ECTS
60 credits
Training structure
Montpellier-Sète University Institute of Technology
Presentation
The GASTE professional degree offered at the Montpellier-Sète University Institute of Technology allows students to pursue a course of study entitled "Sanitation and Water Treatment Systems Engineering."
Objectives
The GASTE professional degree aims to train multi-skilled middle managers (level II) in the field of water treatment systems:
• Treatment and analysis processes. • By-product management.
• Technical maintenance of treatment systems. • Remote management.
Know-how and skills
Know-how and skills
Upon completion of the training, the candidate will be able to:
• Set up a treatment system for urban, industrial, or agricultural water
• Adapt to any treatment system and optimize it. Master the water and sludge treatment process (biological and physicochemical treatment)
• Develop a preventive maintenance schedule. Implement corrective maintenance of the equipment: detect and identify any malfunctions and resolve them
• Perform analyses (pH, TA, TAC, turbidity, TOC, DTO, BOD,
COD, etc.) and master the corresponding instrumentation, both in situ and in the laboratory (on samples)
• Master the concepts of hydraulics, water network design, and professional geomatics software
• Understand the regulatory context and management methods for sanitation services.
Targeted jobs (non-exhaustive list):
- Manager/technical executive in a water treatment plant involved in both drinking water production and urban or industrial wastewater treatment.
- Technical manager of a water treatment plant maintenance service.
- Technical manager in a consulting firm specializing in sanitation.
- Technical framework for the design of water treatment systems.
Organization
Program
The training program is available in a traditional format or as a work-study program.
Work-study programs are offered as part of apprenticeship contracts or professional training contracts.
Continuing education also applies to returning to school or accreditation of prior learning.
Subjects studied:
- Hydraulics
- Geomatics and modeling
- works
- Automation and remote management
- Electrical engineering
- Energy consumption and production
- Sensors in water plants and networks
- Traditional and innovative treatment methods
- Separation processes
- Biological processes
- Water chemistry
- Analysis devices and techniques
- Water regulations and stakeholders
- Communication, PPP
- English
Select a program
Sanitation and Water Treatment Systems Engineering
This degree covers urban and industrial wastewater treatment as well as water purification (Level II certification), while maintaining knowledge of benchmark technologies in life science analysis.
Admission
Target audience
BTS (GEMEAU, Water Professions, Electrical Engineering, CRSA, etc.) L2, etc.
Two-year postsecondary diploma, or accreditation of prior learning
And after
Professional integration
Targeted jobs (non-exhaustive list):
• Manager of a water treatment unit for both drinking water production and urban or industrial wastewater treatment.
• Manager of a water treatment facility maintenance department.
• Technical manager in a consulting firm specializing in sanitation.
• Technical manager for the design of water treatment systems.
Survey conducted among 2017 graduates• Six months after graduation, 78% of graduates wishing to enter the workforce had found a job, 54% of which were permanent positions.Survey conducted among 2016 graduates• 18 months after graduation, 100% of graduates wishing to enter the workforce had found a job, 73% of which were permanent contracts.