Although students often specialize in one of these areas through a combination of the courses and their research, students are encouraged to take courses from several areas. In addition, some courses include elements from several areas but have been shown in only one. CE 397 is a special topics course that can be retaken for credit if topics differ.
For more information about each of these courses, please check the online syllabi.
Water and Wastewater Treatment
Katz , Kinney , Kirisits , Lawler , Liljestrand , Malina , Speitel
CE 385J - Hazardous Waste Management
Legal and technological approaches to control of hazardous wastes, studied through problem evaluation and solution. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, and Civil Engineering 342 or consent of instructor.
CE 385L - Water and Wastewater Treatment
Principles of treatment of domestic and industrial water, wastewater and sludges. Three lecture hours or two and one-halflecture hours and one laboratory hour a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Topic 1: Physical and Chemical Treatment. Assitional prerequisite: Civil Engineering 342 or consent of instructor.
Topic 2: Biological Wastewater Treatment and Sludge Processing. Additional prerequisite: Civil Engineering 342 or consent of instructor.
Topic 3: Advanced Treatment Processes. Project-based course addressing advanced topics in treatment process design: alternative designs, computer models, laboratory testing, economics, and least-cost designs. Two and one-half lecture hours and one laboratory hour a week for one semester. Additional prerequisite: Civil Engineering 385L (Topic 1).
CE 385M - Unit Operations in Water and Wastewater Treatment
Physical, chemical and biological unit operations for water treatment and pollution control problems. One lecture hours and six laboratory hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, and Civil Engineering 385L (Topic 1: Physical and Chemical Treatment or Topic 2: Biological Wastewater Treatment and Sludge Processing) or consent of instructor.
CE 385N - Industrial Wastewater Treatment
Industrial wastewater characteristics; methods of in-plant control; application of various biological, chemical, and physical processes in practical water pollution control systems. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, and credit or registration for Civil Engineering 385L or consent of instructor.
CE 385R - Land Treatment of Wastes
Principles of the use of land in management of municipal and industrial wasterwaters, sludges, and solids; includes problem evaluations. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, and Civil Engineering 342 or consent of instructor.
CE 385W - Drinking Water: Treatment and Public Health Issues
Fundamentals and applications of drinking water treatment processes, interactions amoung treatment processes, source water quality, and public health issues. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, Civil Engineerin 385L (Topic 1: Physical and Chemical Treatment) and consent of instructor.
CE 386M - Design of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Design
Design of water and wastewater treatment facilities; pumps and hydraulic considerations; design of wasterwater collection systems; design of systems for handling and disposal of residuals. Specific facilities may be selected to meet individual interests. Six hours of lecture and design laboratory a week for one semester, with appropriate field trips to operating facilities. Prerequisite: Graduate standing, and credit or registration for Civil Engineering 385L or consent of instructor.
CE 388N - Engineering and Management of Municipal and Industrial Residuals
Characterization and collection of solid wastes; biological, chemical and physical principles and integrated systems applicable to the treatment and disposal of municipal and industrial reduals. Two lecture hours and three discussion hours a week for one semester, with occasional field trips. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in civil or environmental engineering, or graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CE 393M - Environmental Engineering Research Seminar
Presentation and discussion of environmental topics in surface water, groundwater, air resources, and land resources. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Offered on the credit/no credit basis only. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CE 397 - Water Supply and Waste Disposal in Developing Countries
Unique considerations in engineering of water supply and waste disposal in undeveloped, rural areas. Public health issues and their impact on engineering.
Water Resources
Charbeneau , Hodges , Maidment , McKinney
Current research encompasses surface and ground water hydrology and wate resources planning and management. Applications include hydrologic modeling using geographic information systems; computer and statistical methods in water resources; spatial water balances; flood mapping; water resources sytems analysis; groundwater modeling and management; mulitphase flow; and optimization, uncertainty, and reliability analysis.
CE 380W - Water Resources Engineering Research Seminar
Presentations and discussions on various topics in water resources engineering. Offered on the credit/no credit basis only. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CE 385D - Water Resources Planning and Management
Application of engineering economics, microeconomic theory, and operations research to the planning and management of water systems; major topics include flood control, hydroelectric power, water supply, multiobjective planning, and urban water resource management. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
CE 394K - Engineering Hydrology
May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. With consent of instructor, any topic may be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; and a basic course in hydrology and in differential equations, or consent of instructor.
Topic 1 - Groundwater Pollution and Transport
Groundwater flow and hydroelectric modeling, sources of contamination, multiphase partitioning, advection-dispersion transport and modeling.
Topic 2 - Surface Water
Rainfall runoff processes, hydrograph theory, linear and nonlinear hydrologic system models, hydrologic and hydraulic streamflow routing, rainfall and flood flow frequency analysis, watershed models.
Topic 3 - Geographic Information Systems in Water Resources
Principles of geographic information systems, hydrology, and database management systems applied to water resources problems. Additional prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
CE 397 - Water Resources Development and Policies
Analysis of water resources projects, particularly international water projects, with emphasis on engineering planning considerations and their relation to governmental policies.
Fluid Mechanics and Ocean Engineering
CE 380P.4 - Ocean Engineering Principles: Boundary Element Methods
Formulation and numerical implementation of boundary element methods; applications to problems in fluid mechanics, structural analysis, and solid mechanics. (Kinnas)
CE 380S - Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Jets, plumes, and outfalls; transport and mixing in rivers and estuaries. (Hodges)
CE380T - Computational Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Fundamentals of computational methods and their application to fluid mechanics problems in civil and environmental engineering. (Kinnas)
CE 397 - Hydrodynamics of Propulsors and Dynamic Positioning Systems
Hydrofoil and lifting surface theory, actuator disk and lifting line theory, vortex-lattice and panel methods, blade design techniques, propulsor-inflow and propulsor-hull interaction, unsteady blade and shaft forces, and modeling of sheet cavitation. (Kinnas)
Water Quality Management
Charbeneau, Katz CE 385K.1 - Water Quality: Stream, Impoundment, and Estuarine Analysis I
Basic physical, chemical, and biological properties of streams, impoundments, estuaries, and coastal waters; methods for analysis of water quality problems. (Katz)
CE 394K.1 - Engineering Hydrology: Groundwater Pollution and Transport
Transport processes, advection- dispersion modeling, vadose zone transport, free product recovery, stochastic models. (Charbeneau)
Environmental Engineering Science
Katz, Kinney, Kirisits, Lawler, LiljestrandCE 390J.1 - Engineering Microbiology
Fundamentals of microbiology and biochemistry as applied to environmental pollution and treatment processes, energetics and kinetics of microbial growth, and biological fate of pollutants. (Kinney, Kirisits)
CE 390L - Environmental Analysis
Advanced analytical procedures for the sampling, monitoring, and analyses of wastes in air and in liquids. (Katz)
CE 390N - Water Pollution Chemistry
Advanced topics in the application of engineering solutions to chemical problems in fresh water and marine environments. (Katz)
CE 390P - Environmental Organic Chemistry
Advanced topics in the environmental chemistry of organic contaminants in groundwater, soil and air systems. Graduate standing required. (Liljestrand)
CE 397 - Particles in Water
The science and engineering of behavior of particles in water. Interactions of particles with the solution and other particles (double layer, hydrodynamics), and engineering processes for particle removal (flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, thickening, and membrane separation). (Lawler)
CE 397 - Surface and Soil Chemistry
An introduction to surface and soil chemistry as applied to environmental processes. Subjects include colloidal properties, liquid surfaces, liquid-liquid interfaces, solid-liquid interfaces, sorption, and soil components and their reactivity. (Katz)
Air Quality and Pollution Control
Corsi, Kinney, Liljestrand, Reible, Siegel
CE 381E - Design of Energy Efficient and Healty Buildings
Design of buildings for low energy use and optimal indoor air quality. Includes ventilation,
energy efficiency, moisture problems, and prevention by design. (Siegel)
CE 389T - Indoor Air Quality: Transport and Control
Transport and control of indoor pollutants. Includes particulate removal and pollutant
transport into and within indoor environments. (Siegel)
CE 396L.1 - Air Pollution Engineering: Air Pollution Chemistry
Classification, transport, transformation, deposition, sampling and analysis of particulate and gaseous air pollutants in urban, regional, and global - scale systems. (Liljestrand)
CE 396L.3 - Air Pollution Engineering: Air Pollution Control
Design and cost evaluations of air pollution control systems; cyclones, fabric filters, wet collection systems, and electrostatic precipitators for particulate control; absorption, adsorption, biofiltration, and incineration for gaseous pollutants; flue gas desulfurization and NOx control systems. (Kinney, Reible)
CE 396L.4 - Air Pollution Engineering: Sources of Air Pollution
Emissions estimation methods for sources of air pollution; source characterization; and passive control strategies and technologies. Emphasis is often placed on sources of indoor air pollution and indoor air quality. (Corsi)
CE 396L.5 - Air Pollution Engineering: Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling
Atmospheric turbulence and air pollution meteorology; and mathematical models of contaminant transport and fate in the atmosphere with applications to engineering problems. (Reible)
CE 397 - Air Sampling and Analysis
Fundamentals of collecting and analyzing air samples for gaseous and particulate contaminants. Topics include gas flow measuring devices, gaseous and particulate sampling and analysis, source sampling methods, whole air sampling and speciated hydrocarbon analysis, indoor air sampling and analysis, and ozone and NOx ambient air monitoring. (Kinney)
Seminars
CE 393M - Environmental Engineering Seminar
Weekly seminar consisting of presentations by students or guest speakers. All students are required to make a presentation in this course or in CE 380W as part of their degree requirements.
CE 380W - Water Resources Engineering Seminar
Weekly seminar consisting of presentations by students or guest speakers. All students are required to make a presentation in this course or in CE 393M as part of their degree requirements.
