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B.E AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) and Outcome Based Education (OBE)
SEMESTER – V
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Course Code 18CIV59 CIE Marks 40
Teaching Hours / Week (L:T:P) (1:0:0) SEE Marks 60
Credits 01 Exam Hours 02
Module - 1
Ecosystems (Structure and Function): Forest, Desert, Wetlands, Riverine, Oceanic and Lake.
Biodiversity: Types, Value; Hot-spots; Threats and Conservation of biodiversity, Forest Wealth, and
Deforestation.
Module - 2
Advances in Energy Systems (Merits, Demerits, Global Status and Applications): Hydrogen, Solar, OTEC,
Tidal and Wind.
Natural Resource Management (Concept and case-studies): Disaster Management, Sustainable Mining, Cloud
Seeding, and Carbon Trading.
Module - 3
Environmental Pollution (Sources, Impacts, Corrective and Preventive measures, Relevant Environmental
Acts, Case-studies): Surface and Ground Water Pollution; Noise pollution; Soil Pollution and Air Pollution.
Waste Management & Public Health Aspects: Bio-medical Wastes; Solid waste; Hazardous wastes; E-wastes;
Industrial and Municipal Sludge.
Module - 4
Global Environmental Concerns (Concept, policies and case-studies):Ground water depletion/recharging,
Climate Change; Acid Rain; Ozone Depletion; Radon and Fluoride problem in drinking water; Resettlement and
rehabilitation of people, Environmental Toxicology.
Module - 5
Latest Developments in Environmental Pollution Mitigation Tools (Concept and Applications): G.I.S. &
Remote Sensing, Environment Impact Assessment, Environmental Management Systems, ISO14001;
Environmental Stewardship- NGOs.
Field work: Visit to an Environmental Engineering Laboratory or Green Building or Water Treatment Plant or
Waste water treatment Plant; ought to be Followed by understanding of process and its brief documentation.
Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, students will be able to:
• CO1: Understand the principles of ecology and environmental issues that apply to air, land, and water
issues on a global scale,
• CO2: Develop critical thinking and/or observation skills, and apply them to the analysis of a problem
or question related to the environment.
• CO3: Demonstrate ecology knowledge of a complex relationship between biotic and abiotic components.
• CO4: Apply their ecological knowledge to illustrate and graph a problem and describe the realities that
managers face when dealing with complex issues.
Question paper pattern:
• The Question paper will have 100 objective questions.
• Each question will be for 01 marks
• Student will have to answer all the questions in an OMR Sheet.
• The Duration of Exam will be 2 hours.
Name of the Edition and
Sl. No. Title of the Book Name of the Publisher
Author/s Year
Textbook/s
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1 Environmental Studies Benny Joseph Tata Mc Graw – Hill. 2ndEdition, 2012
2. Environmental Studies S M Prakash Pristine Publishing House, 3rdEdition, 2018
Mangalore
3 Environmental Studies – R Rajagopalan Oxford Publisher 2005
From Crisis to Cure
Reference Books
1 Principals of Environmental Raman Sivakumar Cengage learning, 2ndEdition, 2005
Science and Engineering Singapur.
2 Environmental Science – G.Tyler Miller Jr. Thomson Brooks /Cole, 11thEdition, 2006
working with the Earth
3 Text Book of Environmental Pratiba Sing, Acme Learning Pvt. Ltd. 1stEdition
and Ecology Anoop Singh& New Delhi.
Piyush Malaviya
