Online Course on Wastewater Treatment

Over the past twenty years, the knowledge and understanding of wastewater treatment has advanced extensively and moved away from empirically-based approaches to a fundamentally-based ‘first principles' approach embracing chemistry, microbiology, physical and bioprocess engineering and mathematics. Many of these advances have matured to the degree that they have been codified into mathematical models for simulation by computers. For a new generation of young scientists and engineers entering the wastewater treatment profession, the quantity, complexity and diversity of these new developments can be overwhelming, particularly in developing countries where access is not readily available to advanced level courses in wastewater treatment.

This online course seeks to address that deficiency. It assembles and integrates the postgraduate course material of a dozen or so professors from research groups around the world that have made significant contributions to the advances in wastewater treatment. 

The internet-based curriculum consists of a more than 40 hours of video-recorded lectures by the author professors, the textbook Biological Wastewater Treatment: Principles, Design and Modelling (edited by M. Henze, M.C.M. van Loosdrecht, G.A. Ekama and D. Brdjanovic, published by IWA Publishing, 2008), lecture handouts and tutorial exercises for students' self-study. Upon completion of this curriculum, the modern approach of modelling and simulation to wastewater treatment plant design and operation (be it activated sludge, biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal, secondary settling tanks or biofilm systems) can be embraced with deeper insight, advanced knowledge and greater confidence.

The course fee is EUR675, which includes access to the course materials as well as individual guidance and mentoring during the course. The online course is delivered twice a year starting in spring and autumn. The maximum number of participants for spring run is 20, and the deadline for registration to the spring course is March 1st 2010. The course language is English. A reliable and reasonably fast (ideally 512kbps) internet connection is necessary.

Further information about this online learning course and UNESCO-IHE's Sanitary Engineering specialisation can be obtained from the course coordinator Dr. Carlos Lopez Vazquez (c.lopezvazquez@unesco-ihe.org) or by visiting the respective web pages http://www.unesco-ihe.org/Education/Short-courses/Online-courses and http://www.unesco-ihe.org/Education/MSc-Programmes.

do you offer degree courses or certificate courses,if so i am interested in some of your courses,how do i enroll or register to start your program. Stanley. stanley uruebor - 26/02/2011 - 16:20