COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
EES 5037 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÖRKEM ŞEN

Offered to

ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES
ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCES-NON THESIS

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to teach the fundemental physical, chemical and biological processes on wastewater treatment and waste handling in the content of environmental engineering.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learning the major physical, chemical and biological processes in environmental engineering
2   Learning the fundemental laws of mass conservation in environmetal systems
3   Learning the fundementals of mass transfer between the environmental matrices, such as water, air and soil
4   Learning the major wastewater pollutants and their treatment processes
5   Learning the nutrient cycles in the nature

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Physical characteristics of wastewater
2 Chemical equilibrium
3 Inorganic nonmetalic constituents in wastewater
4 N and P pathways in nature
5 The solubility of gasses in water, Henry's law
6 Metallic and organic constituents
7 Midterm 1
8 BOD, COD, TOC and their relations, Oil and grease, surfactants
9 Biological characteristics
10 Reactor types and ideal flow modelling
11 Reaction rate and reaction rate constants
12 Kinetic modelling, Mass transfer
13 Fundamental treatment processes
14 Midterm 2

Recomended or Required Reading

Vick, S. G., 1883, Planning, Design and Analysis of Tailings Dams, New York, John Willey and Sons.
Fuerstenau, M. C. and Han (Eds), K. N., 2003, Principles of Mineral Processing, Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, Littleton, CO, USA.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Midterms, assignment and final exam

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 ASG ASSIGNMENT
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.25 +MTE 1 +MTE 2/2 * 0.25 +FIN * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

to be announced.

Assessment Criteria

to be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

to be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Gorkem Akinci
gorkem.akinci@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

to be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 2 16 32
Preparation for quiz etc. 5 4 20
Reading 14 3 42
Preparation for final exam 1 16 16
Preparing assignments 1 16 16
Midterm 2 3 6
Final 1 3 3
Quiz etc. 5 1 5
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 212

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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