SSP 101B Mechanics of Fluids
Physical properties of fluids and their effect on flow behavior; equations of motion for incompressible ideal flow, including the special case of hydrostatics; continuity, energy, and momentum principles; control volume analysis; laminar and turbulent flows; internal and external flows in specific engineering applications including pipes, open channels, estuaries, and wind turbines.
Textbook: To be confirmed, if any.

SSP 172 Air Quality Management
Quantitative introduction to the engineering methods used to study and seek solutions to current air quality problems. Topics: global atmospheric changes, urban sources of air pollution, indoor air quality problems, design and efficiencies of pollution control devices, and engineering strategies for managing air quality.

SSP 262A Hydrodynamics
The flow of incompressible viscous fluid; emphasis is on developing an understanding of fluid dynamics that can be applied to environmental flows. Topics: kinematics of fluid flow; equations of mass and momentum conservation (including density variations); some exact solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations; appropriate analysis of fluid flows including Stokes flows, potential flows, and laminar boundary layers; and an introduction to the effects of rotation and stratification through scaling analysis of fluid flows.
Textbook: Fluid Mechanics (2ed), P.K. Kundu and I. M. Cohen , Academic Press 2001

SSP 262B Transport and Mixing in Surface Water Flows
Application of fluid mechanics to problems of pollutant transport and mixing in the water environment. Mathematical and numerical models of advection, diffusion, and dispersion. Application of theory to problems of transport and mixing in rivers, estuaries, and lakes and reservoirs.
Textbook: Mixing in Inland and Coastal Waters by Fischer, List, Imberger et al

SSP 262C Modeling and Simulation for Civil and Environmental Engineers
Introduction to mathematical and computational methods for modeling and simulation and the use of the Simulink toolbox in Matlab to cover topics including transport, air and water quality, reservoir, and global climate modeling. Course is application driven; students work in groups on three projects with an extensive final project.

SSP 262E Lakes and Reservoirs
Overview of lake and reservoir management issues; Physics of stratification; Dynamics of inflows, outflows, seiching, deep mixing and bubble plumes; Measurements of lake physics; Reservoir sedimentation; DYRESM - a ID temperature model; Overview of water quality in lakes and reservoirs; Oxygen, phytoplankton & nutrients; CAEDYM - a water quality model; Microcystis - a nasty cyanobacterium.

SSP 263C Weather and Storms
Survey of daily and severe weather, and global climate. Topics: structure and composition of the atmosphere, fog and cloud formation, rainfall, local winds, global circulation, jet streams, high and low pressure systems, inversions, el Niño, la Niña, atmosphere-ocean interatctions, fronts, cyclones, thunderstorms, lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, pollutant transport, global climate, and atmospheric optics.

SSP 264A Rivers, Stream 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.

SSP 265C Water Resources Management 
Focus is on the basic principles of surface and ground water resources management in the context of water scarcity and hydrologic uncertainty.  Topics include reservoir, river basin, and aquifer management, conjunctive use of surface and ground water, wastewater reuse, and demand management.  Considers technical, economic, social, and political elements of water management. 
Textbook not required

SSP 266A Watersheds and Wetlands
An introduction to the occurrence and movement of water in the natural environment and its role in creating and maintaining terrestrial, wetland, and aquatic habitat. Hydrologic processes, including precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, snowmelt, infiltration, subsurface flow, runoff, and streamflow. Rivers and lakes, springs and swamps.
Emphasis is on observation and measurement, data analysis, modeling, and prediction.
Textbook: Physical Hydrology, 2nd ed, Dingman, S.Lawrence, Prentice-Hall Inc.

SSP 268 Groundwater Flow
Study of 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 zones of wells; and mixing schemes for in-situ remediation.

SSP 270 Movement and Fate of Organic Contaminants in Surface Waters and Groundwater
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.
Textbook: Textbook not required

SSP 271A Physical and Chemical Treatment Processes
Physical and chemical unit operations for water treatment, emphasizing process combinations for drinking water supply. Application of the principles of chemistry, rate processes, fluid dynamics, and process engineering to define and solve water treatment problems by flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, disinfection, oxidation, aeration, and adsorption. Investigative paper on water supply and treatment.

SSP 271B Environmental Biotechnology
Stoichiometry, kinetics, and thermodynamics of microbial processes for the transformation of environmental contaminants. Design of dispersed growth and biofilm-based processes. Applications include treatment of municipal and industrial wastewaters, detoxification of hazardous chemicals, and groundwater remediation
Textbook: Environmental Biotechnology by Bruce Rittmann and Perry McCarty

SSP 271Y Environmental Policy Design and Implementation in the U.S. and Asia
How policy instruments and their effects are influenced by administrative and legal structures and by interplay among participants such as regulators, polluters, and nongovernmental organizations.

SSP 272 Coastal Contaminants
Coastal pollution and its effects of ecosystems and human health. The sources, fate, and transport of human pathogens, nutrients, heavy metals, persistent organics, endocrine disrupters, and toxic algae. Background on coastal ecosystems and coastal transport phenomena including tides and waves.

SSP 273 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.
Textbook: Water Chemistry, Benjamin, Mark M. International Edition 2002 (ISBN 0-07-238390-9), McGraw-Hill Book Co.

SSP 273A Water Chemistry Laboratory
Laboratory application of techniques for the analysis of natural and contaminated waters, emphasizing instrumental techniques.

SSP 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.
Textbook: Brock Biology of Microorganisms by Madigan, Martinko and Parker; Prentice Hall

SSP 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.
Textbook: Textbook not required.

SSP 277B Knowledge Systems in Engineering and Management for Sustainable Development
Knowledge frameworks and systems dealing with large amounts of complex information from crossdisciplinary collaborative activities in sustainable development. Topics include: domain information and knowledge representation and processing; knowledge management and integration in engineering and management domains; access to information for problem solving, planning, and decision making; knowledge management for environmentally friendly manufacturing and business activities; systematic assessment in management and engineering; and use of IT and the Internet for collaboration and learning.

SSP 278A Air Pollution Physics and Chemistry
The sources and health effects of pollutants. The influence of meteorology on pollution atmospheric energy balance, temperature profiles, stability classes, inversion layers, turbulence. Atmospheric diffusion equations, downwind dispersion of emissions from point and line sources. Tropospheric chemistry: mechanisms for ozone formation, photochemical reactions, radical chain mechanisms, heterogeneous chemical reactions.
Textbook: J, H. Seinfeld and S. N. Pandis, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics: from Air Pollution to Climate Change, 1998, Willey-Interscience, ISBN 0-471-17816-0

SSP 299 Independent Study
Development of a research proposal in conjunction with SSP376.

SSP 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.
Textbook: Textbook not required

SSP 372 Environmental Informatics: Information and Knowledge Management in Environmental Engineering Information systems dealing with large amounts of environmental and sustainable development data at multiple spatial-temporal scales and from cross-disciplinary research activities. Topics include: domain information modeling and processing, and interoperability; information security; knowledge management and integration in environmental engineering domain; access to information for decision making; and systematic assessment in management and engineering. The use of IT and the Internet.

SSP 376 Proposal Development for Environmental Investigations
Teaches students to design experiments and field studies for environmental research based on modern analytical techniques, develop research hypotheses, develop plans for quality assurance and control, and write proposals to conduct environmental investigations. Using case studies, students evaluate the relationship between experimental design, analytical approach, and data analysis and produce a complete proposal package.

SSP 6502 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.
Course material: Course notes by instructors

SSP 6504 Hazardous Waste Treatment & Recovery
Definitions and legislation. Waste minimisation. Treatment technologies: stabilisation, thermal, physical, chemical and biological treatment. Application. Landfill and remediation.
Course material: (i) course notes by instructor; (ii) text: “Hazardous Waste Management”, Lagrega, M, Buckingham, P. and Evants, J.C., McGraw-Hill, New York, 2001.

SSP 6512 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.
Course material: Course notes by instructor.

SSP6803 Numerical Methods
Basic equations of fluid dynamics, Inviscid and incompressible flows, Viscous fluid flows, Numerical stability, Numerical solutions to partial differential equations, Computer-based analysis of flow problems.

SSP7501 Membrane Science and Technology
Basic concepts of membrane separation and its applications. Membrane materials and preparation, advanced characterization methods. Modeling flux and rejection behaviors of different types of membranes. Pressure-driven membranes, hybrid membrane processes including membrane bioreactors (MBR). Membrane fouling mechanisms, modeling, and control. Membrane system design. Gas separation, pervaporation, membrane contactors, and membrane distillation. Advanced topics in membrane research.

SSP 9003 Materials Characterization
This course will educate on the use of complementary materials characterization techniques through understanding the advantages and limitations of commonly used analytically different X-ray and electron microscopy characterization tools. Students will be acquainted with the principles, instrumentation and operation of X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning/transmission electron microscopy (SEM/TEM) and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) for characterization of materials. Practical methods of designing experiments, sample preparation, data collection / interpretation will be highlighted. The student should gain an understanding of the importance of these tools individually and complementary to each other in designing and solving materials-related problems.