COURSE OBJECTIVES Introduction to the study programme. Familiarization with the basic terminology, principles, and concepts of engineering practice in environmental protection.
PREREQUISITE COURSES -
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Relate environmental problems to human activities.
2. Distinguish between the concepts of environmental protection, ecology, and environmental engineering.
3. Relate the cycling of matter to fundamental processes occurring in the environment.
4. Explain the principle of sustainable development and the interrelationships among the environmental, economic, and social components.
5. Explain the objectives of the scientific discipline of environmental engineering and their importance for the development of environmental technologies.
6. Categorize different types of pollution sources and possibilities for their control.
7. Explain the principle of prevention in environmental engineering practice and environmental protection legislation.
8. Identify water, air, and soil pollution problems caused by the introduction of pollutants from different sources.
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE STUDY PROGRAM TO WHICH THE LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THIS COURSE CONTRIBUTE
1. Explain the scientific foundations relevant to environmental engineering, particularly fundamental knowledge in chemistry, mathematics, physics, biology, and environmental engineering.
4. Develop awareness of and the ability to implement preventive environmental protection measures.
5. Collect information from various sources required for monitoring environmental conditions and for the protection and management of water, air, soil, waste, and energy resources.
6. Define basic problems in the field of environmental engineering in order to facilitate their resolution.
COURSE CONTENT BY UNITS OR WEEKS
1. Biosphere. Technosphere. Ecosystem. Environmental protection, ecology, and environmental engineering.
2. Basic principles of environmental protection. Sustainable development. Objectives of environmental engineering.
3. Ecosystem ecology: concept and trophic levels. Fundamental environmental processes: cycling of matter, production, and energy flow.
4. Knowledge required by an environmental engineer. Objectives of toxicology. Ecotoxicological research. Toxic effects. Environmental chemistry. Principles of green chemistry.
5. The role of organic chemistry in environmental engineering. Microbiology in technological processes for wastewater and waste treatment. The role of material and energy balances in environmental engineering.
6. Environmental technologies. The importance of industrial biotechnology in the development of environmental processes. Applications of industrial biotechnology.
7. Engineering ethics.
8. Pollution control with respect to source type, origin, environmental compartment, and transformation in the environment. Preventive approaches in environmental engineering practice. Legislative framework.
9. Water pollution. Principles of water management strategies. Water resources and distribution on Earth. Hydrological cycle.
10. Sources and problems of water pollution by nutrients, organic matter, and pathogens.
11. Sources and problems of water pollution by toxic organic compounds, heavy metals, and suspended solids.
12. Air pollution, pollutants, and emissions. Tropospheric and stratospheric ozone. Chapman ozone cycle. Ozone-depleting substances.
13. Sources and adverse effects of greenhouse gases. Global Warming Potential (GWP).
14. Sources and problems of air pollution caused by CO?, SO?, NO?, and particulate matter.
15. Soil composition and functions. Major sources of soil pollution. Mechanisms of transport and transformation of pollutants in soil. Soil remediation methods.
MODES OF INSTRUCTION Lectures
STUDENT OBLIGATIONS Lecture attendance and successful completion of partial exams or the final exam
MONITORING OF STUDENTS? WORK Class attendance, written examination, and continuous assessment of knowledge.
GRADING AND ASSESSMENT DURING CLASS AND ON THE FINAL EXAM
Four partial exams are administered during the course. A maximum of 20 points can be obtained in each partial exam. In order to be exempted from the final exam through successful completion of the partial exams, students must obtain a minimum of 10 points in each exam.
Students who do not achieve a passing result through the partial exams take a written exam during the regular examination period. An oral exam may be provided if necessary.
Grading scale:
0?39 points ? Fail (1)
40?48 points ? Satisfactory (2)
49?60 points ? Good (3)
61?71 points ? Very good (4)
72?80 points ? Excellent (5)
MANDATORY LITERATURE
Lecture materials available on the course website:
https://www.fkit.unizg.hr/predmet/uue/nastavni_materijali
Introduction to Environmental Engineering, Part I, internal course script:
https://www.fkit.unizg.hr/_download/repository/Uvod_u_ekoinzenjerstvo_I_dio.pdf
QUALITY ASSURANCE METHODS THAT ENSURE THE ACQUISITION OF OUTPUT KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND COMPETENCES Student course evaluation survey.
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