MEMZ01 Water Quality Control Process (3 credits)

This course describes the technological and regulatory changes that have occurred over the last ten years in this discipline, including: improved techniques for the characterization of wastewaters; improved fundamental understanding of many of the existing unit operations and processes used for wastewater treatment, especially those processes used for the biological removal of nutrients; greater implementation of several newer treatment technologies; greater emphasis on advanced wastewater treatment and risk assessment for water reuse applications).

MEMZ02 Environmental Impact Assessment (3 credits)

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is the official appraisal process to identify, predict, evaluate and justify the ecological, social, and related biophysical effects of a proposed policy, program or project on the environment. It provides insight on alternatives and measures to be adopted before any commitment, thus helps in important decision-making.

MEMZ03 Solid Waste Management and Reuse(3 credits)

The course defines solid waste, identifies it's characteristics, it's types, components and places of production, the practical means of its extraction and collection, then describers how it can be processed, recycled and used, up to its final disposal.

MEMZ04 Atmospheric Environment (3 credits)

The course discusses the sources and origin, the physical and chemical process, the management and pollution control process of the air pollution issues.

MEMZ05 Environmental Law (3 credits)

The course will systematically introduce the basic concepts, principles, and framework of the Environmental Protection Law in China; the important environmental quality standards and pollution control standards; and the practical cases of the environmental illegal activities .

MEMZ06 Environment and Sustainable Development (3 credits)

The promotion of sustainable development opens up the debates surrounding our relationship with the natural world, what constitutes social progress, and the character of development in the present and into the future. The course investigates this subject across different socio-political and economic contexts. It combines an examination of the institutional engagement with sustainable development at a global level, with an empirically informed discussion on challenges facing high consumption societies, economies in transition and third world countries in their efforts to achieve sustainable development.

MEME01 Environmental Planning and Management (3 credits)

This couse focuses on environmental planning and management. Environmental problems are not purely scientific; some of the major problems deal with poor management and the inability to involve people in environmental decision making process. The approach taken in this course is to review environmental problems as they are affected by poor planning and management. Understanding of management issues involved will help to get top management to buy into environmental management. The tendency is for top management to view environmental management efforts as expensive and wasteful to an organization.

MEME02 Climate Change (3 credits)

The course introduces the basic concepts and origins of climate change, the impacts of climate extremes on biodiversity, carbon storage in tree plantations, and the relationship between precipitation and vegetation, etc. The course will be of interest to students, researchers, academics, and policy makers who are concerned about abrupt climate change and its potential impact on society.

MEME03 International Environmental Law (3 credits)

This course provides a concise, conceptually clear, and legally rigorous introduction to contemporary international environmental law and practice. The course covers all the major multilateral environmental agreements, paying particular attention to their underlying structure, their main legal provisions, and their practical operation.

MEME04 Energy and Environment (3 credits)

The course describes the state of the art at the interface between energy and environmental research.

MEME05 Environmental Chemistry (3credits)

The course describes those chemical principles which underpin the natural processes occurring within and between the air, water, and soil, and explores how human activities impact on these processes, giving rise to environmental issues of global concern.

MEME06 Statistics (3 credits)

In this course, students will learn basic statistics tools, such as estimation, hypothesis testing, regression, etc., to analyze and interpret data. Students will also learn to use certain statistics software, such as SPSS, Excel, etc.

MEME07 Managerial Decision Methods (3 credits)

This course focuses on how to use statistics and other quantitative methods to make managerial decisions.

MEME08 Information Service Management (3 credits)

This course seeks to introduce students to the idea of service as a science, in which service quality can be measured using various metrics. Then, students will be introduced to ideas of how to manage the performance of service science to a particular standard of performance measures.

MEME09 Special Topics for Environmental Science and Management(3 credits)

The course will introduce the frontier topics, ideas, and technologies of environmental management and sciences. Some famous scholars will be invited to share their experiences and minds in this course.

Research Methodology in Design (3 credits)

This course introduces the basic principles, methods and practical techniques of architectural design research. Through the study of the course, the students can understand and master how to turn the problem I am interested in into a feasible research topic, so as to design a set of research programs, draw up standardized research plans and write research reports demonstrating the results.

Advanced Architectural and Environmental Design I, II (6 credits)

This course takes practical and specific cases of architecture and urban design as the study objects, and is required to complete the design exercise by a series of scientific steps, such as the exploration of design topics, theoretical discussion, case study, design objectives and principles, alternative proposal, formulation of evaluation criteria, project evaluation and final design. The teaching process enables the students to understand and become familiar with the procedures of urban design. The result of the project includes the presentation of illustrations, models and 3D animation, as well as the emphasis on the writing of the report. In order to train the students' ability of communication, coordination and teamwork, the students will be divided into groups for Team Work teaching.

Research on Development and Construction of Urban Space (3 credits)

The purpose of this course is to theoretically understand and analyze the local economy and urban development, and propose relevant development strategies from the perspective of  urban planning. In addition to absorbing relevant theoretical knowledge and empirical experience at home and abroad by literature review, the techniques of development policy and planning will also be discussed. In order to combine the theory learning and design practice, there are practical theme units implemented for the students to have in-depth operation experience during the teaching process.

Waterfront City and Sustainable Architecture Design Studies (3 credits)

Through the research of sustainable architectural issues, the students will understand the necessary architectural design and construction methods under the guidance of  sustainable design principles. Through lectures and case studies, the students will be  familiar with the materials and technologies present day in use, and understand the characteristics and assembling of materials in the sustainable concepts. In addition, the course will introduce and predict the sustainable application of the future materials and redefine the possibility of future architectural design in the concept of sustainable development.

Special Topics on Research of Architectural Environment Control (3 credits)

The purpose of this course is to understand the trends of the earth environment and climate changes, as well as the impacts of various physical environmental factors on buildings.   The students will be taught to understand the application principles of various modern equipments, explore the advanced scientific control methods, so as to make comfortable, convenient, safe and healthy buildings and construct the better environmental quality.

Architectural Reuse and Cultural Creativity (3 credits)

This course will take cultural and creative industry theory as the principal axis, and systematically teach relevant theoretical research, supplemented by the description and comparative analysis of the practical reuse cases. To have a comprehensive understanding and knowledge in the relevant theories, concepts, cultural laws and regulations, the current situation of development. To develop the advanced professional knowledge of the corresponding requirements and improve the diversity means of revitalizing the buildings.

Academic Activities (1 credits)

The students must participate in at least ten academic events recognized by the faculty, including talks, seminars and academic visit. The students should also submit a report of one page length(A4) after each participation and have every report graded by the adviser. It aims to cultivate students’ comprehensive qualities, broaden their academic horizons, and galvanize innovative thinking.

Research Methodology

Urban Economics

Regional Economics

Spatial Economics

Spatial Econometrics

Special Topics in Urban and   Regional Sustainable Development

Survey Research and Data Analysis

Industrial Economic Theory and   Application

Public Management Theory and Policy   Analysis

Urban and Regional Planning

Environmental and Resource   Economics

Special Topics in Macao Development

Special Topics in Bay Area   Development