Courses - Faculty of Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Stage II
Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering
Introduction to environmental engineering principles. Role of environmental engineers in the twenty-first century. Environmental measurements, environmental standards and impact assessment. Material mass balance. Drinking water, wastewater and stormwater treatment. Air quality parameters. Solid waste management. Sustainability. Environmental Impact Assessment.
Prerequisite: ENGGEN 140
Restriction: ENVENG 244
Stage III
Natural and Built Environment Processes
Chemical and biological treatment processes. Surface water quality modelling. Soil chemistry. Contaminant fate and transport in soil and groundwater. Contaminated sites remediation. Environmental responsibilities and sustainability considerations.
Prerequisite: ENVENG 200
Restriction: ENVENG 341
Three Waters: Quality and Treatment
Drinking-water treatment, stormwater and agricultural runoffs, biological wastewater treatment, small-scale water treatment systems, nutrient removal, micropollutants, emerging contaminants, water quality standards.
Engineering Hydrology
Hydrologic processes, analysis of rainfall-runoff relationships. Statistical analysis of hydrological data. Groundwater movement.
Environmental Engineering 2
Examines natural environmental processes and their relevance to engineering. Soil and water chemistry, equilibrium and organic chemistry, microbiology, biochemistry and biological processes will be examined, focusing on the application of these in engineering design, practice and management.
Postgraduate 700 Level Courses
Urban Stormwater Management - Level 9
Design and application of stormwater runoff quantity and quality control systems for urban development including: bioretention, living roofs, swales, permeable/porous pavement, detention ponds, and constructed wetlands. An independent project couples technical design, safety, maintenance, construction, hydrologic and water quality modelling, and stakeholder engagement in an application of "Low Impact Design" from the site to the catchment scale.
Prerequisite: either CIVIL 302 and ENVENG 200, or ENVENG 244 and 333
Engineering Decision Making in Aotearoa - Level 9
Advanced systems engineering based decision making; complex problem framing including ontology analysis; cultural opportunity mapping; absolute sustainability analysis; risk threshold determination; temporal cumulative effects; and effective consultation. Independent research is undertaken to solve a complex engineering decision making problem.
Directed Study - Level 9
A course on a topic in environmental engineering to be determined each year by the Head of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The course will include the independent application of highly specialised knowledge and skills related to the study area.
Special Topic
A course on a topic in environmental engineering to be determined each year by the Head of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The course will include the independent application of highly specialised knowledge and skills related to the study area.
Restriction: ENVENG 402
Special Topic
A course on a topic in environmental engineering to be determined each year by the Head of Department.
Restriction: ENVENG 403
Advanced Water Treatment and Reuse - Level 9
Advanced water, wastewater, greywater, stormwater treatment technologies including advanced oxidation processes, photochemistry, electrochemistry, membrane treatment, and fundamentals of water reuse, applications, and case studies for potable reuse, industrial reuse, and aquifer recharge. Includes an individual research project.
Prerequisite: either ENVENG 300 and 331, or ENVENG 244 and 342
Environmental Engineering for Sustainable Futures
Addresses emerging engineering solutions to challenges facing humankind including climate change, sustainability and resilience of our society, and persistent waste and pollution in the environment. Includes applications of systems modelling through a holistic thinking lens, sustainability innovations, risk assessment and impact in various technologies and processes, climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Design Project
A design project requiring input from more than one engineering subdiscipline. The department will offer a number of projects from which the students may select. It will be possible for groups of students to work together on a project. Assessment will be based on a report and an oral presentation of the outcome of the project.
Restriction: ENVENG 419
Water and Wastewater Engineering
Chemistry and microbiology of water and wastewater treatment, flow models and reactors. Unit operations and process analysis and design. Treatment plant design and operation. Nutrient removal processes. Effluent and residues disposal.
Environmental Engineering Processes Laboratory
Laboratory research methods (safety, sampling procedures, sample preservation, data analysis and report writing). Laboratory experiments exploring various physical, chemical and biological processes, such as sedimentation, chemical coagulation and precipitation, chlorination, reactor residence time distribution, activated carbon and anaerobic digestion.
Surface Water Quality Modelling - Level 9
Advanced specialist topics in modelling of lakes and rivers. Specific topics covered include response to different loadings applied to surface water systems, and modelling of organic matter, dissolved oxygen consumption, eutrophication, and toxic substances. The core taught skills are extended by an individual project in which independent research is undertaken to solve a challenging surface water quality engineering problem.
Prerequisite: either ENVENG 300, or ENVENG 341 and 342
Environmental Fate of Chemicals and Mitigation - Level 9
Focuses on modelling sorption, degradation kinetics, and leaching of chemicals in the soil environment. Topics include deriving sorption parameters, parent and metabolite fitting with statistical rigours, calculating degradation end-points, novel adsorbents for removing contaminants in soil and water. The core taught skills are extended by an individual project in which independent research is undertaken to solve an environmental issue.
Prerequisite: ENVENG 300 or 341
Advanced Sustainability Engineering - Level 9
Focuses on an advanced understanding of the science of sustainability and its application to engineering practice and management, including complex systems thinking, tools to assess sustainability, management, leadership and decision making leading to sustainability, global directions towards sustainability across cultural systems. Develops critical analytical thinking and research based knowledge through debates and an applied research project.
Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment
Assessment and applications of sustainability principles in the design of products and/or infrastructures, including the use of sustainability tools. Provides an overview of life cycle assessment (LCA) based on ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 standards. Introduces LCA software to assist in analysing the data, interpreting the results and writing LCA reports.
Water-Sensitive Cities
Presents a range of water-sensitive and sustainable engineering solutions for the management of water, and explores their viability and effectiveness in the New Zealand context, both under current and future climate scenarios. Explores how population growth, climate change and economics put pressure on urban water systems, and the need for urban water systems design to be resilient to such pressures.
Project X - Level 9
Students are required to submit a report on a topic assigned by the appropriate Head of Department.
Prerequisite: Departmental approval
Project Y - Level 9
Students are required to submit a report on a topic assigned by the appropriate Head of Department.
Prerequisite: Departmental approval
To complete this course students must enrol in ENVENG 788 A and B
Project Z - Level 9
Students are required to submit a report on a topic assigned by the appropriate Head of Department.
Prerequisite: Departmental approval
Research Project (Environmental) - Level 9
Students are required to submit a report on a topic relevant to the specialisation, as assigned by the appropriate Head of Department.
Prerequisite: Departmental approval
To complete this course students must enrol in ENVENG 795 A and B, or ENVENG 795