The Faculty of Engineering

 

Water and Wastewater Services Management

Syllabus

PLEASE NOTE THAT MATRICULATION TO THIS PROGRAMME IS NOT POSSIBLE AS 2016-2017 WILL BE ITS FINAL YEAR OF OFFERING.

CIEN 6000 - Advanced Environmental
Engineering

• Theory of water and wastewater treatment.
• Design of drinking water and wastewater treatment systems.
• Advanced water and wastewater treatment systems (for example, chemical precipitation, aeration, ion exchange, membrane processes).
• Biological nutrient removal systems.
• Industrial ecology.
• Waste minimization technologies.
• Pollution prevention.
• End-of-pipe treatment.
• Gaseous pollutants and dispersion models.
• Life cycle assessment.

 

CIEN 6009 - EIA of Water Resources Projects

• Objectives of EIA.
• Legal context.
• Scope of impacts of water resource projects, visual, audible, smell, water quality, contaminants in water and on sediments, pollution ecology, quality standards.
• The impact of water resource management on urban and rural communities.
• Watershed impacts.
• Mitigation and remedial measures, control measures, consequences of infringement, monitoring and management.

 

CIEN 6010 -   Advanced Engineering Hydrology

• Hydrologic processes.
• Climate change issues.
• Hydrologic data.
• Design of hydrometeorological networks.
• Probability and statistics for hydrology.
• Modelling approaches.
• Stochastic modelling.
• Deterministic modelling.
• Model applications.

 

CIEN 6011 - Water Resources Metrics

• Descriptive statistics.
• Measurements and monitoring techniques for hydrometeorological surveys.
• Sediment and water quality sampling techniques.
• Emerging technologies and best practice.
• Satabase development.
• Spatial techniques.

 

COEM 6018 - Independent Research Project

The material covered will be a reflection of the student’s own requirements/interest. In general, all projects will demand:

• Problem identification and definition of objectives.
• Planning and execution within time and cost constraints.
• Information search and its interpretation.
• Evaluation resulting in the making of conclusions. 

 

COEM 6006 - Construction Accounting And Finance

• Introduction to accounting.
• The nature and purpose of financial accounting, business entity, different forms of business organisations.
• Business law and the company act, chart of accounts, recording accounting transactions, the accounting cycle, profit and loss statement, balance sheet, accounting ratios, accounting controls.
• Introduction to Management Accounting.
• Cost classification, methods of costing, job costing and contract costing, integrated accounts.
• Introduction to Financial Management: project financing, budgeting, financial planning and cost control.

 

COEM 6009 - Contract Management And Construction Law

• The elements of the Law of Tort.
• The impact of law on the delivery of goods and services.
• Types of contracts.
• Different procurement systems.
• Standard form of contracts (specifications codes of practice; standards, statutes and local government regulations).
• Identification of skills required, manpower planning and development, education, training, recruitment, certification, Industrial climate, politics, trade unionism, disputes and conflict resolution methods.
• Professional codes of ethics, professional liability.
• Claims.
• The risk assessment of time, cost, quality, health & safety, sustainability and environmental issues.
• Introduction to international law.

 

COEM 6020 - Research Methods

The topics covered in the unit will include:

• Principles of research.
• Information sources.
• Research design.
• Research methodology.
• Data collection.
• Data analysis.
• Presenting research proposals.
• Writing research reports.

 

COEM 6025 - Practical Team Project

  The projects are based upon real schemes and involve:

• Information gathering.
• Planning.
• Organisation.
• Co-ordination.
• Detailed assessment of ideas.
• Reporting.
• Presentation.