• Water resources engineer responsible for planning, managing and controlling water resources in public or private sectors in agriculture, energy and urban management.
• Water treatment specialist: expert in the management of drinking water or wastewater treatment plants who supervises water purification, desalination and reuse processes.
• Environmental consultant: advisor specialising in projects related to the sustainable management of aquatic areas who prepares environmental impact studies and mitigation plans for both public and private sectors.
• Project manager in hydrological, hydraulic or coastal engineering responsible for managing and executing projects related to constructing and maintaining hydraulic infrastructure, such as dams, distribution networks, drainage systems and channels, and coastal protection works.
• Hydrological or hydraulic engineer dedicated to the study of the behaviour of water in natural or artificial systems who contributes to projects on river and coastal flooding, erosion or energy use in hydroelectric power plants.
• Risk management specialist who analyses, manages and designs strategies to prevent and mitigate the risks associated with river and coastal floods, droughts and other natural phenomena related to aquatic environments.
• Researcher in the field of hydrological, hydraulic or coastal engineering: participation in innovation projects and the development of new technologies or methods for efficient water management, such as monitoring systems, simulation models and new treatment techniques.
• Specialist in sanitation systems and related infrastructure responsible for designing, supervising and maintaining sanitation and sewage systems, as well as other urban water management infrastructure.
• Water sustainability manager: expert who works in companies or organisations to ensure the efficient and responsible use of water resources within a framework of sustainability.
• Professor or instructor in the field of water engineering who is dedicated to university education or technical training at vocational schools, research centres and educational organisations.

Generic competencies

Generic competencies are the skills that graduates acquire regardless of the specific course or field of study. The generic competencies established by the UPC are capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship, sustainability and social commitment, knowledge of a foreign language (preferably English), teamwork and proper use of information resources.

• Use impact management and assessment instruments in river, coastal and groundwater environments, from an economic perspective and according to current legislation.
• Lead actions based on project evaluation parameters and analyse their viability.
• Implement conventional and non-conventional solutions in the field of water engineering.
• Carry out and present and defend before an examination committee an original, individual piece of work consisting of a study or project in the field of water engineering that synthesises the competencies acquired, incorporates new developments and contributes new ideas.
• Integrate the values of sustainability and understand the complexity of systems, with the aim of undertaking or promoting actions that restore and maintain the health of ecosystems and improve justice, thereby generating visions of sustainable futures.
• Analyse problems that require making autonomous, informed and reasoned decisions in order to act with social responsibility following ethical values and principles.
• Evaluate inequalities based on sex and gender to design solutions that resolve them.