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Jan 15, 2025
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CE 3530 - Basics of Environmental Engineering
Engineering concepts, theory, design, and practice as applied to solution of problems of environmental technologies; waste management; drainage; and control of water, soil, and atmospheric pollution; social and environmental impact of these solutions.
Requisites: CHEM 1510 and (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be introduced to pollution prevention and waste minimization practices.
- Students will become aware of environmental engineering issues concerning rivers, lakes, and groundwater.
- Students will gain an understanding of life cycle analysis (LCA), environmental impact analysis (EIA), and risk assessments.
- Students will have a minimum understanding of noise pollution issues.
- Students will learn about atmospheric air pollution modeling and control.
- Students will learn about environmental legislation/regulations & ethics.
- Students will learn about topics related to air pollution such as acid rain.
- Students will learn about waste management hierarchy & industrial ecology.
- Students will review chemistry, chemical reactions, mass balances & reactors.
- Students will understand mechanisms of pollutant advection, dispersion, adsorption, and degradation.
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