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CE50005: Management residential school

Credits: 6

Level: Masters

Modular: no specific semester

Assessment: OT100

Requisites:

While taking this unit you must take CE50002 or take CE50003 or take CE50004

Distance learning Unit (IEM).
Aims: The aim is to provide the student with an opportunity to apply the skills learned in the first four modules to a practical real life case study, and to improve their practical knowledge by attending talks given by practitioners working in each of the relevant environmental fields.
Learning Outcomes: After successfully completing this unit students should be able to put the academic content of the course in to a 'real world' context. Also, working in groups enables the students to meet and get to know their cohort group, and allows them to meet the subject tutors and other course staff. It also provides the students with the opportunity for face to face tuition and discussion of any problems.
Skills: The students practice team and presentation skills in the case study project which they complete.
Content: Three lectures/discussion sessions led by consultants/practitioners in EIA, Audit and CBA; and an integrated case study exercise involving all three techniques ending with a presentation given by the students on the final day.

CE50006: Life cycle assessment

Credits: 6

Level: Masters

Modular: no specific semester

Assessment: CW50EX50

Requisites:

Distance learning Unit (IEM).
Aims: The aim is to provide the student with an understanding of LCA as an environmental management tool and a detailed knowledge of how to apply it in practice.
Learning Outcomes: After successfully completing this unit, students should be able to demonstrate a detailed understanding of the four main phases in conducting an LCA: goal definition and scoping, inventory analysis, impact assessment and improvement analysis) as well as describing the present and potential future applications of LCA and its the shortcomings/limitations.
Skills: This distance learning unit develops skills in self study, data analysis and use of spreadsheets.
Content: Goal definition and scoping; inventory analysis - data requirements and quality issues, data processing and validation, inventory calculation methodology, presenting the life cycle inventory results; interpretation of the inventory (i.e. impact assessment methods); improvement analysis (including variations in recycling loops); the applications and limitations of LCA; and the origins of LCA and international standards.

CE50006: Life cycle assessment

Credits: 6

Level: Masters

Semester: 2

Assessment: CW50EX50

Requisites:

CE50007: Clean technology 1

Credits: 6

Level: Masters

Modular: no specific semester

Assessment: CW50EX50

Requisites:

Distance learning Unit (IEM).
Aims: The aim is to advance student understanding of current and best practices in
(a) the methodologies of clean technology as it applies to waste minimisation, pollution prevention, cleaner production and cleaner processing, and
(b) design for the environment and for recycling.
Learning Outcomes: After successfully completing this unit students should be able to
(a) describe the origins and problems associated with the generation of waste and pollution,
(b) describe the legal aspects of the problem,
(c) carry out basic project procedures including technical and economic assessments and the ranking of projects, and
(d) apply such assessments and rankings to the design of products for the twin benefits of environmental performance improvement and business performance improvement.
Skills: This distance learning unit develops skills in self study and written expression.
Content: Sources of waste, categories of clean technology techniques, legal aspects, contemporary methodologies including objectives, corporate commitment, assessment, technical and economic feasibility analyses, project ranking and implementation, the design of products for the environment, life cycle concepts, the design of machine tools (as a case study), the design of cleaning systems (as a case study), recycling of products and their components, recycling of plastics (as a case study).

CE50008: Technical residential school

Credits: 6

Level: Masters

Modular: no specific semester

Assessment: OT100

Requisites:

While taking this unit you must take CE50006 or take CE50007 or take CE50009 or take CE50010 or take CE50011

Distance learning Unit (IEM).
Aims: The aim is to provide the student with an opportunity to apply the skills learned in the second two compulsory modules, and to try applying the skills required by the option modules, to a practical case study, and to advance their practical knowledge by attending talks given by practitioners working in each of the relevant environmental fields.
Learning Outcomes: After successfully completing this unit students should be able to put the academic content of the course in to a 'real world' context. Also, working in groups enables the students to meet and get to know their cohort group, and allows them to meet the subject tutors and other course staff. Finally, the unit will help students choose which of the option modules they wish to take; it also provides the students with an opportunity for fact to face tuition and therefore to discuss any specific problems.
Skills: The students practice team and presentation skills in the case study project which they complete.
Content: Five lectures/discussion groups lead by practitioners/consultants in LCA, Clean Technology I and II, Energy Management, Risk Management; and an integrated case study exercise involving all four techniques, and culminating in a presentation given by the students on the final day.

CE50009: Energy management

Credits: 6

Level: Masters

Modular: no specific semester

Assessment: CW100

Requisites:

Distance learning Unit (IEM).
Aims: The aim is to advance student understanding of current and best practises in the methodologies of energy management.
Learning Outcomes: After successfully completing this unit students should be able to describe the current situation as regard energy use and the environmental implications of it on a global, national and local scale. Students should also be able to demonstrate an in depth understanding of the role of energy management in that context, and in the context of specific benefits for the company; including how energy management can be implemented and what implementation means in terms of action, training, resources etc.; what constitutes efficiency in terms of combustion, refrigeration and heat exchange; and basic economic principles as applied to investment in energy management.
Skills: The extended essay assignment helps to prepare the students' writing skills for their dissertation.
Content: Physical aspects of energy, basic principles relating to energy, energy management including the energy policy, energy audit, monitoring and control, combustion, refrigeration, energy recovery and economics for energy managers.

CE50009: Energy management

Credits: 6

Level: Masters

Semester: 2

Assessment: CW100

Requisites:

CE50010: Risk management

Credits: 6

Level: Masters

Modular: no specific semester

Assessment: CW100

Requisites:

Distance learning Unit (IEM).
Aims: The aim is to advance student understanding of current best practices in the methodologies of risk assessment and management as they apply at policy level e.g. planning issues, and also at the level of individual organisations, and specific processes and substances.
Learning Outcomes: After successfully completing this unit the students should be able to outline the role of risk management and assessment in environmental management systems, and describe how risk assessment and management methods are employed in EIA, CBA and environmental audit. They should be able to undertake a risk assessment exercise, interpret the results and appropriately manage the identified risks. To this end, the students will acquire a detailed understanding of the various analytical techniques that can be used to assess risk, and identify the role that these techniques play in managing risk.
Skills: The extended essay assignment helps to prepare the students' writing skills for their dissertation.
Content: Risk management: government policy and guidelines; risk management through planning control; links to EIA; risk management techniques at the company/organisational level; risk assessment techniques for identifying significant aspects, links to ISO 14001 and EMS; technological risk; process and substance risk assessment; risk/impact pathways; analytical techniques for risk assessment, links to CBA; definitions of risk/uncertainty; descriptive statistics; probability and probability distribution; confidence intervals; decision analysis; scenario analysis and simulation methods; multi-attribute decision criteria; social risk management/risk perception; insurance.

Credits: 30

Level: Masters

Dissertation period

Assessment: CW100

Requisites:

Aims: To conduct an experimental, theoretical, or computational research project, in a chosen field of specialism.
Learning Outcomes: Student should be able to demonstrate a level of understanding about a chosen field of specialism, that has necessitated the need to read published research papers in the field, and to build on that knowledge (by theoretical or experimental work), to a level that would not normally be found in an undergraduate course text book.
Skills: Record keeping, working in a systematic manner, tackling an open ended problem, oral/written communication, allocation of priorities. Students will gather knowledge about their chosen specialism, realise the importance of time management, scheduling of work, and importance of reviewing progress against objectives.
Content: In the earlier research project unit(s), the students will have gathered information and formed conclusions. The students will meet their allocated academic supervisors. This information is reviewed and then the work programme is actioned. Data is gathered, the results are interpreted, conclusions are formed. The final requirement is for a written Final Report and a 30 minute oral presentation. The length of this should be about 10,000 words of text supported by about 20 - 30 sides of diagrams/figures/tables, etc.

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