Environmental Engineering (ENVE)

* ENVE 1200a / CENG 1200a / ENAS 1200a / EVST 1200a, Introduction to Environmental EngineeringColby Buehler

Introduction to engineering principles related to the environment, with emphasis on causes of problems and technologies for abatement. Topics include air and water pollution, global climate change, hazardous chemical and emerging environmental technologies. Prerequisites: high school calculus and chemistry or CHEM 1610, 1650 or CHEM 1630, 1670 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of instructor.  QR, SC
TTh 1:05pm-2:20pm

ENVE 2100a / CENG 2100a, Principles of Chemical Engineering and Process ModelingPeijun Guo

Analysis of the transport and reactions of chemical species as applied to problems in chemical, biochemical, and environmental systems. Emphasis on the interpretation of laboratory experiments, mathematical modeling, and dimensional analysis. Lectures include classroom demonstrations. Prerequisite: MATH 115 or permission of instructor.  QR, SCRP0 Course cr
TTh 1:05pm-2:20pm

ENVE 2150Lb, Environmental Engineering PracticeColby Buehler

Focus on the technical tools of environmental engineering and science, with emphasis on data acquisition and integration, experimental project design and problem solving, and science and engineering communication. Students emerge competent in the skills needed for environmental exploration and communication and armed with the tools of discovery.  Prerequisite: ENVE 120.
F 1pm-5pm

ENVE 3140a / CENG 3140a, Transport Phenomena IKyle Vanderlick

First of a two-semester sequence. Unified treatment of momentum, energy, and chemical species transport including conservation laws, flux relations, and boundary conditions. Topics include convective and diffusive transport, transport with homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical reactions and/or phase change, and interfacial transport phenomena. Emphasis on problem analysis and mathematical modeling, including problem formulation, scaling arguments, analytical methods, approximation techniques, and numerical solutions. Prerequisite: ENAS 1940 or permission of the instructor.  QR, SCRP
TTh 1:05pm-2:20pm

ENVE 3150b / CENG 3150b, Transport Phenomena IIMingjiang Zhong

Unified treatment of momentum, energy, and chemical species transport including conservation laws, flux relations, and boundary conditions. Topics include convective and diffusive transport, transport with homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical reactions and/or phase change, and interfacial transport phenomena. Emphasis on problem analysis and mathematical modeling, including problem formulation, scaling arguments, analytical methods, approximation techniques, and numerical solutions. Prerequisite: ENAS 1940 or permission of instructor.  QR, SC
TTh 1:05pm-2:20pm

* ENVE 3600b / ENAS 3600b, Bio-Inspired and Sustainable DesignJulie Zimmerman

Study of green engineering, focusing on key approaches to advancing sustainability through engineering design with an emphasis on biomimicry. Topics include current design, manufacturing, and disposal processes; toxicity and benign alternatives; policy implications; pollution prevention and source reduction; separations and disassembly; material and energy efficiencies and flows; systems analysis; and life cycle design, management, and analysis. permission of instructor
MW 1:05pm-2:20pm

ENVE 3730a / CENG 373 / CENG 3730a, Air Pollution ControlDrew Gentner

An overview of air quality problems worldwide with a focus on emissions, chemistry, transport, and other processes that govern dynamic behavior in the atmosphere. Quantitative assessment of the determining factors of air pollution (e.g., transportation and other combustion–related sources, chemical transformations), climate change, photochemical “smog,” pollutant measurement techniques, and air quality management strategies. Prerequisite: ENVE 1200.  QR, SCRP
MW 2:35pm-3:50pm

* ENVE 3770a / CENG 3770a, Water-Energy NexusLea Winter

This course explores processes and technologies at the water-energy nexus. We utilize chemical and environmental engineering fundamentals to explore the links between maintaining clean water supply and energy security globally, as well as implications for environmental contamination and climate change. We develop a quantitative understanding of water chemistry and energy considerations for topics including traditional water and wastewater treatment, energy recovery from wastewater, membrane processes, water electrolysis for energy storage and electrochemical contaminant conversion, industrial water consumption and wastewater production, underground water sources and water for oil and gas, opportunities for reuse of nontraditional source waters and contaminant valorization, and considerations for decentralization, resilience, and electrification. Quantitative understanding of these processes will be attained based on mass and energy balances, systems engineering, thermodynamics, and kinetics. Prerequisite: ENVE 1200 or permission of instructor. The course is primarily designed for juniors and seniors majoring in environmental engineering, but students in other engineering majors are welcome. Students in non-engineering majors are also welcome but are encouraged to communicate with the instructor to make sure they have sufficient background knowledge in required mathematics.    QR, SC
TTh 2:35pm-3:50pm

ENVE 4160b / CENG 4160b, Chemical Engineering Process DesignYehia Khalil

Study of the techniques for and the design of chemical processes and plants, applying the principles of chemical engineering and economics. Emphasis on flowsheet development and equipment selection, cost estimation and economic analysis, design strategy and optimization, safety and hazards analysis, and environmental and ethical considerations. Enrollment limited to seniors majoring in Chemical Engineering or Environmental Engineering.  QR, SCRP
TTh 4pm-5:15pm

ENVE 4380b, Environmental Organic ChemistryJohn Fortner

This course examines major physical and chemical attributes and processes affecting the behavior of organic compounds in environmental systems, including volatilization, sorption/attachment, diffusion, and reactivity.  Emphasis is placed on legacy pollutants (e.g. TCE, PCBs, DDT) and along with emerging contaminants of concern (e.g. pharmaceuticals, explosives, etc).  The course reviews basic concepts from physical chemistry and examines the relationships between chemical structure, properties, and environmental behavior of  organic compounds.  Physical and chemical processes important to the fate, treatment, and transformation of specific organic compounds are addressed including solubility, volatilization, partitioning, sorption/attachment, bioaccumulation, and bulk environmental transformation pathways.  Equilibrium and kinetic models based on these principles are used to predict the fate and transport of organic contaminants in the environment. Priority given to seniors or permission of instructor.   QR, SC
TTh 11:35am-12:50pm

ENVE 4400a, Aquatic ChemistryDavid Kwabi

This course introduces relevant elements of aquatic chemistry to upper-level undergraduate environmental engineering and science students. The course provides a fundamental basis from which to design and evaluate engineered and natural systems in which inorganic chemistry is an important component. These systems include (but are not limited to) water and wastewater treatment and CO2 capture and sequestration. Prerequisites: One year of college chemistry, good working knowledge of algebra, or permission of the instructor.
MW 1:05pm-2:20pm

ENVE 4410a, Biological Processes in Environmental EngineeringJordan Peccia

Fundamental aspects of microbiology and biochemistry, including stoichiometry, kinetics, and energetics of biochemical reactions, microbial growth, and microbial ecology, as they pertain to biological processes for the transformation of environmental contaminants; principles for analysis and design of aerobic and anaerobic processes, including suspended- and attached-growth systems, for treatment of conventional and hazardous pollutants in municipal and industrial wastewaters and in groundwater. Prerequisites: CHEM 1610, 1650, or 1630, 1670 (or CHEM 112, 113, or 114, 115, or 118); MCDB 2900 or equivalent; or with permission of instructor.  SC
TTh 11:35am-12:50pm

ENVE 4420b, Environmental Physicochemical ProcessesJaehong Kim

The course covers fundamental and applied concepts of physical and chemical (“physicochemical”) processes relevant to water quality control. Topics include overview of water and wastewater treatment processes, fundamentals of chemical reaction engineering and mass balance concepts, and their application to the design of water treatment unit operations including coagulation, sedimentation, disinfection, filtration, oxidation, air stripping, membrane separation, adsorption, and ion exchange.   Prerequisite: ENVE 120 or permission of instructor.
TTh 2:35pm-3:50pm

* ENVE 4900a, Senior ProjectColby Buehler

Individual research and design projects supervised by a faculty member in Environmental Engineering, or in a related field with permission of the director of undergraduate studies.
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