CEE 270 Movement and Fate of Organic Contaminants in Waters
Transport of chemical constituents in surface and groundwater, including advection, dispersion, sorption, interphase mass transfer, and transformation; water quality requirements for various beneficial uses. Emphasis is on the behavior of hazardous waste contaminants.
CEE 274A Environmental Microbiology
The fundamental aspects of microbiology and biochemistry. The biochemical and biophysical principles of biochemical reactions, energetics, and mechanisms of energy conservation. Diversity of microbial catabolism, flow of organic matter in nature: the carbon cycle, and biogeochemical cycles. Bacterial physiology, phylogeny, and the ecology of microbes in soil and marine sediments, bacterial adhesion, and biofilm formation. Microbes in the degradation of pollutants.
CEE 276 Introduction to Human Exposure Analysis
Scientific and engineering issues involved in quantifying human exposure to toxic chemicals in the environment. Pollutant behavior, inhalation exposure, dermal exposure, and assessment tools. Overview of the complexities, uncertainties, and physical, chemical, and biological issues relevant to risk assessment. Lab projects.
CEE 376 Organic Analyses in Environmental Sciences
Theory and practice of instrumental methods used in environmental engineering and sciences, emphasizing determination of organic substances by gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, and high pressure liquid chromatography. Interpretation of mass spectra adaptation of techniques to specific environmental matrices. Case studies and preparation of a research proposal employing instrumental analysis.
CEE 264A Rivers, Streams and Canals
Introduction to the movement of water through natural and engineered channels, streams, and rivers. Basic equations and theory (mass, momentum, and energy equations) for steady and unsteady descriptions of the flow. Application of theory to the design of flood- control and canal systems. Flow controls such as weirs and sluice gates; gradually varied flow; Saint-Venant equations and flood waves; and method of characteristics. Open channel flow laboratory experiments: controls such as weirs and gates, gradually varied flow, and waves..
CEE 268 Groundwater Hydrology
Flow and mass transport in porous media through analytical techniques. Applications of potential flow theory to practical groundwater problems: flow to and from wells, rivers, lakes, drainage ditches; flow through and under dams; streamline tracing; capture zone of wells; and mixing schemes for in-situ remediation.
CV 6521 Air Quality Management
Classification and legislation. Atmospheric properties. Meteorological conditions, pollutants distribution and interaction. Engineered systems for removal of particulate, biological and gaseous pollutants. Indoor air quality. Monitoring and models. Global warming.
CV 7802 Advanced Hydrodynamics
Fluid properties, Types of flows, Fundamental mathematic operations, Fluid statics, Mathematical models, Boundary layer flows, Incompressible turbulent flow, Potential flow theory, Kinematics of water waves, Linear and nonlinear wave models, Standing and progressive waves, Dispersion relationship, Deep and shallow approximations, Dynamics of water waves, Wave fields, Seiching, Wave fraction, Snell’s law, Wave breaking, Wave diffraction and ship waves.
CV 7502 Aquatic Chemistry
Chemical principles and their application to the analysis and solution of problems in aqueous geochemistry (temperatures near 25° C and atmospheric pressure). Emphasis is on the analysis of natural water systems and the understanding and solution of specific chemical problems in water purification technology and water pollution control.
CV 6581 Water Chemistry Laboratory
Laboratory application of techniques for the analysis of natural and contaminated waters, emphasizing instrumental techniques.
CV 2120 Technical Communication
This course focuses on technical communication, written and spoken, in environmental engineering. This emphasis is reflected in teaching materials, resources, and learning tasks. In the written component, the emphasis is on writing project proposals, project reports, conference and journal papers, and summaries. In the oral component, oral presentation principles and techniques are introduced and practiced in the contexts of seminars, symposiums and poster presentations.
CV6501 Water Treatment and Process Design
Classification and legislation. Atmospheric properties. Meteorological conditions, pollutants distribution and interaction.
CV6502 Contaminated Site Assessment and Remediation
Land contamination problems, biogeochemistry of the subsurface environment, fate of metals and organic contaminants in subsurface, contaminant transport processes, site investigation, remedial technologies and integrated remedial system design.
CV 6503 Wastewater Treatment and Process Design
Selection and use of wastewater treatment processes leading to rational design of overall systems. Advanced processes in anaerobic treatment and nutrient removal. Wastewater reclamation and reuse. Sludge treatment and disposal.
CV6512 Integrated Solid Waste Management
Integrated solid waste management, waste characterization, waste collection, transfer, and transport, waste recycling, reuse and recovery, biochemical conversion technologies, thermal conversion technologies, waste disposal, industrial waste management, industrial ecology and waste management.
CV 6602 Urban Hydrology
Rainfall for urban stormwater design. Rainfall abstractions. Urban runoff processes. Design of stormwater drainage systems. Quality of urban runoff. Urban stormwater management. Effects of urbanization on runoff quantity and quality.
CV7803 Numerical Methods
Basic equations of fluid dynamics, Inviscid and incompressible flows, Viscous fluid flows, Numerical stability.
CV 7501 Membrane Science & Technology
Basic concepts of membrane separation and its applications.
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