Type of course: |
Compulsory |
Language of instruction: |
Romanian |
Erasmus Language of instruction: |
English |
Name of lecturer: |
Ildiko Camelia Tulbure |
Seminar tutor: |
Ildiko Camelia Tulbure |
Form of education |
Full-time |
Form of instruction: |
Lecture |
Number of teaching hours per semester: |
56 |
Number of teaching hours per week: |
4 |
Semester: |
Summer |
Form of receiving a credit for a course: |
Grade |
Number of ECTS credits allocated |
5 |
Course aims:
• Delivering theoretical and methodological basic notions related to ecology and environmental protection;
• Students customization to the specific terminology and expressions related to ecology and environmental protection;
- Presenting basics regarding population dynamics, interconnections with environmental systems, as well as environmental systems modelling methods.
Course Entry Requirements:
Physics, Mathematics
Course contents:
1. Introduction, aims and objectives of this lecture;
2. World Problematique and Sustainable Development;
3. General notions regarding Ecology;
4. Basics about ecosystems;
5. Fundamentals regarding population ecology;
6. Population Dynamics;
7. Fundamentals regarding modelling environmental systems;
8. Man and environment. Society, economy, and ecology;
9. Energetic resources and their usage environmental impacts;
10. Basic notions regarding environmental pollution and protection;
11. Environmental monitoring and assessment. Environmental indicators.
12. Concluding remarks, relevance for the field of environmental engineering.
Teaching methods:
Giving lectures, presenting real case studies, explaining industrial processes based on fluids, conversation, exemplification, applying hands-on methods.
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding and knowing diverse notions, concepts, and methods related to ecology and environmental protection;
- Delivering theoretical and methodological basic aspects with regard to ecology and environmental protection;
- Students familiarization with ecology specific terminology, with general notions related to ecology;
- Knowing basics regarding population dynamics;
- Knowing fundamental concepts related to environmental impact assessment;
- Understanding ecology relevance for environmental impact assessment and environmental engineering.
Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:
Oral examination – 50%; continuous assessment by preparing reports and delivering results of practical work in the laboratory – 25%; implication in solving problems during seminars – 25 %
Recommended reading:
Tulbure, I.,
Ecology and environmental protection - lecture notes, University 1 Decembrie 1918
, Alba Iulia
, 2021
, 115
Tulbure, I.,
Zustandsbeschreibung und Dynamik umweltrelevanter Systeme, Papierflieger
, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
, 1997
, 170
Jischa, M., F.,
Herausforderung Zukunft, Spektrum
, Heielberg, Germania
, 2005
, 280