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Integrated analysis of water, land, and ecology for understanding environmental impacts of engineering projects. GIS, spatial analysis, soils, vegetation, food/fibre production, ecological engineering principles, environmental impact metrics and assessments, catchment-level policy, systems analysis.
Develop an in-depth understanding of environmental system analysis and understanding of environmental impact metrics and assessment. (Washington Accord WA2, WA7) (UC GW1, GW2, EIE1, CE3) Understand spatial information analysis and its application in Natural Resources and Ecological Engineering (Washington Accord WA4) (UC EIE3, EIE4)Be able to apply geographic information system (GIS) tools for systems analysis, engineering natural systems and environmental impacts (Washington Accord WA25, WA6) (UC EIE4)Understand the role of soils, water, topography, landcover, management and climate on ecosystems and food/fibre production (Washington Accord WA1) (UC EIE3) Advance knowledge of engineering solutions using ecological engineering principles in solving topical environmental problems (Washington Accord WA3) (UC EIE3, EIE4)
ENCN242
ENNR306
Students must attend one activity from each section.
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While the bulk of the assessment for this paper lies in the test and final exam (total 60%), you will only perform well in these if you have thoroughly prepared by working through the problems given in lectures and the assignments. You cannot pass this course unless you achieve a mark of at least 40% in each of the mid-semester test and the final exam. A student who narrowly fails to achieve 40% in either the test or exam, but bwho performs very well in the other, may be eligible for a pass in the course.All assignments must be submitted by the due date. Late submissions will not be accepted. If a student is unable to complete and submit an assignment by the deadline due to personal circumstances beyond their control they should follow the special considerations process outlined below.It is important to remember that copying another person’s work, and submitting that work as your own is plagiarism. This practice is unethical and may result in disciplinary action being taken against you. For assignments that are done in groups, it is important that all students in the group play an equal role in completing the assessment.For assignments that are done in groups, it is important that all students in the group play an equal role in completing the assessment.Students repeating the course must undertake all parts of the course. You must attend the streamflow gauging lab, soils lab, ecosystems workshop and the EIA workshop to pass the course.Generative AI use in this courseIt is not practical to regulate the use of Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) for internal assessments on this course – weekly homework and quiz assignments. Students are allowed to use these tools in whichever manner they see fit. However, you should be aware of the risks, which are described below.Research clearly shows that the unrestricted use of ChatGPT by students during mathematical education leads to decreased performance on external assessment (which happens to comprise most of your grade in this course). For instance, this study showed a 17% reduction in test performance, more than three grade points.The primary mechanisms leading to adverse outcomes appear to be (1) shallow learning, where AI prevents you spending sufficient time with the material to obtain a deep understanding of it, and (2) AI dependency, where overuse of the tool leads to an inability to apply methods or think critically once it is taken away.If you intend to use Generative AI on this course, consider prompting with some basic guardrails to prevent the above impacts on your learning:“You are a math tutor helping me with a homework problem. Please suggest one (and only one) next step for me to consider on the following problem. Don’t complete the problem for me. **paste your problem**.”“You are a coding tutor helping me with a homework problem. Here is some code I have written and the error that I am getting. Please give me some hints about how I can fix this. Do not give me the corrected code though. **paste your code and error message**.”Even with the guardrails, a helpful Generative AI will frequently just give you the solution to a problem, cheating you of the opportunity to learn it yourself.
Ashman, M.R. and Puri, G; Essential Soil Science. A Clear and Concise Introduction to Soil Science ; Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
This course does not have a required text and instead provides notes and other resources on LEARN.Furthermore, a number of articles will be posted on the class LEARN site as recommended reading. Please note that all lecture recordings, made available through LEARN, are copyright and are not for public dissemination.
Domestic fee $1,122.00
International fee $6,238.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .