Duration
4h Th, 38h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in environmental bioengineering (120 ECTS) | 6 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course will start with a brief overview of different hydrogeophysical techniques and their application.
After that, the students will analyze a big project in which hydrogeophysical techniques need to be deployed while working as a team in a consultancy company: problem analysis, establishment of a methodology, choice of techniques, prices, deadlines, ...
The different project phases will be studied in a critical way. In this integrated project, a large range of competences and knowledge from different fields of the bio-engineering sciences will be put into practice (prospection, environmental technology, hydrology, soil physics and soil chemistry, metrology, financial evaluation).
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the course, the student will be able to
Specific skills:
- understand the basics of different geophysical measurements and know when and where they can be applied;
- design a feasability study of a hydrogeophysical project based on real data;
- perform a field survey with geophysical methods;
- interpret the results of a geophysical survey and to confront them with other data;
- understand the different phases linked to the feasability study of a project.
- work in a team of engineers;
- apply and integrate the different engineering disciplines by teamwork;
- show a critical view.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The course will touch upon soil physics, soil-plant interactions, hydrology, geophysics and project management. A good basis in mathematics, physics and chemistry is necessary.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
This course is composed of
- 2 courses introducing geophysical techniques
- an introductory session on the project (feasibility study);
- discussions in small groups in order to follow up the evolution of the project work;
- minutes reports (weekly);
- literature search;
- 1-2 days of supervised field work;
- coached sessions for the processing and interpretation of the geophysical data;
- oral presentation of the project to the 'client'.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Courses + coaching (sessions + online)
Recommended or required readings
Assessment methods and criteria
Each student group will need to deliver a report, written in English.
Each group will do a project presentation after the delivery of the report, also in English.
The evaluation of the course will be based on an average between the written report and the presentation.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Frederic NGUYEN
Département ArGEnCo- Quartier Polytech 1
Alléé de la découverte 9 - B52 - 4000 LIEGE (Sart Tilman)
+3243663797
Sarah GARRE
Dpt of Biosystems Engineering (BIOSE) - Water-soil-plant exchanges
Passage des Déportés 2 - BE-5030 Gembloux (Bât 2-3, 2ième étage)
+32 (0)81.62.21.80