Career Opportunities

Water Resource and Pollution Management

Protecting and managing our natural environment are major challenges for our society. The Nancy engineering geologists work at an international level on the following issues :

• Finding and managing water resources
• Hydrologic systems
• Protection of water tables
• Storage
• Reclamation and rehabilitation of industrial and mining sites and of contaminated land

Natural Resources

Our engineering geologists are involved worldwide in the exploration for and exploitation of raw materials such as oil, gas, ore deposits, industrial minerals…
Graduates are at the forefront in the following fields :

• Reservoir engineering
• Processing of raw materials
• Recycling and waste management
• Strategic management of raw materials

Geotechnical Engineering

The rol of the engineering geologist is crucial in the planning and execution of major building projects :

• Dam and tunnel costructions
• Highway foundations
• Industrial and natural hazards
• Mine subsidence, landslides

Numerical Modelling in Geosciences

The Nancy School of Geology has become one of the major centers of the three dimensional numerical modelling in Earth Sciences.
The GOCAD software developed in Nancy is widely used in the hydrocarbon and mining industries. Graduates who specialise in numerical modelling find careers in :

• 3 D modelling of the geometry and formation of ore bodies and oil/gas reservoirs
• Predicting the movement of water and pollutants in natural habitats