Learning Outcomes
Surfacewater Quality Modeling (SQM)
After the successful completion of the module the students:
Understand the mechanisms through which environmental water quality becomes degraded, control strategies for mitigating degradation, and resource management strategies for preventing degradation.
- Know how to quantify and simulate contaminant sources
- Understand basic eutrophication processes, environmental transport and transformation processes, water quality measurements and monitoring
- master basic principles of contaminant fate and transport modeling in lakes, rivers, estuaries, and ground water, water quality control methods and strategies, and water resource protection regulations and strategies.
The module´ s qualification profile is:
40% knowledge and understanding,
20% development and design,
20% research and evaluation,
20% application in practice
Agent-based modeling (ABM)
The students:
- have understanding of basic principles of ABM and other modeling methods (e.g. cellular automata, individual-based modeling), available software, computational strategies (e.g. up-scaling, agent accounting), model development, model calibration and testing, and model application.
- have experience in independently designing, implementing and applying an ABM.
The module´ s qualification profile is:
40% knowledge and understanding,
20% development and design,
20% research and evaluation,
20% application in practice