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Testimonies
Ana Lúcia Miguel Rodrigues
Age: 27 years
Education: Degree in Environmental Engineering - Sanitary Engineering Branch
Occupation: Environmental Engineer - Head of Exploration Exploration Center Mértola - Luságua - Environmental Services SA - Operation, maintenance and operation of water supply systems
Other activities associated with the training received in the course of Environmental Engineering: Forming in ALSUD - Mértola, courses in Technical Management Environment 1st year and 2nd year and Course Professional Operator ETA and WWTP in the areas of Land in the Territory and Safety at Work, water supply and waste water.
Interview:
One. How do you evaluate your professional performance, taking into account the skills acquired during the degree course?
A: The skills I acquired throughout the course that were theoretically prepared me for my work. With practice I gained experience associated with the skills acquired in the course allowed me to quickly get to a place in the company where I am.
2nd. The character applied / vocational Course Environmental Engineering was facilitator of their insertion in the labor market?
A: Yes, absolutely.
3rd. For area feels more prepared / motivated and enabled to develop their professional activity?
A: Water supply and wastewater.
4th. What memories of his academic life in Beja?
A: They were the best times I've spent so far. I managed to combine academic life with pleasure, made new friends, I keep to this day, and it was an experience that enriched me as a human being.
Belinda Teresa Pereira Sobral
Age: 26
Education: Degree in Environmental Engineering Bietápica
Occupation: Environmental Engineer and Technical Superior Health and Safety
Other activities associated with the training received in the course of Environmental Engineering: Soil Decontamination, Hazardous Industrial Waste Management
Dream Travel: Peru, Vietnam, India, Mexico, Colombia, Amazon, Mozambique
Hobbies: reading, yoga, dancing, cats, cooking, traveling, naturopathy ayurvedic
Interview:
One. How do you evaluate your professional performance, taking into account the skills acquired during the degree course?
A: The skills acquired enable a faster response and efficient in our work performance. We learn to be methodical and organized, which contributes greatly to a good job. A course does not give us all the knowledge but gives us the main tools that facilitate the search for solutions in our day-to-day work context.
2nd. The character applied / vocational Course Environmental Engineering was facilitator of their insertion in the labor market?
A: The practical component of the course greatly facilitated my entry into the labor market. My preference was almost always Waste Management, and that's where I started working. It was also with this theme that I made my final project, which was the main entrance door on my first job. Influence had undoubtedly had.
3rd. For area feels more prepared / motivated and enabled to develop their professional activity?
A: The area for which the course motivated me most was the Waste Management and also the area of decontamination of soils. And these were precisely the areas where I have worked. As I usually say, nothing happens by accident! There is yet another area that also considered relevant in the course but which have not yet had chance to work, the area of Air Pollution. Still in my drawer of dreams unfulfilled, one day I'll open it.
4th. What memories of his academic life in Beja?
A: I keep the memories of a time filled with fellowship, mutual support and fellowship among peers and teachers. A city with quality of life, where we walk anywhere, with green space for sports and a city where we can trust the next. I have very fond memories of my student life in Beja, still return to relive a bit of the days and nights that did undoubtedly a difference in my way of being and life.
Maria Cristina Pires Farms
Age: 33
Education: Degree in Environmental Eng
Occupation: Technical Analyses of the Indoor Air Quality
Interview:
One. How do you evaluate your professional performance, taking into account the skills acquired during the degree course?
A: Given the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and Energy Certification are new areas that are still being fine-tuned during the graduation were not deepened these themes, although QAI has been spoken.
2nd. The character applied / vocational Course Environmental Engineering was facilitator of their insertion in the labor market?
A: Yes Many employers require training in Environmental Engineering, and was my case.
3rd. For area feels more prepared / motivated and enabled to develop their professional activity?
A: When I finished the course might be in the area of water treatment and waste management, but we have to adapt quickly to the reality and needs of the market.
4th. What memories of his academic life in Beja?
R: How not resided in the city for not just the component "extra" classes, so we stayed longer in the memory was the stress of work and examinations. The best moment was undoubtedly when I took the last exam!
Daniela Serrao
Age: 25
Training: Environmental Engineering
Occupation: Coordinator of the Division of Urban Services and Environment of the City of Mora
Interview:
One. How do you evaluate your professional performance, taking into account the skills acquired during the degree course?
A: A degree in Environmental Engineering from ESAB allowed me to acquire the necessary knowledge to start my professional activities, particularly in the areas of Water and Wastes, which were intensively discussed during the course and in my case they were needed, a Since I deal with both issues daily.
As with any course that is taught throughout the country only prepares us for the "start", then everything that comes with experience is gained.
2nd. The character applied / vocational Course Environmental Engineering was facilitator of their insertion in the labor market?
A: Yes, absolutely.
3rd. For area feels more prepared / motivated and enabled to develop their professional activity?
A: Water and Waste
4th. What memories of his academic life in Beja?
A: Too many! Of hazing (of which I support 100%), teachers who were always available to help us, to walk by the Student Association, the relationship with the other Student Associations of IPB when events were organized for the whole school community, the friendships that have been created, finally, I have really good memories of Beja which I intend to keep for a long, long time!
Maria Monica Duarte Pacheco
Age: 27
Education: Degree in Environmental Eng - Eng branch and Health Training Course Professional Technicians Health and Safety at Work, Level V.
Occupation: Environmental Monitoring of public and private works; monitoring implementation of measures to minimize environmental impact, outlined in the Environmental Impact Statement, in works subject to Environmental Impact Study; Coordination of Work Safety.
Other activities associated with the training received in the course of Environmental Engineering: Development Plan for the Prevention and Management of construction and demolition waste in the design stage to construction, analysis reports of water quality and environmental noise.
Interview:
One. How do you evaluate your professional performance, taking into account the skills acquired during the degree course?
A: I consider my good professional performance, since the degree was given me technical skills that are the foundation of my work. And I also have been given tools, when I'm not at ease in any matter, knowing where to look to get to your resolution.
2nd. The character applied / vocational Course Environmental Engineering was facilitator of their insertion in the labor market?
A: I think so, because the course has a very practical and applied. Increasingly, the job market is more demanding and who is not active and practical, have more difficulty adapting and insertion.
3rd. For area feels more prepared / motivated and enabled to develop their professional activity?
A: At this time, since it is the area where I am working for a longer time, I am more qualified / prepared and have interest in progressing in the area of environmental monitoring of contracts. However, as has also worked in the area of project water networks, water supply and sewage, would also be an area of interest for me to return to work.
4th. What memories of his academic life in Beja?
A: Very fond memories! I made many good friends! And they were the best times of my life. Also I miss Agrarian the environment that they lived there and teachers. Even the height of the stress of work and exams.
Ricardo Filipe Pedro Costa
Age: 23 years
Education: Degree in Environmental Engineering
Occupation: Technical Audit of the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
Other activities associated with the training received in the course of Environmental Engineering: Operator Environmental Impact Assessment of odors at the landfill Seixal by Odournet SL Spanish company that provides specialized services in the measurement, assessment and management of nuisance odors.
Interview:
One. How do you evaluate your professional performance, taking into account the skills acquired during the degree course?
A: In addition to what has been learned, there are several things that affect us in a positive way for the rest of his life, the law of "fend for yourself", nothing fell from heaven, there to look / search. So many reports and papers served to make us more self-taught and approaching the reality of work.
2nd. The character applied / vocational Course Environmental Engineering was facilitator of their insertion in the labor market?
A: The interest in the course had never related the difficulty or ease of insertion in the labor market, but the fascination with the area and subjects covered. The fact that taking a degree in
Polytechnic, imposes barriers on the level of recognition of professional quality before employers. And a need for greater disclosure of the course, which is recognized for the quality of training of the students who have just graduated.
3rd. For area feels more prepared / motivated and enabled to develop their professional activity?
A: In addition to the area currently work in the future I feel more able to exercise in the area of waste management and analyzes and soil treatment.
4th. What memories of his academic life in Beja?
A: friends / family who created and forever I can tell, the relationship with teachers who are not in college any more and Alentejo cuisine.