Postgraduate Courses

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

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  Identify the basic physical principles of atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics that are relevant to global warming and air pollution.
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  Evaluate the impacts of human activities on climate and air quality.
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  Describe the management and control options of air quality in modern cities.
• 4.
  Develop skills in climate and environmental data analysis, interpretation, and quantitative assessment.

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.
• 5.
  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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  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 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).