COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MTE 5019 MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MUSTAFA NURAN

Offered to

Marine Transportation Systems Engineering
Marine Transportation Systems Engineering
MARINE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Course Objective

The course tends to explain the regulations and solutions about marine environmental problems. It is based upon the international conventions and green shipping applications concerning maritime environment.
In the first phase of the course, the objective is to learn about the sources causing marine pollution and identify the management methods of marine pollution in the framework of international conventions and rules.
In the second phase of the course, the objective is to learn about methods and systems applied for control of marine pollution caused by ships and ports.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learning the Introduction to Marine Pollution Control
2   Understanding Types and Effects of Marine Pollutants and Ship Based Marine Pollution.
3   Discusing tne Legal Aspects of Marine Pollution. International Conventions and Regulations of Marine Pollution and Integration of Environment Management Standards to Maritime Industry.
4   Establishment of Environmental Risk Assessment Models for Various Types of Ships, Ports and Flag State Management.
5   Learning Control of Ship Based Pollution. Fuel Consumption and Efficiency.
6   Understanding the Oil and Chemical Spills from Ships, Emission Regulations and Air Pollution Minimization and The Usage of Alternative Fuels on Ships.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction of the Marine environment pollution
2 Types and effects of the marine pollutants
3 Ship sources pollutants
4 Legal aspects
5 National and international regulations
6 Ship industry
7 Risk aasesement and marine environment
8 Ship sources pollution and their effects
9 Ship sources pollution and their effects
10 Fuel consumtion and efficiency
11 Petroleum products and chemical effluents on marine environment
12 Air Pollution and Emission
13 Air Pollution and Emission
14 Alternative Fuels

Recomended or Required Reading

: - Samsunlu, A., Deniz Kirliliği ve Kontrolü Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Yayın No: 1555, Istanbul, 1995.

- Bishop, P.L., Marine Pollution and Its Control McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1983.

- Walker, C.H. & Livingstone D.R. 1992. Persistent Pollutants in Marine Ecosystems. Pergamon Press Ltd., Oxford.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing, preparing research papers and measuring with exams.

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 MTE 1 * 0.20 + MTE 2 * 0.20 + ASG * 0.10 + FIN * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 1 * 0.20 + MTE 2 * 0.20 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

mustafa.nuran@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

announce at begining of semester

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Reading 2 20 40
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 5 2 10
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 2 20 40
Design Project 1 20 20
Midterm 2 1 2
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 165

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.435
LO.55
LO.65

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