Environmental Sciences and Engineering

专业详情

Protecting the environment for a sustainable future.

The major future challenges for humankind and planet Earth are climate change, limited resources, pollution, human population growth and loss of biodiversity.

This modern and competitive study program at EPFL prepares students for the multidisciplinary nature of environmental engineering problems and educates future engineers to address the complexities and uncertainties of natural and engineered systems. This Master’s program focuses on environmental engineering in natural systems where solutions must be developed under conditions of incomplete information, spatial heterogeneity, and uncertainty.

Contemporary issues related to complex interactions taking place in built and urban environments are also emphasized.

Program’s objectives

The Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences and Engineering offers a wide range of courses grouped in four specializations:

• water resources and management (WRM)
• climate change anticipation and adaptation (CCAA)
• environmental sensing and computation (ESC)
• biological and chemical processes in environmental
  engineering (BCP)

It is also possible to follow a minor in one of the many domains in which environmental sciences are involved, such as urban planning and territorial development or energy.