Course detail

Special Field Trip

FAST-CP04Acad. year: 2012/2013

Excursion is organized as a joint action of the water industry. Except of a leader of the field trip further pedagogues participate, in order to provide an interpretation of a specialized expert. The filed trip is aimed to the nearest adjoining states – Austria, Slovakia, Hungary or Poland. Important water reservoirs, sewage treatment plants, swimming-pool premises, modern river basin regulations, tanks and ameliorative constructions are selected. Other objects are plants producing water management products.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Petr Hluštík, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Municipal Water Management (VHO)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Student during a weekly excursion extend theoretic knowledge with practical visiting on water objects, structures, factories, companies and corporations. It is the excursion: wastewater treatment plant, water treatment, swimming-pool premises, line construction, modern river basin regulations, dams, levees, weirs, irrigation and amelioration of construction, ponds and fish farming, landscaping and more.
Other objects are plants producing water management products, where students will visit the working of the business.

Prerequisites

Hydraulics and hydrology, Operation Research, Engineering networks, Chemistry and water technology, design of civil constructions, Sewerage Systems, Treatment of waste water

Co-requisites

Not required.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations. Presentation of photos and video sequences of real water objects.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Mandatory participation in excursion, delivery of seminary works of exercises deadlines.

Course curriculum

Field trips to water management works: dams and river dams, ponds, drinking water treatment plants, wastewater treatment plants, distribution reservoirs, sewer networks etc.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Targets of special weekly excursion is enlargement theoretic knowledge in field of Municipal water management. It is going above all about visits of water managements objects, firms and plants with specialized interpretation of specialists and workers applied in a given water management branch.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Seminars and conferences.
Trade fairs and exhibitions.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

AWWA: Water Quality and Treatment (5th Edition). AWWA, 1999. (EN)
Gabriel,P a kol.: Jezy. SNTL Praha, 1989. (CS)
Kratochvíl,J.,Stara.V.: Přehrady. VUT Brno, 1989. (CS)
Novák, J. a kol.: Příručka provozovatele stokové sítě. Medim, spol. s r.o., Praha, 2003. (CS)
Novák, J. a kol.: Příručka provozovatele vodovodní sítě. Medim, spol. s r.o., Praha, 2003. (CS)
Raplík,M. a kol: Úprava toku. Alfa Bratislava, 1989. (CS)
Torge, Wolfgang: Surveying. de Gruyter, 2001. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-K-C-SI Master's

    branch V , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch V , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-P-E-SI Master's

    branch V , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Field training

120 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Petr Hluštík, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Special Field Trip takes place on the first week of the winter semester at locations, that are selected by according to the orientation of individual water institutions. Special Field Trip is spread equally in full working week.