Civil Engineering

The course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrolment is by consent of the instructor. The course focuses on the roles of microbial populations in natural and contaminated habitats and the main microbial and technological aspects related the conduction and optimization of the prominent environmental biotechnological processes currently applied in the remediation of industrial wastewaters, sediments, and sites contaminated with xenobiotic compounds. The course includes class lectures, as a series of seminars, and optional laboratory training.

Building on the learning in Mechanics (Part 1), the course provides students with a basic understanding of the behavior of common structural forms, based on a physical understanding of how these forms are able to carry external forces through the development of internal forces in structural elements. This concept is extended to derive stress and strain distributions within basic structural members.

This course introduces basic principles and tools to design, plan, evaluate, analyze, manage and control transportation systems. The courses covers how to identify, formulate, examine, and solve transportation engineering problems. The major topics include transportation system, planning and management, geometric design of roads and intersections, structural design of pavement, pavement materials, traffic flow and analysis, and traffic management and control. 

With increasing rates of urbanization and high population growth rates in the developing world there is a need for robust engineering solutions that address societal, economic and environmental issues through partnerships with local stakeholders and institutions. This course will provide engineers with an overview of the challenges and complexities of working internationally, focusing on low- and middle-income countries where mainstream development paradigms often fail to bridge the gap in basic infrastructure and housing needs.

The course contains four parts: managing logistics and operations system: value creation and strategic perspectives; designing industrial operations: products, processes, quality, and capacity; linkages to suppliers and customers: sourcing, purchasing, transportation, materials handling, and inventories; planning and controlling inventory and production in the supply chain: forecasting, long-term and short-term planning and control, and lean-based operations development.