Vietnam: What are the skills required for graduates from college-level water resource engineering?

Vietnam: What are the skills required for graduates from college-level water resource engineering? (Illustrative photo)

Under Circular 56/2018/TT-BLDTBXH, graduates from college-level water resource engineering in Vietnam must acquire the following skills:

- Identifying locations, investigating, and assessing surface water and groundwater resources.

- Selecting river sections to set up surface water resource monitoring stations according to standards.

- Collecting and reviewing information and data before fieldwork and implementing tasks to investigate and assess surface water and groundwater resources.

- Developing overall planning for basic water resource investigations.

- Summarizing, editing, and processing information and data collected during field investigations and according to evaluation content.

- Organizing the implementation, management, and operation of surface water and groundwater monitoring projects.

- Organizing and conducting the observation of water level data, water flow, and water quality.

- and assessing the current status and developments of surface water and groundwater resources.

- Properly handling the sequence of operations, managing equipment, and maintaining the components of opening and closing devices.

- Independently operating and handling large and small irrigation and drainage gates.

- Performing maintenance steps for opening and closing systems of sluice gates.

- Reading and drawing all types of design drawings for medium and small water resource projects or specific project components.

- Designing medium and small water resource exploitation projects, planning water resource exploitation system projects under the guidance of engineers.

- Developing operational procedures for medium and small water resource exploitation projects (independently).

- Managing and Using medium and small water resource exploitation systems.

- Accurately measuring, inspecting, and assessing the status of project components within the water resource exploitation system.

- Using modern support tools such as computer software, measurement, and experimental equipment to conduct research or pursue higher educational programs.

- Using basic information technology as stipulated; exploiting, processing, and applying information technology in professional tasks.

- Using basic foreign language skills, achieving level 2/6 according to the Vietnamese language proficiency framework; applying foreign languages to professional tasks.

Details can be found at Circular 56/2018/TT-BLDTBXH effective from February 10, 2019.

Ty Na

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