EDCE - Civil and Environmental Engineering

CIVIL-709 New Concretes for Structures

This course provides an in-depth coverage of mechanical and physical properties of Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concretes (UHPFRC), in the framework of new concretes for sustainable structures. It provides an extended and comprehensive insight on these materials.

CIVIL-704 Fracture mechanics and fatigue of structures

ENV-610 Ecological Economics

Course description – Content (could change)

  1. Introduction to ecological economics: The economy as a sub-system of the global environment: entropy, carrying capacity, environmental services, ecological crises, natural capital, sustainability (PT, March 10)
  2. Introduction to market economics: willingness to pay, preferences, marginalism, demand, supply, markets, prices, elasticities, non-market goods, externalities (PT, March 17)
  3. Introduction to cost-benefit analysis (CBA), Assessment of environmental impacts and valuation of natural resources (PT, March 24)
  4. Long-term discounting incl. hyperbolic discounting and limited substitutability of natural capital, planetary boundaries vs. CBA (FV, March 31)
  5. Uncertainty and irreversibility, prospect theory, economics of innovation (FV, April 7)
  6. Green growth or degrowth? Sufficiency and quality of life (PT, April 14)
  7. Environmental policy instruments: voluntary approaches, regulation, economic instruments, example of the US Clean Air Act (MV, April 28)
  8. How to think of Ecological Economics, Foundations, and Implications (SN, May 5)
  9. Environmental policy-making: acceptance of environmental policies, co-operation and retaliation, course wrap-up (MV or PT, May 12)
  10. Final exam (May 19)

ENV-614 Fourier analysis and boundary value problems

Learning Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems with a view to a variety of science and engineering problems. Learn the use of special functions like Bessel functions and applications. Introduce the doctoral students to general Sturm-Liouville problems and applications.

ENV-724 Climate economics for engineers