Areas of specialisation
The Master's degree programme offers five specialist majors that can be freely selected, of which one has to be completed in full.
Urban Water Management
This major is focused on managing water and wastewater in cities. As a basis for water and wastewater treatment and resource recovery courses are focused on fundamentals, design, and operation of biological, chemical, and physical unit processes. Infrastructure planning, management, and control provide the methodologies for the overall optimization of the urban water cycle.
Environmental Technologies
This major is focused on process engineering and environmental technologies related to water, air, soil and waste. As in the case of Urban Water Management major, the courses are focused on fundamentals, design, and operation of biological, chemical, and physical unit processes but provide a stronger emphasis on treatment technologies. Graduates are especially well suited to work for consulting engineering firms designing quality control of the different environmental media with a focus on process development and equipment for treatment and remediation.
Resource Management
The focus of this major is on the sustainable management of resources. It includes modeling and assessment of environmental systems, material cycles, and understanding recycling and waste treatment technologies. Students will be able to solve complex problems and answer strategic questions from a system-oriented perspective. They can apply the major environmental assessment methods and modeling tools for technology assessment and improvement.
Water Resources Management
The focus of this major is on understanding and modelling the physical processes of the hydrological cycle at the river basin and global scale. The major is built on modules which teach the fundamentals of subsurface and surface flow and their practical applications to groundwater and open channel flow problems. A basin scale view includes the full scope of hydrological processes at the soil-vegetation-atmosphere interface, their monitoring at a range of scales, description by conceptual and physically-based models.
