Environmental Engineering Education: examples of Accreditation and Quality Assurance

The Environmental Engineering Education at University of Firenze is described with reference to the application of accreditation and quality assurance systems such as the European EURACE® model and the Italian ANVUR-AVA system. The importance of the accreditation to guarantee the quality and the status of environmental engineering graduates is highlighted through the definition of the learning outcomes. Particularly, on the basis of learning outcomes related to “knowledge and understanding” and “applying knowledge and understanding”, two environmental engineering programmes, the First Cycle Degree and Second Cycle Degree running at the School of Engineering, within the accreditation system, are discussed.