Environmental Systems Management
Keywords |
Classification |
Keyword |
OFICIAL |
Interp/Personal professional attitudes and capac. |
OFICIAL |
Environmental Management |
Instance: 2018/2019 - 1S
Cycles of Study/Courses
Acronym |
No. of Students |
Study Plan |
Curricular Years |
Credits UCN |
Credits ECTS |
Contact hours |
Total Time |
MIEA |
17 |
Syllabus since 2006/07 |
5 |
- |
6 |
56 |
162 |
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Introduction to the design of systems and water companies management and other entities in the area of the environment.
Learning outcomes and competences
Learning Outcomes:
- Experimentation and knowledge discovery;
- System thinking;
- Personal skills and attitudes;
- Professional skills and attitudes;
- Teamwork;
- Communications (oral and written);
- External and societal context;
- Conceiving and engineering systems;
- Infrastructure management.
Working method
Presencial
Program
1. Case studies.
2. General design, planning, organization and exploration of water and waste systems.
3. Strategic and cross transversal themes to be developed in classes and in individual and group assignments:
A – Technical
- Supply and demand management
- Performance indicators
- Loss control
- Recycling
- Infrastructure rehabilitation
- Desalination
- Reuse of surface water
- Energetic efficiency
- Reliability and risk management
- Automation, telemetering and telemanagement
B- Economical
- Costs
- Prices
- Financing
- Asset management
C- Social and environmental
- Development and poverty
- Tariff
D- Political option
- Privatization
- Regulation
- Legislation and regulations
Mandatory literature
ERSAR;
Guia de avaliação da qualidade dos serviços de águas e resíduos prestados aos utilizadores
Teaching methods and learning activities
This course unit uses Case Method, where theory and practical exercises come from the analysis of the activities of relevant companies and institutions in the area of environment at a national and international level, by the analysis of account reports, activity reports and audit reports.
Evaluation Type
Distributed evaluation with final exam
Assessment Components
Designation |
Weight (%) |
Exame |
75,00 |
Trabalho prático ou de projeto |
25,00 |
Total: |
100,00 |
Eligibility for exams
Achieving final classification requires compliance with attendance at the course unit,
Calculation formula of final grade
Final Exam is worth 75% of the final grade, while the practical assignments are worth 25% of the final grade.