Thesis work allows each student to perform independent research work on an agreed project including: development of idea, literature review, experiment design, data collection and analysis and report writing. It involves a substantive piece of experimental work conducted by the student which is presented in the form of a thesis. Students work under the supervision of an individual member of academic staff. Both the thesis document and conduct of the work are assessed and contribute to the final module mark. The Programme Handbook provides details on thesis submission and deadlines. Students will furthermore be required to prepare a poster presentation of key elements of their research work for presentation at a lunch time seminar.
This module aims to introduce students to how the impacts of engineering projects are assessed within the framework Life Cycle Assessment, Environmental Impact Assessment and sustainability evaluations. Particular emphasis is given to environmental impacts, although societal impacts will also be considered. Students will be introduced to the regulatory drivers for Environmental Impact Assessment/Strategic Environmental Assessment and will receive lectures on the stages of Environmental Impact Assessment for major developments. The use of sustainability assessments (CEEQUAL, BREAM etc) will also be explored. Students will be introduced to current standards and guidance for quantifying environmental impacts through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), including defining the scope of an LCA, inventory analysis and interpretation of results. Case studies will explore how life cycle approaches are employed in industry (resource management, low carbon construction, carbon/energy/water foot printing and the circular economy). Finally students will examine multi criteria analysis for evaluating and balancing diverse criteria during decision making. Solid waste and resource management will then be studied in detail within this context. Students will gain an understanding of the science and technology behind advanced waste management processes and an appreciation of the financial, social and institutional factors that may restrict the adoption of particular technologies.
The purpose of the course is to develop an introduction to the theoretical and practical strategies used for assessing and managing the quality of soils and water. This module will start with an introduction to risk assessment and management using a tiered approach, including a discussion of the source-pathway-receptor model that will subsequently be applied to assessing and managing water and land contamination. The land quality aspect of the course will consider the regulatory drivers for assessing and managing contaminated land and provide an overview of the UK approach (CLR11) for assessing and managing land contamination. Students will learn how to identify and connect potential contaminants of concern, receptors that may be at risk and pathways within a conceptual model of the site during the preliminary qualitative risk assessment. They will study how these linkages are refined through the stages of qualitative risk assessment (generic and detailed) and remediation options appraisal and implementation. This will include an introduction to how quantitative data is collected at the site (representative sampling strategies and laboratory analysis), an overview of remediation technologies and how they can be compared and assessed, and an introduction to verification and validation of land remediation. The water quality aspect of the module will consider an introduction to groundwater chemistry and the key processes underlying the fate and transport of contaminants in the water environment.
| QS 综合 | 院校 | 学制 | 学费 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 第 2 位 | 帝国理工学院Imperial College London | 1年 | 47250英镑/年 |
| 第 8 位 | 苏黎世联邦理工学院ETH Zurich | 2年 | 1460瑞士法郎/年 |
| 第 10 位 | 新加坡国立大学National University of Singapore | 1年 | 50945新币/年 |
| 第 16 位 | 耶鲁大学Yale University | 3年 | 47600美元/年 |
| 第 49 位 | 加州大学洛杉矶分校University of California, Los Angeles | 4学期 | 11,700美元/年 |
| 第 51 位 | 密歇根大学University of Michigan | 30学分 | 52,456美元 |
| 第 58 位 | 纽约大学New York University | 30学分 | 2120美元/学分 |
| 第 74 位 | 伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 36学分 | 36798美元/年 |