Cracow, Poland

Environmental and Land Engineering

Master's
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⇑Environmental and Land Engineering at PK Kraków

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: physical science, environment
Kind of studies: full-time studies

⇑Test: Is Environmental and Land Engineering the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. A town needs a stormwater system for a new housing estate built on clay soil. Where would you start?

2. How do you feel about using GIS and satellite data to map changes in land use?

3. A river restoration project must balance flood protection, wildlife habitats and farmers’ needs. What’s your approach?

4. You’re asked to assess a contaminated former industrial site before it is redeveloped. How do you respond?

5. How do you feel about running hydrological or soil erosion models and checking how reliable they are?

6. Your design studio team includes engineers from several countries, and all reports and presentations are in English. How does that sound?

7. How do you feel about fieldwork in mud, rain or cold, taking soil samples or surveying land?

8. You can choose your Master’s thesis topic. Which option appeals most?

9. Which future role sounds most like you?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Environmental and Land Engineering?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Engineering
Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application. See glossary of engineering.
Land
Land, sometimes referred to as dry land, is the solid surface of Earth that is not permanently covered by water. The vast majority of human activity throughout history has occurred in land areas that support agriculture, habitat, and various natural resources. Some life forms (including terrestrial plants and terrestrial animals) have developed from predecessor species that lived in bodies of water.
Engineering
When I looked at the science of engineering and saw that it had disappeared after its ancient heritage, that its masters have perished, and that their memories are now forgotten, I worked my wits and thoughts in secrecy about philosophical shapes and figures, which could move the mind, with effort, from nothingness to being and from idleness to motion. And I arranged these shapes one by one in drawings and explained them
Al-Muradi, The Book of Secrets in the Results of Ideas, 11th century; Translated and cited at leonardo3.net/bookofsecrets/index, 2015
Land
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land is made for you and me.
Woody Guthrie, This Land Is Your Land (1940; 1944).
Engineering
Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.
Thomas Tredgold (1828), used in the Royal Charter of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) published in: The Times, London, article CS102127326, 30 June 1828.
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