Electronics (ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT) Course Outline

Electronics (ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT) Course Outline

Bangladesh Polytechnic Institute

Technology: Electronics

Semester: 6th

Sub. Name: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (5840)

Course Outline

Class No.	Discussion and Explanation of Topics/ Titles	Remarks
Class-1	Understand the basic concepts of environment.  Define: environment, Marine environment, Freshwater environment, Nutrients, Mangrove forest, Photochemical oxidant, Pollutant, Receptor, Sink, Pathways of pollutant, Speciation.  Mention the main components of environment.  Mention the functions of environment.  Describe natural environment, man-made environment and social environment
Class-2	Understand ecology and eco-systems.  Define ecology and eco-system.  Mention the range of tolerance in eco-system.  Explain the biotic and abiotic components of ecosystem.  Explain briefly how does eco-system work.  Explain the stability of eco-system
Class-3	Understand ecology and eco-systems.  Explain the following ecological terms:Food chain, Food web, Biodiversity, Biomass, Ecological pyramid, Pyramid of biomass, Pyramid of energy, Bioconcentration, Bio-magnification,Restoration ecology.  Narrate the following bio-geochemical cycles of ecosystem.  Describe the following global environmental issues: Global environment, Earth and other environmental summits, climate change and ozone layer depletion
Class-4	Understand the air and the atmospheric regions.  Mention different layers of atmosphere.  Mention the average composition of the atmosphere at sea level.
Class-5	Understand the air and the atmospheric regions.  Describe the chemical species and particulates present in the atmosphere.  Describe the importance ozone layer
Class-6	Understand the air pollution and its sources & effects.  Define air pollution.  Mention the composition of clean dry atmospheric air.  List the air pollutants.  Identify the sources of air pollutions.  List the green house gases.
Class-7	Understand the air pollution and its sources & effects.  Mention the effects of air pollution on human health, animals, plants and non-living things.  Explain the formation of photo-chemical smog and its effect.  List the disasters of major air pollution in the world mentioning location, causes and effects.  Explain the causes of acid rain and its effect on eco-system.
Class-8	Feedback
Class-9	Class test-1
Class-10	Understand the control of air pollution at the sources.  Mention the methods of air pollution control.  Describe the following devices: gravitational settling chamber, cyclone separator, wet scrubber, centrifugal scrubber, fabric filter, catalytic converter.
Class-11	Understand the sources of water pollution and its effects.  Define water pollution.  Mention the specification of ideal water as per recommendation of the World Heath Organization (WHO).
Class-12	Understand the sources of water pollution and its effects.  List the different types of water pollutants.  Describe the sources of water pollution.  Describe the effects of water pollution on human health, animal, plants and environment
Class-13	Understand the monitoring of water pollution.  Define the following terms:  Dissolved oxygen (DO).  Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD).  Chemical oxygen demand (COD).  Total organic carbon (TOC).  Threshold limit value (TLV).  Mention the method of determination of pH value of
Class-14	Feedback
Class-15	Feedback
Class-16	Understand the monitoring of water pollution.  Mention the method of determination of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) in a sample of water.  Mention the method of determination of chemical oxygen demand (COD) in a sample of water.
Class-17	Understand the waste water treatment.  Define the primary treatment, secondary treatment and tertiary treatment of waste water.  Define the following terms; ETP, Oxidation pond, waste stabilization pond, trickling filter, Activated slug.  Mention the methods of primary and secondary treatment of industrial waste water
Class-18	Understand the sound pollution and its control.  Define sound, sound wave and sound pollution.  Mention the scale of measuring sound intensity.  Mention the sources of sound pollution.
Class-19	Understand the sound pollution and its control.  Describe the effect of sound pollution on human health.  Describe the methods of control of sound pollution.
Class-20	Understand the soil pollution and its management.  Define soil pollution.  List the classification of soil pollution.  Mention the sources of soil pollution.  Describe the effect of soil pollution on human health
Class-21	Understand the radioactive pollution and its control.  Define radioactive pollution.  Mention the sources of radioactive pollution.  List the causes of radioactive pollution
Class-22	Understand the radioactive pollution and its control.  Explain the effect of radioactive pollution on human health.  Describe the method of control of radioactive pollution.
Class-23	Understand the solid waste management.  Define solid waste.  List the sources of solid waste.  Mention the classification of solid waste.  Mention the methods of collection of solid waste.
Class-24	Understand the solid waste management.  Mention the waste management strategies in Bangladesh.  Describe the recycling of solid wastes.  Describe the potential method of disposal of solid waste
Class-25	Understand the major environmental issues in Bangladesh.  List the major environmental issues in Bangladesh.  Describe the following disaster management of Bangladesh  flood, cyclone, tidal surge, Cyclone(SIDR, AILA, Nargis,Tsunami), landslide, earthquakes and salinity.
Class-26	Understand the arsenic pollution in Bangladesh. .  Mention the arsenic pollution of water in Bangladesh.  Explain the effects of arsenic pollution on human health.  Describe the causes of arsenic in ground water.
Class-27	Understand the pesticide pollution in Bangladesh and its management.  Define pesticide.  Make a list of pesticides
Class-28	Understand the pesticide pollution in Bangladesh and its management.  Mention the causes of pesticide pollution in Bangladesh.  Describe the effect of pesticide pollution in the environment
Class-29	Understand the national environmental legislations and guidelines environmental frame work and policy in Bangladesh.  Define, EA, EIA, IEA, NEMAP, DOE, BELA, GPS, GIS  Mention environmental act and legislations prescribed for air and water quality
Class-30	Understand the national environmental legislations and guidelines environmental frame work and policy in Bangladesh.  Describe environmental act prescribed for industries in Bangladesh.  Describe the guide lines of environment prescribed for industries in Bangladesh.  Describe the environmental frame work in Bangladesh
Class-31	Feedback
Class-32	Feedback
Class-33	Class test-2

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Pollution control in process industries

 S. P. Mahajan

2. Environmental Engineering

 Peavy, Rowe and Techobanglous

3. Air pollution

 V. P. Kudesia

4. Industrial Noise Control

 Bruce Fader

5. Pesticide Pollution

 Kudecsia and Charaya

6. Water Pollution

 V. P. Kudesia

7. Peoples Report on Bangladesh Environment 2001

Atia Rahman, M. Ashraf Ali and Farooque Choudhury