Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• On the groundwater system and its essential properties and parameters.
• On experimental methods for property and parameter estimation of the ground water zone.
• On uncertainty and limitations of the applied methods.

Skills

• To select, design and conduct suitable in-situ test for estimating saturated hydraulic properties.
• To select, design and conduct suitable laboratory test for estimating hydraulic saturated hydraulic properties.
• To analyse and evaluate test results and methods regarding suitability and reliability.
• To organise documentation and presentation of measured data.

Competences

• To describe, analyse, and evaluate a specific part of the groundwater system, regarding its composition and its properties through a planned investigation of the system.
• To structure and plan the project and the work in a group.
• To produce technical documentation of complex problems, methods and results in group cooperation.
• To communicate findings and solutions graphical as well as oral to the relevant target audience.

Type of instruction

Lectures, etc. supplemented with project work, workshops, presentation seminars, lab tests.

Extent and expected workload

Since it is a 5 ECTS project module, the workload is expected to be 150 hours for the student.

Exam

Exams