Hydrogeological Risk Assessment and Mitigation (HYRIS)
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.
Course Schedule
First year – Courses (Academic Year 2017-18)
First semester
| FIRST SEMESTER | ||||||
| Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | ||
| 1STYEAR | Monthly scheduling | Continuum Mechanics | Continuum Mechanics | Applied Mathematics | Engineering Geology | Hydro-morphology |
| Semester scheduling | Fluvial Hydraulics | – | – | |||
First year – Courses (Academic Year 2017-18)
Second semester
| SECOND SEMESTER | ||||||
| Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | ||
| 1STYEAR | Monthly scheduling | Probability and statistics for engineering applications | Computational Fluid Dynamics | Snow Avalanches and Related Mountain Natural Hazards | Geomatics and GIS | – |
| Semester scheduling | Landslides Hazard and Risk | – | – | |||
Second year – Courses (Academic Year 2017-18)
First semester
| FIRST SEMESTER | ||||||
| Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | ||
| 2NDYEAR | Monthly scheduling | Hydrological Risks | Hydrological Risks | Structural measures for flood risk mitigation | Elective 1 (group G2) | Elective 2 (group G2) |
| Semester scheduling | Flood Propagation | – | – | |||
Second year – Courses (Academic Year 2017-18)
Second semester
| SECOND SEMESTER | ||||||
| Month 1 | Month 2 | Month 3 | Month 4 | Month 5 | ||
| 2NDYEAR | Monthly scheduling | Master thesis (27 credits) | ||||
| Semester scheduling | ||||||
Elective courses – Group G2
| Hydraulic Infrastructures |
| Risk emergency management and legislation |
| Earth Surface and Processes |
| Foundations Engineering and Earth Retaining Structures |