Students of the Master’s degree programme in Environmental and Land Engineering have the opportunity to participate in study visits and field trips that allow them to deepen the contents covered in the classroom from a more applicative point of view.
The trips may include both field activities and visits to industrial sites operating in fields that are related to the study programme.
The following are some of the visits realized in recent times:
Course: Climate Change Mitigation
The students witnessed how the operations center works to monitor and manage the traffic of the city of Turin and the Piedmont region, and the main tools used for infomobility.
The visit then continued with an in-depth look at the main initiatives for sustainable mobility and cycling in the city.
Course: Monitoraggio idrologico e dei versanti
Visit to the thermal springs (63°C), sampling and in situ measurements.
Courses: Innovation Lab for Climate Change and Climate Change Adaptation
Geophysical and geomatics survey campaigns in Cervinia (AO) for the analysis of climate change impacts on the glacial and periglacial environments.
Vajont Dam and Monte Toc, June 2024
Courses: Monitoraggio idrogeologico e dei versanti and Hydraulic design and hydropower plants
The group visited the Vajont Dam and its annex structures. The trip continued with the visit to the Monte Toc landslide that caused the Vajont disaster; the students had the chance to observe the problems associated with the construction of large works in unsuitable environments.
HS Bypass construction sites in Florence, June 2024
Course: Ground Improvement Engineering
Students had the chance to verify the technical consolidation issues used in the excavation of tunnels in particularly complex urban environments and to access the TBM-EPB excavation machine that is currently building the line tunnel.
COCIV construction site, Arquata Scrivia (AL), May 2024
Courses: Tunneling and Ground Improvement Engineering
The students had the opportunity to view the underground excavations of the important high-speed underground connection that will connect Milan and Genoa (COCIV), analyzing galleries and interchange caverns.
Aosta Valley, May 2024
Couse: Ground Improvement Engineering
Visit to important mitigation works of rapid landslide phenomena and collection of information and data to carry out the training programme related to the course.
Paroldo, Cuneo, January 2024
Course: Monitoraggio idrogeologico e dei versanti
Students have analysed the impacts of building and land instability. and have measured the movements in an inclinometer with an inclinometer probe.
Eni plant, Robassomero, January 2024
Courses: Reclamation of Polluted Sites and Dinamica degli Inquinanti
After a detailed seminar on site and soil characterization and on mathematical models of the aquifer system, the students have had the chance to witness purging and sampling operation of piezometric monitoring network points.
IREN Power plant, Torino Nord, December 2023
Course: Engineering and Industrial Systems
During the final week of the course, students have had the chance to visit the IREN power plant where they saw first-hand the topics discussed in class.
Bossea Cave and Sorgente Mondini (CN), December 2023
Courses: Monitoraggio idrogeologico e dei versanti and Idraulica ambientale
The students visited Sorgente Mondini where tests with artificial tracers and salt were carried out to evaluate flow measurements in mountain torrents.
In the afternoon the students visited the Bossea Cave, specifically, the monitoring network and the laboratory present inside the cave.
SASIL Srl of Brusnengo and Minerali Industriali of Cacciano, December 2023
Course: Raw and waste material engineering
Wastewater treatment plant of Castiglione Torinese and TRM waste-to-energy plant, December 2023
Courses: Climate Change Mitigation and Environmental Engineering
Visit to two key plants for environmental sustainability of Turin, explanation of the processes, challenges and insights of the plant management.
AIPO plant and hydraulic projects in Alessandria, Canelli and Nizza Monferrato, December 2023
Course: Protezione idraulica del territorio
Visit to two detention basins and a water lifting station for flood risk reduction, hydraulic projects managed by AIPO (Iterregional Agency for the Po River).
RAEEMAN E-waste process and treatment plant, December 2023
Course: Raw and Waste Material Engineering
During the technical visit the students had the chance see first-hand the innovative processes to recycle alkaline and lithium batteries and solar panels.
Ex Amiantifera of Balangero, November 2023
Course: Planning of Sustainable Mining/Occupational Safety Engineering
The students have visited the plants and the landfills of waste material produced by the comminution and separation treatment of open-pit mining.
After the explanation of technical and regulatory aspects the field trip ended with the visit to the environmental analysis laboratory.
Società Italiana per le Scienze del Clima conference, Milan, November 2023
Master's Degree: Gestione dei Rischi Naturali
Students had the chance to talk to researchers and experts in the climatology sector to further their knowledge of climate topics and of climate risk modeling, exploring how it can inform adaptation strategies in crucial sectors such as: tourism, industry, infrastructure and water resources management.
Plastic selection plant in Borgaro Torinese, November 2023
Course: Raw Marerials and Waste Engineering
Visit to the new plastic selection plant managed by AMIT_IREN in Borgaro Torinese.
Botanical Garden of the University of Turin, November 2023
Course: Groundwater Engineering
Field training for the explanation and the demonstration of various procedures for characterizing aquifers: the mechanical slug test, sampling with bailers, measurement of chemical-physical parameters of water, and the use of pressure dataloggers.
Cervinia (AO), November 2023
Courses: Innovation Lab for Climate Change and Climate Change Adaptation
Geophysical and geomatics survey campaigns for the analysis of climate change impacts on the glacial and periglacial environments.
Composting and anaerobic digestion plant in San Damiano d'Asti and Asti's waste treatment centre, November 2023
Courses: Climate Change Mitigation and Engineering and Industrial Systems
The group has been to San Damiano to visit the composting facility for the treatment of the organic fraction of urban solid waste and public mowing for the production of renewable natural gas for energy purposes.
Visit to the plastic separation plant and to the system of biological stabilization of mixed waste at Asti’s waste treatment centre.
Valdieri hot springs (CN), October 2023
Course: Monitoraggio idrologico e dei versanti
Examination of the Val Gesso territory a few days after a flood occurred, evaluation of the rock outcrop infiltration rate, measuring the chemical-physical parameters in hot springs waters, examination of the effects of water chemism on the rocks inside the caves.
Cavaglià quarry (BI), October 2023
Course: Raw material Processing and Recycling
Visit to the Cavaglià quarry of Valledora SpA and to the treatment plant connected to the quarry where the excavation material is cleaned and classified, and where larger pebbles are crushed.
Fiel Trip in Vajont, June 2023
Course: Management of Natural Hazards
The field trip in Vajont was organized on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the landslide that occurred on October, 9th 1963.
Visit to the the hydroelectric plant "Achille Gaggia" and to Vajont's dam explaining the valley's morphology and the dynamics that triggered the landslide.
