Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Presentation by Dott.sa Laura Martuscelli, Dept assistant The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Presentation by Dott.sa Laura Martuscelli, Dept assistant

The Department of

Civil and Environmental

Engineering

Location

The Department is hosted by the magnificent building of the Faculty of Engineering, in Mesiano, amid splendid mountains and with a spectacular view on the Adige valley.

This position allows researchers and students to work and study in an important University being at the same time in a quiet environment where scientific relevance and quality of life can be combined.

Short historical sketch

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA) of the University of Trento was created in January 1990 when the former Department of Engineering (active since 1985) grew too large and required the splitting into three new Departments.

Since its institution, DICA has always promoted and coordinated internationally oriented research on environment and land protection.

In this context both applied and base research is conducted.

The external funding income has constantly improved during the years.

In 2008, DICA employs xxx persons:

13 full professors

13 associate professors

17 assistant professors

11 administrative and technical

staff

24 doctoral students

22 research fellows

Head: Prof. Aronne Armanini

Deputy Head: Prof. G. B. Benciolini

Faculty and Staff

The The mission of DICA is to advance knowledgeadvance knowledge and educate studentseducate students in science and technology that will best serve for the protection of the environment and the sustainable use of natural resources.

Mission

Doctoral School in Environmental Engineering

CUDAM (research centre of excellence)

Research groups on specialized disciplines

Means

Laboratories

Main research interests

The activity of the department focuses mainly on land protection and preservation

with particular emphasis on:

mountain regions water resources river and estuary dynamics analysis of the environmental impact of infrastructures urban settlements design of ecological and energy saving buildings interaction between energy and environment surveying and remote sensing

Research groups

Environmental protection and management

Environment and land use analysis

Building design

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Research groups

Building restoration, construction techniques and architecture of wooden structures are the main interests of the Building Design group. Attention is paid to the role of innovative construction techniques in traditional structures like wooden buildings, and the assessment of and the research on new methodologies for the improvement of house comfort (domotic).

ENVIRONMENT AND LAND-USE ANALYSIS FOREST ECOLOGY AND ECOLOGICAL PLANNING

GEODESY AND SURVEY

URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Research groups

The three groups have a shared interest in the development of new criteria for environmental protection and land planning, with particular reference to mountain areas. They use the most advanced techniquesmost advanced techniques to read and represent the land and the environment, and they focus on issues like sustainable development. Activities range from study of the collection and elaboration of geographic data to the interpretation of population dynamics and the assessment of the impact on the environment of human activities and settlements.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT

Research groups

The research areas of Hydraulics, Hydraulic Constructions and Hydrology, and Sanitary Engineering were the founding sectors of DICA. Professors and researchers, together with doctoral students, form a well-consolidated group.

The Applied Mathematics, Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, and Transformation Processes Engineering groups play an important role which traverses all the above-mentioned sectors.

HYDRAULICS HYDRAULIC CONSTRUCTIONS & HYDROLOGY SANITARY ENGINEERING ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS APPLIED MATHEMATICS ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS & HEAT TRANSFER TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES ENGINEERING

HYDRAULICS

Theoretical and applied research on issues typical of hydraulics in mountain areas, such as fluvial dynamics, river morphology and pollution sediment transport and erosion processes

Environmental protection and management

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HYDRAULIC CONSTRUCTION AND HYDROLOGY

Studies the mechanisms that control the flow of water in the terrestrial component of the hydrological cycle.

The outputs from its research have important applicative uses in the management and protection of water resources and flood prevention.

Environmental protection and management

Small lakes monitoringSmall lakes monitoring

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Surface hydrologySurface hydrology

SANITARY ENGINEERINGCarries out research on the quality of water (drinking and natural) wastewater treatment (by means of advanced technologies i.e. bio-membrane, etc.) the treatment of urban solid waste (plants, laboratory experiments, …)

Environmental protection and management

Lab experiments Lab experiments on urban wasteon urban waste

Purification plantPurification plant

ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICSStudies the atmospheric dynamics focusing on phenomena occurring in mountain areas >< and valleys and on physical processes in the atmospheric boundary layer.

< It also studies the historical series of meteorological variables in order to identify climate dynamics.

Environmental protection and management

APPLIED MATHEMATICSStudies the mathematical modelling and numerical methods simulation of engineering problems and scientific phenomena (shock waves, shallow water)

Environmental protection and management

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ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS & HEAT TRANSFER

Studies the rational use of energy heat and mass transfer in porous media environmental thermo-fluid-dynamics

Environmental protection and management

TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES ENGINEERING

Studies the energy conversion (bio-mass and hydrogen) and food engineering (extraction of compounds interesting for the food and pharmaceutical industry starting from agricultural-forestal materials).

LABORATORIES

Building design Domotic (CuNEDI)

• Dendrochronology• GIS• Land description• Spatial organisation dynamics

Applied mathematics Atmospheric physics Hydrology Biomass combustion plant Thermophysical

measurements Sanitary engineering Hydraulics: old (didactic) and

new (experiments)

- A Double-degree programme in Environmental Engineering is active with the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck (Austria) and with the University of Karslruhe (Germany)

- Erasmus exchanges are active with many European and world countries

- DICA carries out research projects in collaboration with many national and international universities and research institutions, and participates in the following Consortia and international research networks:

International Cooperation

CINFAI: an organisation providing the general framework for the cooperation between universities active in the fields of atmosphere physics and oceanography

IAHR: International Association for Hydraulic Research

Ancore: Academic Network on Contaminated Land Research in Europe

Techware Network (Bruxelles)

Ensure: European Network for Sustainable Urban and Regional Development Research

Cuahsi: Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science

Consortia & NetworksInternational cooperation

DICA is the hosting institution of the Center for Advanced Studies on Hydro-geological Risk in Mountain Areas (CUDAM), acknowledged in 2000 as a centre of excellence by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research. It cooperates with several public institutions: Provinces, River authorities, and Ministries.

Multidisciplinary research in : low atmospheric physics, hydrology, geology, forestry, topography, remote sensing, and hydraulics.

Advanced and life-long education for:graduate and postgraduate students, technicians, and professionals.

Outcomes applications: basin planning, hydro-geological hazard prevention, evaluation of the efficiency of the protection structures.

CUDAM

Doctoral School in Environmental Engineering

activated in the a.y. 1999/2000

Head of the school: Alberto Bellin

Subjects covered by the School

– Hydraulics

– Hydraulic Constructions and Hydrology

– Sanitary Engineering

– Topography and Cartography

– Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

– Urban and Regional Planning

– Building Construction

– Drawing

– Urban and Building Design

The Doctoral School offers two main curricula:

Environmental Engineering:a. Environmental Fluid Mechanics;

b. Land Protection;

c. Environmental Resources Management and Hydrology;

d. Computational Models for Environmental Engineering.

Urban and Territorial Engineering and Architecture: – Building Engineering;

– Architecture for the City and the Landscape;

– Land Planning for a Sustainable Development.

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Contact information

Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringVia Mesiano, 77I-38100 MESIANO (Trento)ITALYTel.: 0039 0461 882669-70Fax: 0039 0461 882672

E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] DICA: portale.unitn.it/dicaWebsite Doctoral School: portale.unitn.it/dree