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Welcome to the webpage of the Official Interuniversity Masters Program in Environmental Hydraulics, taught jointly by the University of Granada, Cordoba and Malaga. .

This webpage contains all details about: General information, languages, lecturers, academic information (Knowledge Modules, subjects and specializations), schedules, administrative information about the access to the Masters Program, Quality Assurance, Evaluation and Supervision, professional careers, and access to doctoral programs.

Official Degree

Official Interuniversity Masters Degree in Environmental Hydraulics. BOE n. 157, 3 July 2006. Positively evaluated on 13 March 2013.

Field of knowledge: Engineering and Architecture

First edition: 2006/2007

Coordinating University: University of Granada

Participating Universities

University of Granada (Coordinator)
University of Cordoba
University of Malaga
Interuniversity agreement

Specializations

I. Integral Management of Ports and Coastal Zones, CEAMA-UGR

II. Integral Management of River Basins, UCO
III. Vehicle Aero-Hydrodynamics, UMA
IV. Geophysical flows, UMA

Quality Certification

Certified program (Ref. MCD2006-00361, Res. 20 October 2008, BOE December 2008). Quality certification obtained from a previous Doctorate Program, granted in the academic year 2003-2004 (Res. 28 May 2003, BOE 12 June 2003). Renewed for the following academic years:

2004-2005 (Ref. MCD2003-00521, Res. 22 June 2004, BOE 5 July 2004)
2005-2006 (Ref. MCD2003-00521, Res. 29 June 2005, BOE 14 July 2005)
2006-2007 (Ref. MCD2006-00361, Res. 11 August 2006, BOE 30 August 2006)
2007-2008 (Ref. MCD2006-00361, Res. 19 September 2007, BOE 12 October 2007)
2019-2020 Renewal of Quality Accreditation (Res. 30 July 2020)

The Masters Program is structured according to the ECTS with 60 credits acquired over two semesters. The first Semester will be held at University of Granada, the second Semester , according to the specializations, will be held at Universities of Granada, Cordoba and Malaga. Mandatory to be present and bilingual Masters Program.

Coordinator:
- Prof. D. Antonio Moñino Ferrando (UGR) / amonino@ugr.es

Lecturers in charge of Specializations:
- Prof. D.ª María Clavero Gilabert (UGR, Especialidad E1) / mclavero@ugr.es
- Prof. D. Tom Vanwalleghem (UCO, Especialidad E2) / tom.vanwalleghem@uco.es
- Prof. D. Luis Parras Anguita (UMA, Especialidad E3) / luis.parras@uma.es
- Prof. D. Francisco Criado Aldeanueva (UMA, Especialidad E4) / fcaldeanueva@ctima.uma.es

Languages

Semester 1: University of Granada: English

Semester 2:
- I. Integral Management of Ports and Coastal Zones, CEAMA-UGR: Spanish and English.
- II. Integral Management of River Basins, UCO: Spanish and English.
- III. Vehicle Aero-Hydrodynamics, UMA: Spanish and English.
- IV. Geophysical Flows, UMA: Spanish and English

UNESCO-SET codes

2204, Física de Fluidos
2417, Biología Vegetal
2508, Hidrología
2510, Oceanografía
3106, Ciencia Forestal
3301, Ingeniería y Tecnología Aeronáuticas
3305, Tecnología de la Construcción
2204, Physics of Fuilds
2508, Hydrology
2510, Oceanography
3106, Forest Scieces
3301, Aeronautical Technology and Engineering
3305, Construction Technology

This program provides advanced professional and research training in Engineering as well as natural resources management from both a multidisciplinary and specialized perspective.

During the first semester, the core content of the program is taught at the University of Granada. This part of the program gives students a basic knowledge of Environmental Hydraulics.

During the second semester, specialized courses are taught at the other universities participating in the program. Students thus receive lectures at the Universities of Malaga, Cordoba, or Granada, depending on their area of specialization. The main objective of this more specialized course content is to enhance the development of personal skills and to increase the students’ knowledge of Environmental Hydraulics.

In the first two semesters, the program is geared to giving students a deeper understanding of the core subjects in their undergraduate studies. This program thus provides students with an integrated, multidisciplinary view of the domain of Environmental Hydraulics.

In this period, as well as when students are elaborating their master’s dissertation, the teaching methodology in this program fosters a “learning by thinking” approach. This leads to a substantial reduction of blackboard use, and encourages individual work by students under the guidance of a supervisor at each partner university. The students thus receive training in experimental and field work, which prepares them for the professional world. The methodology of the program is based on observation, problem solving, and the analysis of case studies, all of which will be key elements in the students’ professional future.

The teaching methodology in the program is based on supervised, applied, and “hands-on” practical work. It allows supervisors to monitor students’ progress through continuous assessment. Accordingly, formal examinations are given at the end of the first two semesters to those students who have not received a positive evaluation in the continuous assessment process or who are on the borderline between a pass and a fail.

Apart from attending classes, students must also carry out certain tasks in a distance-learning environment, which helps to monitor the students’ performance and the effectiveness of this teaching system. Although the assessment of each student is based on Teaching Units, final grades are based on the overall performance of the student in the Knowledge Module.

General Objective

This Postgraduate Program is based on a previously certified Doctorate Program in Biogeochemical Fluid Dynamics and its Applications. It is thus conducive to advanced professional and research training from a multidisciplinary and specialized perspective in Environmental Hydraulics. More specifically, it trains students for the following experimental and professional activities:

Describing and modeling natural processes related to water flows, substances and natural resources, as well as their interaction with the infrastructures necessary for their integral management.
Optimizing the management of both continental and sea and ocean water resources, together with associated flows, according to social, environmental and economical impacts in accordance with the reliability, functionality and operability criteria from the WFD (Water Framework Directive).
Describing and assessing processes uncertainty, diagnosis, and prediction.
Performing professional activity and work with creativity and critical thinking, without being afraid to reason, question existing ideas, and propose new ones, in consonance with the basic premises of the scientific method.

Specific Objectives

This Postgraduate Program is research and career-oriented, providing specialized training in the development and optimization of strategies in the Integral Management of Ports, Coastal Zones, River Basins and Natural Resources. This also includes their assessment and monitoring.

The objectives in every specialization area are:

E1. Integral Management of Ports and Coastal Zones (UGR). To give students a deeper understanding and knowledge of marine environments and littoral processes, their use and management, with an emphasis on the integral management of ports and coastal zones and their interaction.

E2. Integral Management of River Basins (UCO). To give students a deeper understanding and knowledge of hydrological processes in earth and fluvial environments, water and soil resources management and conservation with a focus on the integral management of river basins.

E3. Vehicle Aero-Hydrodynamics (UMA). To analyze and monitor the hydrodynamics of earth, air, and submarine vehicles, and to implement this knowledge in the design and improvement of both automatic and crewed navigation for environmental control.

E4. Learn the dynamic processes and forcings that characterize geophysical flows. Learn specific and advanced techniques of numerical simulation for geophysical flows. Learn methodologies and techniques for the visualization and data interpretation. Learn the tools, methodologies and numerical techniques for the study of coupling hydrodynamic-biology.

Competences

Basic Competences

To possess and understand knowledge that will provide a base or opportunity to be original in developing and/or applying ideas, often within a research context.
To apply the gained knowledge and the ability to solve problems in new or little known contexts within broader (or multidisciplinary) related to the field of study.

To be able to integrate knowledge and handle the complexity of making judgments based on information that, being incomplete or limited responsibilities include reflecting on social and ethical issues related to the application of the knowledge and judgments.

To be able to communicate the conclusions, and the knowledge and rationale underpinning these, to skilled and unskilled public in a clear and unambiguous.

To possess learning skills that will allow to continue studying in a manner which will be largely as self-directed or autonomous.

General competences

To gain abilities and general skills based on the scientific method which will enable them to acquire and develop other specific knowledge and scope of work.
Ability for abstraction, problem solving, decision making, analysis and interpretation, indepentent work, interdisciplinary and group work, as well as written and oral communication.
Solid understanding of the physico-mathematical foundations of Environmental Hydraulics and its applicability in professional and/or research work.
Comprehensive training and skills development of both analytical and numerical modeling as experimental phenomena and processes in Environmental Hydraulics.

Capability of comprehensive and integrated management of natural and socio-economic resources.

Ability to communicate orally and written in English In the technical sphere of Environmental Hydraulics.

Ability to carry out research work in the Environmental Hydraulics field.

Cross-disciplynary competences

Interpersonal skills related to group work, including decision-making. Skills in interpersonal relationships and presenting assignments.

Multidisciplinary skills related to the ability to assimilate and communicate understandings of different disciplines as well as the integration in multidisciplinary teams.

Ability to analyze and synthesize information from various sources, integrate ideas, knowledge and methodologies.

The graduates should acquire knowledge and training to intensify their education, research, technological development and innovation in specific areas of the different specializations.

Specific competences for specializations

Specialization I: Integral Management of Ports and Coastal Zones

To acquire knowledge to describe, characterize and model the oscillatory flow and biogeochemical processes involved in the life quality in the ocean, continental shelf, surf zone, river mouths and estuaries, lagoon beaches, as well as their interactions with the atmosphere and infrastructure (naturals and/or artificials).

The graduate will have acquired competences for the integral management of coastal, port zones and resources in open sea taking into account the quality of the marine waters and their social, environmental and economic impacts, satisfying operability requirements and applying techniques of control and optimization.

Ability to describe and assess the uncertainty of coastal processes, diagnostics and predictions, taking into account the spatial and temporal variability.

The student will have acquired required knowledge (methodologies, techniques and models) for the development of studies, projects, implementation, control and management of any kind of action on the platform, coast, and transitional waters intended for the use, management and sustainable exploitation of the socio-economic and environmental resources.

Specializations II: Integral management of River Basins

To acquire knowlegde to describe, characterize and model the physical proccesses that determine the generation of surface and underground water flows and substance flows, and its circulation through the ground, the surface and into the atmosphere.

Ability to model the decisive function of the vegetation cover in agricultural and natural ecosystems, determining the productivity and sustainability of ecosystems based on available resources.

To acquire knowledge to develop and apply techniques of control and optimization and their application to natural and artificial basin systems.

The student will have acquired knowledge, methodologies, techniques and models to develop studies, pojects, implementation, control and management of any kind of action on slopes, rivers, reservoirs and cultivation areas to be used, managed and have sustainable exploitation of socio-economic and environmental resources.

Specialization III: Vehicle Aero-Hydrodynamics

To acquire the knowledge and skills needed to understand, model and numerically simulate the movement of a fluid around a vehicle in different regimes, as well as to calculate the forces on the vehicle.

To design experiments and experimental processes for obtaining and processing data as well as experimental techniques for the characterization and diagnostics of the fluid movement around vehicles.

To acquire knowledge and techniques to model, simulate and control different types of vehicle propulsion systems, as well as to model and control aerodynamic and hydrodynamic systems in general.

To acquire knowledge and techniques to understand, model and control automatic navigation of unmanned vehicles, as well as the techniques of optimization and modeling of uncertainty and its application to automatic navigation and other problems of the aero-hydrodynamics of vehicles.

Specialization IV: Geophysical flows

Training in the knowledge of the foundations of large-scale ocean circulation induced by rotation and stratification, of the dynamic interaction between ocean circulation and continental shelf, and of the exchange through straits and its relationship with the climate of semi-enclosed seas.

Training in the development of oceanographic field campaigns and in the use of the instrumentation used for taking experimental measures.

The graduated student will have gained necessary mathematical competences needed by the derivation of simplified models which are used in the simulation of geophysical flows and he/she will be able to perform simulations of geophysical flows in simple and real geometries.

Training in the use of mathematical and computer competences for the treatment and management of information from experimental records or geophysical databases and in the visualization of simulations in real scenarios.

To acquire the knowledge and skills needed to understand, model and simulate numerically a biological system attached to its hydrodynamic fluid and the fluid around a body in different regimes, and to calcúlate forces and the possible erosion of that body.

The Masters Program in Environmental Hydraulics is an interuniversity program that offers the possibility of choosing between five specializations. The University of Granada offers two specializations; the University of Córdoba one and the University of Malaga offers two. The three universities are in collaboration in regard to knowledge and student exchange, with the possibility of interning at companies such as PROES; Consultores S.A., Typsa, Sener, Magtel Renovables, Befesa-Abengoa, Ayesa, Agencia Andaluza del Agua, Spanish Universities and Port authorities. Many of these interned students have been hired by the companies where they completed their training.

Furthermore, the Master’s Program is oriented towards a research and professional career by providing students with a high degree of training in order to develop and optimize strategies for the Integral Management of Ports and Coastal Zones, the River Basins and the Natural Resources, including its Progress and Control.

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