Graduate profile
Graduates will be able to:
Graduates from this Master's Degree program will have acquired the competencies to design and implement projects, products and systems that help to enhance quality of life and meet habitability needs, thus promoting social equity and respect for the environment.
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Identify, quantify and predict the impacts caused by buildings and infrastructure.
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Use different methodological tools to monitor, model and generate indicators that measure the impacts of the built environment.
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Calculate buildings' energy consumption and environmental footprint.
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Calculate greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Identify alternative technologies to reduce impacts and promote their use among different actors.
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Design and develop sustainable or low-impact urban development and infrastructure projects.
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Use building materials and systems with low energy consumption, low waste generation and a high capacity for recycling.
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Design and build housing with ecological characteristics.
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Design alternative systems for comprehensive water, soil, air and energy management in habitat projects, and provide consulting on their construction.
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Consult and follow through on building certification processes.
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Estimate the environmental impacts, economic costs and social appropriation of the implementation of alternative technologies.
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Generate economic evidence demonstrating the benefits of both technology appropriation processes and the reduction of environmental impacts.
