Waste management (5 cr)
Code: EE00CX35-3001
General information
- Enrollment
- 16.12.2019 - 10.01.2020
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 13.01.2020 - 30.04.2020
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 3 cr
- Virtual portion
- 2 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Blended learning
- Unit
- Department of Forestry and Environmental Technology
- Campus
- Mikkeli Campus
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Seats
- 0 - 30
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Environmental Engineering
- Teachers
- Liisa Routaharju
- Teacher in charge
- Liisa Routaharju
- Groups
-
EEMI18SPEnvironmental Engineering, full-time studies
- Course
- EE00CX35
Objective
You know the basic targets as well as the economic and environmental aspects of waste management. You are familiar with the possibilities for waste reduction and the techniques used in waste management, reuse and recycling. You can describe the techniques used for hazardous waste treatment as well as the recovery of materials and energy from waste. You know the main features of national and international guidance and regulations concerning waste management.
Content
What is the priority aim in waste management?
How can you know the environmentally best techniques to treat waste?
What kind of waste is not suitable to be taken to landfills? How are they treated, then?
Is waste incineration dangerous?
Who owns the waste and pays for it? How can one benefit from waste?
Evaluation
Students can
a. use professional vocabulary and concepts extensively and proficiently in different situations.
b. justify their information sources in a versatile and critical way.
e. evaluate and develop models, methods, software and techniques.
Study forms and methods
Scheduled track:
You know the basic targets as well as the economic and environmental aspects of waste management. You are familiar with the possibilities for waste reduction and the techniques used in waste management, reuse and recycling. You can describe the techniques used for hazardous waste treatment as well as the recovery of materials and energy from waste. You know the main features of national and international guidance and regulations concerning waste management.
What is the priority aim in waste management?
How can you know the environmentally best techniques to treat waste?
What kind of waste is not suitable to be taken to landfills? How are they treated, then?
Is waste incineration dangerous?
Who owns the waste and pays for it? How can one benefit from waste?
Evaluation scale
1-5
Assessment methods and criteria
Students can
a. use professional vocabulary and concepts extensively and proficiently in different situations.
b. justify their information sources in a versatile and critical way.
e. evaluate and develop models, methods, software and techniques.
Qualifications
Basics of engineering chemistry and physics