Description and educational objectives

The thematic area INFRASTRUCTURE AND TERRITORY ENGINEERING aims to:

1. Training experts in the field of transportation infrastructure;
2. Developing specialized skills in surveying, territorial data management and analysis, as well as in monitoring and controlling displacements and deformations at all scales;
3. Deepening knowledge in fluid mechanics, maritime hydraulics, hydraulic infrastructure, hydraulic protection of the territory, and surface and groundwater resources;
4. Developing competencies in water and waste management and treatment, pollution and climate change monitoring and mitigation, and assessing their impacts on water resources and infrastructure.

The thematic area STRUCTURAL AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING aims to:

1. Developing specific expertise in solid, material, and structural mechanics to address complex problems in engineering, architecture, and other applied sciences;
2. Advancing theories and techniques for both the structural design of new constructions and the assessment and rehabilitation of existing structures;
3. Specializing in the characterization of the mechanical behavior of soils and rocks, as well as in slope stability (both natural and artificial) and underground excavations;
4. Designing foundation structures and engineering works involving interaction with soils and rocks.

The thematic area ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING aims to explore:

1. Theoretical, formal, spatial, and functional aspects of architecture, as well as the analysis and critique of contemporary architecture and urban environments;
2. Issues and techniques related to architectural surveying and graphic and video representation, both at the building and urban settlement scale;
3. The realization, regeneration, and management of urban settlements and their relationships with territorial infrastructure and the landscape;
4. Historical, artistic, technical, and aesthetic aspects of past architecture, aimed at both critical knowledge and cultural enhancement in the present;
5. Conceptual and operational tools for understanding historic built environments and defining intervention methodologies for their conservation and restoration;
6. Theories, methods, techniques, and tools for designing physical and virtual artifacts, with reference to their morphological characteristics and their relationships with user needs and behaviors.