The Bachelor’s Degree Course in Civil Environmental Engineering at the School of Technology and Management presented its plan to adapt to the Bologna Process. This not only fit in with the new learning paradigm but was also an opportunity to respond to the new challenges arising from the strong pressure that civil engineering in general has been under as a result of the profound changes that the world has undergone in recent years, mainly due to globalisation, competitiveness and the complex environmental issues that it has to master.

Today, civil engineers face new challenges, as they have to deal with a very diverse set of actors and complex environmental issues, which require more and more academic and professional training of engineers.

These profound changes demand new skills from civil engineers, particularly cross-disciplinary skills that may introduce critical issues not previously regarded as engineering. These include ethics, quality, environmental management, accounting and taxation, oral and written proficiency, customer relations, contact with the mass media and social pressure, especially those relating to the environment.

Indeed, Civil Engineering work, in whatever form, continues to transform the environment. It shapes spaces and alters the landscape, causing both positive and negative environmental impacts.

Civil and environmental engineering has a central role to play in correcting the dysfunctions caused to the environment by human activity.

This is why the Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Environmental Engineering combines solid knowledge of environmental technologies with traditional civil engineering, as practised in the most reputable universities in Europe and the United States, where most civil engineering courses have been renamed Civil Environmental Engineering (Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College London, Stanford, MIT).

This Bachelor’s Degree is recognised by the OET – Order of Technical Engineers, the FEANI – European Federation of National Engineering Associations and the OE – Order of Engineers.