Undergraduate Course Catalog 2006-2007
College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
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Environmental Engineering (ENE)
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Professor: Dale P. Barkey, Michael R. Collins, Ihab H. Farag, Nancy E. Kinner, James P. Malley, Virendra K. Mathur, Palligarnai T. Vasudevan
Research Professor: T. Taylor Eighmy
Associate Professor: Thomas P. Ballestero
Research Associate Professor: Kevin H. Gardner
Assistant Professor: Nivedita R. Gupta, Jennifer M. Jacobs
Research Assistant Professor: Jenna R. Jambeck, Jeffrey S. Melton
The College of Engineering and Physical Sciences offers a bachelor of
science degree in environmental engineering (ENE) and an
interdisciplinary minor in environmental engineering.
The bachelor of science degree in environmental engineering is
accredited by the engineering accreditation commission of ABET, 111
Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012, telephone (410)
347-7700.
Mission
The environmental engineering program offers an undergraduate degree in
environmental engineering that prepares students for productive careers
in the public and private sectors and graduate studies. The program
emphasizes fundamental principles in environmental engineering and
design, built upon a strong base of chemistry, physics, mathematics,
and engineering science. The program prepares students to work in
multidisciplinary teams that analyze, formulate and communicate
sustainable solutions to complex environmental problems. The importance
of developing sustainable solutions that provide economic, social, and
environmental benefits to society is emphasized. The program instills
in its students an appreciation of the responsibilities of engineers to
society and teaches them the skills necessary to continue learning and
improving their professional expertise throughout their careers.
The ENE degree program provides an opportunity for students to
specialize in industrial or municipal processes. The curricula prepares
students to plan and design systems to minimize the impact of human
activity on the environment and protect human health.
Educational Objectives
ENE program graduates will have the skills, experience, and knowledge
to pursue successful careers as environmental engineers. They
will also have demonstrated the ability to identify information needs;
locate information resources, and/or design laboratory or field
experiments to attain required information; and evaluate and synthesize
data with sound engineering principles, methodologies, and the latest
technology into creative, sustainable, safe, and economical engineering
solutions to environmental engineering problems. The solutions they
develop will minimize the impact of human activities on the environment
and protect human health. Program graduates will have a foundation for
advanced studies in environmental engineering and oral and written
communication skills that will enable them to clearly explain
engineering options and recommend solutions to stakeholders. ENE
program graduates will have demonstrated in-depth knowledge within
environmental engineering and an awareness of potential social,
economic, political, and environmental impacts of engineering
practices. They will have an appreciation of the contribution of
environmental engineers to the benefit of society and the
responsibilities of a professional environmental engineer. They will
work as part of multidisciplinary teams to arrive at solutions to
environmental engineering problems. ENE program graduates will be
prepared to obtain professional engineering licensure; have the
capacity to continue learning and improving their professional
expertise and skills by participating in professional associations,
conferences, workshops and courses; and understand the importance of
continued professional development.
At the end of the sophomore year, students are required to have a
minimum overall grade-point average of 2.00 and a grade-point average
of 2.00 in all mathematics, physics, chemistry, and engineering courses
to be permitted to enroll in junior-level courses. To qualify for
graduation, an ENE major must: have satisfied the previously specified
course requirements, have satisfied the University’s general education
requirements, have a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 2.00,
and have a minimum grade-point average of 2.00 in engineering courses.
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering-Industrial Processes (IP) Emphasis
The industrial processes (IP) emphasis of environmental engineering is
a process-based program that draws on the principles of chemistry,
physics, mathematics, and engineering sciences. Due to the complex
nature of many aspects of environmental pollution, a broad
understanding of the fundamentals of engineering and sciences forms the
most desirable preparation for a career in the environmental field. The
program is designed to provide training not only for end-of-pipe
pollution control technologies, but also for expertise in process
engineering and process design, essential for achieving the objectives
of pollution curtailment and prevention. Such training is especially
valuable in resolving industrial pollution problems. Career
opportunities for environmental engineers with this background are
found in industry, research institutes, government agencies, teaching,
and consulting practice. Students may also enter graduate study at the
M.S. or Ph.D. levels.
Engineering design is a critical aspect of the IP curriculum. In order
to meet the objective of producing creative, problem-solving engineers,
design concepts are introduced early in the curriculum and design
experience is integrated into every engineering course. Students learn
to seek optimal solutions to open-ended problems and function in
design-based team projects. Design ability is finally demonstrated at
the end of the capstone course (ENE 608), when self-directed teams
develop a comprehensive design report for a full-scale engineering
process based on a national process design competition problem.
Since 1993, the program faculty has administered a pollution prevention
internship program with industries in New Hampshire, Maine, and
Massachusetts, initially funded by US EPA and NHDES. In the past twelve
years, the program has served more than forty facilities. Each year
about 12 students have enrolled in the pollution prevention internship
program which provides hands-on industrial employment for ten weeks
during the summer assisting industry with projects in process
modification, material substitution, chemical re-use, risk assessment,
safety and economic analysis. The program faculty also assisted NHDES
in setting up instrumentation in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire
to monitor the precursor of ozone formation.
The B.S. program requires a minimum of 132 credits for graduation and
can be completed in four years. There are eight electives in the
curriculum: five for the fulfillment of the University’s general
education requirements and the remaining three for technical electives
to be chosen from the specified elective course list. Due to the
substantial overlap in course requirements for the environmental
engineering IP and chemical engineering majors, students will be able
to transfer between these two programs during the first three semesters
without losing any course credits towards graduation.
Suggested Technical Electives
| Abbreviation | Course Number | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHE | 602 | Heat Transfer and Unit Operations | 3 |
| CHE | 606 | Chemical Engineering Kinetics | 3 |
| CHE | 744 | Corrosion | 4 |
| ENE | 739 | Industrial Wastewater Treatment | 3 |
| ENE | 746 | Bioenvironmental Engineering Design | 4 |
| ENE | 747 | Introduction to Marine Pollution | 3 |
| CIE | 766 | Introduction to Geo-Environmental Engineering | 3 |
| ESCI | 409 | Environmental Geology | 4 |
| ESCI | 561 | Surficial Processes | 4 |
| ESCI | 705 | Principles of Hydrology | 4 |
| ESCI | 708 | Hydrology | 3 |
| ESCI | 715 | Global Atmospheric Chemistry | 3 |
| EE | 772 | Control Systems | 4 |
| MICRO | 503 | General Microbiology | 5 |
First Year
| Abbreviation | Course Number | Title | Fall | Spring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHEM | 405 | General Chemistry | 4 | - |
| MATH | 425-426 | Calculus I & II | 4 | 4 |
| PHYS | 407 | General Physics I | - | 4 |
| ENGL | 401 | First-Year Writing | 4 | - |
| ENE | 400 | Environmental Engineering Lectures I | 1 | - |
| ENE | 401 | Environmental Engineering Lectures II | - | 1 |
| General Education Electives | 4 | 8 | ||
| Total | 17 | 17 |
Second Year
| Abbreviation | Course Number | Title | Fall | Spring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHE | 501-501 | Introduction to Chemical Engineering I & II | 3 | 3 |
| CHEM | 683-684 | Physical Chemistry I & II | 3 | 3 |
| CHEM | 685 | Physical Chemistry Lab I | 2 | - |
| MATH | 527 | Differential Equations | 4 | - |
| PHYS | 408 | General Physics II | 4 | - |
| CS | 410 | Introduction to Scientific Programming | - | 4 |
| General Education Electives | - | 8 | ||
| Total | 16 | 18 |
Third Year
| Abbreviation | Course Number | Title | Fall | Spring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHE | 601 | Fluid Mechanics and Unit Operations | 3 | - |
| CHE | 603 | Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics | - | 4 |
| ENE | 612 | Unit Operations Lab II | - | 3 |
| CHEM | 651-652 | Organic Chemistry I & II | 3 | 3 |
| CHEM | 653 | Organic Chemistry Lab I | 2 | - |
| ENE | 742 | Solid and Hazardous Waste Engineering | - | 3 |
| MATH | 644 | Statistics for Engineers & Scientists | 4 | - |
| General Education and Technical Electives | 4 | 3-4 | ||
| Total | 16 | 16-17 |
Fourth Year
| Abbreviation | Course Number | Title | Fall | Spring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHE | 605 | Mass Transfer and Stagewise Operations | 3 | - |
| ENE | 608 | Industrial Process Design | - | 4 |
| ENE | 613 | Unit Operations Lab II | 3 | - |
| ENE | 709 | Fundamentals of Air Pollution and Control | 4 | - |
| ENE | 752 | Process Dynamics and Control | - | 4 |
| ENE | 772 | Physicochemical Processes for Water/Air Quality | - | 4 |
| ESCI | 710 | Groundwater Hydrology | - | 4 |
| MICR | 501 | Microbes in Human Disease | 4 | - |
| Technical Electives | 3-4 | 3-4 | ||
| Total | 17-18 | 19-20 |
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering-Municipal Processes (MP) Emphasis
Environmental
engineers graduating from the municipal processes (MP) emphasis plan,
design, and construct public and private facilities to minimize the
impact of human activity on the environment and to protect human
health. For example, environmental engineers with a municipal processes
perspective design and build drinking water treatment systems,
municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants, solid waste
management facilities, contaminated ground water remediation systems,
and hazardous waste remediation facilities. These facilities must meet
regulatory requirements, be cost-effective to build and maintain, be
safe to operate, and have minimal environmental impact.
In ENE 400 and 401, students are introduced to the full spectrum of
environmental engineering projects that they will subsequently explore
in design teams during their degree program. As part of these
experiences, students visit and tour field sites, and interact with
engineers who have been involved in the design and/or construction of
the projects. Design is integrated throughout the curriculum, and
particularly emphasized in junior- and senior-level courses. As part of
these projects, students analyze treatment alternatives, recommend a
system that meets regulatory operational needs, and prepare an
implementation schedule and project budget. Detailed design projects
are performed in ENE 744 and 746. ENE 788 serves as a capstone design
experience where students work on a multi-interdisciplinary
environmental engineering project as part of the U.S. Department of
Energy’s international WERC competition held in New Mexico every April,
and apply skills learned in other courses while working with real world
clients.
The following schedule is a sample of a planned program for
environmental engineering students completing the major within the
municipal processes emphasis.
First Year
| Abbreviation | Course Number | Title | Fall | Spring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENE | 400, 401 | Environmental Engineering Lectures I, II | 1 | 1 |
| ENGL | 401 | First-Year Writing | 4 | - |
| MATH | 425, 426 | Calculus I, II | 4 | 4 |
| General Education Electives* | 4 | 4 | ||
| CHEM | 403, 404 | General Chemistry I, II | 4 | 4 |
| PHYS | 407 | General Physics I | - | 4 |
| Total | 17 | 17 |
Second Year
| Abbreviation | Course Number | Title | Fall | Spring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENE | 520 | Environm,ental Pollution and Protection | 4 | - |
| ENE | 521 | Environmental Engineering Seminar | - | 1 |
| CIE | 525 | Statics | 3 | - |
| MATH | 527 | Differential Equations with Linear Algebra | 4 | - |
| MATH | 644 | Probability and Statistics | - | 4 |
| CHEM | 545 | Organic Chemistry Lecture | 3 | - |
| CHEM | 546 | Organic Chemistry Laboratory | 2 | - |
| CIE | 533 | Project Engineering | - | 3 |
| TECH | 564 | Fundamentals of CAD | - | 3 |
| General Education Elective* | - | 4 | ||
| Total | 16 | 16 |
Third Year
| Abbreviation | Course Number | Title | Fall | Spring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CIE | 642 | Fluid Mechanics | 4 | - |
| Technical Elective** | 4 | - | ||
| ENE | 645 | Fundamental Aspects of Environmental Engineering | - | 4 |
| ENE | 749 | Water Chemistry | 4 | - |
| ENE | 756 | Environmental Engineering and Microbiology | - | 4 |
| ENE | 742 | Solid and Hazardous Waste Engineering | 3 | - |
| Engineering Lab Elective** | - | 4 | ||
| Hydraulics Elective** | - | 3/4 | ||
| General Education Elective* | 4 | - | ||
| Total | 18 | 15/16 |
Summer
| Title | Credits |
|---|---|
| Environ Engineering Experience† (ENE 696 or 697) | 1-2 |
Fourth Year
| Abbreviation | Course Number | Title | Fall | Spring |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENE | 746 | Bioenvironmental Engineering Design | 4 | - |
| General Education Elective* | 4 | - | ||
| Environmental Engineering Elective** | 6 | 4 | ||
| ENE | 744 | Physicochemical Treatment Design | - | 4 |
| ENE | 788 | Project Planning and Design | - | 4 |
| ESCI | 710 | Groundwater Hydrology | - | 4 |
| Total | 14 | 16 |
*See University Academic Requirements.
**Approved lists of technical, hydraulics, engineering laboratory, and
ENE design and non-design electives are available from the ENE
undergraduate coordinator. Must take a minimum of three 700-level ENE
electives totaling at least 10 credits. One ENE elective course must be
from the design category.
†During one summer, majors who have a job at an approved level in the
environmental engineering field perform an approved internship in
environmental engineering or conduct a research project under the
supervision of a faculty member are able to register for ENE 696 or
697. A student may receive a one credit field experience or up to two
credits for an environmental engineering internship. The internship
could be used as an environmental engineering elective, but this would
require approval of the faculty.
The municipal processes emphasis of the ENE program requires a minimum of 129 total credits for graduation.
Environmental Engineering Minor
The environmental engineering minor is intended primarily for students
in engineering and physical sciences, who are not in the chemical,
civil, or environmental engineering degree programs. Students
contemplating such a minor should plan on a strong background in the
sciences and mathematics (including differential equations).
The minor provides a comprehensive introduction to major areas of
interest in environmental protection, namely air pollution and water
pollution, through the three required courses. Further breadth in
environmental engineering or depth in specific areas can be attained
through the choice of appropriate elective courses.
The minor requires a minimum of five courses as follows: 1) three
required courses: ENE 645, Fundamental Aspects of Environmental
Engineering; ENE 709, Fundamentals of Air Pollution and Its Control;
ENE 772, Physicochemical Processes for Water and Air Quality Control,
or ENE 743, Environmental Sampling and Analysis; 2) a minimum of two
elective ENE courses.
Choice of elective courses should be made in consultation with the
minor area adviser, Nancy E. Kinner, civil engineering, or Dale P.
Barkey, chemical engineering. Students normally start this program in
the junior year and should declare their intention to enter the program
as early as possible during the sophomore year. During the final
semester, students must apply to the dean to have the minor appear on
the transcript.
