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2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses of Instruction

This list includes for each course the catalog number, title, credit hours, class and laboratory hours per week, description and prerequisites.

A secondary listing in parentheses indicates that this course is cross-referenced with another program.

Graduate credit may be earned only for courses numbered 6000 or above. Each 6000-level course carries a 4000-level undergraduate counterpart. Students who receive graduate credit in such courses must do extra work of an appropriate nature as determined by the department and are graded according to graduate standards. Students who receive credit for the 4000-level course may not receive credit later for the same course at the 6000 level.

Courses at the 7000 level are designed primarily for the degrees that emphasize professional practice rather than research.
 

Environmental Engineering and Science
  

  • EES 6010 - Environmental Engineering

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Introduction to the field of environmental engineering. Topics include environmental phenomena, impact of pollutants in the aquatic environment, solid-waste management, air pollution control, radiological health, and simple water and wastewater treatment systems.
  

  • EES 6020 - Water and Waste Treatment Systems

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Study of fundamental principles, rational design considerations, and operational procedures of the unit operations and processes employed in water and waste treatment. Both physiochemical and biological treatment techniques are discussed. Introduces the integration of unit operations and processes into water and waste treatment systems.
  

  • EES 6100 - Environmental Radiation Protection I

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Fundamental principles of radiological health and radiation safety. Topics include radiation fundamentals, basic concepts of environmental radiation protection, internal and external dosimetry, environmental dose calculations and radiation protection standards.
  

  • EES 6110 - Ionizing Radiation Detection and Measurement

    3 Credits (2 Contact Hours)
    Laboratory exercises in ionizing radiation detection and measurements. Topics include nuclear electronics; counting statistics; radiation interactions; basic gas, scintillation, and semiconductor detectors; gamma-ray spectroscopy; health physics survey instrumentation; and thermoluminescent dosimetry. Preq: EES 4100 or EES 6100 . Coreq: EES 6111 .
  

  • EES 6111 - Ionizing Radiation Detection and Measurement Laboratory

    0 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Non-credit laboratory to accompany EES 6110 . Coreq: EES 6110 .
  

  • EES 6120 - Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Radioactive Waste Management

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Materials flow throughout the nuclear fuel cycle emphasizing safe handling of radioactive material; environmental aspects of fuel cycle activities; radioactive waste management; nuclear nonproliferation and safeguards; nuclear forensics.
  

  • EES 6140 - Radioecology

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    An introduction to the relationships between ionizing radiation or radioactive substances and the environment. Topics include sources of environmental radioactivity; transport processes and bioavailability; impacts of ionizing radiation on various subunits within the biosphere; and methods and techniques related to risk assessment and decision making.
  

  • EES (BE, GEOL) 6270 - Ecohydrology

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Focuses on the understanding of the mechanisms that control the circulation of water among atmosphere, soil, and plants. The spatial and temporal linkages between soil moisture dynamics and climate, soil, and vegetation are explored. Plant strategies in water use and hydrologic controls of ecosystems are integral components of this course. May also be offered as BE 6270  or GEOL 6270 . Preq: CE 3410 or CHE 2300 or ME 3080.
  

  • EES 6300 - Air Pollution Engineering

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Introductory course in air pollution and its control. Topics include air pollutants and effects, sources, dispersion models, engineering controls, and air-quality legislation.
  

  • EES 6370 - Biodegradation and Bioremediation

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Basic principles of biodegradation for major classes of organic and inorganic contaminants, including halogenated aliphatic and aromatic compounds, fuel hydrocarbons, pesticides and nitrated energetic compounds, metals, and radionuclides. The basic science of microbiology and chemistry, and how these are used to develop bioremediation strategies and technologies, are discussed. Preq: EES 8510 .
  

  • EES (BE, FOR) 6510 - Newman Seminar and Lecture Series in Natural Resources Engineering

    1 Credits (2 Contact Hours)
    Topics dealing with development and protection of land, air, water, and related resources are covered by seminar with instructor and invited lecturers. Current environmental and/or resource conservation issues are addressed. May also be offered as BE 6510  or FOR 6510 .
  

  • EES 6800 - Environmental Risk Assessment

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Quantitative estimation of human health risk posed by the release of a contaminant to the environment. Topics include methods for analyzing emission rate, environmental transport, exposure, and health effects; methods of uncertainty analysis; and the role of risk assessment in environmental regulation and environmental decision making.
  

  • EES (BE) 6840 - Municipal Solid Waste Management

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Introduction to the problems, regulations, collection, handling, recycling, and disposal of municipal solid wastes in the urban and rural sectors. Emphasizes an integrated waste-management system with resource recovery, composting, incineration, landfill disposals, and their costs. May also be offered as BE 6840 .
  

  • EES 6850 - Hazardous Waste Management

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Introduction to the problems, regulations, treatment, and ultimate disposal of hazardous and toxic materials. Spill cleanup, groundwater transport, land disposal, incineration, and treatment technologies are discussed.
  

  • EES 6860 - Environmental Sustainability

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Topics include sustainable engineering and industrial ecology with emphasis on pollution prevention methods using source reduction, recycling assessments, treatment to reduce disposal, life-cycle assessment and design for the environment. Emphasizes case studies. Preq: Junior standing.
  

  • EES 6900 - Special Projects

    1-3 Credits (1-3 Contact Hours)
    Studies or laboratory investigations on special topics in the environmental engineering and science field. Arranged on a project basis with a maximum of individual student effort and a minimum of staff guidance. May be repeated for a maximum of three credits. Preq: Consent of instructor.
  

  • EES 6910 - Selected Topics in Environmental Engineering

    1-3 Credits (1-3 Contact Hours)
    Study of the dynamic role of environmental engineering in maintaining environmental quality. A comprehensive study of any phase of environmental engineering. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credits, but only if different topics are covered.
  

  • EES 8020 - Environmental Engineering Principles

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Fundamental principles required for simulation and modeling of environmental engineering phenomena; mass transfer, reactor kinetics, simulation techniques and applications to various natural and engineered systems. Offered fall semester only.
  

  • EES 8030 - Physicochemical Operations in Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Principles of physicochemical operations used in water and wastewater treatment including sedimentation, filtration, mixing, gas transfer, adsorption, ion exchange, coagulation, precipitation, disinfection and oxidation. Offered spring semester only. Preq: EES 8020  and EES 8430 .
  

  • EES 8040 - Biochemical Operations in Wastewater Treatment Systems

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Principles of biochemical operations used in wastewater treatment; modeling of ideal biochemical reactors and design criteria for aerated lagoons, activated sludge, trickling filters, rotating biological contactors, nitrification, denitrification and digestion. Offered spring semester only. Preq: EES 8020  and EES 8510 .
  

  • EES 8050 - Laboratory in Water and Wastewater Treatment Operations

    3 Credits (6 Contact Hours)
    Laboratory exercises in selected water and wastewater treatment operations including sedimentation, filtration, adsorption, coagulation, softening, aeration, activated sludge, aerobic digestion and anaerobic digestion. Offered spring semester only. Preq or concurrent enrollment: EES 8030  or EES 8040 .
  

  • EES 8060 - Process and Facility Design for Environmental Control Systems

    2-4 Credits (2-4 Contact Hours)
    Integration of unit operations into complex systems for treatment of industrial/domestic water and wastewater, contaminated groundwater or air, landfill leachate and toxic liquid wastes. Student teams design an integrated system for either water/wastewater or a hazardous/toxic waste. Offered fall semester only. Preq: EES 8030  or EES 8040 .
  

  • EES (GEOL) 8080 - Groundwater Modeling

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Mathematical and computer modeling of groundwater flow and nonreactive solute transport through geological formations; conceptual flow-models for geologic systems; formulation of governing mass and energy conservation equations; application of analytical, numerical and stochastic models to real-world problems. May also be offered as GEOL 8080 .
  

  • EES (GEOL) 8090 - Subsurface Remediation Modeling

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Lectures and computer exercises involving subsurface remediation methods including groundwater extraction, soil vapor extraction, stream flooding and a variety of other techniques; modeling flow of multiphase and multicomponent mixtures in porous medium. May also be offered as GEOL 8090 .
  

  • EES (GEOL) 8100 - Analytical Methods for Hydrogeology

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Analytical mathematical methods for modeling subsurface fluid flow and transport processes including saturated water flow, unsaturated zone gas flow, chemical transport and heat transfer, emphasizing the derivation and solution of governing equations for modeling subsurface flow and transport. May also be offered as GEOL 8100 .
  

  • EES 8120 - Environmental Nuclear Engineering

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Environmental aspects of nuclear technology emphasizing nuclear reactors and the nuclear fuel cycle; environmental transport of radioactive materials; radioactive effluents from nuclear power plants; nuclear power plant safety; environmental aspects of fuel cycle activities; waste management. Offered fall semester only. Preq: EES 6100 .
  

  • EES 8130 - Environmental Radiation Protection Laboratory

    3 Credits (1 Contact Hours)
    Continuation of EES 6110 ; advanced experiments in radiation detection, radiation protection, health physics and environmental monitoring. Offered fall semester only. Preq: EES 4110 or EES 6110 . Coreq: EES 8131 .
  

  • EES 8131 - Environmental Radiation Protection Laboratory

    0 Credits (6 Contact Hours)
    Non-credit laboratory to accompany EES 8130 . Coreq: EES 8130 .
  

  • EES (CHE) 8140 - Applied Numerical Methods in Process Simulation

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Numerical solution techniques as applied to chemical process systems; finite difference techniques for partial differential equations stressing applied numerical methods rather than theoretical numerical analysis. Standard methods for ordinary differential equations are reviewed. May also be offered as CHE 8140 . Preq: Consent of instructor.
  

  • EES 8150 - Radiobiology

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Basic principles of radiation biology, or the biological responses of human beings to radiation through study of the direct and indirect effects of radiation at the sub-cellular, cellular, tissue, whole body and population scales. Preq: EES 6100 .
  

  • EES 8160 - Technical Nuclear Forensics

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Technical nuclear forensics is a discipline that involves the collection, analysis and evaluation of samples from pre-detonation or post-detonation of a nuclear weapon. These radiological and nuclear materials, as well as devices, debris and immediate effects created by a nuclear detonation are of interest. Preq: EES 6100 .
  

  • EES (BE, GEOL) 8170 - Simulating Flow, Transport, Deformation and Reactions

    3 Credits (2 Contact Hours)
    Introduction to techniques for simulating processes related to fluid flow through porous media, conduits or tanks, transport of heat and mass, chemical reactions, deformation of solids, and coupling of multiple processes. Applications are taken from natural and engineered systems. May also be offered as BE 8170  or GEOL 8170 . Preq: BE 6120  or EES 8020  or GEOL 6150  or consent of instructor. Coreq: EES 8171 .
  

  • EES (BE, GEOL) 8171 - Simulating Flow, Transport, Deformation and Reactions Laboratory

    0 Credits (1 Contact Hours)
    Non-credit laboratory to accompany EES 8170 . May also be offered as BE 8171  or GEOL 8171 . Coreq: EES 8170 .
  

  • EES 8200 - Environmental Systems Analysis

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Analysis of a systems view of environmental problems, with particular emphasis on conflicting objectives such as economic and environmental concerns. Example problems span traditional environmental engineering processes, natural resources, proactive environmental management and sustainability.
  

  • EES 8320 - Air Pollution Meteorology

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Applications of meteorology to air pollution; micrometeorology; plume rise modeling; atmospheric diffusion; deposition and washout of pollutants; air chemistry; applications of diffusion modeling to air quality planning. Preq: Consent of instructor.
  

  • EES 8330 - Combustion and Air Pollution Control Systems

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Principles of combustion, air pollution and its control are covered. Topics include an overview of regulated air pollutants and their sources, combustion fundamentals, and principles and design of air pollution control equipment for gaseous and particulate pollutants. Offered spring semester only.
  

  • EES 8340 - Particles in the Atmosphere

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Chemical and physical behavior of atmospheric particles and their interaction with other particles, gases and light; generation, measurement methods and control strategies of atmospheric particles. Students are expected to have completed coursework in differential equations prior to enrolling in this course. Preq: EES 4300 or EES 6300 .
  

  • EES 8370 - Biodegradation and Bioremediation

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Basic principles of biodegradation for major classes of organic contaminants including halogenated aliphatics and aromatics, fuel hydrocarbons, pesticides and nitrated energetic compounds; biotransformations of metals; biodegradation principles applied to the development of bioremediation technologies including intrinsic, in situ and on-site engineered approaches. Preq: EES 8510 .
  

  • EES (CH) 8420 - Actinide Chemistry

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Chemical and physical aspects of actinide metals and compounds (including properties, structure and bonding, reactions, kinetics, thermodynamics), coordination and solution chemistry, behavior and speciation in the environment, separation and purification, chemistry of the nuclear fuel cycle and waste treatment and related topics; fundamental concepts, history and recent developments. May also be offered as CH 8420 . Preq: Consent of instructor.
  

  • EES 8430 - Environmental Chemistry

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Principles of chemical kinetics and thermodynamics applied to fundamental understanding of aqueous environmental samples including natural waters, wastewaters and treated waters; factors controlling chemical concentrations, acid-base equilibria, solubility equilibria, complex formation, electrochemistry, adsorption phenomena. Students are expected to have completed two semesters of general chemistry before enrolling in this course. Offered fall semester only.
  

  • EES 8440 - Environmental Chemistry Laboratory I

    3 Credits (2 Contact Hours)
    Laboratory experience in basic analytical methods used in water quality studies; experimental design, sampling, wet-chemical analytical techniques, data collection and analysis, data interpretation and data quality techniques. Students are expected to have completed two semesters of coursework in general chemistry before enrolling in this course. Offered fall semester only. Coreq: EES 8441 .
  

  • EES 8441 - Environmental Chemistry Laboratory I Laboratory

    0 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Non-credit laboratory to accompany EES 8440 . Coreq: EES 8440 .
  

  • EES 8450 - Environmental Organic Chemistry

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Application of parameters that describe the equilibrium distribution and exchange rates for environmentally significant organic compounds to the modeling of processes in engineered and natural systems, including environmental parameter estimation techniques, structure-activity relationships and integration of environmental processes to model contaminant distribution and residence time in environmental systems. Students are expected to have completed two semesters of coursework in general chemistry before enrolling in this course. Offered spring semester only.
  

  • EES 8460 - Inorganic Environmental Geochemistry

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Study and application of chemical principles to understand and model the behavior of metals and other important inorganic species in natural and engineered environmental systems. Real world problems are addressed using case studies and student-selected projects. Preq: EES 8430  or consent of instructor.
  

  • EES 8470 - Advanced Environmental Chemistry

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Advanced principles and methods in environmental chemistry with applications to both natural and treatment systems; current investigative and study techniques; nature, fluxes and controlling processes of chemical species and radionuclides in environmental systems. Preq: EES 8430 .
  

  • EES 8480 - Introduction to Laboratory Procedures and Instrumentation

    1 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Introduces concepts and practices commonly used in analyses of environmental samples. A combination of lectures and laboratory exercises are used to provide background and practice in selected topics. Topics include precision and accuracy, spectroscopic methods, and chromatographic methods. To be taken Pass/No Pass only.
  

  • EES 8490 - Environmental Chemistry Laboratory II

    3 Credits (1 Contact Hours)
    Theory and applications of instrumental methods of analysis as applied to measurements for environmental control; spectroscopy and spectrophotometric techniques; electrochemical analyses; chromatographic methods of analysis; light scattering and electrophoretic measurements. Offered fall semester only. Coreq: EES 8491 .
  

  • EES 8491 - Environmental Chemistry Laboratory II Laboratory

    0 Credits (6 Contact Hours)
    Non-credit laboratory to accompany EES 8490 . Coreq: EES 8490 .
  

  • EES 8500 - Stream and Estuarine Analysis

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Physical, chemical and biological processes and relationships which exist in streams and estuaries; estuarine environment; free-flowing streams; mechanisms describing transport of conservative and nonconservative materials through estuarine systems; the estuary as a resource and techniques for its management. Offered fall semester only.
  

  • EES 8510 - Biological Principles of Environmental Engineering

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Basic principles of biology and biochemistry as applied to problems of environmental control and wastewater treatment; kinetic and energetic aspects. Offered fall semester only.
  

  • EES 8520 - Subsurface and Wetland Hydraulics

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Hydraulics of subsurface water including hydraulic head and gradient concepts, Darcy’s Law, saturated/unsaturated flow, flow in aquifers and aquitards, flow to wells and interactions with surface water in wetlands including discharge and development of seepage faces. Mathematics is at the level of elementary ordinary and partial differential equations. Preq: EES 8020 . Students who have not completed EES 8020 , but who have completed coursework in differential equations and fluid mechanics, may request a registration override from the instructor.
  

  • EES 8550 - Surface and Subsurface Transport

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Quantitative analysis of reactive transport and biodegradation in ground water and surface water; applications of the advection-dispersion equation with reaction terms including classical chemical reactions, radioactive decay and reactions mediated by microbes. Students are expected to have completed coursework in differential equations and fluid mechanics before enrolling in this course.
  

  • EES 8560 - Pollution of the Aquatic Environment

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Effects of domestic and industrial water pollution on the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of natural waters; associated environmental determinants of human disease, toxicology and epidemiology of chronic disease. Offered fall semester only.
  

  • EES 8610 - Environmental Engineering and Science Seminar

    1 Credits (1 Contact Hours)
    This seminar covers current advances and research developments in various areas of environmental engineering, biosystems engineering, and earth sciences. Off-campus speakers, students and faculty participate. May be repeated an unlimited number of times. To be taken Pass/No Pass only.
  

  • EES 8800 - Environmental Risk Assessment

    3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
    Methodology of quantitative risk assessment including identification and quantification of the source term, calculation of environmental transport and estimation of health effects. Applications involve various classes of contaminants in atmospheric and aquatic environmental pathways. Preq: EES 8020 .
  

  • EES 8810 - Special Problems

    1-4 Credits (1-4 Contact Hours)
    Problems selected to meet interests and experiences of student and instructor.
  

  • EES 8830 - Selected Topics in Environmental Engineering

    1-4 Credits (1-4 Contact Hours)
    Topics in environmental engineering not covered in other courses. Topics vary to keep pace with current developments. May be taken concurrently with EES 8840 , which (if offered) would be a different topic.
  

  • EES 8840 - Selected Topics in Environmental Engineering

    1-4 Credits (1-4 Contact Hours)
    Topics in environmental engineering not covered in other courses. Topics vary to keep pace with current developments. May be taken concurrently with EES 8830 , which (if offered) would be a different topic.
  

  • EES 8910 - Master’s Thesis Research

    1-12 Credits (1-12 Contact Hours)
    Master’s Thesis Research
  

  • EES 9610 - Environmental Engineering and Science Doctoral Student Seminar

    1 Credits (1 Contact Hours)
    Current advances and research developments in various areas of environmental engineering and science. Doctoral students are required to enroll each semester that the course is offered and present one seminar per year. To be taken Pass/No Pass only.
  

  • EES 9910 - Doctoral Dissertation Research

    1-12 Credits (1-12 Contact Hours)
    Doctoral Dissertation Research