Environmental Engineering and Management
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Course Code
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Course
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Number of Credits
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Description/Course Objective
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Semester
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| ED78.01 | Environmental Chemistry & Laboratory |
3
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The course is designed to prepare environmental engineers and scientists for analytical work in basic and applied research and problem solving in a wide range of environments comprising water, soil, and air. It provides the fundamental and practical understanding of the physico-chemical and biochemical processes underlying water and wastewater treatment, as well as air pollution and air quality control. | Aug Sem |
| ED78.07 | Solid Waste Management |
3
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To provide knowledge of engineering principles and issues concerning solid waste management from generation, collection, treatment, reuse/recycle and disposal. It aims to equip students with theoretical knowledge and practical applications to comprehend the complexity of the solid waste issues and tools for effective management. | Aug Sem |
| ED78.08 | Environmental Quality Management |
3
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Significant deterioration in environmental quality has taken place worldwide. As a result, the main objective of this course is to enhance student’s understanding of how the natural environmental systems operate, how anthropogenic influence has affected the environment and what are the different methods and principles used in management of environment. This course introduces the concept of sustainable development and acquaints the student with various methods used for estimating environmental impacts. Finally, the course also introduces various efforts and policies at national, regional and global level for maintain environmental quality. | Jan Sem |
| ED78.10 | Environmental Health and Sanitation |
3
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The course aims to provide the students with the theoretical knowledge and practical applications of environmental health and sanitation with particular concern on the severity and fatality of waterborne diseases. The course aims to equip students with the advance knowledge of technology and management practices using integrated planning approaches especially for urban poor contexts in developing countries. | Jan Sem |
| ED78.14 | Membrane Technology in Water and Wastewater Treatment |
2
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The overall objective of this course is to impart fundamental knowledge and understanding of membrane based advance water and wastewater treatment systems. The course will teach the fundamentals of the principles and applications of membrane technology in solving environmental problems related to water and wastewater treatment, reuse and management. The theoretical studies on design, flux, fouling interaction and applications of microfiltration, ultrafiltration, membrane bioreactor, reverse osmosis, membrane distillation and forward osmosis for water and wastewater treatment will be predominant. Also, hands-on training for various commercial software to design membrane based treatment will be taught. | Aug Sem |
| ED78.16 | Applied Microbiology and Laboratory |
3
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The course is designed to prepare students theoretically and practically to understand microbial processes which underpin with a view to demonstrating that both environmental engineers and managers would greatly benefit from detailed knowledge of taxonomy of microorganisms (bacteria, microalgae, fungi, protozoa, metazoa, and viruses) and biochemistry of the processes these carry out in the natural and human environment. The course aims to demonstrate that environmental qualities in water, soil, air, etc., are, to a great extent, determined by interplay of activities of various microbial groups. Biotechnological approaches, both high tech and low tech, in environmental monitoring of health and food security issues are considered as closely related to global issues of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, and as those for which underlying processes are usually microbiological by nature. | Jan Sem |
| ED78.17 | Advanced Processes for Wastewater Treatment, Reuse and Recycling |
2
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Advanced wastewater treatment processes are essential to remove variety of pollutants from domestic and industrial wastewaters. This course equips the students with principles, design and operation of various advanced processes for treatment, reuse and recycle of wastewater. | Jan Sem |
| ED78.19 | Environmental Impact Assessment |
3
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Course aims to introduce EIA concept and elaborate procedures and methodology, development and implementation, emerging issues and remaining gaps. It consolidates the understanding of EIA as a useful tool in environmental decision-making process and in management of development projects. | Aug Sem |
| ED78.20 | Industrial Waste Abatement and Management |
3
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Industrial wastes set specific characteristics, as each industry has its specialization sector of operation. Therefore, every industry needs custom waste treatment and management strategies for its sustainable operation. The objective of this course is to prepare both environmental engineers and managers with theoretical and practical skills to characterize, interpret and conduct waste abatement activities in an industrial environment. While integrated way of handling liquid, solid and gaseous emission from industries will be the major focus, greater emphasis will be given to liquid pollution abatement and management. | Jan Sem |
| ED78.21 | Water Quality Management |
3
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Unchecked industrial and municipal discharges have severely deteriorated the surface as well as ground water quality. The course emphasizes how water resource need to be managed to maintain the quality. The main objective of this course is to provide knowledge on causes for deterioration of water quality and the need for establishing appropriate water quality standards for drinking water, surface water, coastal water and discharge standard for treated wastewater. The students will be exposed to various management approaches adopted for maintaining water quality. | Jan Sem |
| ED78.22 | Air Pollution Modeling and Applications |
3
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This course aims to provide fundamental aspects of mathematical modeling for air pollution and practical applications of models for planning and managing air quality in various meteorological and topographical conditions. | InterSem |
| ED78.23 | Hazardous Waste Technology and Management |
2
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Discharge of toxic and hazardous chemicals has increased manifolds due to their excessive use which has become a serious threat to human health and the environment. This course exposes the students with the properties of hazardous chemicals, their spread in the environment and risk associated with it. Furthermore, students also learn about hazardous waste minimization and various technologies employed for hazardous waste treatment and disposal, including remediation of hazardous waste contaminated sites. Students also will be exposed to various methods used in hazardous waste management and regulatory aspects. | Aug Sem |
| ED78.24 | Design of Air Pollution Control Systems |
3
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This course aims at providing a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical applications of air pollution control techniques, enabling evaluation and selection of optimum control device/control system for a particular application. | Aug Sem |
| ED78.25 | Principles of Cleaner Production |
2
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The objective of this course is to introduce the concept of cleaner production, the role of energy use in industrial and commercial sector establishments and its implication on the environment. Pollution and energy consumption abatement measures in industries using cleaner production concepts will be explained using mass and energy balance tools. | Jan Sem |
| ED78.35 | Wastewater Treatment |
3
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Domestic as well as industrial wastewaters need to be treated prior to their discharge into environment in order to maintain surface water quality. The main objective of this course is to provide theoretical knowledge and practical application of various processes employed in wastewater treatment, and how to design these treatment processes. The course also familiarizes the students with the operation and maintenance methods as well as the troubleshooting techniques used in the various wastewater treatment processes. | Aug Sem |
| ED78.36 | Drinking Water Treatment |
3
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The overall objective of the course is to make the students understand the theories and principles, design criteria and conceptual framework for various physico-chemical unit processes used in conventional and advanced water treatment. Students will also be equipped with practical knowledge on selection of the unit operation sequence, based on the raw water characteristics. | Aug Sem |
| ED78.37 | Air Pollution Engineering and Management |
3
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This course aims to equip students with scientific basis and engineering knowledge to understand the complexity of the air pollution problems, multiple effects of air pollution, and principal tools for effective integrated air quality management. | Aug Sem |
| ED78.38 | Sampling Design for Environmental Monitoring |
2
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This course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge of fundamental statistics to carry out sampling design that is applicable in the monitoring studies to assess effects of the environmental pollution to human and ecosystem. | Aug Sem |
| ED78.39 | Design of Water Supply and Wastewater Systems |
2
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This course aims to equip students with knowledge on the design of water supply and wastewater systems for urban area. Additionally, the course provides the insights and design practices of the wastewater collection and sewer design in urban areas with a mathematical modeling approach and field exercises. | InterSem |
| ED78.40 | Green House Gas (GHG) Mitigation and Energy Recovery from Waste |
2
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In recent years, anthropogenic activities have led to substantial increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions into atmosphere, which has led to climate change. The main objective of this course is to enhance student’s understanding on global GHG emissions and how they are affecting the climate, contribution of waste sector to global GHG emissions and various methods for energy recovery from waste, which can mitigate GHG emission. The course also introduces various efforts and policies at global level to reduce GHG emissions. | Jan Sem |
| ED78.41 | Science of Climate Change and Environment Co-Benefit Analysis |
2
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This course equips students with fundamental scientific knowledge on the Earth climate system and how it changes due to natural processes and human-induced emission of short-lived and long-lived climate forcers. It further provides basic techniques of climate change impact assessment, and analysis of co-benefits for climate change mitigation and environmental quality improvement resulting from emission control measures. | Jan Sem |
| ED78.9011 | Selected Topic: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Wastewater Treatment Systems |
1
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Construction, operation and maintenance of wastewater treatment facilities involves costs. In order to make wastewater treatment processes financially viable, detailed knowledge of cost elements involved is necessary. | Aug Sem |
| ED78.9012 | Selected Topic: State of the Art of Hazardous Chemicals Management |
2
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This course aims to provide an updated and thorough overview of the state of the art of hazardous chemicals management in light of the obligations of several international hazardous chemicals conventions and exemplify the theoretical content with practical real-life experiences. The course will contribute in strengthening the capacity on sound hazardous chemicals management in general and for the implementation of the Stockholm Convention on POPs in particular. | Jan Sem |
| ED78.9014 | Selected Topic: Receptor Modeling for Air Pollution Source Apportionment |
2
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This course aims to provide fundamental principles and practical applications of receptor modeling for air pollution source apportionment. The course content emphasizes the data analysis methods, the underlying theory of source apportionment, and how to distinguish the impacts from local and distant sources. Ambient air sampling and sample analytical methods to provide data suitable for receptor modeling will be covered. Practical applications of the receptor models will be done through the exercises and assignments. | Aug Sem |
| ED78.9015 | Selected Topic: Cost Benefit Analysis of Environmental Clean-up |
2
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Environmental pollution has led to severely polluted waterways as well as land sites. Environmental cleanup of polluted waterways and land sites involves costs. These costs include environmental, social as well as economic costs. Construction, operation and maintenance of clean-up facilities warrants detail technical knowledge as well as knowledge of these costs. | Jan Sem |
| ED78.9019 | Selected Topic: Climate and Environment Co-Benefit |
1
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Human-induced changes to the Earth climate become a topic of the intense interest. This course equips engineers and scientists with fundamental knowledge on the Earth climate system and how it changes, potential effects of the climate change, as well as the measures to deal with the changes with co-benefit considerations. | Aug Sem |
| ED78.9020 | Selected Topic: Corporate Environmental Management |
1
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This course is designed to help companies meet the dual challenges of achieving the complex goal of environmental excellence together with business success, in other words an effective management of eco-efficiency. The course provides an overview of the changing business environment related to environmental protection. It presents concepts, methods and skills needed to integrate the concept of sustainable development and eco-efficiency into the decision making process of domestic or international companies follow the ISO 14000 series of international environmental standards. | InterSem |
| ED78.9021 | Selected Topic: Environmental Services in Emergency Situations |
1
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This course is designed to deal technical and social issues associated with providing environmental services by the relief workers during the emergency situation. Here, the scope of emergency situation covers mainly the natural disasters. The provision of water supply, basic sanitation services and waste management are essential elements of any disaster management/mitigation programs and special skills, technologies and management approach is often needed to handle situation thoughtfully and mitigate the impact to ensure the successful role back of normal life. | Jan Sem |
| ED78.9022 | Selected Topic: Wastewater Collection and Sewer Design Model |
2
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The purposes of the course are to provide the insights and design practices of the wastewater collection and sewer design in urban areas with a mathematical modeling approach and field exercises. | InterSem |
| ED78.9024 | Selected Topic: Applied and Environmental Microbiology |
3
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The course aims to demonstrate that environmental qualities in water, soil, air, etc, are, to a great extent, determined by interplay of activities of various microbial groups. Biotechnological approaches, both high tech and low tech, in environmental monitoring of health and food security issues are considered as closely related to global issues of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, and as those for which underlying processes are usually microbiological by nature. | Jan Sem |
| ED78.9025 | Selected Topic: Carbon Footprint Analysis |
1
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Carbon emissions from the industrial sector are the main source of greenhouse gases (GHG) leading to climate change. According to IPCC carbon emissions from industrial sector need to be reduced significantly by 2050. Carbon emissions can be quantified using carbon footprint analysis. Carbon footprint (CFP) analysis can be carried out for products as well as for services. Carbon footprint analysis helps companies to identify hotspots in the life cycle of the product and in the manufacturing processes. CFP analysis also to helps companies, improve their manufacturing processes leading to economic benefits. | InterSem |
| ED78.9026 | Selected Topic: Proposal and Research Reporting Writing |
1
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The primary goal of this course is to help students develop research skills through its focus on writing and critiquing research proposals. This course provides students with experience in producing analytical research reports and proposals. Students will be introduced to the wide variety of primary and secondary research resources available to them. They will develop skills in gathering and managing information to prepare for researched writing tasks and presentation of a research proposal. | Aug Sem |
| ED78.9027 | Selected Topic: Design of Air Pollution Control System: Case Study |
1
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This course aims at providing a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical applications of air pollution control techniques, enabling evaluation and selection of optimum control device/control system for a particular application. | Jan Sem |
| ED78.9028 | Selected Topic: Sustainable Sanitation in Developing Countries |
1
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This course aims to provide knowledge and understanding in appropriate technologies of sustainable sanitation to students. To demonstrate applications of water, waste, health, hygiene policies, and sanitation engineering in developing countries. The students will be aware of the challenges of working in the field of sustainable sanitation in a variety of situations, including developing countries. | Jan Sem |
| ED78.9029 | Selected Topic: Sustainable Consumption and Production |
1
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The objective of this course is to present principles and applications of sustainable consumption and production concepts. Living in the era of consumerism that encourages the purchase of goods and services in ever-greater amounts has led to unsustainable consumption and production patterns, hence leading to the resources scarcity. Therefore, only resource efficient, cleaner and safer production, and sustainable consumption can address broader spectrum of Sustainable Development by responding to basic needs and bring a better quality of life while minimizing the use of natural resources and toxic materials as well as the emissions of waste and pollutants over the life cycle of the service or product so as not to jeopardize the needs of future generations.
The course provides an overview of the changing pattern of production and consumption of goods and services, from closing the resource loop by practicing sustainable resource use and end-of life waste management in a more holistic ways- i.e., considerations from design stage to use/consumption, and the end-of life phase of the product and service, as well as making the entire chain of production, supply chain, and consumption in a more environmentally sustainable and socially and economically responsible ways to influence consumption behavior. |
InterSem |
| ED78.9030 | Selected Topic: Environmentally Sound Management of Hazardous Wastes/Chemicals - An Introduction to International Conventions |
1
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Inadequate management of hazardous and industrial wastes, hazardous chemicals, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), obsolete pesticides, heavy metals, ozone depleting chemicals and harmful air pollutants constitutes a threat for health and environment, locally, regionally and globally.
This course aims to provide an updated overview of the state of the art of hazardous chemicals management in light of the obligations of several international hazardous environmental conventions and exemplify the theoretical content with practical real life experiences from several Asian countries. |
Aug Sem |
| ED78.9031 | Selected Topic: Environmental Risk Analysis and Management |
3
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Introduction of risk assessment and management into environmental analysis is relatively a new branch of environmental sciences and it provides basic tools for setting environmental standards, and formulating strategies for better management of the environment. Although environmental risk analysis is yet mandatory in most countries for environmental management, it is extremely necessary for students majoring in environmental science and engineering to understand the related principles and fundamental methods for brodening their knowledge and skills. This course is designed for students of graduate level following the instructor’s teaching and research experiences. With materials selected from a number of books and published/unpublished documents, this course aims to introduce concepts and general methodologies of environmental risk analysis, together with three useful tools for analyzing environmental quality, human health, and ecological safety. The basic theories and methods for risk management is also introduced. | Jan Sem |
| ED78.9032 | Selected Topic: Dispersion and System Dynamic Models for Air Quality Management |
2
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This course aims to provide fundamental aspects of mathematical and system dynamic modeling for air pollution and practical applications of models for planning and managing air quality in various meteorological and topographical conditions. | InterSem |
| ED78.9033 | Selected Topic: Environmental System Modeling |
2
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This course aims to provide basic concepts of systems modeling, use models to test hypotheses, and find out about the assumptions and approximations that must be made in modeling for understanding environmental systems. You will build and use models of climatic, hydrologic, geochemical, and human systems, using the system dynamic models, such as STELLA and VENSIM modeling software on PCs. | Aug Sem |
| ED78.9034 | Selected Topic: Emission Inventory and Air Pollution Modelling for Air Quality Management |
2
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This course aims to provide fundamental aspects, methodology and applications of emission inventory and mathematical modeling for planning and managing air quality in various meteorological and topographical conditions. | InterSem |