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Structure of educational activities and any curricula The study path will be organized in such a way as to maximize interdisciplinary training. The Course of Study provides for a single branch structured into two paths with the objective of providing integrative knowledge to the personal preparation deriving from the previous career. The “for engineers” path will provide compensatory knowledge mainly in the field of geological disciplines. The “for geologists” path will provide compensatory knowledge mainly in the field of engineering disciplines. The two paths will differ by 18 ECTS based on specific courses with restricted choice. The 120 ECTS that make up the Master's Degree (LM) will be divided into courses delivered in the English language, of which: • 60 ECTS of courses delivered in the 1st year and 30 CFU of courses delivered in the 2nd year; • 9 ECTS of free choice activities /Elective courses; • 6 ECTS of stage and traineeship; • 15 ECTS for the Final Exam.
The Course of Study in brief International Master's Degree Course in class LM-35 – Environmental and Territorial Engineering, aimed at the preparation of specialized technicians in the activities of monitoring, management, and design of systems and works for the reduction of geo-hydrological risk. The Course of Study (CdS) has an international character due to the delivery of the entire educational offering in the English language and has a marked interdisciplinary approach, maximizing the existing synergies between many of the disciplines proper to civil-environmental engineering and geological sciences and technologies. At the same time, in order to guarantee in any case a full recognizability and functionality of the new Geoengineering graduate within the Italian and European professional and regulatory contexts, the curriculum of the CdS is aimed at the training of technicians with an engineering-type professionalism, applied to geological and hydraulic problems and based on basic knowledge also proper to earth sciences. Within the framework of training graduates with the cultural background deriving from the study plans of the already composite existing educational offering, the CdS aims at the creation of an integrated cultural and professional profile focused on the themes of geological risks connected to surface, sub-surface, and gravitational slope hydrological processes, in order to train technicians capable of having a vision as broad and updated as possible regarding the theme of territorial management and mitigation. The Master's Degree in Geoengineering in Class LM-35 – Environmental Engineering intends to represent an educational offering complementary to the existing one: through the orientation toward specific and increasingly current interdisciplinary themes of territorial protection from geo-hydrological risks (only partially present in existing LMs) and the international character marked by the delivery of the entire educational offering in English, it aims to attract additional Italian and foreign students compared to those of the already existing LM-35, whose cultural project validity remains in any case unaltered.
Specific educational objectives of the course and description of the educational path The Master's Degree Course in Geoengineering aims at the training of experts capable of using the acquired knowledge to interpret, describe, analyze, control, and manage complex environmental realities and territorial engineering problems that require an interdisciplinary approach, with particular reference to geo-hydrological processes and problems. The specific educational objectives consist of the construction of the capacity to: • know and know how to develop methods and techniques for territorial investigation and data analysis, which also allow integration at different territorial scales; • know the methodologies and use prevention technologies for the protection of humans and the environment from geo-hydrological risk; • know how to face problems related to the monitoring, control, and management of the environment and the territory, evaluated according to the criteria of sustainability and environmental ethics; • have competencies for the assessment of risk and environmental impacts, also through the formulation of models and the use of conceptual and methodological tools provided by environmental planning; • deeply know the theoretical-scientific aspects of environmental and territorial engineering, in which they are capable of identifying, formulating, and solving—even in innovative ways—complex problems, such as protection against landslides and floods, or those requiring an interdisciplinary approach; • be equipped with the fundamental tools for the quantitative analysis of engineering systems within the framework of geological processes, their temporal evolution, and their modeling, especially for application purposes; • be capable of conceiving, planning, designing, and managing complex and/or innovative systems, processes, and services at a territorial scale; • possess the necessary knowledge to operate the restoration and conservation of the quality of territorial systems, particularly those with high anthropization; • possess the necessary knowledge to prevent the degradation of environments as a consequence of environmental and geological processes, also for the purpose of protecting anthropic activity. These specific educational objectives of the course stem from an evolution, both in a specialist and interdisciplinary sense, of educational objectives typical of the reference class of environmental engineering. The need for the establishment of an Engineering-area path that is markedly interdisciplinary toward the Earth Sciences area arises from the requirement to focus toward a common application field, that of protection against geo-hydrological risk, which is assuming an ever-growing importance on the national and international scene. The educational path consists of an integration of knowledge and competencies from the geological, applied-geological, geotechnical, structural, hydrological, and hydraulic sectors, as well as applied mathematics, achieved through a study plan divided into two years that provides for the acquisition of a number of ECTS consistent with the educational objectives for each of the aforementioned disciplinary sectors. In the first year, the interdisciplinary integration includes the consolidation of numerical methods and statistics. The student is required to take the mandatory courses provided for by the Regulations, with the possibility of including elective groups in homogeneous sectors, to be integrated with exams chosen by the student, internships and apprenticeships at companies and public bodies, and a final exam, the characteristics of which are described in the Regulations. The methods by which the expected learning outcomes are verified consist of formative assessments, intended to detect the progress of the class and the effectiveness of the learning processes, carried out in an agreed and planned manner, or rather profit exams, aimed at evaluating and quantifying with a grade the achievement of the overall objectives of the courses, which certify the degree of individual preparation of the students. For some activities and courses, individual or group design/project activities may be proposed under the guidance of a professor. The degree course intends to apply—within the limits set by current laws—tools aimed at validating credits recognizable upon entry for previous competencies (from different training systems or professional experience), such as skills audits, resorting to the advice of experts from different sectors (from both a training and technical point of view).
Admission requirements for the courses of study Enrolment in the Master's Degree Course in Geoengineering requires the possession of a first-level Degree (ex DM 270/04 or comparable) and the possession of CURRICULAR REQUIREMENTS that provide, in any case, an adequate mastery of general scientific methods and contents in scientific disciplines or engineering disciplines, preparatory to the characterizing ones provided for in the regulations of the reference master's degree class. Regarding linguistic skills, access to the degree course provides for the B2 Upper Intermediate certification level of the English language, which can also be acquired at the University Language Centre of the University of Florence. Furthermore, PERSONAL PREPARATION REQUIREMENTS are defined based on the evaluation of the previous career. CURRICULAR REQUIREMENTS: The possession of curricular requirements is satisfied if, in the first-level career, or in any case before the application for matriculation, the number of ECTS (University Educational Credits) specified below has been acquired in the Scientific-Disciplinary Sectors (SSD) of the basic activity areas and in the SSDs included in the characterizing activity areas in the first-level degree class L-7 "Civil and Environmental Engineering": Basic activities: at least 36 ECTS, of which at least 18 in the disciplinary area of Mathematics, Informatics, and Statistics, or rather in the SSDs indicated below: • INF/01 INFORMATICS • ING-INF/05 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS • MAT/01 MATHEMATICAL LOGIC • MAT/02 ALGEBRA • MAT/03 GEOMETRY • MAT/05 MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS • MAT/06 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS • MAT/07 MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS • MAT/08 NUMERICAL ANALYSIS • MAT/09 OPERATIONAL RESEARCH • SECS-S/02 STATISTICS FOR EXPERIMENTAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH Characterizing activities: at least 45 ECTS, of which at least 30 in the field of Civil Engineering or Environmental and Territorial Engineering, or rather in the SSDs indicated below: SSD Area - CHARACTERIZING Subjects: Civil Engineering ICAR/01 HYDRAULICS ICAR/02 HYDRAULIC AND MARITIME CONSTRUCTIONS AND HYDROLOGY ICAR/04 HIGHWAYS, RAILWAYS AND AIRPORTS ICAR/05 TRANSPORTATION ICAR/06 TOPOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY ICAR/07 GEOTECHNICS ICAR/08 STRUCTURAL MECHANICS ICAR/09 STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING ICAR/10 BUILDING DESIGN ICAR/11 BUILDING PRODUCTION ICAR/17 DRAWING SSD Area - CHARACTERIZING Subjects: Environmental and Territorial Engineering BIO/07 ECOLOGY CHIM/12 CHEMISTRY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE GEO/02 STRATIGRAPHIC AND SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY GEO/05 APPLIED GEOLOGY GEO/11 APPLIED GEOPHYSICS ICAR/01 HYDRAULICS ICAR/02 HYDRAULIC AND MARITIME CONSTRUCTIONS AND HYDROLOGY ICAR/03 SANITARY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ICAR/05 TRANSPORTATION ICAR/06 TOPOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY ICAR/07 GEOTECHNICS ICAR/08 STRUCTURAL MECHANICS ICAR/09 STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING ICAR/20 URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING Curricular requirements are automatically satisfied for graduates in possession of a degree title ex DM 270/04 in the class L-7 "Civil and Environmental Engineering" or equivalent degree titles according to previous regulations (specifically DM 509/99). For graduates in a class other than L-7 and for graduates abroad, the verification of curricular requirements requires that the aforementioned constraints are met. The verification of curricular requirements can be carried out considering appropriate equivalences between the courses successfully followed and those of the SSDs referred to in the mentioned areas. This verification will be carried out by a specific Commission upon request of the interested parties. PERSONAL PREPARATION REQUIREMENTS: Personal preparation is considered satisfied by graduates who demonstrate having obtained the three-year degree without particular difficulties. This condition is evaluated based on the average achieved in the exams taken within the educational path followed by the graduate in the Degree Course of origin; it is considered verified for graduates who present a graduation grade greater than or equal to 90/110 (or equivalent grade for graduates abroad). In other cases, and in any case whenever the opportunity is recognized, the student may be required to undergo a supplementary interview. Finally, mastery of the English language of at least level B2 is required, to be demonstrated through a suitable certificate issued by the University Language Center, or if the certification presented is one of those included in the list of certifying bodies as per the MIUR web page: https://www.miur.gov.it/enti-certificatori-lingue-straniere, or if the certification presented is issued by Invalsi. Any certification must have been obtained within the 5 years preceding the request.