ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

11.3.2 ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Courses offered by Environmental Engineering at the graduate level are listed below. Students may take courses other than Environmental Engineering with permission of the Head of the Department and the advisor.

All courses listed will not necessarily be offered in any given year.

93-530. Water Pollution Control
Water quality criteria; methods of wastewater disposal and their effects on ecology; theory and design of different unit operations and processes for water purification; theory and design of different design operations and processes of wastewater treatment; reuse and recycling of wastewater. (3 lecture hours a week.)

93-531. Advanced Water Pollution Control
Discussion on recent advances in the design of water and wastewater treatment plants and new developments in water pollution control practices. (Prerequisite: 93-530 or equivalent.) (3 lecture hours a week.)

93-532. Engineering and the Environment
Man and his environment; evaluation of biosphere; ecological balances; pollution and environment; impacts of engineering activities on the environment-land, air, water, vegetation and other living beings; criteria, standards and goals; environmental factors to be considered in the engineering designs. Consideration and discussion of typical examples. (3 lecture hours a week.)

93-533. Solid Waste Management
A study of municipal and industrial solid wastes, quantities, composition, methods of disposal or reclamation; economic viability of the various methods related to the quantities involved. (3 lecture hours a week.)

93-534. Environmental Separation Processes
Application of the principles of surface chemistry to separation processes involving phase equilibria, ion exchange, membrane separation, adsorption, absorption, flocculation, spherical agglomeration, sedimentation, filtration, and centrifugation. (3 lecture hours a week.)

93-535. Water Quality Management
Water quality criteria; methods of wastewater disposal and their effects on ecology; stoichiometry, reaction kinetics and material balance; movement of contaminants in water bodies; modelling of water quality in natural systems. (3 lecture hours a week.)

93-536. Environmental Engineering Thermodynamics
An advanced study of the application of classical thermodynamic principles to environmental engineering practice; flow systems; composition relationships between equilibrium phases; systems involving surface effects, electric or magnetic fields. (3 lecture hours a week.)

93-537. Kinetics
Basic concepts of chemical reaction kinetics; characterization of chemical and biochemical systems; reactor flow models and consideration of non-ideality. (3 lecture hours a week.)

93-538. Biological Treatment of Wastewater
Wastewater characteristics; biological kinetics; flow and loading variation; wastewater treatment processes; mass balances; aeration; sedimentation; lagoons; fixed-film processes; sludge characteristics. (3 lecture hours a week.)

93-539. Industrial Wastewater Treatment
Sources and characteristics of industrial wastewater; pretreatment and primary treatment; physical and chemical treatment; biological treatment; waste minimization; treatment of wastes from various industries. (3 lecture hours a week.)

93-540. Numerical Modeling of Heat and Mass Transfer and Flow in Porous Media
Introduction to finite difference and finite element approaches for simulation of the diffusion and the advection-dispersion equations; development of finite difference formulation of 1-D and 2-D transient heat transfer, nonlinear conductance and source/sinks; 1-D and 2-D mass transport with reaction; 1-D and 2-D heat transfer with finite element approach. (3 lecture hours a week.)

93-541. Air Pollution from Mobile Sources
Air pollutants; emissions from vehicles; testing vehicles for emissions; combustion thermodynamics; thermodynamics and kinetics of pollutant formation; measures to reduce emissions; modeling. (3 lecture hours a week.)

93-542. Air Pollution
Air quality standards; emission inventory, source estimation; development of transport models; models with chemical reactions. (3 lecture hours a week.)

93-590. Special Topics In Environmental Engineering
Selected advanced topics in the field of environmental engineering. (3 hours a week.)

Current topics include:

Air Pollution Control;
Transport Phenomena;
Environmental Law and Policy
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics of Air Pollution.

93-796. Major Paper

93-797. Thesis
93-798. Dissertation