Environmental Systems Management

Code:

EA0050

Acronym:

GSA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Interp/Personal professional attitudes and capac.
OFICIAL	Environmental Management

Instance: 2019/2020 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Civil Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Environmental Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIEA	24	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.