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Overview
What you will learn
On successful completion of this Soil Engineering, Contaminant and Nutrient Management course offered by Cranfield University you will:
- Understand issues of soil stability and plasticity,
- Quantify soil compaction and devise strategies to minimise compaction and/or rectify the problem,
- Describe the routes to soil physical and biological damage and devise strategies to minimise degradation and ecosystem disruption,
- Evaluate the dynamics of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus as major nutrients in soils,
- Identify the pathways of contaminants in soils and their impacts to the ecosystem,
- Implement suitable strategies to reduce pollution in soils taking into account the associated risks,
- Identify organic wastes, their nutrient contents and risks associated with their application to land.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Reasons for tillage and land management in land restoration and reclamation,
- Basics of soil mechanics: shear strength of soil & Mohr-Coulomb equation, effect of texture, moisture content and density on soil strength; Bearing capacity theory; Soil plasticity, Consistency and Atterberg limits,
- Mechanics, assessment and alleviation of soil compaction,
- Soil loosening - restoration: case study,
- Basic soil implement mechanics; choice of implements for particular operations,
- Microbiological, chemical and physical changes in soil during storage,
- Risk assessment and treatment of contaminated land (workshop),
- Dynamics and management of soil carbon nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other nutrients in the context of effective land restoration and reclamation,
- Organic manures, properties and management; Risk assessments of wastes spread to land,
- Contaminant sources, loadings and impacts.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 5 days
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Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Soil Science View 42 other Short Courses in Soil Science in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
- No requirements needed.
Tuition Fee
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International
1400 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1400 GBP for the full programme during 5 days. -
National
1400 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1400 GBP for the full programme during 5 days.
Living costs for Cranfield
700 - 1300 GBP /month
Living costs
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