineering, such as solid mechanics, electrical engineering, engineering physics, chemical process technologies, and safety engineering. These are complemented by inter-class subjects such as fluid mechanics and energy and environmental systems.
The educational offering is completed by a range of courses including land representation, fundamentals of earth sciences, territorial and urban planning, sanitary-environmental engineering, and raw materials engineering, through which students can freely shape their own specific academic profile under the guidance of the faculty.
Finally, with the aim of broadening knowledge on environmental sustainability—particularly for students in the Civil-Environmental class—a strongly interdisciplinary course in Sustainability Sciences is included, focused on addressing the main environmental issues that engineering must confront.
The curriculum provides that:
• a total of 9 credits are allocated to foreign language proficiency, the final examination, and additional educational activities (Art. 10, paragraph 5, letter d), of which 3 credits are reserved for the foreign language examination, 3 for the final examination, and the remaining 3 for other educational activities;
• the remaining 171 credits are allocated as follows: 159 to basic, core, related, or supplementary educational activities; 12 to electives chosen freely by the student.
Educational activities are organized into modules: a module consists of a set of learning activities belonging to a specific academic disciplinary sector and always concludes with an assessment test. An exception is made for laboratory modules, which are assessed with a pass/fail evaluation.