The course is intended to help students: to understand contemporary information technologies and to understand the possibilities of their appliance in environmental engineering and safety on work; to achieve computer literacy; to master methods and techniques of IT resources usage; and to learn how to use standard applications that are broadly applied in engineering practice.

By the end of the course, students should be able to use operating systems, text editors, spreadsheets, presentation and slide software and Internet services. They will be able: to understand and describe basic computer architecture, to understand functionality of computer systems; and to independently use IT resources.

Fundamental information technology concepts. Data representation. Computer architecture and functionality: basic components, their features, characteristics and behavior, comparison, merits and limitations. Microcomputers. Operating systems and application techniques. Components of information system. Geo-information systems - components and application. Introduction to computer networks and application techniques. Internet services. Programing systems. Application techniques of: text editors, spreadsheets, presentation and slide systems. Information society, trust in information society (safety, privacy, intellectual property). Technological and social perspectives: merits and limitations of information age.

Teaching is done through lectures and exercises that are performed in the computer lab.