SCOPE: The goal of instruction is to introduce laws affecting the handling and cleanup of potentially hazardous pollutants, and to convey the principles governing the transport, fate, and remediation of hazardous pollutants in the environment, including advection, dispersion, sorption, interphase mass transfer, and transformation reactions. Further, to introduce cleanup strategies in the constructs of these governing principles and to determine the physical, chemical, and biological properties that control their application.
C E 397K ENERGY WATER PROCESSES
SEMESTER: Spring
SCOPE: The goal of instruction is for students to 1) understand the thermodynamic principles that govern energy requirements for water supply and treatment, 2) understand the principles that govern the efficiency of different energy sources, including renewable energy, and 3) to apply these various principles for calculation of energy requirements and associated impacts for water supply and treatment. Water supply applications will include groundwater pumping, long-distance water conveyance, and water distribution to various end sources. Water treatment applications will include technologies for thermal and membrane-based desalination, oil-water separation, and wastewater reuse.
EVE 370 ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SENIOR DESIGN
SEMESTER: Spring
SCOPE: The goal of instruction is facilitate your transition from an engineering student to a practicing engineer. The course focuses on an authentic engineering experience in the form of a design project, that considers technical, economic, social, and environmental sustainability analyses. There are three major course outcomes: (1) Work as a team to solve an authentic engineering problem using all your skills, (2) Design an environmental engineering system that includes considerations of risk, uncertainty, sustainability, environmental impacts, and social impacts, and (3) Communicate your design in written reports, drawings, and oral presentations.
