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ENE 400 - Environmental Engineering Lectures I
Credits:
1.00
Introduction to the profession, the environmental engineer
as planner, designer, problem solver, and interdisciplinary
team player; and the goals of the environmental engineering
curriculum with the municipal processes emphasis. Lectures
by faculty and practitioners. Introduction to computer
skills required for environmental engineering. Engineering
ethics. Cr/F.
ENE 401 - Environmental Engineering Lectures II
Credits:
1.00
Introduction to the concept of integrated design and project
planning and management in environmental engineering. Field
trips to environmental engineering projects. Prereq:
ENE 400. Cr/F.
ENE 520 - Environmental Pollution and Protection: A Global Context
Credits:
4.00
Introduction to environmental science and engineering and
the anthropogenic causes of environmental change.
Emphasis on the causes, effects, and controls of air,
water, and land pollution. The political, ecological,
economic, ethical, and engineering aspects of environmental
pollution and control are discussed. Field trips. Writing
intensive.
ENE 521 - Seminar
Credits:
1.00
Introduction to the fundamentals of environmental and
occupational health, water quality modeling, and
atmospheric systems and air pollution control. Prereq:
ENE 520, MATH 426, CHEM 404, PHYS 407.
ENE 608 - Industrial Process and Design
Credits:
4.00
Introduction to cost engineering. Application of acquired
skills to design of chemical processes. Individual major
design project required. Safety for industrial processes.
Lab. (Also offered as CHE 608.) Writing intensive.
ENE 612 - Unit Operations Laboratory I
Credits:
3.00
Selected experiments in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and
unit operations, with emphasis on environmental engineering.
Writing intensive.
ENE 613 - Unit Operations Laboratory II
Credits:
3.00
Selected experiments in mass transfer, stagewise operations,
thermodynamics, and kinetics with emphasis on environmental
engineering. Writing intensive.
ENE 643 - Environmental Sampling and Analysis
Credits:
4.00
Theory of analytical and sampling techniques used in
environmental engineering. Topics include potentiometry,
spectroscopy, chromatography, automated analysis,
quality control, sampling design, and collection methods.
Methods discussed in lecture are demonstrated in labs.
Prereq: CHEM 404, ENE 520; or permission. Special fee. Lab.
Writing intensive.
ENE 645 - Fundamental Aspects of Environmental Engineering
Credits:
4.00
Application of fundamental concepts of mass balance
in treatment processes. Physical, chemical, and biological
aspects of pollution control, and design concepts for
operations and processes used in environmental engineering
are discussed. Concepts of engineering ethics are presented.
Students will participate in a design project that involves
an oral presentation and written report. Prereq: CHEM 404,
CIE 642, ENE 520; or permission. Writing intensive.
ENE 656 - Environmental Engineering Microbiology
Credits:
4.00
Concepts of environmental engineering microbiology. Topics
include taxonomy of species important in environmental
engineering processes; microbial metabolism, interaction,
and growth kinetics in environmental treatment processes;
biogeochemical cycling in water; and effects of
environmental parameters on environmental engineering
microbial processes. Laboratories will focus on
microbiological methods and laboratory-scale biological
treatment experiments. Prereq or Coreq: ENE 645; or
permission. Special fee. Lab. Writing intensive.
ENE 696 - Field Experience
Credits:
1.00
Based on appropriate career-oriented work experience in
environmental engineering. Student can get one credit for
field experience. A written final report is required as well
as permission of student's adviser.
ENE 697 - Internship
Credits:
2.00
Off-campus work in the environmental engineering field for
on-the-job skill development. Needs to be supervised by an
environmental engineering faculty member; and a proposal for
the internship must be submitted and have permission of the
ENE faculty prior to the start of the internship. Prereq:
permission. IA (continuous grading).
ENE 709 - Fundamentals of Air Pollution and Its Control
Credits:
4.00
The origin and fate of air pollutants. Fundamentals of
atmospheric meteorology, chemistry, and dispersion
phenomena. Control of air pollutants and the related
equipment. Current issues. Prereq: MATH 527; CHEM 404.
Lab.
ENE 739 - Industrial Wasterwater Treatment
Credits:
3.00
Engineering consideration of the origin, characteristics,
and treatment of industrial wastewater; the theory and
application of unit operations unique to the treatment and
disposal of industrial wastes. Prereq: ENE 645 or
permission.
ENE 740 - Public Health Engineering
Credits:
3.00
Proper application of environmental engineering and
sanitation principles in disease prevention and control is
discussed. Special emphasis will be given to rural
communities and areas of the world where communicable and
related diseases have not yet been brought under control,
and to what can happen in the more advanced countries when
basic sanitary safeguards are relaxed. Topics covered:
vector-borne diseases and control, safe water supply
development and treatment, and on-site wastewater disposal
systems. Prereq: MATH 425, ENE 520.
ENE 742 - Solid and Hazardous Waste Engineering
Credits:
3.00
A thorough examination of the problems which exist in
hazardous and solid waste management will be presented
in terms of the current regulations and engineering
approaches used to develop solutions. Topics will
include risk-based decision making, transport and fate
of contaminants, and the fundamental physical, chemical,
and biological concepts which make up the basis for
technological solutions to these waste management problems.
Case studies will be used throughout the course to highlight
key concepts and provide real-world examples. Pre- or Coreq:
ENE 645 or permission.
ENE 744 - Physicochemical Treatment Design
Credits:
4.00
Selection, design, and evaluation of advanced unit
processes employed in physicochemical treatment of
waters, wastewaters, and hazardous wastes. Discusses
preparation of alternative designs and economic analysis.
Emphasizes treatment schemes based on experimental
laboratory or pilot studies. Prereq: ENE 645 or permission.
Special fee. Lab.
ENE 746 - Bioenvironmental Engineering Design
Credits:
4.00
Selection, design, and evaluation of unit processes
employed in biological treatment of waters, wastewaters,
and hazardous wastes. Preparation of engineering reports,
including developing design alternatives and economic
analysis, is required. Prereq: ENE 645 or permission.
Writing intensive.
ENE 747 - Introduction to Marine Pollution and Control
Credits:
3.00
Introduction to the sources, effects, and control of
pollutants in the marine environment. Dynamic and
kinetic modeling; ocean disposal of on-shore wastes,
shipboard wastes, solid wastes, dredge spoils, and
radioactive wastes; and oil spills. Prereq: ENE 645 or
permission.
ENE 748 - Solid and Hazardous Waste Design
Credits:
4.00
Selection, design, and evaluation of unit processes
employed in the treatment of solid wastes and hazardous
wastes will be studied. Topics include design of materials
recovery facilities, landfills, waste-to-energy facilities
and hazardous waste site remedial technologies. A group term
project taken from a real-world project will be required. An
oral presentation by the group and preparation of a final
written engineering report including alternative evaluation,
permits, scheduling and economic analysis will be required
from each group. Prereq: ENE 742 or permission. Writing
intensive.
ENE 749 - Water Chemistry
Credits:
4.00
Emphasizes the use of chemical equilibrium principles and
theory, calculations, and applications of ionic equilibrium
stresses. Topics include thermodynamics, kinetics,
acid/base, complexation, precipitation/dissolution, and
redox equilibria. Computer equilibrium modeling will be
presented. Prereq: CHEM 404 or CHEM 405.
ENE 752 - Process Dynamics and Control
Credits:
4.00
Dynamic behavior of chemical engineering processes
described by differential equations; feedback control
concepts and techniques; stability analysis; application
in pollution control. Lab.
ENE 772 - Physicochemical Processes for Water and Air Quality Control
Credits:
4.00
Origin and characterization of pollutants. Controls,
including filtration, sedimentation, coagulation and
flocculation, absorption and adsorption. Applied fluid
mechanics, mass transfer, and kinetics. Thermal pollution,
chemical treatment, oil spills on water, and aeration. Lab.
ENE 788 - Project Planning and Design
Credits:
4.00
Student groups formed in multidisciplinary design teams to
prepare a design plan for a large-scale environmental
engineering system including consideration of budgetary
constraints, regulatory requirements, and environmental
impacts. Each team prepares a final written report and gives
a formal presentation. Prereq: senior environmental
engineering major or permission. Writing intensive.
ENE 795 - Independent Study
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
A limited number of qualified seniors will be permitted to
pursue independent studies under ENE faculty guidance.
Seniors may write terminal thesis reporting the results of
their investigations. May be repeated. Prereq: permission of
ENE faculty member involved.
ENE 797 - Special Topics
Credits:
1.00 to 4.00
Advanced or specialized topics not normally covered in the
regular course offerings. May be repeated but not in
duplicate areas. Prereq: permission.