EE&S 601 Environmental Engineering 3(3,0) Introduction
to the field of environmental engineering. Topics include environmental
phenomena, impact of pollutants in the aquatic environment, solid-waste
management, air pollution control, radiological health, and simple water
and wastewater treatment systems. Preq: Junior standing in engineering
or consent of instructor. Coreq: C E 341, CH E 311, M E 308 or consent
of instructor.
EE&S 602 Water and Waste Water Treatment Systems 3(3,0) Study of fundamental principles, rational design considerations, and operational procedures of the unit operations and processes employed in water and waste water treatment. Both physiochemical and biological treatment techniques are discussed. Introduction to the integration of unit operations and processes into water and waste treatment systems. Preq: C E 341, CH E 311, M E 308, or consent of instructor.
EE&S 610 Environmental Radiation Protection 3(3,0) Fundamental principles of radiological health and radiation safety. Topics include radiation fundamentals, basic concepts of environmental radiation protection, internal and external dosimetry, environmental dose calculations, and radiation protection standards. Offered fall semester only. Preq: Consent of instructor.
EE&S 611 Ionizing Radiation Detection and Measurement 3(2,3) Laboratory exercises in ionizing radiation detection and measurements. Topics include nuclear electronics; counting statistics; radiation interactions; basic gas, scintillation, and semiconductor detectors; gamma-ray spectroscopy; health physics survey instrumentation; and thermoluminescent dosimetry. Offered spring semester only. Preq: EE&S 410 or consent of instructor.
EE&S 630 Air Pollution Engineering 3(3,0) Introductory course in air pollution and its control. Topics include air pollutants and effects, sources, dispersion models, engineering controls, and air-quality legislation. Preq: Senior standing in engineering or physical sciences.
EE&S (B E, FOR) 651 Newman Seminar and Lecture Series in Natural Resources Engineering 1(0,2) See B E 651.
EE&S 680 Environmental Risk Assessment 3(3,0) Quantitative estimation of the human health risk posed by the release of a contaminant to the environment. Topics include methods for analyzing emission rate, environmental transport, exposure, and health effects; methods of uncertainty analysis; and the role of risk assessment in environmental regulation and environmental decision making. Preq: EE&S 401 or consent of instructor.
EE&S (B E, I E) 684 Municipal Solid Waste Management 3(3,0) Introduction to the problems, regulations, collection, handling, recycling, and disposal of municipal solid wastes in the urban and rural sectors. Emphasis is on integrated waste-management systems with resource recovery, composting, incineration, landfill disposals, and their costs. Preq: Senior standing in engineering or science or consent of instructor.
EE&S 685 Hazardous Waste Management 3(3,0) Introduction to problems, regulations, treatment, and ultimate disposal of hazardous and toxic materials. Spill cleanup, groundwater transport, land disposal, incineration, and treatment technologies are discussed. Offered spring semester only. Preq: EN SP 200 or EE&S 401 or consent of instructor; two semesters of general chemistry.
EE&S 686 Pollution Prevention and Industrial Ecology 3(3,0) Topics include pollution prevention technology, the role of pollution prevention within a corporation, source reduction and recycling, pollution prevention assessments, treatment to reduce disposal, life-cycle assessment, design for environment, industrial ecology. Emphasis is on case studies. Preq: Senior standing in College of Engineering and Science.
EE&S 690 Special Projects 1-3(1-3,0) Studies or laboratory investigations on special topics in the environmental engineering and science field. Arranged on a project basis with a maximum of individual student effort and a minimum of staff guidance. May be repeated for a maximum of three credits. Preq: Consent of instructor.
EE&S 701 Special Problems 1-6(1-6,0) Environmental engineering problems selected to meet the interests and experience of students and instructor. Formal report is required. Restricted to MEngr students. To be taken Pass/Fail only.
EE&S 802 Environmental Engineering Principles 3(3,0) Fundamental principles required for simulation and modeling of environmental engineering phenomena; mass transfer, reactor kinetics, simulation techniques, and applications to various natural and engineered systems. Offered fall semester only.
EE&S 803 Physicochemical Operations in Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems 3(3,0) Principles of physicochemical operations used in water and wastewater treatment including sedimentation, filtration, mixing, gas transfer, adsorption, ion exchange, coagulation, precipitation, disinfection, and oxidation. Offered spring semester only. Preq: EE&S 802, 843.
EE&S 804 Biochemical Operations in Wastewater Treatment Systems 3(3,0) Principles of biochemical operations used in wastewater treatment; modeling of ideal biochemical reactors and design criteria for aerated lagoons, activated sludge, trickling filters, rotating biological contactors, nitrification, denitrification, and digestion. Offered spring semester only. Preq: EE&S 802, 851.
EE&S 805 Laboratory in Water and Wastewater Treatment Operations 3(0,6) Laboratory exercises in selected water and wastewater treatment operations including sedimentation, filtration, adsorption, coagulation, softening, aeration, activated sludge, aerobic digestion, and anaerobic digestion. Offered spring semester only. Coreq: EE&S 803 or 804.
EE&S 806 Process and Facility Design for Environmental Control Systems 2-4(2-4,0) Integration of unit operations into complex systems for treatment of industrial/domestic water and wastewater, contaminated groundwater or air, landfill leachate, and toxic liquid wastes. Student teams design an integrated system for either water/wastewater or a hazardous/toxic waste. Offered fall semester only. Preq: EE&S 803, 804.
EE&S (GEOL) 808 Groundwater Modeling
3(3,0) See GEOL 808.
EE&S (GEOL) 809 Subsurface Remediation Modeling 3(3,0) See GEOL 809.
EE&S (GEOL) 810 Analytical Methods for Hydrogeology 3(3,0) See GEOL 810.
EE&S 812 Environmental Nuclear Engineering 3(3,0) Environmental aspects of nuclear technology emphasizing nuclear reactors and the nuclear fuel cycle; environmental transport of radioactive materials; radioactive effluents from nuclear power plants; nuclear power plant safety; environmental aspects of fuel cycle activities; waste management. Offered fall semester only. Preq: EE&S 610, consent of instructor.
EE&S 813 Environmental Radiation Protection Laboratory 1(0,3) Continuation of EE&S 611; advanced experiments in radiation detection, radiation protection, health physics, and environmental monitoring. Offered fall semester only. Preq: EE&S 611 and consent of instructor.
EE&S (CH E) 814 Applied Numerical Methods in Process Simulation 3(3,0) See CH E 814.
EE&S 815 Actinide Chemistry 3(3,0) Chemical and physical aspects of actinide metals and compounds (including properties, structure and bonding, reactions, kinetics, thermodynamics), coordination and solution chemistry, behavior and speciation in the environment, separation and purification, chemistry of the nuclear fuel cycle and waste treatment, and related topics; fundamental concepts, history, and recent developments. Preq: CH 402, MTHSC 208, PHYS 221, or consent of instructor.
EE&S 832 Air Pollution Meteorology 3(3,0) Applications of meteorology to air pollution; micrometeorology; plume rise modeling; atmospheric diffusion; deposition and washout of pollutants; air chemistry; applications of diffusion modeling to air quality planning. Preq: Consent of instructor.
EE&S 833 Air Pollution Control Systems 3(3,0) Principles and design of air pollution control equipment including mechanical collectors, electrostatic precipitators, baghouse filters, wet scrubbers, adsorbers, and incinerators. Offered spring semester only. Preq: EE&S 430 or consent of instructor.
EE&S 834 Particles in the Atmosphere 3(3,0) Chemical and physical behavior of atmospheric particles and their interaction with other particles, gases and light; generation, measurement methods, and control strategies of atmospheric particles. Preq: EE&S 630, MTHSC 208, or consent of instructor.
EE&S 837 Biodegradation and Bioremediation 3(3,0) Basic principles of biodegradation for major classes of organic contaminants including halogenated aliphatics and aromatics, fuel hydrocarbons, pesticides, and nitrated energetic compounds; biotransformations of metals; biodegradation principles applied to the development of bioremediation technologies including intrinsic, in situ, and on-site engineered approaches. Preq: EE&S 851.
EE&S 843 Environmental Engineering Chemistry I 3(3,0) Principles of chemical kinetics and thermodynamics applied to fundamental understanding of aqueous environmental samples including natural waters, wastewaters, and treated waters; factors controlling chemical concentrations, acid-base equilibria, solubility equilibria, complex formation, electrochemistry, adsorption phenomena. Offered fall semester only. Preq: CH 102 or equivalent.
EE&S 844 Environmental Engineering Chemistry Laboratory I 3(2,3) Laboratory experience in basic analytical methods used in water quality studies; experimental design, sampling, wet-chemical analytical techniques, data collection and analysis, data interpretation, and data quality techniques. Offered fall semester only. Preq: Two semesters of general chemistry.
EE&S 845 Environmental Engineering Chemistry II 3(3,0) Application of parameters that describe the equilibrium distribution and exchange rates for environmentally significant organic compounds to the modeling of processes in engineered and natural systems, including environmental parameter estimation techniques, structure-activity relationships, and integration of environmental processes to model contaminant distribution and residence time in environmental systems. Offered spring semester only. Preq: Two semesters of general chemistry, EE&S 843 or equivalent.
EE&S 847 Advanced Environmental Chemistry 3(3,0) Advanced principles and methods in environmental engineering chemistry with applications to both natural and treatment systems; current investigative and study techniques; nature, fluxes, and controlling processes of chemical species and radionuclides in environmental systems. Preq: EE&S 843 or equivalent.
EE&S 849 Environmental Engineering Chemistry Laboratory II 2(0,6) Theory and applications of instrumental methods of analysis as applied to measurements for environmental control; spectroscopy and spectrophotometric techniques; electrochemical analyses; chromatographic methods of analysis; light scattering and electrophoretic measurements. Offered fall semester only.
EE&S 850 Stream and Estuarine Analysis 3(3,0) Physical, chemical, and biological processes and relationships which exist in streams and estuaries; estuarine environment; free-flowing streams; mechanisms describing transport of conservative and nonconservative materials through estuarine systems; the estuary as a resource and techniques for its management. Offered fall semester only.
EE&S 851 Biological Principles of Environmental Engineering 3(3,0) Basic principles of biology and biochemistry as applied to problems of environmental control and wastewater treatment; kinetic and energetic aspects. Offered fall semester only.
EE&S 852 Subsurface and Wetland Hydraulics 3(3,0) Hydraulics
of subsurface water including hydraulic head and gradient concepts, Darcy's
Law, saturated/unsaturated flow, flow in aquifers and aquitards, flow to
wells, and interactions with surface water in wetlands including discharge
and development of seepage faces. Mathematics is at
the level of elementary ordinary and partial differential equations.
Preq: Differential equations, fluid mechanics or EE&S 802 or
consent of instructor.
EE&S 855 Surface and Subsurface Transport 3(3,0) Quantitative analysis of reactive transport and biodegradation in ground water and surface water; applications of the advection-dispersion equation with reaction terms including classical chemical reactions, radioactive decay, and reactions mediated by microbes. Preq: C E 340 and MTHSC 208 or equivalent.
EE&S 856 Pollution of the Aquatic Environment 3(3,0) Effects of domestic and industrial water pollution on the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of natural waters; associated environmental determinants of human disease, toxicology, and epidemiology of chronic disease. Offered fall semester only.
EE&S 861 Environmental Engineering and Science Seminar 1(1,0) Current advances and research developments in various areas of environmental engineering and science. Off-campus speakers, students, and faculty participate. To be taken Pass/Fail only.
EE&S 880 Environmental Risk Assessment 3(3,0) Methodology of quantitative risk assessment including identification and quantification of the source term, calculation of environmental transport, and estimation of health effects. Applications involve various classes of contaminants in atmospheric and aquatic environmental pathways. Offered spring semester only. Preq: MTHSC 208, graduate standing in engineering or science.
EE&S 881 Special Problems 1-4 Problems selected to meet interests and experiences of student and instructor.
EE&S 883 Selected Topics in Environmental Engineering 1-4(1-4,0) Topics in environmental engineering not covered in other courses. Topics vary to keep pace with current developments. May be taken concurrently with EE&S 884, which (if offered) would be a different topic.
EE&S 884 Selected Topics in Environmental Engineering 1-4(1-4,0) Topics in environmental engineering not covered in other courses. Topics vary to keep pace with current developments. May be taken concurrently with EE&S 883, which (if offered) would be a different topic.
EE&S 891 Master's Thesis Research 1-12
EE&S 961 Environmental Engineering and Science Doctoral Student Seminar 1(1,0) Current advances and research developments in various areas of environmental engineering and science. Doctoral students are required to enroll each semester that the course is offered and present one seminar per year. To be taken Pass/Fail only.
EE&S 991 Doctoral Dissertation Research 1-12