The main scope of the course is to provide students with the basic knowledge of environmental engineering.
The course belongs to the three-year degree in Civil Engineering, whose aim is to prepare students in civil engineering by providing tools for the design, construction, maintenance and management of civil structures and infrastructures, such as buildings, bridges, tunnels, transport systems, hydraulic works and land protection. Road Materials is also a course of the master degrees in Road Infrastructures and Transport and Civil Engineering for Protection from Natural Risks, whose objective is training a highly professional figure in civil engineering with specific knowledge and skills in road infrastructures design and management and transportation issues and protection from hydrogeological and seismic risks, respectively.
Within such framework, the course aims at providing students with the basic knowledge and understanding about 1) the biotic and abiotic environment, with references to ecology, chemistry and biology principles; 2) the reference environmental legislation; 3) water, atmosphere and soil quality parameters; 4) the processes of diffusion of pollutants in the environment; 5) treatment techniques.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to 1) evaluate the quality parameters of water, atmosphere and soil in relation to the current legislation 2) analyze the different engineering techniques of water, atmosphere and soil treatment in function of the type of pollutant; 3) basic knowledge of the integrated management of urban solid waste.