Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
Pollution Prevention and Control
2. Language of Instruction:
Vietnamese
3. Course Code:
POL617017
4. Credits:
3
5. Course Objectives:
- Understand the importance of pollution prevention control in environmental protection efforts.
- Grasp the history and development processes of pollution prevention control both globally and in Vietnam.
- Understand the role of pollution prevention control in environmental protection.
- Master the basic requirements and key contents for establishing pollution prevention control measures and solutions.
- Apply the fundamental principles of pollution prevention control to specific projects.
6. Brief Description of Course Content:
This course provides students an introduction to issues related to environmental pollution, with emphasis on causes, pathways, risks, mitigation and prevention, thereby, develop a basic understanding of pollution prevention and how pollution prevention programs can be implemented in industry and application of engineering methods to pollution prevention.
We also examine the principles of pollution prevention, environmentally friendly products, processes, and manufacturing systems; study of the impacts of wastes from manufacturing and post-use product disposal, environmental cycles of materials, sustainability and principles of environmental economics.
By the end of this course, students will have a good understanding of the dynamic nature of human- environment relationships, and the multidimensional characteristics of environmental pollution and pollution prevention, through the use of Vietnamese and international examples.