ENGINEERING GEOLOGY COURSE

Profissional  Opportunities

A graduate on Engineering Geology is prepared to integrate the technical-scientific board of companies, public  and private institutions in the areas of geotecnics, metalic and non-metalic mineral resources, energetic minerals, hydrical resources, soils, geochemistry and applied geophysics (normally to environment, engineering and archaeology), marine geology, cartography, topography, photogeology, remote detection and geografic information systems.

Potential Employees

The majority of these graduates exercise their profissional activity in companies of civil construction (great public works), companies of exploitation and transformation of industrial and ornamental rocks, quarries, mines, laboratories and statel institutions (generally in the scope of the Ministries of the Cities, Order of the Territory and Environment, the Equipment and the Planning), local autarchies, cabinets of projects and consultancy. A significant number of geologist engineers still exist who perform teaching functions and/or investigation in different schools and/or institutions (universities, polytechnical institutions, investigation institutions).