Schedule
Academic Year 2012-2013
Spring Semester, first and second year (Environment – Soil Protection)

Exam sessions
Students regularly enrolled at the University of Padua (including Erasmus students) will find continuously updated information on exam sessions (date, deadline for registration, venue) at the website UNIWEB.

Module Choice
To achieve a Masters’ Degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Padova students have to obtain a total of 120 ECTS, equivalent to: ten mandatory modules (72 ECTS), a project work (6 ECTS), three elective modules (18 ECTS) and a thesis work (24 ECTS).

A students has to compile his own Study Plan, by selecting the preferred Channel (Environmental or Soil Protection) and the elective modules on the base of the official Study Programme.

Special Individual Programme may be tailored upon agreement with the School Chair

Master Thesis Proposal
Several proposals for thesis work are available in the following fields, with the indication of the relevant Professor to whom request for detailed information may be addressed:

1)  Innovation in landfilling technologies (R. Cossu)
2)  Use of different wastewaters for energy crops (M.C. Lavagnolo)
3)  Pretreatment of waste for achieving landfill stability (T. Lai)
4)  Source segregation of domestic sewage (M.C. Lavagnolo)
5)  In situ landfill aeration (R. Raga)
6)  Production of hydrogen from different biomass (L. Alibardi)
7)  Landfill mining (R. Raga)
8)  Composting of different industrial waste (L. Alibardi)
9)  Role of landfill as carbon sink (R. Cossu)
10) Waste management in mountain huts (R. Cossu)