Key features of the MSc course in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering – Curriculum Environmental Sustainability  

Environmental Engineering lays in the area of Civil Engineering and stands as a multidisciplinary field focused on protecting both human and environmental health by applying engineering principles. The multidisciplinary approach is essential to ensure the human-centered sustainable development by proposing efficient, low-impact engineering solutions to some of the most pressing challenges of our times, including resource recovery in a circular (bio-)economy perspective, climate change mitigation, smart and resilient cities’ development as well as environmental and territorial protection.

The Master Degree Program in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering – Curriculum Environmental Sustainability aims at training professionals making sustainable development happen. Graduates are qualified experts in the planning, management and control of interventions aimed at the environmental protection and restoration, waste and wastewater valorization, soil defense and the production and management of renewable energy, as well as its application and use in urban areas.

The curriculum provides fundamental and applied knowledge in Sanitary-Environmental Engineering, Chemical-Environmental Engineering, Hydraulics and Hydraulic Constructions, Geology and Geotechnics, Territorial Planning. The Graduates acquire, therefore, professional skills centered mainly on the ability to ‘conceive and design’, in addition to those of ‘control and management’ of the governance and monitoring systems of the environment and the territory. They further gain the ability to integrate the knowledge to the different sectors of study addressed, learning to manage the complexity inherent in all problems relating to design, planning and management of works and projects aimed at human and environmental protection.

The Graduates of this study program will be able to take on managerial roles, to work as consultant or employees in a wide variety of sectors, spanning from public bodies to companies, consortia, agencies and other entities operating – among others – in the fields of environmental protection, territory governance, integrated water and waste management as well as environmental monitoring.

Study Plan

Environmental sustainability
Year I
Title Course	SSD	Module	Credits	Hours
Energy Management	INGIND/11; IIND-07/B	single	9	72
Environmental Hydraulics	ICAR/01; CEAR-01/A	single	9	72
Geographic Information Systems	ICAR/20; CEAR-12/A	single	9	72
Plants for the Treatment of Aeriform Effluents	INGIND/25; ICHI-02/A	single	9	72
Aqueducts and Sewers	ICAR/02; CEAR-01/B	single	9	72
Waste To Energy and Circular Economy	ICAR/03; CEAR-02/A	Circular Bioeconomy for the Ecological Transition	6	48
		Waste to Energy	3	24
Safety in Chemical Processes	INGIND/11; IIND-07/B	single	9	72
Geotechnical Risks in Urban Areas	ICAR/07; CEAR-05/A	single	6	48
Year II
Title Course	SSD	Module	Credits	Hours
Advanced Applied Engineering Mathematics	MAT/07; MATH-04/A	single	9	72
Wastewater Treatment and Reuse	ICAR/03; CEAR-02/A	single	9	72
Geotechnical Risks in Urban Areas	ICAR/07; CEAR-05/A	single	6	48
Training and Orientation internship		single	6	150
Final test			15

Eligibility and Admission Guidelines

To enroll in the Master’s Degree, applicants must meet the following criteria:

1. Hold a Bachelor Degree in the L7 Class or possess the curricular requirements detailed at art. 4 of the Master Degree Program Regulation (https://www.iat.unina.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Regolamento_LM_IAT_25-26.pdf)
2. Demonstrate proficiency in English equivalent to B2 level (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).

For full details, please visit the MSc website or write an email:

Website: https://www.iat.unina.it/environmental-sustainability/

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