Environmental technical assistant

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Environmental protection assistant ( UTA) is an apprenticeship in Germany. Environmental technical assistants (UTA) work at the interface between production and disposal or recycling. These areas are of great importance for environmental and economic reasons. The job of the UTA is similar to that of the chemical-technical assistant (CTA) or the biological-technical assistant (BTA) but is supplemented by content from the areas of waste management , water management , immission control and environmental analysis .

education

The UTA training takes place in public and private schools. It usually lasts two years. It includes theoretical and practical lessons, in an approximate time ratio one to one, which takes place entirely at the respective school. The first year of apprenticeship is identical to that of a CTA . In the second year, the practical subjects of organic chemistry and preparative chemistry as well as the theoretical subjects of general chemistry and organic chemistry are replaced by the practical subjects of process engineering and environmental analysis as well as by the theoretical subjects of biology, ecology, environmental law and process engineering.

Theoretical subjects

Theoretical subjects with indication of the weekly hours (1st year / 2nd year)

1 General theory area

  • Religious Education (1/1)
  • German (1/1)
  • English (1/1)
  • Economics and Social Studies (1/2)

2 Theoretical subject area

  • Mathematics I / stoichiometry (4/1)
  • Physics (3 / -)
  • Physical Chemistry (2/2)
  • General and Inorganic Chemistry (2 / -)
  • Organic Chemistry (3/2)
  • Analytical Chemistry (3/2)
  • Computer technology (2 / -)
  • Measurement, control and regulation technology (- / 1)
  • Biology & Ecology (- / 3)
  • Process engineering / environmental technology (- / 3)
  • Environmental Law (- / 1)

Practical subjects

Practical subjects with details of the weekly hours (1st year / 2nd year)

  • Physical and physical-chemical internship (2 / -)
  • Qualitative and quantitative analysis (10 / -)
  • Environmental analytical internship (- / 6)
  • Microbiological and molecular biological internship (- / 2)
  • Process engineering and environmental engineering internship (- / 2)
  • Complementary internship (- / 1)
  • Project work (- / 2)

The exact distribution of hours can vary slightly from state to state.

requirements

A prerequisite for training as an environmental protection assistant is a secondary school leaving certificate or a comparable other educational qualification.

Others

At many schools the academic part or the entire technical college entrance qualification can be acquired.

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