Environmental Engineering for Sustainable Development

Educational objectives

GENERAL OBJECTIVES
This course, through the study of the kinematics and dynamics of mechanisms and machines, aims to provide the knowledge and methodologies to understand the behavior of mechanical systems that can be assimilated to sets of rigid bodies connected to each other and to elastic and dissipative elements. The analysis is aimed at identifying the causes that determine the observed behavior of mechanical systems for the purposes of their subsequent design, production and engineering implementation, in synergy with the contents of the other courses of the same year of the course.
The study is carried out using physical and mathematical models which have both applicative and, more generally, educational importance because they stimulate creativity and critical skills, as necessary requisites for their conception and use. For this purpose some solutions of problems already known in the technical literature are also presented, particularly emblematic from the previous points of view.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
The set of activities that the course involves, i.e. the attendance of the tutor's complementary lessons and exercises, the theoretical and applicative self-study and the final written and oral tests, are aimed at achieving the following results.
1. Learning and analysis of methods to describe the dynamics of mechanical systems and knowledge of the most common and significant mechanisms, industrial machines and land vehicles.
2. Ability and inventiveness to conceive models for the representation of real mechanical systems through the learned methods.
3. Autonomy in the search for the optimal solution to face the concrete problems proposed.
4. Critical skills to delineate the limits of validity of the models and analyzes treated.
5. Ability of synthesis and presentation necessary to answer the theoretical and applicative questions in the manner required during the written test.

Educational objectives

• To provide the basic concepts and tools of structural design of machines and mechanisms.
• To describe the most important failure modes of machine elements on
the basis of the knowledge of the mechanical behavior of materials and
of the load analysis, taking into account both static and dynamic load
conditions.
• To provide a set tools to be used for a correct choice and/or design of the most common machine elements.Knowledge and Understanding: successful students will know the
fundamental failure modes of engineering materials and machine
elements. Understanding the basic damage theories and rules that are
nowadays currently used within the engineers’ community. They also will
know how modeling both materials and machine components for life
prediction and failure control. Referring, in particular, to the most
common elements used in any mechanical system, such as shafts,
bearings, bolts and springs.

Skills and Attributes: successful students will be able to handle the
most common tools and methods used in structural safe design of the
most common components present in any mechanical systems. They also
should know how to face a new project of a mechanical system starting
from its functional design, till the choice of the materials able to
satisfy the requirements of each components in terms of strength,
deformation, fatigue life, wear, impact, and so on.

Educational objectives

GENERAL OBJECTIVES
The scope of the course is to provide the methodologies for decision making in fabrication processes. Tools and techniques are systematically provided to design the phases of the most relevant technologies in casting, machining and plastic deformation. They are based on the analysis, the development and the employment of relationship between the processing parameters and the final attributes such as cost, time, quality and flexibility.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
1. Gain the capabilities for evaluating the technology employment starting from the product design requirements
2. Gain the ability to design a traditional casting process: from component drawing to the casting outcome, model and accessories development.
3. Gain the ability to design a machining process by means of macrocycle and microcycle.
4. Gain the ability to design a plastic deformation process: from component drawing to the stamped object, to the mold development.

Educational objectives

The module aims to provide basic knowledge on sustainable mobility to understand how to measure the sustainability of a transport system, how to improve it and which trends will influence it in the near future. In particular, the concept of transport sustainability will be explored, indicators for measuring sustainability will be examined, examples of transport policies will be given (land use and pricing) and current trends in electric, shared, connected and automated mobility and their impact on sustainability will be examined. Finally, the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) will be introduced with the case study of the Sustainable University Mobility Plan of Sapienza University.
At the end of the course, the student will be able:
● to describe the land-use and pricing transport policies and their potential impact on transport demand, safety, environment, society, land use
● to select and use appropriate indicators to measure the sustainability of a transport system
● to identify the most suitable transport policies for improved sustainability of mobility systems

Educational objectives

Objectives
This module intends to provide the student with the scientific basis of the relationship between water and climate, in the context of the sustainability of the current and future water cycle for the projected scenarios of global warming. The formative objective of the module is therefore to provide students with the knowledge necessary to frame the objectives of the 2030 agenda relating to the sustainable use of water resources, its defense and defense from extreme hydrological events, climate change in the right scientific context. . Starting from the physical and chemical properties of water, the themes related to the water cycle as a regulator of climate and ecosystems, the interaction of the hydro-social cycle and its impact on the natural cycle due to over-exploitation and pollution are explored. . Students are introduced to issues relating to climate change in relation to the sustainability of the water cycle, highlighting the non-linearity characteristics of the climate system, the existence of critical thresholds and feedbacks. The description of the tools for making future projections, the associated uncertainties and possible actions aimed at controlling the stability of the climate system and the water cycle and mitigation conclude the training course.

Knowledge and understanding

Understanding and evaluating, through an interdisciplinary approach, the complex interaction between the climate system and the water cycle, taking into account the different space-time scales that characterize this interaction, from the local one at the basin scale to the global one at the scale of the entire planet. Therefore, place the problem of the sustainability of the water cycle in the correct context defined by this wide space-time variability.

Educational objectives

L’insegnamento è finalizzato all’acquisizione di una conoscenza di base sul tema della transizione energetica e delle tecnologie da utilizzare nel processo di decarbonizzazione imposto dalla Comunità Europea. In particolare si affronteranno i target previsti al 2030 per il risparmio energetico, per l’efficienza energetica e per le fonti di energia rinnovabili. Verranno esaminate le tecnologie più comuni, le loro caratteristiche funzionali, le problematiche relative al loro inserimento nel tessuto urbano, i criteri di scelta tecnico-economica tra le alternative possibili, la loro dislocazione e gli aspetti relativi agli incentivi economici. Saranno infine analizzati i collegamenti del tema energia con gli aspetti rilevanti, sociali, economici, ambientali.

Costituiscono argomenti dell’insegnamento:
- il PNRR del Next generation EU, il Piano di Azione per l'Energia e il Clima.
- tecnologie per la produzione dell’energia da fonti rinnovabili e disponibilità su scala territoriale e loro sviluppo in termini di capacità
- valutazione delle tematiche sull’efficienza energetica nel settore edilizio e industriale.

Capacità di:
- essere informati sull’influenza del territorio costruito sui principali impatti in tema di caratteristiche climatiche, risorse energetiche, inquinamento atmosferico
- valutare le esigenze ed i criteri di distribuzione sul territorio delle risorse energetiche e dei consumi di energia.