Applicants profile and Carrer Oportunities

Graduates from Engineering, Architecture and Science area accepted for the MSc.

European Higher Education Area

The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) is starting to crystallize in our university system. The Royal Decrees concerning bachelor degrees and graduate studies published in January 2005 launched the process of reforms and the implementation of a first and second cycle with the characteristics decided upon in Bologna.

This is a significant change in the concept we used to have of the study programs, which are now conceived of as a coherent and structured offer of subjects grouped by field and graduated according to a specific amount of teaching credits.

This imposes an organization of the knowledge within a syllabus and a training program that embraces students from day one, training them both in generic and transversal skills –i.e., abilities- by offering activities that go beyond the syllabus. Actions are taken to facilitate the student’s incorporation to society, through an enterprising placement program or the supervision of a final project. Thus, a strong differentiating factor between different universities is introduced, and they can take advantage of their strengths both with regards to their faculty and their research lines in order to come up with their own and unique training and quality imprint.

Meanwhile, structured PhD programs become the natural continuation of research-oriented masters, their excellence being guaranteed by the qualities listed by the Ministry of Education and Science.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Graduates in Environmental Technology have a broad scope of job opportunities for environment related technical and management positions, with duties such as the design and implementation of engineering operations and environment management systems, both in the public and the private sectors.

The main employment fields are:

Consultancy and Projects

• Environmental Diagnosis
• Environmental impact assessment
• Hazardous Waste Characterization
• Design of facilities for the temporary storage, recycling and recovery of waste
• Projects of urban and industrial wastewater treatment
• Minimization of emissions to air and gas treatment
• Acoustic assessment and noise mapping
• Soil decontamination and recovery of degraded areas
• Development of clean or less contaminating production technologies

Management and Consulting

• Design and implementation of environmental management systems
• Implementation, monitoring and evaluation of quality management systems
• Monitoring and integral management of products and waste: life-cycle analysis
• Environmental audits
• Technical consulting
• Business management
• Environmental education and communication