Course Details
Ecological engineering
Academic Year 2022/23
NSB021 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-GK Summer Semester 2nd year
Ecology,basic nomenclature and principles, sustainable development, global problems.
Energy, agriculture, landscape and sustainable development.
Brownfields and sustainable development.
Public spaces.
Sewage water treatment. Rivers in landscape and urban environment. River restoration.
Public spaces.
Energy, agriculture, landscape and sustainable development.
Brownfields and sustainable development.
Public spaces.
Sewage water treatment. Rivers in landscape and urban environment. River restoration.
Public spaces.
Credits
3 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
summer
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Entry Knowledge
Student gains basic knowledge of ecology from the structural engineering point of view
Aims
Basic knowledge of ecology from the structural engineering point of view
Prerequisites
Fundaments of natural sciences
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- Ecological engineering - concepts of ecology, climate change, sustainability, etc.
- Determination of carbon footprint
- Determination of ecological footprint
- Calculation of surface runoff from an area - collection of input data
- Calculation of surface runoff from an area - solution, sizing
- Design of seepage facilities
- Green roof design
- Green roof irrigation system design
- Green roof excursion
- Short presentations by students on a selected topic in applied ecology
- Short student presentations on a selected topic in applied ecology
- Credit