Urban Transformations and Sustainable Engineering

2024/2025

Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Students completing the module acquire the following: 

Learning objectives

Knowledge

  • Understanding of the dynamics of the urban climate and its effects on the built environment
  • Knowledge of environmentally and socially sustainable techniques for densifying the urban environment
  • Knowledge of potential resources in the contemporary built environment as a catalyst to finding sustainable engineering and design solutions
  • Knowledge of synergies and conflicts in climate change planning

Skills

  • Can identify a relevant research problem within the field of urban transformations and sustainable engineering
  • Can design a research project and use relevant research methods in order to analyse the chosen problem
  • Can justify and substantiate the relevance of the chosen research problem based on relevant theories
  • Can independently structure project management activities and carry out subject specific and interdisciplinary study project
  • Can analyse and conceptualise complex urban projects and environments from a number of perspectives related to the ‘compact city’, e.g. climate adaptation and mitigation, densification, re-use, inclusivity
  • Can analyse the interaction between environmental factors such as wind, water and the built environment
  • Can utilise theories and methods in order to analyse and evaluate contemporary built environments and notions of ‘compact cities’
  • Can develop a proposal that integrates engineering techniques with conceptual and spatial design
  • Can plan and manage a study project in a PBL learning environment
  • Can apply spreadsheets for numerical analyses
  • Can apply spreadsheets to make relevant numerical-based illustrations for the project
  • Can apply a reference-handling software package to properly reference the project report (e.g. Mendeley or Refworks)

Competences

  • Can work with techniques for adapting to climate change in densified built environments that compile technical, spatial, social and aesthetic qualities into an integrated design solution
  • Can evaluate existing situations and utilise innovative and contemporary sustainable engineering techniques in the transformation of the built environment
  • Can evaluate and communicate the effects of urban transformation as environmentally and socially sustainable
  • Can independently take responsibility for own learning, professional development and specialisation
  • Can reflect on the project process and identify development potentials for the next study project 

Type of instruction

Problem-based project work in groups. 

Exam

Exams

Name of examUrban Transformations and Sustainable Engineering
Type of exam
Oral exam based on a project
ECTS15
Assessment7-point grading scale
Type of gradingInternal examination
Criteria of assessmentThe criteria of assessment are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures

Facts about the module

Danish titleUrbane transformationer og bæredygtighed
Module codePLCISUK22101
Module typeProject
Duration1 semester
SemesterAutumn
ECTS15
Language of instructionEnglish
Empty-place SchemeYes
Location of the lectureCampus Aalborg
Responsible for the module

Organisation

Education ownerMaster of Science (MSc) in Engineering (Urban, Energy and Environmental Planning)
Study BoardStudy Board of Planning and Surveying
DepartmentDepartment of Sustainability and Planning
FacultyThe Technical Faculty of IT and Design