Engineering

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale program. The course is intended for advanced level students only. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. The course focuses on designing wastewater treatment plants and other sanitary engineering works. The course requires a good understanding of Hydraulic and Chemistry base subjects as a prerequisite. The course exercises focus on analysis and discussion of treatment plants and natural treatment systems in their preliminary, definitive, and executive projects. Students are encouraged to design their own treatment system. The course consists of three parts. Part one of the course discusses a general introduction to the following treatment techniques: Activated sludge provided of denitrification with internal carbon source. Submerged aerated biofiltration. Granular settling. Mass settling. Lamellar settling. Oxynitrification by pure oxygen, by micro bubbles and by high efficiency air diffusers. SBR plants. Chemical and UV disinfection. Anaerobic sludge digestion. Composting of sludge and urban waste organic fraction Mitigation of olfactory emissions by biofiltration. Part two of the course discusses a detailed analysis of all text and drawings elaborates of the following projects: Preliminary project of a large-activated sludge urban wastewater treatment plant working in steady state and provided of predentrification phases. Definitive project of a medium urban wastewater treatment plant based on submerged aerated biofilters. Executive project of a small wastewater treatment plant using bio disk techniques. Price list. Metric-Calculation. Amount calculation. Special tender dossier. Contract. Works direction. Accounting. Part three of the course discusses a detailed analysis of the following preliminary and definitive full-scale projects for natural treatment and finishing systems: Aerobic lagoon system. Optional lagoon system. FWS phytotreatment with or without recirculation. Onsite SFS phytotreatment systems applied to small communities. Biofilter applied to mitigate emissions from solid waste pre-treatment plants.

All engineers make use of fundamental scientific principles to design and construct the future. They work in inter-disciplinary teams to solve complex problems within the ever-changing environmental, economic, societal and policy landscape. In this context, this course provides an insight into what it is to be an engineer and showcases how engineering is done. 

The course gives an overview of the fundamentals of medical and tissue optics as well as in-depth knowledge of a specific field selected by the students themselves. 

The course introduces Mechatronics as a fundamental concept for modelling and designing machine systems, and to encourage electrical systems to be modeled in a manner compatible with mechanical systems using system concepts; to develop an ability to design, and select components for simple electromechanical systems; and to develop mastery of modelling concepts which have direct equivalents in mechanical systems theory, e.g. equivalent characteristics, operating diagrams, complex impedance.

This course will cover electrochemical/material engineering and recent energy applications such as batteries, fuel cells, electrodepositions, and corrosions. The course builds on electrochemistry and its application to energy devices. Emphasis is placed on the fundamental concepts related to electrochemistry, understanding electrochemical cells, corrosion and prevention, and various energy storage/conversion devices.

This course covers fundamental and applied knowledge of the laws that determine fluid motion and their application to problems of interest in engineering including conservation laws for mass, momentum and energy (integral and differential form), dimensional analysis, and simplifications of general equations.

Pre-requisites: Calculus I & II, Linear Algebra, Physics I & II

The topics covered on this course include dimensional analysis, the mass-conservation and momentum-balance principles applied to a fluid particle, the differential form of the governing equations (Navier-Stokes), compressible flows (speed of sound, Mach cone, isentropic-flow relations and converging-diverging nozzles), as well as incompressible flows with exact (Couette-Poiseuille flows) and approximate (boundary layers, Blasius solution, lubrication) solutions, and an introduction to turbulence.