Curricular Unit:Code:
Environmental Engineering Project III823PEA3
Year:Level:Course:Credits:
3UndergraduateEnvironmental Engineering5 ects
Learning Period:Language of Instruction:Total Hours:
Portuguese/English65
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
Students familiarization with real problems in the Environmental Engineering profession; activities promotion and creation of spaces for discussion of subjects related with the specialization area; skills development in data collection, analysis and interpretation; skills development in problem solving through knowledge integration in a multi and interdisciplinary approach.
All curricular units named ‘Project in Environmental Engineering’ aim to promote Project Based Learning, which has been informally part of this cycle of studies through PROPID (Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Project) in the past few years. The projects to be developed will be interdisciplinary and preferably included in the Environment and Health Project of UFP (PAAS).
Syllabus:
1. Project planning
2. Literature review
3. Data interpretation and analysis
4. Writing of final report
5. Writing the paper
6. Oral presentation and discussion.
Sample design type to develop in this course : Rehabilitation of urban rivers with strong degree of environmental disturbance and treatment of polluted water using ecological methods
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
1. Project planning – familiarization of the students with professional reality of developing a project with defined objectives, as well as with the importance of adequately planning the tasks to be developed;
2. Literature review – development of the ability of consulting technical and scientific information, as well as of contextualizing the problem in a multi and inter-disciplinary level;
3. Field work / Laboratory – development of the ability to collect data through field work and develop analytical laboratory work;
4. Data interpretation and analysis – development of skills regarding the interpretation and analysis of data, integrating knowledge in a multi and interdisciplinary level;
5. Writing of final report – development of skills regarding synthesizing and presentation of written information;
6. Oral presentation and discussion – development of the ability to make oral presentations and participate in discussions regarding technical and scientific problems.
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
Continuous assessment will be carried out by means of evaluation of the various project work elements that students will have to perform as well as through the assessment of student performance in the classroom.
Students will have to produce (in 2 groups), the following elements:
• a full report that will serve as a basic working document with a maximum of 25 pages; this report will be done in three phases with defined timings and will have to be completed by the Christmas holidays
• a scientific literature review article that will act as the final work of the course and will have a maximum length of 10 pages, being prepared based on the report prepared
• A power point presentation of the paper
All elements of evaluation need to be delivered via "assignments" in UFPUV platform within the stipulated deadlines.
Final grade: 10% + 35% article bibliographic summary + 35% oral presentation + 20% intermediary works
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
The work to be developed aims to stimulate students to deepen the knowledge of certain subjects from the need of solving a defined problem in real context. Project Based Learning aims to familiarize the students with situations related with the professional role of an Environmental Engineer, and therefore the project is selected to represent a possible real situation in this area. The theme should be related with as many courses of the semester as possible. Teacher and student contact hours are dedicated to the orientation of the work and supervision of its progress. The promotion of thematic lectures with external experts enables the discussion of subjects related with the theme of the project. Through the periodic formal presentations regarding the progress of their work, students will develop their communication skills in a multidisciplinary environment, with different publics (classmates, teachers and external experts).
Reading:
1. Bishop, P. L. Pollution Prevention: Fundamentals and Practice . McGraw-Hill, Lisbon, 2000.
2. Peavy, H.S., Rowe, D.R., Tchobanoglous, G., Environmental Engineering, McGraw-Hill. 4., 1985
3. Viessman, W., Hammer, M. , Water Supply and Pollution Control, Addison-Wesley, 1998
4. Pesquisa B-ON - Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online, http://www.b-on.pt/