Environmental Engineering ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Overview

Specialisations

The Environmental Engineering program at ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology offers five majors to choose. Each specialisation includes compulsory modules and modules that can be selected.

Compulsory Specialisation Modules: They introduce students to core specialist knowledge in the selected major and form the basis of the Master's degree programme.

Selectable Specialisation Modules: They deliver specific specialist environmental engineering knowledge in the selected major and provide in-​depth knowledge in selected subject areas.

The specialisations:

• Urban Water Management: This major is focused on managing water and wastewater in cities
• Environmental Technologies: This major is focused on process engineering and environmental technologies related to water, air, soil and waste
• Resource Management: The focus of this major is on the sustainable management of resources. 
• Water Resources Management: The focus of this major is on understanding and modelling the physical processes of the hydrological cycle at the river basin and global scale. 
• River and Hydraulic Engineering: This major builds on a fundamental understanding of hydraulics and hydrological principles with an emphasis on river engineering and hydraulic structures.