Environmental Technology and Engineering

Overview

Key facts

In Environmental Technology and Engineering programme offered by Ghent University, you will become part of a new generation of environmental scientist and engineers that can provide adequate and state-of-the-art environmental technology and engineering solutions to tackle complex, multidisciplinary environmental issues.

Successful graduates will have acquired a comprehensive knowledge of:

• the nature and severity of environmental pollution;
• the way polluted water, waste, gas, soils and sediments can be treated;
• the way ecosystems and the atmosphere can be protected from pollution;
• the way to prevent environmental pollution through resource management and application of re-use technologies.

Learning outcomes

You will study two years at three leading European universities in 3 different European countries: Ghent University (Belgium), IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (The Netherlands), and the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (Czech Republic).

The IMETE programme takes two years to complete and starts yearly in September at UCT in Prague. In February of the next year students move to Delft, the Netherlands and in September students move to Gent. Finally, in February of the 3rd year, students start their thesis research at one of the three academic institutions or at an associated partner.