Graduate Course List
EVEN 6102 |
Graduate Seminar In Environmental Engineering
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1(1-0) |
Description | The objective of this course is to provide students with exposure to multidisciplinary opinions on current and future environmental issues from industrial, scientific, academic, governmental and engineering experts, in an environmental that fosters productive exchange of ideas. Credit / non-credit grades will be issued for this course. | |
Prerequisites | Graduate standing in EVEN or related discipline. |
EVEN 6304 |
INTERNSHIP / ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
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V:1-3 |
Description | Overview of pertinent regulations and regulatory infrastructure. Development and application of the fundamental principals that determine environmental and occupational health. Discussion of methods for controlling environmental occupational hazards. Introduction to Environmental health and Safety Information Systems. | |
Prerequisites | N.A. |
EVEN 6306 |
Research In Environmental Engineering
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3(3-0) |
Description | Research for Thesis or Dissertation. | |
Prerequisites | N.A. |
EVEN 6308 |
Fundamentals Of Solid/Hazardous Waste Engineering
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3(3-0) |
Description | Overview of pertinent federal and state regulations. Fundamentals of solid/hazardous waste generation, management, treatment and disposal. Emphasis on the modeling aspects of the fate and transport of hazardous waste in the environment. Discussions of assessment planning, waste minimization, effective management of waste material, and the application of treatment and disposal technologies. | |
Prerequisites | N.A. |
EVEN 6309 |
Fundamentals Of Air Quality And Pollution Control
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3(3-0) |
Description | Classification of air pollutants by the Clean Air Act and its amendments. Fundamental theories of air pollution and atmospheric science. Air pollution meteorology, atmospheric dispersion modeling, and an introduction to air quality models. Control technology of gaseous air pollutants, process design variable applications. | |
Prerequisites | N.A. |
EVEN 6311 |
Air Quality Modeling
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3(3-0) |
Description | Physico-chemical process analysis of the atmosphere. Discussion of air quality models, types and applications. Development of an atmospheric chemical transport model for urban and regional-scale applications. Performance evaluation and statistical assessment of air quality models. Stochastic modeling and analysis of air quality problems. | |
Prerequisites | MATH 3320 or equivalent. |
EVEN 6312 |
Surface Water Quality Modeling
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3(3-0) |
Description | Ecological and human effects assessment; environmental decision criteria; monitoring strategies; environmental exposure assessment; development of pollutant transport, fate and persistence models; model parameter estimation. | |
Prerequisites | MATH 3320 or equivalent. |
EVEN 6313 |
Groundwater Contaminant Transport Modeling
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3(3-0) |
Description | Advanced topics in groundwater flow problems and contaminant transport modeling, including groundwater transport model selection, initialization, and calibration with an emphasis on model application to regional water resources protection and planning. | |
Prerequisites | MATH 3320. |
EVEN 6314 |
Ecosystem Modeling
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3(3-0) |
Description | Discussion of ecosystem models, types and applications. Emphasis is placed on incorporation of relevant forcing functions and system processes into models to predict design outcomes for restoration and re-creation. Ecosystem modeling definitions, concepts and principles in their application to understanding ecosystem response to human induced perturbations. Development of a dynamic, ecosystem computer simulation model. | |
Prerequisites | MATH 3320 or equivalent. |
EVEN 6316 |
Fundamentals Of Environmental Biotechnology
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3(3-0) |
Description | Overview of microbiology fundamentals and development of quantitative tools for describing stoichiometry, microbial energetics, microbial kinetics, biofilm kinetics, and bioreactor mass balances. Application of these tools for designing processes for treating solid, liquid, and gas phase pollutants, including solid waste composting, wastewater treatment, sludge digestion, bioremediation, and air biofiltration. Analysis of complex biological systems involving dynamic multispecies interactions. | |
Prerequisites | N.A. |
EVEN 6318 |
Environmental Systems Modeling
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3(3-0) |
Description | This course is designed to introduce the basic approaches for modeling environmental systems. Impacts from anthropogenic activities to the environment will be systematically evaluated via the use of various simulation approaches. Case studies in understanding complex environmental systems will be incorporated to enhance the integrated skills available for model synthesis via multidisciplinary analysis. | |
Prerequisites | MATH 3320 or equivalent. |
EVEN 6319 |
Chemical Principles Of Environmental Engineering Design
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3(3-0) |
Description | Discussions and applications of chemical principles in disinfection, air pollution, geochemistry, and aquatic, microbial, redox, and coagulation chemistry in systems design for environmental engineering. Introduction to chemical computer models for environmental applications. An overview of the biogeochemistry of natural water systems and the chemistry of the atmosphere. | |
Prerequisites | N.A. |
EVEN 6325 | Physical and Chemical Water Treatment Processes 3(3-0) |
Description | Overview of the theory and mechanisms governing physical and chemical treatment processes. Application of chemical and physical process theory to the practical designs of systems for water and wastewater treatment and residuals management. Basic design features of the treatment systems are presented, but the emphasis in on the underlying principles, including why a process works and what the significant variables are. |
Prerequisites | N.A. |
EVEN 6329 |
Environmental Monitoring And Measurements
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3(1-3) |
Description | An integrated experience in developing and designing laboratory experiments and field sampling campaigns, acquiring and analyzing high quality data for understanding environmental phenomena, and presenting experimental results using state-of-the-art communication tools. Emphasis is also on project-oriented, team-based projects that promote collaborative learning. | |
Prerequisites | N.A. |
EVEN 6332 |
Environmental Data Analysis
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3(3-0) |
Description | This course is designed to characterize, interpret and analyze environmental data by using techniques such as time series analysis, hypothesis testing and statistical modeling. This course will develop conceptual understanding of different statistical methods as well as their limitations. Students will learn techniques to perform trend analysis, characterize risk, estimate spatial statistics and reduce dimensionality of correlated data. Students will also learn to design effective environmental experiments and sampling plans. | |
Prerequisites | N.A. |
EVEN 6340 |
Decision Sciences For Environmental Systems
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3(3-0) |
Description | This course provides the fundamentals of decision science theory in support of large-scale complex environmental systems analysis. Discussions and lectures will cover the realm of multi-criteria decision-making. The basics of multi-attribute decision-making and multi-objective programming techniques, risk and uncertainty-based decision analysis, such as multi-objective stochastic programming, gray programming, fuzzy programming, and their combinations will be emphasized. | |
Prerequisites | N.A. |
EVEN 6341 |
Environmental Informatics
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3(3-0) |
Description | Introduction to environmental data types and structures. Discussion of database design and tools, data warehousing; environmental information management using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), theory and environmental application of remote-sensing technologies; environmental knowledge management and decision support using knowledge-based systems. | |
Prerequisites | N.A. |
EVEN 6342 |
Engineering Optimization for Environmental Systems
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3(3-0) |
Description | The course provides the fundamentals of optimization theories and their real world application potential for environmental systems planning and pollution control. Class discussions of fundamental operational research techniques cover linear programming, integer programming, dynamic programming, and nonlinear programming. Case studies are designed to deal with the typical planning, design, and operation problems for environmental infrastructure systems with regard to complex multidisciplinary decision-making. | |
Prerequisites | N.A. |
EVEN 6354 |
Environmental Regulations And Policy
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3(3-0) |
Description | Overview of federal and state regulations for the protection, and international agreements for the protection of human and environmental health. Legal, social, political and economic patterns and processes, which set the stage of the development of environmental policy. Impacts and interactions of environmental regulation and policy on the design and implementation of environmental management systems in the public and private sectors. Discussion of environmental ethics and interactions with the environmental engineering profession and with the formulation of environmental regulations and policy. | |
Prerequisites | N.A. |
EVEN 6356 |
Special Topics in Environmental Engineering
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3(3-0) |
Description |
Requires approval from department chair. |
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Prerequisites | N.A. |