Curriculum (autumn semester)

International Semesters in Environmental Engineering

The Engineering College welcomes applications from international civil and/or structural engineering students who wish to study Environmental Construction Engineering. The studies in Environmental Construction Engineering comprise two full 30 ECTS-credit semesters.

The two semesters are intended for international and Danish civil and/or structural engineering students in the final year of their Bachelor studies or at a similar level. The autumn semester, focusing on wastewater engineering, commences at the end of August and runs through December. The spring semester, focusing on Water Supply Engineering, commences at the end of January and runs through June. Students may apply for one or both semesters. Each individual application will be evaluated in order to secure the quality of the academic benefit for the students.

The semesters aim at combining traditional engineering skills with environmental process know-how and methods for analysis and engineering of suitable solutions for two categories of environmental problems, namely urban wastewater treatment and discharge, and contaminated sites risk control and remediation. An understanding of the environmental impacts is combined with engineering disciplines in learning how real-life problems of the urban society can be analysed, and how suitable technical solutions can be designed, dimensioned and implemented. 

Wastewater Engineering

A full-time semester comprising a workload of 30 ECTS-credits is on offer, running from the end of August through December. The semester consists of courses and a multidisciplinary project.

Courses

The following courses are offered to enrolled students

 • Sewer Systems and Water Environment (BTSSWE)

 • Waste Water Treatment Plants and Project Work (BTWWTP)

 • Cross-Cultural Understanding and English Language (BTCCU1)

 • Cooperation, Learning and Project Work (BTCLP1)

The Wastewater Engineering course comprises a variety of subjects within environmental planning and management, receiving water bodies, wastewater treatment and analysis and design of sewer systems. The course provides students with key theory and methods for the associated project work. The Cooperation, Learning and Project Work course along with the Cross-Cultural Understanding and English Language course aim at providing international students with insight into and methods for efficient and effective performance and learning in a problem and projectbased environment and in a multicultural context.

Multidisciplinary Project

The project serves to train the application of theories from the Wastewater Engineering course in proposing technical solutions to a given environmental project in its entirety. The extent of the project is 15 ECTS-credits.
 

The project requires analysis of an existing sewer system, design of new sewers, a draft design of a wastewater treatment plant as well as an evaluation of the impact of the project on the receiving water body. The focus of the project can be either a more analytical approach or a more practically oriented contractor's approach. Use of computer models for the analytical part of the project will be encouraged. IHA will provide each group with a PC and programs such as MOUSE and others. At the end of the semester the project groups are required to hand in a written report describing their analysis and presenting their solutions and recommendations. The project report and an oral presentation form the basis of the evaluation of the multidisciplinay project.