Civil and Environmental Engineering

This Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD program from Politecnico di Torino is part of the research and study programme offered by two Departments: DISEG (Department of Structural, Geotechnical and Building Engineering) and DIATI (Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering). 

The Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD programme from Politecnico di Torino covers research topics in classic and frontier areas of both Environmental and Civil engineering, through an engineering and quantitative approach. This approach makes use of theoretical, mathematical and numerical modelling and of experimental methods, carried out both in the field and in high-level laboratories. 

The ICA PhD programme focuses on: 

• training highly qualified and internationally recognised researchers in scientific and technological subjects in the environmental and civil sector; 

• developing specialised technical expertise in a highly multidisciplinary environment and a solid, broader spectrum knowledge in the civil and environmental scope; 

• providing the essential tools to carry out future activities both in the field of scientific research, whether theoretical or experimental, and in the field of technology, to work in the production and economic sector; 

• shaping the figures who will play a key role in scientific innovation, in universities, in industries or in research institutions, figures who will be able to manage any type of activity, independently or in a group setting, and to appropriately communicate their ideas and initiatives both in English and in Italian. 

Career

Career opportunities concern all those professional positions that require senior researchers capable of managing, coordinating and creating research and development projects in all the typical fields of civil and environmental engineering. Having acquired expertise both in technical and in managing aspects, the ICA PhD graduates are at the forefront of innovation, having multiple career opportunities ahead of them. 

Many PhD students who attended the programme in the last few years, now have professionally satisfying jobs in public and private institutions: public administration, utility management institutions, companies, research institutions and universities. One year after graduation, the employment rate is over 95%. Approximately one fifth of job position are abroad. About 40% of PhD graduates have continued their university career, having a permanent or fixed-term contract. 

Courses included:

• Advanced seismic protection systems for traditional and timber structures
• Circular economy in the building and construction sector
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
• Nonlinear solid mechanics 
• Some basics of the analysis and mitigation of landslides risk 
• The polar oceans and global climate change