The Center for Community Services, Consultancies, Training and Continuing Education is proud to announce that it will offer the Professional Diploma for Waste Management in collaboration with the Department of Natural Resources and Environment at AGU.
Aim of the Course
This course aims to build the capacities in the field of solid wastes management, through providing a holistic course with information and knowledge that enable the participants to contribute positively in their careers, institutions, and countries via improving their skills, which therefore contribute towards the realization of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of 2030.
Why should one take this certification?
This course is intended for professionals, employees, and graduates who want to excel in their careers, maximize, and diversify their capabilities in their disciplines. It is also well suited for those who are already working and would like to take certification for further career progression, which supports and improve their scope of skills and knowledge.
Earning a “Professional Diploma on Waste Management” can help candidate differentiate in today's competitive job market, especially with the new global approach towards the Circular Economy and transfer into renewable energy resources, which increase the opportunities for employment by gaining more advanced skills and knowledge, and result in higher quality of work and earning potential.
Who will benefit from taking this certification?
Professionals at the industries who work in the industrial waste management departments, and deal with industrial waste. Academics and researchers need to enrich their knowledge in waste management. Municipalities and municipality councils’ members who are in the decision-making positions, and their employees. Job seekers who are looking to find employment in waste management or sustainability departments of various companies, students generally wanting to improve their skill set and make their CV stronger, and existing employees looking for a better role can prove their employers the value of their skills through this certification. Suitability - Who should attend list is summarized as follows:
- Industries SHE and waste management departments managers and staff
- Municipalities’ councils’ members and staff
- Ministry of Municipalities, works and urban planning affairs managers and staff
- Facilities and maintenance managers, practitioners and officers. Operations managers, executives and staff.
- Cleaning companies managers and staff
- NGOs, and environmental protection associations’ members
- Anybody who has a desire to learn more about this subject is encouraged to do this course.
Course Description
Waste management is considered one of the most important challenges in urban cities worldwide. Thus, understanding environmental pollution and waste management became essential.
This course provides information and principles of waste management technologies and practices and pollution control. It emphasizes the sustainable and integrated solid waste management (ISWM) approach. This course provides all the required information and management practices and technologies of all solid waste categories including Municipal Solid Waste (MSW): (domestic, commercial, construction and demolition (C&D)), Industrial Waste (IW), Hazardous Waste (HW): (including Medical Waste (MW)). It provides state-of-the-art- technologies that support the sustainable management of solid waste, which contribute to the realization of the SDGs 2030. Moreover, this course will provide substantial information about the Circular Economy as the economy of the future, and discuss the opportunities of investments as a holistic approach of waste management. This course enables the participants to integrate the gained knowledge into their areas of expertise.
Course Objectives and Learning Outcomes
The primary objective of this course is to provide the participants with general knowledge about waste management and environmental pollution and related aspects. It is designed to cover the fundamental knowledge and principles to manage waste sustainably to conserve natural resources. Management practices include planning and decisions making to prevent and/or minimize pollution and therefore reduce the negative impacts on the environment, health, economy, and society. Moreover, this course will emphasize the role of the regulations, legislation and international agreements in pollution abatement.
After completion of this course, the participants are expected to:
- Understand the principles of environmental pollution.
- Define and characterize solid, liquid, and gas pollutants from technical and regulatory perspectives.
- Identify the waste management practices and technologies based on Waste Management Hierarchy and 4Rs principle, including waste prevention and reduction, reuse, recycle, recovery, and disposal, besides the waste stream processes including waste collection, processing technologies, separation, transport, and storage.
- Develop working knowledge of technologies and international best practices in areas of solid waste management.
- Identify the major health, social and ecological impacts of environmental pollution in the absence of -or inappropriate- waste management.
- Gain the skills and abilities to select the optimum and best solution for any environmental pollution and waste management issue.
- Understand the integrated solid waste management to sustainability.
- Gain the ability to evaluate and determine the waste-related environmental problems and contribute to choosing the most suitable solution to any waste problem.
- Improve the abilities to determine the real-world environmental situations and distribute awareness from a new perspective.
- Gain the ability to think critically and evaluate practical environmental pollution cases.
- Recognize the role and importance of strategies, policies, regulations, and legislations in waste management.
- Consider Waste as a treasure, resource, and raw material for many manufacturing activities, and accordingly explore the opportunities for Circular Economy investments in our country.
Entry Requirements
- Applicant must hold a minimum secondary school certificate or its equivalent
- Applicant must have the Knowledge of English language
- Applicant must have the experience in the environmental and waste management fields
Evaluation and Assessment:
Students' evaluation will be based on:
- Class participation 10%
- Class attendance 20%
- Assignment 1 20%
- Final Project 50%
Students are expected to attend all classes, participate in all class activities, and submit all assignments in due dates.
Outcome / Qualification
A “Professional Diploma on Waste Management Certificate” from AGU is issued and be provided to the participant on course completion.
Course Content: Modules Topics
This course consists of 12 modules; each of three credit hours, which classified as follows:
- General Modules: 9 modules which are mandatory to all participants,
- Elective Modules: 3 modules as per the participants interest.
Each participant should fulfil 10 modules in total (30 credit hours) => (120 working hours)
Each Module duration is 2 weeks (6 working hours/week) => (12 working hours/module)
The participants are required to submit a final project in the last month of study, in one of the above module’s topics as per their interests.
The Certificate will be awarded after completion of all the 10 modules AND submitting the final project which can be of any topic of the modules listed above upon the participant’s selection.
The participant has the option to register partially in any SELECTED modules of his interest to attend in case of time limitations, and therefore earn a “Participation Certificate” of that module accordingly.
Important Note
This program is a professional program that is not equivalent to an academic diploma and does not lead to a master's degree.
Total Modules List:
- Environmental Pollution and Waste Management
- Integrated Solid Waste Management
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Plastic Waste Management
- Hazardous and Industrial Waste Management
- Medical (Health Care) Waste Management
- Biodegradable and Food Waste Management
- Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials
- Waste Management Technologies and Selection Criteria
- Water Energy Food Waste (WEFW) Nexus
- Innovation in Waste Management
- Circular Economy: Case Studies from the Developed Countries
General Mandatory Modules:
- Environmental Pollution and Waste Management
- Integrated Solid Waste Management
- Plastic Waste Management
- Biodegradable and Food Waste Management
- Waste Management and Critical Raw Materials
- Waste Management Technologies and Selection Criteria
- Water Energy Food Waste (WEFW) Nexus
- Innovation in Waste Management
- Circular Economy: Case Studies from the Developed Countries
Elective Modules:
- Municipal:
Municipal Solid Waste Management
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Industrial:
Hazardous and Industrial Waste Management
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Medical:
Medical
(Health Care) Waste Management
Fees
The total fees of the “Professional Diploma on Waste Management” course is BD 950
For a group of three and more from the same institution, a special discount is provided and the fees will be BD 800 per participant
Course Coordinator
Dr. Sumaya Yusuf Hasan
Chairperson, Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment
Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering
Environmental Management Program
College of Graduate Studies
Arabian Gulf University
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