| Study programme competencies |
| Code | Study programme competences |
| A1 | Knowledge, understanding and capacity to apply legislation related with water engineering during professional development. Capacity to analyse the working mechanism of the economy and public and private management of water |
| A2 | Capacity to resolve basic physical problems of water engineering and theoretic and practical Knowledge of the chemistry, physics, mechanics and technologic properties of the water |
| A5 | Knowledge of the basic concepts about ecology applied to water engineering. Capacity to act in the respectful way and enriching way about the environment contribution to the sustainable development. Capacity to analyse the ecological quality of water. Knowledge of the basic principles of the ecology and basic understanding of the working continental water systems |
| A16 | Knowledge of the chemical basis of water which totally condition its behaviour in nature and its uses. Understanding and knowledge of the different water regulations for quality at local, national and European level |
| A19 | Knowledge of advanced water treatment with different conclusions: depuration, re-use, purification, elimination of nutrients and regeneration treatments |
| A20 | Use and management of measuring equipment in the field and in the laboratory. Knowledge of the methodology of control process and the determination of design parameters for water treatment processes |
| A21 | Knowledge of water quality control models. Capacity to analyse and propose solutions to problems in water quality control |
| A25 | Knowledge and understanding of water in different situations: the working of ecosystems, environmental factors with the purpose of to make an inventory of medium, applying the methodology to value the impact and its use in studies and evaluations of the environmental impact. |
| B1 | To resolve problems effectively |
| B2 | To apply critical thinking, logic and creativity |
| B3 | To work individually with initiative |
| B4 | To communicate effectively in work surroundings |
| B5 | Continuous recycling of knowledge in a general perspective in a global situation of water engineering |
| B6 | Understanding of the need to analyse history to understand the present |
| B7 | Facility to integrate in multidiscipline teams |
| B8 | Capacity to organize and plan |
| B9 | Capacity for analysis, synthesis and structure of information and ideas |
| C1 | To understand the importance of the enterprising culture and to know the means at the reach of the enterprising people |
| C2 | To value knowledge critically, technology and available information to resolve problems that they will face |
| C3 | To assume as a professional and citizen the importance of learning throughout life |
| C4 | To value the importance of the investigation, innovation and technology development in the social –economic advance and cultural in society |
| C5 | To posses and understand knowledge that gives a base or oportunity to be original in the development and for applications of ideas, often in the context of investigation |
| C6 | The students must be able to apply the acquired knowledge and their capacity to resolve problems in new surrandings or not well known within wider contexts (or multidiscipline) related with the study area |
| C7 | The students must be able to integrate knowledge and to affront the complexity to formulate judgements from information that, been incomplete or limited, include reflexions about social responsabilities and ethics related to the application of the knowledge and judments |
| C8 | The students must be able to comunicate their conclusions, knowledge and the last reasons that support them, to spezialated publics and not spezialated in a clear and unambiguous way. |
| C9 | The student must possess the learning ability with permits them to continues to study in a manner wich will be in a great measure self directed and individual |
| Learning aims | |||
| Learning outcomes | Study programme competences | ||
| Learning the basic principles of water chemistry. | AC1 AC2 AC5 AC16 AC19 AC20 AC21 AC25 |
BC1 BC4 BC5 BC6 BC9 |
CC1 CC2 CC3 CC4 CC5 CC6 CC7 CC8 CC9 |
| Learning the basic principles of the analytical techniques aimed at quantifying the concentrations of water contaminants and their constituents. | AC2 AC16 |
BC1 BC2 BC4 BC5 BC7 BC9 |
CC2 CC3 CC4 |
| Ability to plan and execute sampling surveys for water chemistry | AC1 AC2 AC20 AC21 AC25 |
BC1 BC2 BC3 BC5 BC7 BC8 BC9 |
CC4 |
| Ability to establish relationships between physico-chemical data and the chemical state of a water body or the prescribed legal environmental quality objectives. | AC1 AC25 |
BC2 BC5 BC7 |
CC2 CC3 CC4 |
| Ability to perform statistical descriptions relative to the chemical quality of water. | AC2 AC16 AC20 AC21 |
BC1 BC2 BC4 BC7 BC8 BC9 |
CC2 CC3 CC4 |
| Ability to perform graphical representations of water chemistry | AC2 AC25 |
BC1 BC2 BC3 BC8 BC9 |
CC2 CC3 CC4 |
| Learning basic hydrochemical processes | AC16 AC19 |
BC1 BC2 BC7 BC9 |
CC3 CC4 |
| Learning the basic principles of hydrochemical modelling | AC21 |
BC1 BC2 BC7 BC9 |
CC4 |
| Contents |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Basics of water chemistry | Structure and properties of water Mol and stoichiometry Aqueous interactions and chemical bonding Concentration units Colligative properties Mass action law and the equilibrium constant |
| Sampling and monitoring | Routine parameters Special determinations In situ vs. laboratory determinations Sampling surveys for ground, precipitation, stream and lake/reservoir waters Sampling frequency |
| Analitical techniques and quality assessment | Accuracy, precission, bias Detection and quatification limits Titrations Analytical techniques (spectrophtometry, ICP, ...) |
| Data analysis and interpretation | Fundamentals of descriptive statistics Graphic analysis of water chemistry data Time series representation and analysis |
| Hydrochemical processes and modelling | Chemical reactions and temperature dependence Equilibrium Acidity and alkalinity Solid dissolution/precipitation processes |
| Planning | ||||
| Methodologies / tests | Competencies | Ordinary class hours | Student’s personal work hours | Total hours |
| Guest lecture / keynote speech | A1 A2 A5 A16 A19 A21 A25 B5 | 30 | 30 | 60 |
| Seminar | A1 A2 A5 A16 A19 A20 A21 A25 B7 B6 B5 B4 B3 B2 B1 B8 B9 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 | 30 | 30 | 60 |
| Personalized attention | 30 | 0 | 30 | |
| (*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students. | ||||
| Methodologies |
| Methodologies | Description |
| Guest lecture / keynote speech | Regular lectures where the main theoretical contents of the subjects are regarded |
| Seminar | Practical lectures related to the theoretical aspects regarded at the magistral lectures |
| Personalized attention |
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| Assessment | |||
| Methodologies | Competencies | Description | Qualification |
| Seminar | A1 A2 A5 A16 A19 A20 A21 A25 B7 B6 B5 B4 B3 B2 B1 B8 B9 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 | The attendance to the semminars and the work being developed at the semminars will be considered for the final mark | 50 |
| Guest lecture / keynote speech | A1 A2 A5 A16 A19 A21 A25 B5 | The knowledge of the concepts developed at the magistral lectures will be assesed and considered for the final mark | 50 |
| Assessment comments | |||
| Sources of information |
| Basic |
Werner Stumm and James J. Morgan (1996). Aquatic Chemistry: Chemical Equilibria and Rates in Natural Waters (3rd Ed.). Wiley Interscience
C.A.J. Appelo and D. Postma (2005). Geochemistry, Groundwater And Pollution (2nd Ed.). Balkema
John D. Hem (1985). Study And Interpretation of the Chemical Characteristics of Natural Water. U.S. Geological Survey
James I. Drever (1997). The Geochemistry of Natural Waters: Surface and Groundwater Environments (3rd Edition). Prentice Hall
Arthur Hounslow (1995). Water Quality Data: . Lewis Publishers |
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