BA/BS in Sustainable Engineering

General Description: Objective(s) of a study programme: To prepare qualified, comprehensively educated environmental engineering specialists with fundamental knowledge of engineering activities, capable of creating sustainable agricultural production and organic waste management tools with the help of engineering tools and digital technologies and solving the problems of increasing their efficiency, saving resources, reducing the impact on climate change, as well as capable think critically and evaluate green bioenergy production processes and their impact on the environment. Learning outcomes: To explain the principles of natural, fundamental, engineering sciences, operation and application of information systems in engineering practical activities. Identify the impact of engineering solutions on the environment, climate change, determine their connection with economic consequences and describe engineering methods for solving problems of environmental sustainability and resource conservation in integral engineering systems. Apply effective research methods, laboratory analytical equipment to identify engineering problems in biosystems, evaluate and summarize research results and their reliability. Select the necessary professional and scientific information, systematize and analyze the data needed to solve environmental engineering problems, using the results and achievements of fundamental and applied engineering scientific research. Select and apply advanced information systems for data analysis and management of technological processes in biosystems, holistically solving environmental engineering problems. Apply design methods based on modern digital technologies to implement engineering solutions in a sustainable biological environment. Using engineering innovations, smart technologies and artificial intelligence to design production processes in biosystems according to established technical, economic and environmental requirements, to model, create and evaluate environmentally friendly products and the conversion of these products into products with higher added value. To be able to work effectively independently and in a team, to communicate with the national and international engineering community and the general public, to seek a rational combination of natural, human, technical and technological factors in solving environmental engineering problems in biosystems. Expose the business aspects of engineering consulting, the importance of individual lifelong learning and personal development, and take responsibility for the impact of one's performance in the context of environmental engineering and biosystems. Activities of teaching and learning: The most popular study methods: information analysis and summarization; interpretation; case study; problem solving; demonstration; preparation and presentation of projects; illustration; conducting tests; group or individual work; preparation and presentation of reports (abstracts). Methods of assessment of learning achievements: The following study assessment methods are the most popular: assessment of laboratory work reports; assessment of problem solving; written interview; assessment of individual or group work and its presentation; evaluation of completed practical tasks; case study evaluation; evaluation of the written or oral survey Framework: Study subjects (modules), practical training: General university study subjects - 40 ECTS. Study subjects in the field of environmental engineering: Introduction to the specialty; Engineering graphics; Theoretical mechanics; Elements of machines; Thermodynamics; Electrical engineering and electronics; Mechanics of fluid bodies; Automatic control; Sustainable Biosystems Engineering; Power and transport machinery; Mechatronic systems; Environmental Engineering; Sustainable animal husbandry; Human safety; Storage engineering; Reliability of engineering systems; Biowaste utilization engineering; Remote monitoring of machine work processes; Sustainability assessment of engineering systems; Design of intelligent animal husbandry structures; Evaluation of the life cycle of zoosystems; Bioproduct production technologies; Biowaste energy; Service of engineering systems; Green triboengineering; Practice of professional activity; Final work. Study subjects in the field of informatics: Programming technologies; computer aided design; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications; Robotics, robots and aircraft in agriculture; Data science. Other study subjects: Mathematics; Chemistry; Physics; General Biology; Fundamentals of statistics; Agronomy; Animal Science; Language of specialty; Business planning and evaluation; Quality management; Circular economy. Specialisations: Optional courses: In the 7th semester, students have the opportunity to choose the direction in which they will continue to study and what topic they will prepare their final work on. The student chooses one of four topics: 1. Precision agriculture; 2. Smart animal husbandry; 3. Production of bioproducts; 4. Reliability of engineering systems. Distinctive features of a study programme: By combining natural and fundamental sciences with engineering and computer sciences, opportunities are provided to acquire skills in designing engineering intelligent systems and implementing them in living nature Access to professional activity or further study: Access to professional activity: The study program is focused on training highly qualified environmental engineering specialists. This enables future graduates of the program to adapt to the needs of the labor market and create their own engineering consulting business or realize themselves in international and national companies by working as engineers, experts, technologists, consultants, environmental inspectors, project and production managers. Graduates' professional activities are associated with various companies whose activities are related to the identification and holistic solution of environmental engineering problems, the design and implementation of engineering systems in the agricultural sector, the production of food and feed raw materials, the collection and processing of by-products, the management of industrial waste, the production of bioenergy, technical expertise and compliance assessment, quality control, consulting and with companies responsible for the implementation of the European Green Course. Access to further study: Graduates will be able to continue their studies and specialize more deeply in master's study programs of engineering sciences, technological sciences or other groups of study areas at Vytautas the Great University and other Lithuanian and foreign higher education institutions. Currently, there is an opportunity to study in the following study programs at the Faculty of Engineering of VMU ŽŪA: Agricultural Mechanical Engineering; Agricultural Engineering and Management; Sustainable energy; Transport engineering; Hydrotechnical construction engineering; Land management.