Prerequisites

Course Credits

1.00

Description

This course introduces students to environmental engineering through a weekly lecture series given by professionals in the field of who will discuss their work and the different projects that they contributed to. There will also be field trips to points of interests such as waste water treatment plants and green buildings.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course is the basis course for environmental engineering and provides students with an overview of current and future environmental issues and concerns, practice in material and energy balance calculations, introduction to unit operations and treatment trains and their design, and ideas in sustainable design.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

ENVE-104; PHYS-151

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course applies design tools (Autocad primarily and others as necessary for specified design problems) to design problems specified by the instructor.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

CHEM-112 OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course examines the common families of organic compounds and their fate in the environment. Topics include organic nomenclature, characteristic chemistry of functional groups, the origin of anthropogenic organic compounds in the environment, and their ultimate fate. Processes studied include bioaccumulation, biomagnification, biodegradation, decomposition (including photochemical processes), air transport, groundwater transport, water transport, and accumulation and reaction in sediments.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

ENVE 104, MATH 166 AND PHYS 152

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The focus of this course is on relative source contribution, regulatory standards, known health effects, and measurement techniques for criteria pollutants and specific air toxics. An emphasis on regulatory control strategies and the design of engineering controls is provided. Engineering Elective.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

ENVE-104 ENVE-220 and Permission of Instructor

Course Credits

2.00- 4.00

Description

This course is a directed study course for undergraduates. Students may submit proposals to the Director of Environmental Engineering Program for a program of study or work on current research in the Environmental Engineering Program.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

Approved computer programming course or permission of instructor.

Course Credits

3.00

Description

This course provides the fundamentals of geographic information science (GIS) including the history of automated mapping. A review of the necessary hardware and software elements used in GIS is presented. Hands-on exercises with computerized mapping software are required.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

ENVE-104 AND MATH-265 AND PHYS-152

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The basic equations of fluid statics and dynamics are covered in this course. Course topics include Archimede's principle, Bernoulli's equation, and their applications; fluid kinematics, Eulerian and Lagrangian flow descriptions, and Three-dimensional flows; Reynolds transport theorem, finite control volumes, and differential analysis and modeling; and viscous flow in pipes, flow over immersed bodies, and open channel flow.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

ENVE 104 AND MATH 166 and ENVE 361.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The following topics are considered in this course: the hydrologic cycle, precipitation processes, soil moisture, infiltration, groundwater, rainfall-runoff processes, utilization of water resources, and frequency analysis.Engineering Elective.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

MATH-265 and PHYS-152

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course covers the elements of thermodynamic systems, the laws of thermodynamics, the parameters and concepts of thermodynamic analyses (heat, work, internal energy, enthalpy, entropy, reversibility, more), and their application to ideal gases and heat engines. Topics include statistical mechanics, phase transitions, chemical equilibrium, Gibb's equation, the Nernst equation, and heterogeneous systems.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

Take ENVE 104; Take ENVE-226, CHEM-355, OR CHEM-211; Take BIO-273, MATH-341, OR ECE-325;

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course describes the theory of measurement techniques used in analyzing environmental quality parameters and provides a detailed experimental understanding of air, water, and soil instrumentation for pollution measurement. Topics include criteria pollutants, sources, sinks, chemistry, and health effects of each pollutant.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

Take CHEM-112; Take ENVE-226, CHEM-355, OR Chem-211; Take ENVE-361; or permission of the instructor.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course considers the design of water and wastewater unit operations in treatment systems. Topics include water supply, water transmission and distribution systems, drinking water treatment, wastewater collection, and wastewater treatment.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

Take ENVE-361 and ENVE-375,CHEM 211 or ENVE 226

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course presents the principles of green engineering and their application to process engineering, building design. Sustainable and renewable energy systems are a particular emphasis of the course. Topics include risk concepts, evaluating exposures, green chemistry, life cycle analysis, industrial ecology, and environmental sensors. Prerequisites: Organic Chemistry Option, ENVE 361, ENVE 375. CHEM 211 or ENVE 226 Engineering Electives. 1 term - 4 credits.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

Course # formerly ENVE 411

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course provides the senior engineering student with meaningful problem analysis and design experience. The project and its documentation must illustrate use of fundamental elements of the design process: establishment of objectives and criteria, synthesis, analysis, testing, and evaluation. The project report must address realistic constraints including economic factors, safety, aesthetics, ethics, and social impacts. A public oral presentation before faculty and peers is also required. (Course # formerly ENVE 411). ECR

Term Offered

Prerequisites

Course Credits

1.00- 6.00

Description

This is an independent study in environmental engineering. Topics will vary.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

concurrently with ENVE 325

Course Credits

1.00

Description

Required companion computer laboratory to be taken concurrently with ENVE 325. Prerequisite: Approved computer programming course or permission of instructor.

Term Offered