The Master of Science in Civil Engineering aims at providing students with thorough professional and scientific Civil Engineering skills, which are highly requested and appreciated by both private companies and public institutions.
The student must choose one tracks out of the five available, namely: general, geotechnics, hydraulics, infrastructures and structures. 'Geothecnics' is devoted to the study of the interaction between soil and rock and structures (foundations, tunnels, retaining structures). 'Hydraulics' deals with all problems concerning water storage, transportation and control (pipelines, sewers, river and coastal erosion control, reservoirs).' Infrastructures' takes care of all problems concerning transportation engineering (road and railway design, airport and harbour design, modelling of transport fluxes). 'Structures' is devoted to the analysis and design of civil and industrial structures (buildings, bridges, dams, metallic and concrete constructions, computational mechanics). 'General' gives the student an interdisciplinary preparation taking courses from all the aforementioned specialties.
As specified in the teaching regulations, 120 credits are required to obtain the degree, some of which devoted to the final exam preparation. To this goal, stage periods of varying length are possible within external or internal institutions. During the two years course up to one year can be spent by the student in a foreign university within the framework of the Erasmus Programme.