421-482 Analysis & Design-Environmental Systems

421-490 Quantification of Physical Processes A, 421-491 Quantification of Physical Processes B and 421-322 Environmental Engineering Design 1.

At the conclusion of this subject students should be able to identify the processes in the environment that impinge on a range of practical problems they will encounter in their career. With this skill and foundation theory of physical hydrology, design and management, they will be able to develop solutions to these problems.

Typical problems may include irrigation and drainage design, hydro-geological problems such as landfill containment, catchment management, stream rehabilitation and rehabilitation of degraded land such as mine sites.

• ability to apply knowledge of basic science and engineering fundamentals

• in-depth technical competence in at least one engineering discipline

• ability to undertake problem identification, formulation and solution

• expectation of the need to undertake lifelong learning, capacity to do so

• capacity for independent critical thought, rational inquiry and self-directed learning

Three written group reports (30% each due at end of weeks 3, 8 and 11, not exceeding 20 pages each inclusive of diagrams, tables, computations and computer output). Students must attend the site units and achieve a pass on each report in order to pass the subject.