Guías Docentes Electrónicas
1. General information
Course:
RADIATION AND NOISE
Code:
37343
Type:
ELECTIVE
ECTS credits:
4.5
Degree:
340 - UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Academic year:
2019-20
Center:
501 - FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Group(s):
40 
Year:
4
Duration:
First semester
Main language:
Spanish
Second language:
Use of additional languages:
English Friendly:
Y
Web site:
Bilingual:
N
Lecturer: CLEMENTE GALLARDO ANDRES - Group(s): 40 
Building/Office
Department
Phone number
Email
Office hours
Sabatini 0.19
CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES
926 05 14 53
clemente.gallardo@uclm.es
L y M de 12 a 14 h y M de 15 a 17h

Lecturer: ENRIQUE SANCHEZ SANCHEZ - Group(s): 40 
Building/Office
Department
Phone number
Email
Office hours
Sabatini / 0.19
CIENCIAS AMBIENTALES
5461
e.sanchez@uclm.es
L y J de 13 a 14h y de 15 a 17h

2. Pre-Requisites

They have not been established.

3. Justification in the curriculum, relation to other subjects and to the profession

This subject addresses two types of pollution increasingly present in modern societies such as noise pollution and pollution caused by radiation. There are many and varied effects of these two pollutants in both humans and environment. Its study is, therefore, important for the formation and professional development of an environmentalist.


4. Degree competences achieved in this course
Course competences
Code Description
CB01 Prove that they have acquired and understood knowledge in a subject area that derives from general secondary education and is appropriate to a level based on advanced course books, and includes updated and cutting-edge aspects of their field of knowledge.
CB02 Apply their knowledge to their job or vocation in a professional manner and show that they have the competences to construct and justify arguments and solve problems within their subject area.
CB03 Be able to gather and process relevant information (usually within their subject area) to give opinions, including reflections on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues.
CB04 Transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions for both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
CB05 Have developed the necessary learning abilities to carry on studying autonomously
CB06 Students have developed the ability to work as a team and lead, direct, plan and supervise multidisciplinary teams
E01 Ability to understand and apply basic knowledge.
E03 Awareness of the temporal and spatial dimensions of environmental processes
E05 Capacity for qualitative data interpretation
E06 Capacity for quantitative data interpretation
G02 Knowledge of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
G03 Good oral and written communication
G04 Ethical commitment and professional deontology
5. Objectives or Learning Outcomes
Course learning outcomes
Description
To know the basic concepts and principles of Physics that have a greater importance in the field of the study of the environment.
Learn to relate environmental phenomena to the principles of physics that explain them. Especially those related to meteorological, climatological, air, noise and radiation pollution processes.
To know the sources of noise and sources of ionising and non-ionising radiation, their possible effects on humans and the environment, as well as the surveillance and protection measures against these pollutants and the applicable regulations.
Additional outcomes
Not established.
6. Units / Contents
  • Unit 1: Ionizing and non-ionizing radiation: Concepts and magnitudes.
  • Unit 2: Dosimetry and radioprotection. Basic regulations on contamination by radiation.
  • Unit 3: Natural sources of radiation.
  • Unit 4: Artificial sources of radiation. Radioactive waste management.
  • Unit 5: Behavior of radioactive products in the environment.
  • Unit 6: Measurement of radioactivity and environmental monitoring networks.
  • Unit 7: Physical properties of sound.
  • Unit 8: Perception of sound.
  • Unit 9: Effects of noise.
  • Unit 10: Sources of noise.
  • Unit 11: Measurement and control of environmental noise. Basic regulations on noise pollution.
7. Activities, Units/Modules and Methodology
Training Activity Methodology Related Competences (only degrees before RD 822/2021) ECTS Hours As Com R Description *
Class Attendance (theory) [ON-SITE] Lectures CB01 CB02 CB03 G03 G04 1 25 N N N
Computer room practice [ON-SITE] Practical or hands-on activities CB01 CB02 CB03 CB05 CB06 E01 E03 E05 E06 G02 G03 0.6 15 Y Y N
Writing of reports or projects [OFF-SITE] Guided or supervised work CB01 CB03 CB04 CB05 CB06 E01 E03 E05 G02 G03 G04 1 25 Y N Y
Study and Exam Preparation [OFF-SITE] Self-study CB01 CB02 CB03 CB05 E01 E03 E05 E06 1.7 42.5 N N N
Final test [ON-SITE] Assessment tests CB01 CB02 CB03 CB04 CB05 E01 E03 E05 E06 G03 0.12 3 Y Y Y
Progress test [ON-SITE] Assessment tests CB01 CB03 CB04 E01 E03 G03 0.08 2 Y N N
Total: 4.5 112.5
Total credits of in-class work: 1.8 Total class time hours: 45
Total credits of out of class work: 2.7 Total hours of out of class work: 67.5

As: Assessable training activity
Com: Training activity of compulsory overcoming
R: Rescheduling training activity

8. Evaluation criteria and Grading System
  Grading System  
Evaluation System Face-to-Face Self-Study Student Description
Progress Tests 30.00% 0.00% Around the middle of the semester there will be a progress test to evaluate and encourage the continuous study. The test will cover the part of the syllabus seen in theoretical classes until that moment and will be liberatory with respect to the final test. To pass this test the student must obtain a minimum score of 4.5 out of 10.
Assessment of activities done in the computer labs 25.00% 0.00% The reports of the practices will be completed in the same practice sessions and will be valued for accuracy, clarity, ability to connect contents, management of basic concepts, scientific reasoning capacity, and ability to solve a problem correctly and completely. The student must have a minimum of 5 out of 10 in the practices to pass the course.
Theoretical papers assessment 15.00% 0.00% The works will be developed in groups of 2 or 3 students. The criteria for evaluating these works will be as follows: 1) adequacy of the content to the subject treated. 2) Absence of plagiarism (Write with your own words) 3) Quality of the aforementioned sources (sources in English will be especially valued) 4) Clarity and correctness of the ideas and concepts presented. 5) Spelling and grammar correction of writing. 6) Consideration of the minimum and maximum extension proposed. 7) Early presentation of the works. Do not submit all work in the last days of the term. A simple literal transcription of all or part of a text will be valued with a low score. The texts extracted literally from the sources must support a personal argument.
Final test 30.00% 0.00% Eminently theoretical final exam. To overcome this, students must obtain a minimum score of 4 out of 10. Students who pass the progress test will only be tested on the second part of the subject. The mark of the first part will be the one obtained in the progress test. Students who have not passed the progress test should be examined in this final test of the two parts of the subject. For them the weight of this test will be 60%. To overcome this, students must also obtain a minimum mark of 4 out of 10.
Total: 100.00% 0.00%  

Evaluation criteria for the final exam:
It will be valued that the student demonstrates that he/she has assimilated the basic knowledge of the subject and that can relate them to each other. A good performance in the practices, the work and the test of progress will be valued. Students of exchange programs will be evaluated by an alternative procedure determined by the teacher according to the circumstances of each case.
Specifications for the resit/retake exam:
The evaluation of the practices, the progress test and the works will be the one obtained in the ordinary call. The works can be done again if they have not been passed in the ordinary call. Students of exchange programs will be evaluated by an alternative procedure determined by the teacher according to the circumstances of each case.
Specifications for the second resit / retake exam:
The mark of this call will coincide with the one obtained in the corresponding final test.
9. Assignments, course calendar and important dates
Not related to the syllabus/contents
Hours hours
Computer room practice [PRESENCIAL][Practical or hands-on activities] 15
Writing of reports or projects [AUTÓNOMA][Guided or supervised work] 25
Final test [PRESENCIAL][Assessment tests] 3
Progress test [PRESENCIAL][Assessment tests] 2

Unit 1 (de 11): Ionizing and non-ionizing radiation: Concepts and magnitudes.
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 2.6
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 4.15

Unit 2 (de 11): Dosimetry and radioprotection. Basic regulations on contamination by radiation.
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 2.2
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 3.8

Unit 3 (de 11): Natural sources of radiation.
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 2.2
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 3.8

Unit 4 (de 11): Artificial sources of radiation. Radioactive waste management.
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 2.2
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 3.8

Unit 5 (de 11): Behavior of radioactive products in the environment.
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 2.2
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 3.8

Unit 6 (de 11): Measurement of radioactivity and environmental monitoring networks.
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 2.2
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 3.8

Unit 7 (de 11): Physical properties of sound.
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 2.6
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 4.15

Unit 8 (de 11): Perception of sound.
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 2.2
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 3.8

Unit 9 (de 11): Effects of noise.
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 2.2
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 3.8

Unit 10 (de 11): Sources of noise.
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 2.2
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 3.8

Unit 11 (de 11): Measurement and control of environmental noise. Basic regulations on noise pollution.
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 2.2
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 3.8

Global activity
Activities hours
10. Bibliography and Sources
Author(s) Title Book/Journal Citv Publishing house ISBN Year Description Link Catálogo biblioteca
 
A. Calvo-Manzano et al. El ruido en la ciudad. Gestión y Control Sociedad Española de Acústica 84-87985-00-9 1991 Ficha de la biblioteca
A. García La contaminación acústica Universidad de Valencia, Serv. Publ. 8437003881 1988 Ficha de la biblioteca
E. Murphy and E. King Environmental noise pollution : noise mapping, public health Elsevier 978-0-12-411595-8 2014 Ficha de la biblioteca
G.F. Knoll Radiation Detection and Measurement Wiley 978-0-470-13148-0 2000 Ficha de la biblioteca
M. Eisenbud y T. Gesell Environmental Radioactivity Academic Press 0-12-235154-1 1997 Ficha de la biblioteca



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