MABY5315 Urban Water Technology Course description

This course equips students with skills and knowledge in hydraulic and bioprocess modelling for urban water systems. Students will learn to use hydraulic models for designing urban storm-, wastewater, and water distribution systems, covering specifics of urban hydraulics and hydrology, as well as system planning, design and optimization.

Additionally, chemical and biochemical engineering principles will be used to learn mathematical models of bioprocesses, focusing on reaction kinetics, bioreactor operation and design in biological water treatment.

The course integrates training on software tools, such as SWMM, Mike+, Epanet, Scalgo, Matlab, and Python for hands-on experience and simulations.

In the optional course MJ4800 Scientific Assistant, the student is associated with a research project led by a scientific employee at the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, and participates in this research project. The participation must result in a relevant academic production. The subject can only be taken once.

The language of instruction is Norwegian.

Students must have completed and passed the courses MED4000 Media Development and Media Research, and MED4100 Introduction to Research Method or equivalent method course, before they can take the course MJ4800 Scientific Assistant.

On a given occasion, research projects will announce places for scientific assistants at the master's program. The student contacts the project manager and submits a request for a place on the research project. The research leader decides whether there is room for the student and reports this.

An agreement is made about the content of the scientific assistance work, which in scope will correspond to 6 weeks of full-time studies. The project leader supervises the student in accordance with the agreement before and after the work. The work must end in a professionally relevant production.

The teaching takes place in person, on campus.

No coursework requirements

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Pass/non-pass

Harald Hornmoen

The most important content of the course is the pedagogical interaction between the staff's academic personnel and the student. The student will conduct a scientific work more closely agreed upon under the supervision of an academic member of staff. Through empirical studies and critical reflection the student will acquire insight and skills to carry out an academic work that maintains a good scientific standard. The course will provide the student with both practical skills, which are useful for later work on the master's thesis, and provide theoretical and practical competence that is useful for ongoing research in the expert community at the Department of Journalism and Media Studies.

Benedek György Plosz

5 ECTS MABY5310

5 ECTS MABY5320