The student should know and understand the phenomena produced in the atmosphere, and water flow, energy and substances in marine and coastal systems
The student should know and understand the fundamentals of marine and sedimentary processes and dynamics associate with transitional and coastal waters, being able to model swell, the sea-level and currents at a beach, a port and an estuary
The student should be able to acquire, manage, modify, represent and export information associated with the processes that govern the working of coastal systems
The student should be able to handle instrumental and numerical databases in order to make a judgment on the characteristics of the maritime climate at any point on the coast
Students should be able to use advanced mathematical process modelling tools, as well as to manage, deal with and represent shore and marine data, applicable to analysis and risk assessment and in general to coastal and port engineering
Students should be aware of and know how to apply mathematical, numerical and statistical techniques for the characterisation of hydrodynamics and transport and fluid mixing processes in the study of coastal areas and transitional waters
The student should understand and use tools and methodologies for the design of coastal and port infrastructures, and assess the impact of actions on the coast in structural and functional terms
The student should be able to propose engineering alternatives and solutions that are technically and environmentally viable for resolving shore area issues
Students should be able to generate, analyse, develop, defend and implement new ideas related both with technological products and services applicable to the improvement of the area of coast and port engineering, and with new advances in the scientific knowledge of the different disciplines involved in these areas
Having obtained all the credits on the study plan, students should be able to undertake, present and defend an original test carried out individually before a university panel, consisting of a project related to Coastal and Port Engineering that synthesises the competences acquired during the course
Students should be able to apply a study methodology that enables them to know, understand and propose technical solutions to a beach erosion problem or a problem of coastal stability caused by a port widening
Students should be able to apply the Coastal Modelling System's tools and databases to the practical case of a problem of beach erosion or stability
Students should be able to analyse the evolution of the plan and profile of beaches on different spatial and time scales
The student should understand and know the organisational model of the Spanish port system: port technologies, operations, services and management
The student should understand the different stages in the life cycle of port infrastructure and know the methodologies and tools for its analysis, basing the same both on deterministic and probabilistic calculations
The student should be able to deal with the evaluation and diagnosis of the design of a port or port infrastructure, as well as the definition of concrete actions from a perspective of protection and improvement in the design, using advanced numerical methodologies, techniques and tools to do this
The student should understand and use tools and methodologies for the profiling of shore processes in order to eveluate their effect on a port
Students should be able to use statistical techniques to study the practicality, security and reliability of port infrastructures
Students should be able to apply existing state-of-the-art methodologies and tools to analyse processes related to port engineering
Students should be able to apply, at an advanced user level, the handling and interpretation of results from different numerical models related to port engineering
Students shoud be able to understand the basic concepts associated with the analysis and evaluation of natural and anthropogenic risks, as well as management instruments essential for planning specific mitigation and adaptation measures
Students should be able to assess different types of risks (hydrometeorological, geological and technological) as well as the consequences associated to the different dimensions of the system under analysis (human, environmental, socioeconomic, and infrastructures, etc)