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

 

Hydrogeological Risk Assessment & Mitigation 

First semester

 
From last week of September to December Month 4 (January) Exams (February)
 

 1st year

 

 Parallel

Applied Mathematics (Martinelli)  

Probability and Statistics for Eng Appl (Bazzurro and Venini)

Exams
 

Continuum Mechanics (Manenti)

Engineering Geology (Meisina)
Fluvial Hydraulics (Ghilardi)

 

 

Hydrogeological Risk Assessment & Mitigation

 

Second semester

 
Month 1 (March) Month 2 (April) Month 3 (May) Month 4 (June)

 

Exams (June-July)
 1st year   Parallel Hydromorphology (tba) Geomatics and GIS (Taramelli and Bonì) Exams
Computational Fluid Dynamics (Sibilla)
Landslides hazard and risk (Meisina and Bordoni)
Snow Avalanches and Related Mountain Natural Hazards (Pasian and tba) ■

 

Hydrogeological Risk Assessment & Mitigation 

First semester

 
From last week of September to December Month 4 (January) Exams (February)
  2ndyear   Parallel Reliable Design and Management of Urban Hydraulic infrastructures (Creaco) Exams
Flood Propagation (Petaccia)
Fluvial Protection Works (Fenocchi)
Landslide Modelling and Mitigation Strategies (Gioffrè) ■■

 

Hydrogeological Risk Assessment & Mitigation 

Second semester

 
Month 1 (March) Month 2 (April) Month 3 (May) Month 4 (June) Exams (June-July)
 2ndyear  Parallel Hydrological Risks

(M.Martina) (March)

Risk Emerg. Manag. and Legisl. (A.Monti et al) ■■1 (April-July) 3 CFU Exams
Systemic risk and indirect impacts (Arosio) ■■ 2 (April-July) 3 CFU
Foundation Engin. and Earth Ret.  Structures ■■ (April) 6 CFU
Thesis
■ indicates the first elective option
■■ indicates the second elective option, as one 6 CFU course or as two 3 CFU courses(■■1 +■■ 2)