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ENE 400 - Environmental Engineering Lectures I
Credits:
1.00
Introduces the profession, the environmental engineer as
planner, designer, problem solver, and interdisciplinary
team player; and the goals of the environmental engineering
curriculum. Lectures by faculty and practictioners.
Introduction to computer skills required for environmental
engineering. Engineering ethics. Cr/F.
ENE 401 - Environmental Engineering Lectures II
Credits:
1.00
Introduces the concept of integrated design and project
planning and management in environmental engineering.
Field trips to environmental engineering sites and
projects. Prereq: ENE 400. Cr/F.
ENE 520 - Environmental Pollution and Protection: A Global Context
Credits:
4.00
Introduces environmental science and engineering and the
anthropogenic causes of environmental change. Emphasizes
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
Introduces 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
Introduces 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 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 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 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 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 that exist in
hazardous and solid waste management are presented in
terms of the current regulations and engineering approaches
used to develop solutions. Topics 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
are used throughout the course to highlight key concepts
and provide real-world examples. Pre- or Coreq: ENE 645 or
permission.
ENE 743 - 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 and ENE 645 or permission. Lab. Writing intensive.
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, 749 or permission. 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 and ENE 756 or
permission. Writing intensive.
ENE #747 - Introduction to Marine Pollution and Control
Credits:
3.00
Introduces 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 is 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. (Also listed as CHE 752.)
ENE 756 - 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 focus on microbiological
methods and laboratory-scale biological treatment
experiments. Prereq: ENE 520 and CIE 642 or permission.
Lab. Writing intensive.
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 is permitted to
pursue independent studies under ENE faculty guidance.
Seniors 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.
ENE 799H - Senior Honors Thesis
Credits:
4.00
Students in the honors program in environmental
engineering complete a project under the direction of a
faculty sponsor resulting in a written thesis which must be
accepted by the sponsor by the end of the second semester,
senior year. Four credits total during senior year; 3 of
which may be used to fulfill an ENE non-design elective.