Master in Engineering for Safety of Critical Industrial and Civil Infrastructures

The Master's degree program in engineering for the safety of critical industrial and civil infrastructures aims to meet the growing demand for professionals skilled in safety and resilience, in response to emerging technological and environmental challenges. The program is offered in both Italian and English and is part of an inter-university collaboration between the University of Salento and the Polytechnic of Bari. Courses train engineers with specific knowledge and skills for an interdisciplinary and systemic approach to industrial and civil infrastructure design and management. A deal of attention is paid to life--, economic and environmental design and management methods, with the support of up-to-date digital technology for data analysis.

Quantitative risk assessment models for both natural and anthropogenic risk are addressed, alongside strategies, technologies, and tools for risk prevention and management. Such subjects allow for defining comprehensive methods aimed at critical infrastructures’ resilience enhancement. Practical experience is also integrated into the curriculum, through cooperation with companies and institutions, to align education with industry needs.

Type of degree obtained

Master’s degree in safety engineering (LM26-Italian D.M. 270/04)

Other information

Additional details on topics, fundamental knowledge required, and teaching/assessment methods are provided in specific course cards

This is a young dynamic university, keen to expand and to prove itself at a national and international level. Since 1955 the Università del Salento has had the aim of promoting knowledge, skill, and merit and has offered a large range of educational opportunities. From law to science, economics to engineering, and humanities to media studies, the university provides academic pathways to a range of professions as well as post-graduate and specialist courses tailor-made to meet the needs of the workplace.

Eight Departments provide services and information for students, as well as thirty-three Research Centres throughout the Salento area. The Università del Salento has grown rapidly in recent years, consolidating and reinforcing its role as the keystone of the local cultural and social system. It also has a Phd. School and Post-graduate schools for Cultural Heritage and for the Legal Professions. The prestigious ISUFI Grandes écoles school offers high-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses for scholarship students to promote excellence.

Mission

The University of Salento is a community, made up of students, teachers, and technical-administrative staff, which recognizes itself in the free promotion of research and teaching as tools for human development, the affirmation of pluralism, and the pursuit of equal social dignity, in full independence from any ideological, political, religious or economic orientation. Within the university community, no one may be discriminated against, in any way or form, due to their study, research, and teaching choices.

The University of Salento guarantees its students equal opportunities and equal dignity by promoting merit and enhancing excellence and supports applied and basic research by recognizing the principle of evaluation.

Alongside the two fundamental objectives of training and research, the University of Salento pursues a third mission, that is, it works to encourage the direct application, valorization, and use of knowledge to contribute to the social, cultural, and economic development of the territory in which it operates.

On an international level, the University of Salento pursues all forms of collaboration aimed at promoting knowledge and mutual enrichment between cultures, the circulation of knowledge, and the exchange of students and staff.