Waste Management and Engineering (5 cr)

Objectives (course unit)

After completing this course student:
- is familiar with the principles and practises of waste management
- knows waste legislation and its applications
- knows the waste management techniques
- knows waste recycling and the secondary uses of waste material
- can recycle and manage recycling systems
- knows the principles of landfill construction and management of waste management sites
- can compost and do simple laboratory analyses concerning biowaste and compost quality
- has adopted the 3R principle and understands the necessity of reducing waste amounts an defficient secondary use of waste materials

Content (course unit)

- Composition, collection, transportation and treatment of waste material
- Waste legislation, policies and regulations
- Waste treatment technologies (landfills and their operation, waste incineration, biowaste treatment, hazardours waste treatment)
- Laboratory exercises: composting, leachate tests

Prerequisites (course unit)

Basic Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry courses, Basics for Environmental Technology and Management

Location and time

Yrjönen and Kasari: according to the timetable

Evaluation methods and criteria

Anne Kasari's part of the cource is evaluated by the activity in the lessons and short test (in Tabula) after lectures are over in January.
Yrjönen: participation 80% of the lectures, participation to all excursions (3), presentation evaluated 1-5, laboratory work done and the report evaluated, activity in lectures

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

Yrjönen: Lectures, groupworks, excursions, presentation, visiting lectures, laboratory work
Kasari: lectures

Learning materials

Lessons, excursions, conversations, practices.
Yrjönen and Kasari: material found in Tabula, list of litterature in Tabula

Student workload

5cr = 135 hours of work

Completion alternatives

Yrjönen: no options

Practical training and working life cooperation

excursions (3), visiting lectures, laboratory work

International connections

Yrjönen: lectured in english, international group, participators from numerous countries

Assessment criteria - fail (0) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Anne Kasari's part: not passed test and not attending to lessons
Yrjönen: no participation to the lectures, excursions, laboratory work, presentation missing

Assessment criteria - excellent (5) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Yrjönen: participation to the lectures min 80%, laboratory work and report done (5), participation to all excursions, presentation done (5)