Professional Master's Degree
1. Mandatory Disciplines (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Area of Concentration: Dam and Environment
Interdisciplinary Epistemological Foundations: Introduction to Dam Engineering and Environment (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Articulation of science in the relationship between nature and society. Transformation of knowledge and environmental rationality. Energy and the Amazon. The process of socioeconomic development and the direct impact on the environment. Impacts on the environment with dam construction. The effects of the use of natural resources. Environmental management of dams. Environmental action plan. Environmental compensation. Environmental complexity.
Methodological Research Procedures (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Types of knowledge and research. Scientific methods and quantitative and qualitative research. Conceptual instruments in the field of knowledge production. Problems, procedures and tools for analysis; the types and the varied strategies of investigation and the accomplishment of didactic and scientific activities, with a view to the technical, scientific and intellectual production and the discussion of the researches in progress and the improvement of the productions of the students.
2. Elective Disciplines (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Area of Concentration: Dam and Environment
Experimental Analysis of Structures (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Topics related to the monitoring of structures subject to static and / or dynamic loads; determination of aerodynamic actions in structures with the wind tunnel.
Learning and Collaborative Systems Applied to Dam and Environment Engineering (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Types of knowledge. Meaning and theories of learning. For what and why to learn. Obstacles and facilitators in the learning process. Awareness and context. Collective knowledge. Knowledge management and group memory. Theories and models of collaboration. Collaboration ontology. Collaborative Virtual Environments and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Collaborative learning with computational support.
Materials Science (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Structure of solids, phases, surfaces, surface thermodynamics, diffusion, mechanical properties and basic materials.
Soil Quality Indicators (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Natural resource: soil; Importance of quality indicators; Physical, chemical and biological indicators of soil quality in natural environments; Indicators and their relationships with soil quality; Studies of soil quality monitoring in buses and data of soil quality indicators in the Amazon.
Mining and Information Representation for Dam and Environment Engineering (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Introduction to data mining. Statistical analysis of data and covariance of factors. Computer models and tools for pattern recognition and data mining. Visual mining of data. Visualization of numerical and geographical information. Application cases in dam safety and environmental planning and management.
Mathematical and Computational Modeling (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Matters related to mathematical formulations and elaboration of algorithms to describe the mechanical behavior of the deformable solids and the numerical solution of these mathematical models.
Planning and Management of Water Resources (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Planning, management of river basin and its use as territorial unit. Geopolitics of water and water resources management models. Management of water resources in Brazil. Sustainability indicators for microbasin. Insertion of dams in river basins. Water resources and sustainability in the Amazon region.
Environmental Chemistry (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Introduction to environmental chemistry. Chemistry of the atmosphere: Pollution of the atmosphere, acid rain, greenhouse effect, energy sources: alternative and renewable energies; water chemistry: acid-base equilibria in water, water pollution, water purification; soil chemistry: sediments and soils, toxic substances, organic toxic substances, metals and other toxic inorganic compounds.
Knowledge Based Systems Applied to Dam and Environment Engineering (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Introduction to knowledge-based systems. Engineering and knowledge elicitation. Techniques of knowledge representation. Specialist Systems. Case-based reasoning. Ontologies. Other approaches. Case studies applied to dam safety, Environmental management and monitoring.
Special Topics I Applied to Environmental Planning and Management (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Know advanced topics in the area of Environmental Planning and Management.
Special Topics I Applied to Dam Safety (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: To know advanced topics in the area of Dam Safety.
Special Topics II Applied to Environmental Planning and Management (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Know advanced topics in the area of Environmental Planning and Management.
Special Topics II Applied to Dam Safety (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: To know advanced topics in the area of Dam Safety.
Special Topics III Applied to Environmental Planning and Management (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Know advanced topics in the area of Environmental Planning and Management.
Special Topics III Applied to Dam Safety (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: To know advanced topics in the area of Dam Safety.