Specializations

Environmental engineering is a field that protects people and ecosystems from negative environmental impacts, and organizes, controls, and predicts the improvement and preservation of environmental quality and the efficiency of natural resource use. Environmental engineers study natural and anthropogenic environmental problems, their future projections from a socio-economic and ecological perspective, exploring ways to solve them.

Upon completion of the educational program, graduates should acquire the following knowledge and skills:

1. Must be able to demonstrate knowledge in the field of engineering about continuity and discreteness in nature, regularity, consistency of the structure of objects, as well as individual and joint movements of objects in nature.

2. Must be able to use knowledge of basic chemical systems and processes, reactivity of substances, types of inorganic substances, their physicochemical properties and atomic-molecular theory, as well as methods of determination and chemical identification of substances in environmental engineering.

3. Must be able to widely apply technical and software tools of computer technologies in technical design related to environmental engineering.

4. Must have knowledge in the field of engineering about physical and chemical processes occurring in the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere, features of chemical transformations in natural systems, basic laws of the geosphere, energy sources on Earth, endogenous and exogenous processes, metabolic transformations of toxic substances in the body, the impact of radioactive radiation parameters.

5. Must be able to analyze the relationships between nature and society occurring in the world, the solution of the resulting environmental problems, the relationship between living organisms and their environment, environmental laws, principles and rules, as well as environmental problems of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

6. Must be able to demonstrate in engineering activities an environmental monitoring system, types of monitoring, classification of monitoring systems, methods of local-global monitoring and forecasting of climate changes occurring in the environment, methods of determining sources and types of impact on the environment, anthropogenic impacts on the environment and ways to limit them, organization of environmental quality control.

7. Must know the structure of industrial waste volumes, classification of industrial waste, production waste, consumption waste, by-products, causes of production waste formation, ways to reduce waste, the current state of processing and disposal of chemical and petrochemical industry waste, characteristics of petrochemical industry waste, types of waste and their impact on the environment.

8. Must know liquid waste from oil, gas, oil refining and petrochemical industries and their processing, ways of efficient use of resin, a product formed during the pyrolysis of hydrocarbons, ways of complex processing of pyrolysis resin, methods of processing solid waste from petrochemical processes, ways of reducing wastewater formed during oil refining and petrochemical processes.

9. Must be able to identify climate change, global warming including changes in weather patterns, the effects of sea level rise and extreme weather events, study the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on climate change, prevent ozone depletion and apply clean-up measures and methods to reduce emissions into the atmosphere;

10. Must be able to understand hydrosphere pollution and protection, water pollution indicators, industrial wastewater treatment methods and quality control.