HYRIS – Hydrogeological Risk Assessment and Mitigation
This programme of study focuses on the assessment of risk caused by floods, avalanches and landslides to new and existing structures and infrastructures, and on the structural and non-structural measures which can be envisaged for its mitigation.
Compulsory and elective courses are offered on a number of core subjects including hydrology, fluvial hydraulics and hydromorphology, hydraulic infrastructures, snow avalanches and landslide hazards, risk and emergency legislation, earth surface and processes. The study of these topics is preceded by a number of propaedeutic courses, which encompasses numerical analysis, probability and statistics, continuum mechanics, geomatics and geology.
The timetable of the classes is available here:
LM Civil Engineering for Mitigation of Risks from Natural Hazards: schedules
Course Schedule
First year
First semester
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| Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | ||
| 1STYEAR | Monthly scheduling | Continuum Mechanics | Continuum Mechanics | Applied Mathematics | Engineering Geology | Probability and Statistics |
| Semester scheduling | Fluvial Hydraulics | – | – | |||
Second semester
| SECOND SEMESTER | ||||||
| Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | ||
| 1STYEAR | Monthly scheduling | Hydro morphology | Computational Fluid Dynamics | CHOICE | Geomatics and GIS | – |
| Semester scheduling | Landslides Hazard and Risk | – | – | |||
CHOICE
Snow Avalanches and Related Mountain Natural Hazards
Second year
First semester
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| Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | ||
| 2NDYEAR | Monthly scheduling | Hydrological Risks | Reliable Design and Management of Urban Hydraulic Infrastructures | Structural measures for flood risk mitigation | CHOICE | |
| Semester scheduling | Flood Propagation | – | – | |||
CHOICE
Landslide Modelling and Mitigation Strategies
Risk emergency management and legislation
Foundations Engineering and Earth Retaining Structures
Second semester
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| Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | ||
| 2NDYEAR | Monthly scheduling | Master thesis (27 credits) | ||||
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