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Curriculum (spring 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. 

 

Water Supply Engineering  

High quality drinking water is a valuable resource and vital for all societies. Increasing urbanisation and new threats to water resources – quantity and quality – are setting new demands for the engineers to facilitate proper resource management, and to design and optimise technical systems for safe water handling and reliable distribution to the consumers.
 
We are proud to offer a full-time semester comprising a workload of 30 ECTS-credits based on the strong Danish water supply engineering traditions. The semester will run from the end of January through June. The semester consists of coursework and a multidisciplinary project.
 
Course
2 courses each 5 ECTS-credits are offered to enrolled students. The courses are designed to provide fundamental knowledge and skills for the engineer working with urban water supply. The courses aim at providing a thorough understanding of how:
·          Ground water resources can be identified, assessed and withdrawn,
·          The water can be treated to obtain the desired potable water quality,
·          The pipe network and associated technical installations can be designed for adequate distribution of water to consumers in an urban area,
·          the legal framework as well as public planning and management procedures can enable a safe and secure water supply system.
 
Multidisciplinary Project
The project serves to train the application of theories and methods from the theoretical courses in proposing technical solutions to a given real life project in its entirety. The extent of the project is 20 ECTS-credits. The project starting point is a Danish town with an existing water intake, treatment and distribution system that encounters several qualitative and quantitative problems. The aim of the project is for the project team to analyse the overall system for withdrawal, treatment and distribution of the water, identify and engineer possible solutions and evaluate and present these. There are mandatory elements in the project but also an opportunity for the project team to define their own focus within the project context.
 
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. PC and relevant software will be made available to the project groups by IHA. Project groups will be followed and supported by a Project Facilitator from the IHA staff, providing guidance on technical issues as well as on team cooperation and project management issues. 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 multidisciplinary project.
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