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Environmental Courses
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EN 505 Environmental Engineering
An introduction to environmental engineering, including: environmental legislation; water usage and conservation; water chemistry including pH and alkalinity relationships, solubility and phase equilibria; environmental biology; fate and transport of contaminants in lakes, streams and groundwater; design and analysis of mechanical, physicochemical and biochemical water and wastewater treatment processes. |
EN 506 Air Pollution Principles and Control
An introduction to the principles and control of air pollution, including: types and measurement of air pollution; air pollution chemistry; atmospheric dispersion modeling; compressible fluid flow; particle dynamics; ventilation systems; inertial devices; electrostatic precipitators; scrubbers; filters; absorption and adsorption; combustion; condensation. (Also offered as ME 532.) |
EN 520 Soil Behavior and its Role in Environmental Applications
An overview of soil mineralogy, soil formation, chemistry and composition. Influence of the above factors in environmental engineering properties; study of colloidal phenomena; fate and transport of trace metals in sediments, soil fabric and structure; conduction phenomena; compressibility, strength, deformation properties, stress-strain-time effects, as they pertain to environmental geotechnology applications (i.e., contaminated soil remediation, soil/solid waste stabilization, waste containment alternatives, soil-water-contaminant interactions, contaminant transport). Prerequisite: An undergraduate introductory course in geotechnical engineering. Also offered as CE 520. |
EN 541 Fate and Transport of Environmental Contaminants
Description of fundamental processes in natural and engineered systems, including intermedia transport of contaminants between environmental compartments (air, water, soil and biota), and chemical and biochemical transformations within these compartments. |
EN 545 Environmental Impact Analysis and Planning
The impact of engineering projects on the physical, cultural, and socio-economic environment, preparation of environmental impact statements, regulatory framework and compliance procedures. Topics include: major federal and state environmental regulations, environmental permitting processes, environmental impact analysis and assessment, risk assessment and risk management, and regulatory compliance. |
EN 547 Project Life Cycle Management
This course addresses the environmental management of engineering projects from the research through the development, operation, maintenance and ultimate disposal phases. Topics include: impacts of exploitation of raw materials and energy resources, and transportation; pollution from use and ultimate disposal of products; economics of environmental resources. |
EN 548 Environmental Compatibility in Design and Manufacturing
The purpose of this course is to teach engineers how to incorporate environmental principles in the design and manufacturing of various products and engineering systems. Topics include: economics and cost-benefit analysis, pollution prevention, recycling, concurrent design, facility citing, risk perception and case studies. |
EN 549 Environmental Risk Assessment & Management
There is little doubt that the different types of risk assessment — health, safety, ecological — are playing an increasingly important role in environmental decisionmaking and risk management. Guided by several examples and case studies, participants in this course learn to understand the basic concepts of environmental hazards and the different types of risk assessment. The student will conduct human health risk assessments; appreciate the wide array of applications, as well as the advantages and limitations of risk assessments; interpret and present the results of risk assessments to provide linkages with risk management; apply the principles of integrated risk management. |
EN 550 Environmental Chemistry of Atmospheric Processes
An introduction to the science underlying the description of atmospheric processes and air pollution control, including: composition of atmosphere; sources, transport and fate of pollutants; chemical and photochemical reactions; properties of aerosols, effects of air pollution on climate and water; adsorption, absorption, filtration and chemical destruction pollutants in air pollution control systems. |
EN 551 Environmental Chemistry of Soils and Natural Surfaces
Soil is a mixture of inorganic and organic solids, air, water and microorganisms. Soil affects the environmental chemistry through the interactions at solution-solid and air-solid interfaces, and the soil in turn is affected by the environmental and human activities. Soil science is not only important to agriculture, but also to diverse fields, such as environmental engineering, biogeochemistry and hydrology. This course will enable students to understand the chemical properties of soil, soil minerals, natural of surfaces and mechanisms regulating solute chemistry in soil solutions. The fate and transport of inorganic and organic pollutants in soil and soil remediation technologies are discussed. One year of introductory chemistry is required for students who want to take this course. |
EN 553 Groundwater Engineering
Fundamental and advanced topics in groundwater engineering analysis and design. Aquifers and well aquifer relationships; aquifer tests by well methods; in situ permeability determination; flow nets. Seepage principles, and seepage control measures; Filter and drain design; computer methods in groundwater engineering. |
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EN 570 Environmental Chemistry
Principles of environmental reactions with emphasis on aquatic chemistry; reaction and phase equilibria; acid-base and carbonate systems; oxidation-reduction; colloids; organic contaminants classes, sources and fates; groundwater chemistry; atmospheric chemistry. |
EN 571 Physicochemical Processes for Environmental Control
A study of the chemical and physical operation involved in treatment of potable water, industrial process water and wastewater effluent; topics include chemical precipitation, coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, disinfection, ion exchange, oxidation, adsorption, flotation, and membrane processes. A physical-chemical treatment plant design project is an integral part of the course. The approach of unit operations and unit processes is stressed. |
EN 573 Biological Processes for Environmental Control
Biological basis of wastewater treatment; river systems and wastewater treatment works analogy; population dynamics; food sources; aerobic and anaerobic systems; reaction kinetics and parameters affecting waste removal; fundamentals of mass transfer and gas transfer; trickling filter, activated sludge process; aerated lagoons; stabilization ponds; nitrification; denitrification; sludge concentration; aerobic sludge digestion; anaerobic sludge digestion, sludge conditioning; sludge drying, vacuum filtration; incineration; and ocean disposal. A biological treatment plant design project is an integral part of course. |
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EN 575 Environmental Biology
A survey of biological topics concerning the environment: ecology, population dynamics, pollution micro-biology, aquatic biology, bioconcentration, limnology, stream sanitation, nutrient cycles, toxicology. |
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EN 585 Solid Waste Management and Resource Recovery
Classification and characteristics of solid wastes, the need for and rating of solid waste management systems, design of municipal refuse collection and transfer systems, methods and costs of solid waste disposal, the need and concepts for solid waste recycling, and salvage and conversion operations for resource recovery from solid wastes. |
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EN 586 Hazardous Waste Management
A comprehensive introduction to hazardous waste management, including laws and regulations, identification and analysis, risk assessment, and techniques and technologies for control and treatment.
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EN 587 Environmental Law and Management
A survey of legal and regulatory approaches to environmental protection. Topics include: environmental ethics, National Environmental Policy Act, State and Federal environmental agencies; Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Superfund, Resource Recovery and Conservation Act, Right-to-Know, Environmental Cleanup Responsibility Act, wetlands protection. |
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EN 618 HAZMAT Spill Response Planning
This course is designed to introduce students to the state-of-the-art in spill response planning. Numerical and ana-lytical techniques for the prediction of fate and effects of in-water spills are discussed. Spill cleanup technologies are introduced, including mechanical (e.g., booms, skimmers), chemical (e.g., dispersants) and biological. Students are instructed in the essential steps toward developing an effective spill response plan. Special attention is paid to the influence of spill characteristics and environmental factors — waves, currents, shoreline geometry, sensitive ecological areas, etc. — in the selection of an appropriate planning strategy. Examples are given of existing spill response plans in the New York/New Jersey region, and case studies of actual spills are discussed as a means of providing students with an understanding of the complexities of operational spill response planning. Also offered as OE 618. |
EN 637 Environmental Control Laboratory
Laboratory verification of theoretical concepts involved in design and analysis of unit operations and unit processes for environmental pollution control and conservation. Laboratory investigations include mixing, coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, vacuum operations, flotation, disinfection, corrosion control, chemical precipitation, adsorption, ion exchange, membrane processes, biological oxidation and anaerobic digestion. |
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EN 654 Environmental Geotechnology
The objective of the course is to provide the students with exposure to the geotechnical nature of environmental problems. The topics covered include: principles of geochemistry, contaminant transport and hydrogeology; an overview of landfill liners and other disposal facilities and their design, construction, safe operation, performance monitoring, structural and physicochemical stability; an overview of the general principles governing the design, implementation and monitoring of existing remediation technologies with special emphasis on stabilization/solidification, vapor extraction, bioremediation, soil washing, pump and treat, cover systems and alternative containment systems such as slurry walls. A concurrent laboratory section introduces the student to the chemical analyses, absorption behavior, mineralogical and crystallographical identification and characterization of various waste forms as they pertain to surface chemistry considerations. The main emphasis of the course consists of providing hands-on experience with analyses involving the use of spectrometric, X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscope equipment. Prerequisite: EN 520 or equivalent. Also offered as CE 654. |
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EN 680 Modeling of Environmental Systems
Incorporation of fundamental reaction and transport phenomena into mass balances to describe the fate and transport of contaminants in lakes, rivers, estuaries, groundwater, the atmosphere and in pollution control processes. Several computer projects involving numerical solutions of models are required. Prerequisites: CE 565 and EN 541. |
EN 683 Coastal Oceanography for Environmental Engineers
This course deals with processes in the coastal ocean and in estuaries that affect the transport and dispersion of materials floating on the surface, dissolved in the water or in suspension. Topics include: fundamentals of surface wave mechanics, wind-generated surface waves, wind-generated currents, Ekman transport and upwelling, estuarine characteristics and buoyancy-driven circulation, and estuarine-coastal ocean exchange processes. |
EN 686 Groundwater Hydrology and Pollution
Fundamental concepts in groundwater hydrology and pollution, occurrence and movement of groundwater; flow nets; well hydraulics; numerical methods in groundwater hydraulics. Chemical properties of groundwater, sources and effects of contamination; principles of mathematical modeling of containment transport in groundwater, numerical methods in groundwater pollution. |
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EN 690 Soil and Groundwater Remediation Technologies
This course covers state-of-the-art topics on groundwater pollution control and remediation, such as insitu, physical chemical and biological treatment, fixation, vitrification, steam and air stripping and other emerging technologies. Groundwater pollution prevention and management of groundwater quantity and quality issues are addressed. Students are expected to critique recent published papers and make class presentations on selected groundwater quality management issues on a weekly basis. Prerequisite: EN 686. |
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EN 723 Flow & Mass Transport in Porous Media
An advanced treatment of flow and mass transport in porous media; fluid and porous matrix properties; mathematical description of flow and mass transport in fully and partially saturated soils; diffusion and hydrodynamic dispersion processes; analytical-numerical and conformal mapping techniques for the solution of the governing equations; development of computer models for prediction of flow and contaminant transport in variably saturated soils. |
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EN 751 Design of Wastewater Facilities
Principles of process design and economics are integrated through open-ended problem-solving situations. Topics include process selection, feasibility studies, equipment design and scale-up, costing and economics, optimization, process identification and control, operation and maintenance, and permitting and other regulatory issues. Prerequisites: EN 571 and EN 573. |
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EN 771 Advanced Environmental Separation Processes
Advanced topics in separation processes for environmental applications in the mass and energy transfer areas. Topics include distillation, absorption, stripping, membrane-based separation processes, thermal destruction of hazardous wastes, supercritical fluid extraction for soils and solid wastes, utilization and development of computer models for process plant design, optimization and simulation. |
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EN 780 Non-Linear Correlation and System Identification
An investigation of tools to identify non-linear processes and relationships. Mathematical tools covered include non-linear regression, artificial neural networks and multivariate polynomial regression. Applications include mass transfer correlations, prediction of drinking water quality, and modeling of wastewater treatment processes. Prerequisites: CE 687 and EN 680 or equivalent, and permission of instructor. |
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EN 800 Special Problems in Environmental Engineering*
One to six credits. Limit of six credits for the degree of Master of Engineering (Environmental). |
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EN 801 Special Problems in Environmental Engineering*
A thorough investigation of an advanced research topic under the direction of a faculty member. The course is open to students that are or plan to be doctoral candidates. One to six credits for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. |
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EN 900 Thesis in Environmental Engineering*
For the degree of Master of Engineering (Environmental). Five to ten credits with departmental approval. |
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EN 960 Research in Environmental Engineering*
Original research of advanced level in Environmental Engineering which may serve as the topic for the dissertations for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Credits to be arranged.
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