Module ENGI30620: ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 3

Department: Engineering

ENGI30620: ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 3

Tied To

• H1KB09: Civil Engineering

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

Aims

• This module is designed solely for students studying Department of Engineering degree programmes.
• To introduce and explain sustainability in addition to examining sources of pollution
• To provide the fundamental scientific principles affecting pollutant fate
• To enable development and understanding of site investigation techniques
• To enable planning of a site investigation and write a Phase 1 report.
• To develop an appreciation of hydraulics of open channel/pipe flow.

Content

• Polluted Environments and Sustainability.
• Site Investigation.
• Civil Engineering Hydraulics

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the role of engineer in achieving sustainable development;
• Obtain knowledge of composition of different waste streams;
• Understand how natural processes remediate polluted environments;
• Obtain and knowledge of soil and water treatment methods;
• Knowledge of site investigation techniques and their applications;
• Ability to recognise and analyse a range of flow conditions in open channels and pipes.

• To critically analyse, evaluate and interpret environmental engineering data;
• To apply engineering principles to the solution of a specific and complex environmental engineering problem;
• The ability to devise a preliminary site investigation programme for a variety of engineering structures;
• To analyse flow discharge in open-channel flow problems;
• To predict energy and power with hydraulic system;
• The ability to design open channels to carry specified flows.

• Numerical skills appropriate to an engineer.
• General problem solving skills that can be applied in a novel context.
• Capacity for self-learning in familiar and unfamiliar situations.
• Proficient use of IT relevant to the engineering profession.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Students are able to make use of staff Office Hours to discuss any aspect of the module with teaching staff on a one to one basis. These are sign-up sessions available for up to one hour per week.
• Coursework element is a summatively assessed written report in site investigation based on a field trip to a contaminated land site.
• All lecture courses contain mathematical problems to be solved in class with answers put on duo after the class. Polluted environments contains a formatively assessed debate in the final session where students debate sustainability issues.
• Polluted Environments and Sustainability and Civil Engineering Hydrauics lecture courses are assessed via a written examination which enables each student to demonstrate an ability to analyse, discuss and solve new problems.
• A formative laboratory program develops practical laboratory skills and supports the module’s lecture material.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment

Problem Sheets, class debate and on-line DUO discussion forum for lecture courses.