As a student of the specialisation in Water Engineering & Management, you can choose a specific direction within one of two unique profiles. If you are more interested in the management part of this specialisation, the profile Integrated Water Management is right for you, whereas the profile River & Coastal Engineering focuses on the engineering part, in order to understand underlying physical processes within water systems.
Profile 1 | Integrated Water Management
Whether you are talking about water scarcity, pollution or flooding: water-related problems cannot be understood without taking into account factors such as spatial planning, climate change, population growth, land use, economic production and environmental policy. For example, what is the impact of human consumption on water resources? And how can governments manage water resources optimally and efficiently?
The profile Integrated Water Management focuses on understanding both the natural and socio-economic processes behind water-related problems. You will reach an integrated approach to water management, linking natural, social and policy sciences.
Profile 2 | River & Coastal Engineering
If you want to improve the management of large-scale surface water systems, such as rivers and shallow seas, an in-depth understanding of the underlying physical processes is essential. How can you model their behaviour? For example, can you predict the water levels of rivers in order to take measures against floods? How does the seabed move and how can you take this into account when burying cable systems for offshore wind turbines? And how does deforestation in mangroves affect the occurrence of floods?
This is just a fraction of the kind of challenges that you might deal with in the profile River & Coastal Engineering. You will gain a deeper understanding of the underlying physical processes within water systems through mathematical models and quantitative analyses.