ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue
Course details
Course code: IISS20504o17Semester: 2017/2018 winter
Name: Emergency Management Engineering
Major: Environmental Engineering
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Romuald Grocki
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course in English will be available if a minimum of 6 students sign up for a group. If less than 6 students sign up for the group, the course will be available in Polish with the possibility of individual support in English.
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: The student knows the legal regulations and the organization of the system of emergency management; has the theoretical basis for decision-making in emergency situations; knows the methods and means of risk reduction of natural hazards (mainly flood risk); knows the principles of elimination of the hazard consequences; has theoretical knowledge of cooperation between participants in emergency situations (including the warning and alarming of the threat); knows the legal basis for the studied subject (national and international). Abilities: The student can prepare a crisis management plan; knows how to analyze the flood risk in urban areas (including vulnerability and exposure of area); could prepare a standard operating procedure within position; can analyze civil protection system functioning locally and suggest possible improvements; can prepare a scenario of simulation exercise for local government entities and conduct the exercise.
Competences: The student is aware of the importance of public security including the need to increase public awareness within knowledge of the risks, procedures and reduction of risk; using gained knowledge the student takes action aimed at increasing social awareness and, as a consequence, increasing the security of the population (local community).
Prerequisites: Basics of entrepreneurship, Hydrology and Meteorology, Law
Course content: The concepts, definitions, criteria threshold, legal regulations in the field of emergency management engineering. Organization of the emergency management system. Planning in emergency management. Emergency management plan, structure, and content of the plan. Reducing the risk of natural hazards. Elimination of the effects of natural hazards (short-and long-term). Flood protection in emergency management plans, tasks of administration, cooperation, characteristics of means of flood protection, flood risk analysis, flood zones, flood risk maps, land development planning. Basics of risk management.
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Assessment methods: Assessment of lectures on the basis of written work on problematic issues included in the syllabus; assessment of tutorials on the basis of presence in the field exercise and preparing a plan and its defense.
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