Study Guide

Objective

The student knows the material recycling and reuse processes and concepts so that one can solve the main problems in environmental engineering.

Content

-Project working
-Theme of the course varies yearly

Location and time

Solutions.now is an e-course (online study course). Course starts on Monday 11.3.2024. The course lasts for 8 weeks so it finalized by 3.5.2024.

Dates, Online sessions

Monday, 11.3., 9-11 kick-off and introduction of challenges

Thursday, 14.3., 9-12 mentoring

Thursday, 21.3., 9-12 mentoring

Monday, 25.3., 9-11 workshop with companies

Easter break 28 March - 3 April //

Thursday, 4.4., 9-12 mentoring + group work

Monday, 8.4. 9-11 mid-seminar

Thursday, 11.4., 9-12 mentoring + group work

Thursday, 18.4., 9-12 mentoring

Thursday, 25.4., 9-12 mentoring

Monday, 29.4., 9-12 final seminar

Thursday, 2.5., 9-11 feedback session

Materials

Available at Digicampus platform

Teaching methods

Course will be organised as a part of Solutions.now -course

Students work in multi-disciplinary teams, each team dedicated to one sustainability project. They get to experience how it feels like to use their knowledge to make a positive impact on the world. Additionally, there are articles to read, videos to watch etc. online. There will be online meetings with the teachers during the study weeks as well as online meetings with the team.

Teaching methods:
Innovation pedagogy. This means that the learning takes place in a variety of ways: by self-study but also by learning from peers. This is a flexible model for learning that does not offer straightforward answers but motivates the students to work towards goals and take responsibility of their work and learning.

Exam schedules

No exam.

As this is an online course based on tasks:
- You don't have the possibility to raise your final grade or a grade for an individual task.

Completion alternatives

None

Student workload

Informed on the Digicampus platform.

There will be online lectures and course work on Mondays and Thursdays during that 8 week period (93 hours).
Other work (42 hours) on the course will also be online but you can do those in your own time.

The course is of 5 ECTS so the workload is 135 hours all together.

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student can define or describe the subject matter related to the concepts and phenomena qualitatively and calculate the associated basic quantitative comparisons and calculations.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student is able to apply, calculate, change and choose the concepts related to the matter and phenomena qualitatively and calculate the basic quantitative calculations as well as to complete and produce the necessary information for the calculations.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The students is able to categorise, collect, combine and generalise the concepts related to the matter and phenomena qualitatively and calculate the basic quantitative calculations as well as derive and rearrange given basic information.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student can define or describe the subject matter related to the concepts and phenomena qualitatively and calculate the associated basic quantitative comparisons and calculations.

Assessment methods and criteria

Assessment scale
0 - 5

Assessment basis
Self and peer assessment 30%
Teacher assessment 40%
Client assessment 30%

Assessment criteria - hylätty (0)
Not taking part or not taking part actively enough

Assessment criteria - tyydyttävä (1-2)
1.Creativity competence:
Not really able to combine knowledge from different fields to come up with novel solutions to sustainability problems. Poorly familiar with different creative problem-solving tools.
2. Initiative competence:
Not really able to work towards goals and to take responsibility of own work and learning.
3. Systems thinking competence:
Not really able to understand structure and dynamics of complex systems related to solving sustainability challenges in a real-life project.
Not really able to describe given sustainability challenges from multiple perspectives.
No so good in critical thinking.
4. Strategic competence:
Not able to create transition and intervention strategies to enact change.
Does not really understands the basic principles of project management and cannot plan and lead a project from beginning to end.
Student feels uncomfortable using different project management tools and does not understand the basics of working with companies and other stakeholders.
Student is not able to reflect on, and deal with, possible risks.
Student is not able to manage expectations and anticipated results of projects.
5. Interpersonal competence:
Poor communicative and collaborative skills.
Student is not so able to organize and manage working in a multi-disciplinary team of individuals.
Student does not really understand the basics of projects’ internal and external communications.
Student cannot really apply collaborative working methods in his/her work.

Assessment criteria – good (3-4)

1.Creativity competence:
Able to combine knowledge from different fields to come up with novel solutions to sustainability problems.
Familiar with different creative problem-solving tools.
2. Initiative competence:
Able to work towards goals and to take responsibility of own work and learning.
3. Systems thinking competence:
Able to understand structure and dynamics of complex systems related to solving sustainability challenges in a real-life project.
Able to describe given sustainability challenges from multiple perspectives.
Good in critical thinking.
4. Strategic competence:
Able to create transition and intervention strategies to enact change.
Does understands the basic principles of project management and can plan and lead a project from beginning to end.
Student feels comfortable using different project management tools and does understand the basics of working with companies and other stakeholders.
Student is able to reflect on, and deal with, possible risks.
Student is able to manage expectations and anticipated results of projects.
5. Interpersonal competence:
Good communicative and collaborative skills.
Student is able to organize and manage working in a multi-disciplinary team of individuals.
Student does understand the basics of projects’ internal and external communications.
Student can apply collaborative working methods in his/her work.





Assessment criteria - excellent (5)

1.Creativity competence:
Able to combine really well knowledge from different fields to come up with novel solutions to sustainability problems.
Very familiar with different creative problem-solving tools and is able to use them well.
2. Initiative competence:
Excellent in working towards goals and taking responsibility of own work and learning.
3. Systems thinking competence:
Able to understand very well the structure and dynamics of complex systems related to solving sustainability challenges in a real-life project.
Able to solve given sustainability challenges from multiple perspectives.
Excellent in critical thinking.
4. Strategic competence:
Very good in creating transition and intervention strategies to enact change.
Does understands the principles of project management very well and can plan and lead a project from beginning to end.
Student feels very comfortable using different project management tools and does understand the basics of working with companies and other stakeholders.
Student is very capable to reflect on, and deal with, possible risks.
Student is very capable to manage expectations and anticipated results of projects.
5. Interpersonal competence:
Very good communicative and collaborative skills.
Student is very capable to organize and manage working in a multi-disciplinary team of individuals.
Student is very good in projects’ internal and external communications.
Student can very well apply collaborative working methods in his/her work.

Prerequisites

The student has basic knowledge of material energy effiency and he/she understands the basics of energy and environmental technologies.