Postgraduate Courses

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Explain the physical principles governing the atmosphere and its circulation.
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  Identify the science and engineering of air quality issues and the principles of air quality management.
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  Quantify the impact of air pollution from different emission sources using simple models.
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  Integrate the knowledge and utilize available web resources to explain the formation, maintenance and dissipation of air pollution episodes in Hong Kong and Southern China.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify and quantify the water pollutants of the conventional wastewaters such as municipal wastewater, industrial wastewater, clinical wastewater, etc.
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  Use the fundamental knowledge to design practical wastewater treatment processes for specific wastewater sources.
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  Quantify and evaluate the wastewater treatment processes' efficiencies via specific characterization techniques like Fourier Transform Infra-Red Spectroscopy for organic group detection, Inductively Coupled Plasma for metal ion quantification, UV-vis Spectroscopy for organic compounds analysis.
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  Conduct and design a quantitative and qualitative methodology for analyzing the water quality via a project-based case study.
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  Strengthen communication skills via written reports and oral presentations.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe the regulations for contaminated land management in Hong Kong.
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  Assess the potential risks associated with land contamination.
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  Evaluate and compare the applications of various remediation technologies.
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  Design cost-effective remediation technology to decontaminate a site.
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  Identify real applications from case studies.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Define the fundamental and advanced knowledge of current solid wastes and wastewater treatment and disposal systems and their problems in Hong Kong and beyond.
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  Identify key problems of water and wastewater treatment processes, and propose fundamental engineering and management solution.
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  Professionally judge and assess the advantages and disadvantages of various sewage treatment technologies such as MEL, AGS, BABY, Anammox, etc.
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  Select the treatment processes/technologies for meeting a more stringent discharge requirement for water pollution control with focus of tertiary treatment.
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  Design basic treatment units and systems for municipal wastewater treatment.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Define the current solid waste recycling, treatment and disposal systems and examine their problems in Hong Kong.
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  Identify the importance of an integrated solid waste management for sustainable development.
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  Assess the advantages and disadvantages of various thermal technologies such as waste-to-energy incineration.
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  Explain the design concepts and rules of a landfill based on fundamental principles of water and mass balance, hydrogeology, soil mechanics, and environmental engineering.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe the science and engineering fundamentals of hazardous waste characterization.
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  Identify the state-of-the-art hazardous waste regulations, contingency plans of accidental release and treatment technologies.
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  Appreciate the importance of hazardous waste management for sustainable development.
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  Practically handle hazardous waste in the consideration of safety and legal perspectives.
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  Plan and design a basic hazardous waste management system in different industries and treatment facilities.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe the fundamental and advanced knowledge of physical-chemical processes in the environmental engineering field.
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  Identify problems and propose feasible engineering or management solutions during the operation of water and wastewater treatment processes.
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  Design the physical-chemical unit processes and integrate them to systems for water and wastewater treatment.
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  Analyze major factors impacting physical-chemical treatment systems and provide management strategies.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe characteristics, biotreatability and environmental impacts of different types of industrial wastewaters.
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  Illustrate the principles of conventional and advanced technologies for industrial wastewater treatment.
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  Design basic treatment units and systems for industrial wastewater treatment.
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  Analyze major factors impacting industrial wastewater treatment systems and provide management strategies.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify and evaluate the environmental problems through reviewing the key water pollution parameters of water and wastewater.
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  Select the sewage treatment levels and processes required to meet the discharge requirements and to protect the receiving water bodies.
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  Carry out the process design for municipal sewage treatment plant including primary, chemically enhanced primary, secondary and sludge treatment.
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  Evaluate the operational problems and identify practical solutions during the operation of the municipal sewage treatment plants.
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  Select the tertiary treatment processes required for meeting a more stringent discharge requirement for water pollution control.
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  Select the treatment processes and identify the key design parameters and monitoring requirements for wastewater reuse.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify the engineering challenges in municipal hydraulic systems.
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  Apply the principles that underpin analysis, design and management of municipal hydraulic systems.
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  Integrate various approaches and tools to analyze, design and manage municipal hydraulic systems.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe the essential principles of and worldwide practices towards sustainable development.
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  Recognize corporate environmental challenges and key drivers including climate change towards corporate environmental management.
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  Illustrate different approaches and indicators for analysing corporate environmental performance.
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  Develop corporate environmental management strategy framework.
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  Describe the principles and mechanisms of environmental and energy management including international standards: ISO14000 and ISO50000.
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  Identify the essential elements and requirements of Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) reporting and analyse published ESG reports.
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  Describe the basic principles and approaches of regulatory control of pollution.
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  Recognize the regulatory control regimes and licensing/permitting requirements of the five major Hong Kong environmental laws and apply good compliance practices.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify and quantify the waste gas pollutants of the conventional industrial processes from different sources such as flue gas effluent, vehicular exhausts, power plant exhausts, etc.
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  Recognize the fundamental knowledge on the practical waste gas treatment process designs with specific pollutant sources.
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  Design and evaluate the conventional physio-chemical treatment processes, specifically targeting the pollutants such as volatile organic compounds, NOx, SOx, and particulates (PM2.5 and PM10).
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  Conduct and design a quantitative and qualitative methodology for solving practical problems in the waste gas treatment processes.
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  Develop communication skills, critical and logical thinking via a research project.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify the relationship between energy, environment and sustainable development.
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  Conduct energy analysis on energy systems.
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  Relate the global demand for energy with the impact on the environment.
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  Relate global warming with greenhouse gases emission.
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  Explain how various forms of non-renewable and renewable energies are produced and evaluate their impacts on the environment and sustainable development.
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  Propose possible practices and enhancement of energy efficiency in industry and commerce, which can contribute to sustainable development.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Describe knowledge in climate change and global efforts.
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  Identify anthropogenic GHGs emissions and its quantification method.
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  Establish organizational GHG inventories with reference to international and regional standards, protocols, regulations and schemes.
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  Illustrate carbon management concepts and provide strategic business positioning for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Identify major issues and fundamental knowledge of specific topics in environmental engineering.
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  Analyze and evaluate theories and methods applicable to solve problems in various aspects of the special topics.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

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  Develop independent learning and project management.
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  Develop critical thinking and analysis (problem conception and formulation, problem-solving, and knowledge application and extension to practice).
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  Develop effective written communication (logical organization of relevant content and  information, and accurate use of language).
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  Develop effective oral communication (logical organization of relevant content and information, use of appropriate style, pacing and body language, proper handling of questions, and effective time management).