Dear ES IV Students of UMAT SRID,
ES 451 : PROJECT WORK 1 :This course is the project component of the research method and proposal writing. The objective of Project work is to equip students with skills and knowledge required to run experimental/field work and to gather data, analyse and interpret the data, write and defend a project report.
Content
Each student will undertake a relevant project in one of the fields of Environmental and Safety Engineering under the supervision of a member of staff appointed by the Departmental Board. Project synopsis would be defended in an oral presentation. Written project work reports will be submitted to the department for assessment after an oral PowerPoint presentation
All environmental issues, such as, water quality, habitat loss, energy, climate, natural hazards, invasive species, and many more, take place somewhere, affecting the lives of people and their environmental surroundings. In addition, these issues often exhibit spatial patterns that can be mapped and analysed and require the analysis of data in the form of 2D and 3D maps, aircraft and satellite imagery, real time data feeds from the Internet of Things, and much more.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is an exciting way for you to put your interest and passion for all things about the Earth and the Environment into action in ways that are in demand in the workplace by nonprofit organizations, government agencies, academia, and private industry and incredibly relevant to our 21st Century world.
This course provides theoretical foundations and practical applications for social and ecological problem-solving. Through a series of readings, videos, and hands-on exercises covering a variety of environmental themes, issues, and scales, you will learn the fundamentals modern mapping, including projections, symbology, classification, and analysis. You will build your own web mapping applications, including story maps. You will gain skills and confidence to empower you to be able to conduct your own field studies and use maps as analytical tools to build a brighter, more sustainable, more resilient tomorrow.
This course is completely online. However, to foster community and networking, participants/students are strongly encouraged to work through the course in step with their classmates; that is, completing Week 1 content sometime during Week 1, completing Week 2 content sometime during Week 2, and so on. Choose your coursework time that best fits your schedule. We will also hold live virtual sessions via Zoom, as needed. This is a compressed 3credit course: Therefore, plan to spend at least 10 hours each week working through the content of this course.
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Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) is central to supporting the design, evaluation, operation and maintenance of human-centric systems in a variety of disciplines ranging from and not limited to design, engineering and management. As a realm of knowledge, HFE transcends disciplinary boundaries. However, in its current practice in most countries including Ghana, HFE has remained highly fractured in academic settings. HFE’s multifaceted nature is displayed in myriad instances in various areas of individual disciplines of design, engineering, psychology and physiology. The fractured state of HFE is also partly due to the way it is institutionalised in various academic disciplines.
Typically, HFE thrives under the banner of “applied psychology” in psychology departments, where it is studied as a subset of behaviour; as “ergonomics” in physiology departments where the primary insights are from physiological and physical basis of the body; and as “human factors engineering” in industrial and systems engineering departments. While the list continues, a more urgent need is to characterise HFE succinctly as a holistic transdisciplinary sector of knowledge to support design and innovation in human centric systems. The aim of this course is to provide such a comprehensive transdisciplinary and holistic understanding and basic sensitivity towards HFE.
The course is divided into eight modules.
- Workshop 1 provides a generic set of ideas that forms a basis for addressing HFE.
- Workshop 2 addresses the cognitive basis of HFE.
- Workshop 3 the physical and physiological basis of HFE.
- In Workshop 4, we shift our focus towards the physical environment of human performance as well as the design of workspaces.
- In Workshop 5, we take a step towards understanding the sociocultural environment and organizational dimension of HFE.
- In Workshop 6, we will focus on the challenges associated with large scale systems..
- Workshop 7 focuses on the ways in which HFE can be successfully integrated in organizations.
- Workshop 8will introduce students to some HFE methods.
Thus, this course will provide a holistic basis for engaging HFE and using it for informing designers, engineers and managers alike. In turn, enabling a more humane and sensitive practice of human-cantered systems for promoting well-being, productivity and overall systems performance.
ES 450 : PROJECT WORK :This course is the project component of the research method and proposal writing. The objective of Project work is to equip students with skills and knowledge required to run experimental/field work and to gather data, analyse and interpret the data, write and defend a project report.
Content
Each student will undertake a relevant project in one of the fields of Environmental and Safety Engineering under the supervision of a member of staff appointed by the Departmental Board. Project synopsis would be defended in an oral presentation. Written project work reports will be submitted to the department for assessment after an oral PowerPoint presentation
Welcome to HSE 574: Human Error and Behaviour. This course seeks to introduce students to human behaviour, the types of human failures, their classification and how they impact safety in an operational environment.
A course to equip final year students with skills to review relevant information in Environmental Engineering or Occupational Health & Safety and identify problems relevant to these areas, develop workable experimental plan, and present project synopsis in oral and written form. Also students will be to required to run experimental/field work and gather data, analyse and interpret data, write and defend project report.