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Upon successful completion of this module, students will demonstrate an ability to:
1. Describe the role of engineers in environmental protection;
2. Explain the fundamental ethical considerations on which environmental engineering is based;
3. Perform basic engineering calculations involving physical, chemical and biological principles.
• Introduction
• Sustainability
• Units for environmental measurements
• Physical principles (mass + energy balances)
• Chemical principles (stoichiometry, laws, equilibria, kinetics, chemical reactors)
• Ethics and EU regulation
• Biological principles (ecosystems, population dynamics)
• Water quality (biochemical oxygen demand, dissolved oxygen)
• Engineering approximations
• Pollution transport processes (advection, dispersion, sedimentation, flow through porous media)
• Hydrology (precipitation, runoff, groundwater)
• Waste management
Student Effort Type | Hours |
---|---|
Lectures | 15 |
Tutorial | 10 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 95 |
Online Learning | 5 |
Total | 125 |
Differential calculus
Linear algebra
Integral calculus and differential equations
Fundamental chemistry and biology
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Quizzes/Short Exercises: In class test - incl. MCQs and short written answers | Week 6 | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 15 |
No |
Group Work Assignment: Group report set in week 1 on a topical environmental engineering issue with an initial submission in week 4 (worth 5%) and final submission in week 9 (worth 20%). | Week 4, Week 9 | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 25 |
No |
Exam (In-person): End of module exam - 2 hours closed book. | End of trimester Duration: 2 hr(s) |
Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 60 |
Yes |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
---|---|
Spring | Yes - 2 Hour |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback
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