Master in Environmental Engineering

Some of the activities of an Environmental Engineering master are:

• designing and managing water and wastewater treatment plants;
• monitoring liquid waste disposal, gas emissions, water quality and air quality;
• diagnosing contamination situations: sampling, analysis, data treatment, impact interpretation and analysis;
• designing and managing waste treatment systems;
• forecasting contaminants motion in the atmosphere, surface water, groundwater and soil;
• designing and planning rehabilitation strategies of contaminated land;
• industrial ecology and environmental management systems;
• developing strategies to respond to emergency situations, such as oil spillage;
• planning the execution, technical management and inspection of the above mentioned enterprises;
• carrying out environmental impact studies related to the great engineering enterprises.

The Integrated Masters in Environmental Engineering comprises a comprehensive training, which aims at providing an integrated, holistic and multidisciplinary vision to solve environmental problems, by developing students´ skills to forecast and identify harmful environmental effects and solve them technologically and integrate the solutions in a sustainable industrial and social development.