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Graduate Courses Offered
| ENVR 501 | Chemistry
of the Environment Prerequisite: undergraduate chemistry and one year of undergraduate calculus or equivalent approved by instructor Covers principles of physical and organic chemistry applicable to the studyand evaluation of environmental conditions, especially the pollution of air, water, and soil (including chemical changes and reactions in the environment). 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr, Steve McDow Quarters taught: Fall, Spring |
| ENVR 506 | Biostatistics Covers measures of biostatistics, including central value and dispersion, sampling and distribution, statistical inference, analysis of variance, regression and correlation, and time series. Emphasizes application. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Charles Haas Quarters taught: Fall |
| ENVR 511 | Evolutionary
Ecology Studies the basic principles of evolution and ecology, including natural selection, the ecological niche, ecological succession, and the food web, and effects of human activities on ecosystems. Views humans as a species. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Susan Kilham Quarters taught: Winter |
| ENVR 516 | Sanitary
Microbiology Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Covers microscopic life forms of sanitary significance, with emphasis on bacteria, viruses, algae, fungi, and protozoa; includes a thorough coverage of water and wastewater microbiology, especially transmission of waterborne diseases, bacterial indicators of pollution, and the microbiology of wastewater treatment. 2-2-3 Instructor: Mr. Gary Burlingame Quarters taught: Fall |
| ENVR 521 | Environmental
Health Discusses health effects of environmental (biological, physical, and chemical) hazards and the design of environmental controls and regulations for the health and well-being of humans. 3-0-3 Instructor: Staff Quarters taught: Winter, Summer |
| ENVR 522 | Environmental
Law Examines administrative law applicable to the management of environmental programs, including constitutional constraints on the responsibilities of administrators and major court decisions on environmental issues. Covers due process, inspection, citizen actions, evidence, and other matters. 3-0-3 Instructor: Staff Quarters taught: Summer |
| ENVR 529 | Environmental
Noise Covers the fundamentals of acoustic propagation, instrumentation, noise descriptors, hearing damage and other health effects, occupational noise, noise abatement techniques, modeling the noise near highways and airports, and EPA strategy for reducing environmental noise exposure. 3-0-3 Instructor: Staff Quarters taught: |
| ENVR 531 | Industrial
Hygiene I Covers general principles of industrial hygiene, including historical background and development as an interdisciplinary profession. Includes identification, evaluation, and control methods of occupational exposures to biological and chemical agents in the form of aerosols, gases, vapors, liquids, and solids, and examines the implications of toxicity and health effects from the workplace and relation to the total environment. 3-0-3 Instructor: Mr. George Lopez Quarters taught: Fall, even years |
| ENVR 532 | Industrial
Hygiene II Prerequisite: ENVR 531. Covers occupational exposure to physical agents including noise, heat, cold, humidity, and ionizing and non-ionizing radiations. Includes related aspects of safety, ergonomics, legal requirements, formation of government health agencies, and contemporary problems in occupational health. 3-0-3 Instructor: Mr. George Lopez Quarters taught: Winter, odd years |
| ENVR 533 | Industrial Hygiene Laboratory Prerequisite: ENVR 501. Includes laboratory exercises involving the more common and current procedures in industrial hygiene sampling, including air sampling and calibrations, dust and particle counting, noise measurement, ventilation, heat and comfort indices, illumination, and evaluation of controls. 1-4-3 Instructor: Mr, George Lopez Quarters taught: Spring, odd years |
| ENVR 534 | Industrial
Ventilation Covers principles of air movement related to ventilation and air conditioning facilities for the maintenance of suitable environmental conditions in work areas. Includes principles of industrial processes and air pollution abatement equipment, including air flow, ducts, fans, motors and hoods. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Mehrdad Lordgooei Quarters taught: Spring |
| ENVR 535 | Industrial
Safety Examines the impact of accidents, liability considerations, legislation and regulation of safety, OSHA codes and standards, hazards and their analysis and control, risk assessment, major types of accidents and their impacts, and accident investigation. 3-0-3 Instructor: Staff Quarters taught: Spring |
| ENVR 541 | Air
Pollution Meteorology Considers meteorological processes important to transport and diffusion of atmospheric pollutants on all scales, from microscale to global. 3-0-3 Instructor: Staff Quarters taught: Winter |
| ENVE 560 | Fundamentals
of Air Pollution Control Addresses fundamental topics regarding the formation and control of air pollutants. Provides a strong foundation for the development of engineering solutions for industrial air pollution prevention and design/development/selection of air pollution control devices and systems. Instructor: Dr. Mehrdad Lordgooei Quarters taught: Fall |
| ENVR 561 | Introduction
to Hydrology Introduction to quantifying the components of the hydrologic cycle. Emphasis is on quantifying flow and storage in watersheds, including temporal and spatial patterns. Appropriate field and laboratory tests used to measure hydrologic processes and mechanistic and statistical models for data evaluation and interpretation are presented. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Claire Welty Quarters taught: Fall, odd years |
| ENVR 601 | Advanced
Environmental Chemistry Prerequisite: ENVR 501 or equivalent. Covers thermodynamic and kinetic principles and their application to the study of chemical changes and reactions in the water or air environments. 3-0-3 Instructor: Quarters taught: Summer, every 2 -3 years |
| ENVR 602 | Water
Quality Control Laboratory Prerequisite: ENVR 501. Introduces analytical procedures in the assessment of water quality as applied to the analysis of natural waters and wastewaters, and to the control of water and waste treatment processes. 2-3-3 Instructor: Dr. Ronald Baker Quarters taught: Winter or Spring, every 2- 3 years |
| ENVR 605 | Atmospheric
Chemistry Prerequisite: ENVR 501 Introduces the principles of atmospheric physics and photochemical kinetics as a prelude to understanding the atmospheric chemical system. Examines the chemistry of the natural atmosphere to prepare for the understanding of how pollutants interact with natural species. Considers pollution of the stratosphere and the troposphere. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. James Friend Quarters taught: Fall |
| ENVR 608 | Fate
of Pollutants in Air and Water Prerequisite: ENVR 501 or equivalent Theoretically delineates the physical and chemical mechanisms that define the fate of a pollutant and applies them to models and environmental systems. 3-0-3 Instructors: Drs. Huang and McDow Quarters taught: Winter |
| ENVR 611 | Aquatic
Ecology Prerequisite: ENVR 511. Reviews the basics of chemistry, physics, and biology of freshwater systems, including the effects of pollution. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Susan Kilham Quarters taught: Spring |
| ENVR 616 | Environmental
Microbiology Prerequisite: ENVR 516. Covers applications of microbial ecology, physiology, and growth kinetics to the resolution of various environmental problems. Includes microbial corrosion and acid mine drainage biodegradation of hazardous and toxic organic wastes, remediation of groundwater contamination, and microbiological hazards of water supply. 3-0-3 Instructor: Staff Quarters taught: Winter |
| ENVR 621 | Epidemiology Prerequisites: ENVR 516 and ENVR 636, or equivalent approved by instructor. Covers the principles, purposes, and methods of epidemiology and the application of methods for the investigation of problems in the field of human diseases&emdash;infectious and non-infectious&emdash;emphasizing the relationship and equilibrium of host and environmental factors. 3-0-3 Instructor: Staff Quarters taught: |
| ENVR 636 | Toxicology
and Human Physiology Prerequisite: ENVR 501. Reviews general human physiology and the acute and chronic effects of toxicants on physiological mechanisms. Emphasizes the target organs of various toxic substances and the biochemical cause of dysfunction. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Jane Huggins Quarters taught: Fall |
| ENVR 641 | Community
Air Pollution Prerequisite or co-requisite: ENVR 501. A general course designed for engineers, chemists, planners and physicians. Discusses measurement and control of air pollution; legal enforcement aspects of air pollution control to attain air quality standards; and the nature and quantity of atmospheric emissions from transportation vehicles, power plants, and specific industries. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Steve McDow Quarters taught: Spring |
| ENVR 642 | Control
of Gas/Vapor Pollutants From Industrial and Mobile Sources Prerequisite: ENVR 501. Provides a detailed study of the design and operation of air pollution control processes, including settling, filtration, inertial separation, scrubbing, and precipitation. 2-2-3 Instructor: Dr. Mehrdad Lordgooei Quarters taught: Winter |
| ENVE 644 | Design
of Particulate Control Devices Prerequisite: ENVR 501. Provides a detailed study of the design and operation of air pollution control processes, including settling, filtration, inertial separation, scrubbing, and precipitation. 2-2-3 Instructor: Dr. Mehrdad Lordgooei Quarters taught: Spring |
| ENVR 657 | Incineration:
Design and Applications Prerequisite: ENVR 501. Covers destruction of solid and liquid hazardous wastes at high temperature in a combustion device, including requirements for destruction of toxic materials and control of discharges to the atmosphere. 3-0-3 Instructor: Quarters taught: |
| ENVE 660 | Chemical
Kinetics, Mass Transfer, and Reactor Design in Environmental Engineering Prerequisites: ENVR 501, ENVR 506. Covers chemical and biological kinetics, mass-transfer considerations and hydraulic regimes in water and wastewater treatment, and water quality management. Includes absorption and stripping of gases and volatile organics and applications to aeration and ozonation processes. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Weilin Huang Quarters taught: Winter |
| ENVE 661 | Environmental
Engineering Unit Operations: Chemical and Physical Prerequisite: ENVR 660. Provides a theoretical study of the chemical and physical unit operations of environmental engineering, including sedimentation, coagulation, precipitation, adsorption, oxidation-reduction, ion exchange, disinfection, membrane processes, and filtration. 2-3-3 Instructor: Dr. Weilin Huang Quarters taught: Spring |
| ENVR 662 | Environmental
Engineering Unit Operations: Biological Prerequisites: ENVR 516, ENVR 660. Provides a systematic study of the microbiological and biochemical processes for the treatment of aqueous and solid wastes, including aerobic and anaerobic processes and composting. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Charles Haas Quarters taught: Spring, even years |
| ENVR 665 | Hazardous
Waste and Groundwater Treatment (includes material formerly in Bioremediation) Prerequisite: ENVR 660. Covers principles of hazardous waste and groundwater treatment and in-situ technologies. Presents application of processes, including solvent extraction, steam and air stripping, adsorption, ion exchange, oxidation, dechlorination, stabilization, wet air and supercritical oxidation, incineration, soil washing, and soil vapor extraction. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Huang Quarters taught: Spring |
| ENVR 670 | Microbial
Ecology Prerequisite: BIO 422. Covers the physiology and metabolism of microorganisms. Emphasizes aspects unique to prokaryotes, including envelope structure, chemotaxis, transport systems, modes of nutrition, biosynthesis, growth, and mechanisms of action of antibiotics.3-0-3 Instructor: Staff Quarters taught: Winter |
| ENVE 681 | Hydrology
- Groundwater Prerequisite: ENVR 561 or permission of instructor. Provides a quantitative basis for determining flow of groundwater in unsaturated soils and in aquifers. Includes application of Darcy's law; methods for determining permeability, hydraulic conductivity, specific yield, and storage coefficient, including laboratory column methods, slug test analysis, and pump test analysis. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Claire Welty Quarters taught: Winter |
| ENVE 682 | Subsurface
Contaminant Transport Prerequisite: ENVE 681. Provides the theoretical basis for analysis of contaminant transport in aquifers. Includes modeling of tracer transport (methods for determining dispersivity and effective porosity), and nonideal transport (chemical retardation; biodegradation; radioactive decay; colloid and microbial transport; density-coupled misciblen and immiscible transport) in porous and fractured media. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Claire Welty Quarters taught: Spring |
| ENVR 683 | Stochastic
Subsurface Hydrology Prerequisites: ENVE 681, 682. Provides a theoretical study of the the influence of temporal variability (stream height, infiltration rates) and spatial variability (soil and rock permeability) on aquifer flow and transport. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Claire Welty Quarters taught: Upon demand, every 2 -3 years |
| ENVE 684 | Water
Resource Systems Analysis Provides the basis for application of mathematical optimization techniques to the management of water resource systems. Case studies include water quality control, well-field design, reservoir operation, and water distribution systems. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Claire Welty Quarters taught: Fall, even years |
| ENVR 690 | Marine
Ecology Studies major processes in the marine environment, especially relationships between organisms and the factors that influence their abundance. 3-0-3 Instructor: Ms. Jennifer Elwood Quarters taught: Fall |
| ENVR 700 | Evolution Prerequisite: ENVR 531 Covers historical evidence for and principal mechanism of organic evolution, including the origin of life and new groups of organisms in the past and present, and the genetic basis for evolution; discusses current research in evolutionary biology and ecology. 3-0-3 Instructor: Quarters taught: |
| ENVR 702 | Physiological
Ecology Co-requisite: ENVR 531. Examines mechanisms by which physiological factors affect and limit the distribution and abundance of animals, including physiological and behavioral thermoregulation, heat and cold tolerance, acclimation, metabolism, osmoregulation and dehydration tolerance, feeding strategies, digestion and feeding patterns, energy and water budgets, toxins, and optimality theory. 3-0-3 Instructor: Quarters taught: |
| ENVR 711 | Aquatic
Toxicology Applies the principles of toxicology to fish and aquatic invertebrates. Includes applications of laboratory and field tests to evaluate aquatic effects and methods of data analysis. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Susan Kilham Quarters taught: Fall |
| ENVR 712 | Biophysical
Ecology Covers energy balances and methods of heat transfer in organisms, including convection, conduction, radiation, evaporation, and metabolism, and steady-state and transient energy balances, including mass balances, water uptake, and evaporation. 3-0-3 Instructor: Quarters taught: |
| ENVR 722 | Tropical
Ecology Prerequisite: ENVR 531. Covers the ecology of tropical forests, including biogeography, history, current processes, and effects of economic development of rain forest and dry forest of the Old and New World tropics. 3-0-3 Instructor: Quarters taught: |
| ENVR 726 | Environmental Assessment Examines the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and its implementation according to the regulations of the Council on Environmental Quality. Discusses air, water, noise, biological, cultural, and socioeconomic impacts. Includes methods of impact analysis and means to compare alternative actions. 3-0-3 Instructor: Quarters taught: |
| ENVE 727 | Risk
Assessment Prerequisites: ENVR 501, ENVR 506. Covers quantitative relations between environmental exposures and effects. Includes computer methods for risk analysis and development of environmental guidelines and standards. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Charles Haas Quarters taught: Winter |
| ENVR 741 | Toxic and
Hazardous Air Pollutants Prerequisite: ENVR 641 or permission of instructor. Examines the health effects of a variety of air pollutants. Covers damage to animals, plants, property, and people. 3-0-3 Instructor: Quarters taught: |
| ENVR 742 | Atmospheric
Aerosols Prerequisite: ENVR 501. Covers the statistics of size distributions of fine particle systems, the physical laws that explain the properties of aerosols, their relationship to the environment, and aspects of control. Includes motion due to gravitational, inertial, thermal, and electrostatic forces and discusses the phenomena of diffusion and impaction as they relate to aerosol sampling and analysis. 3-0-3 Instructor: Quarters taught: |
| ENVR 770 | Social
Change and Environmental Movements Introduces the processes of social change and the key collective actors and institutions involved in the creation of U.S. environmental policies. Provides an understanding of the historical and social processes by which environmental policy is created and changed through a political process among a number of different coalitions. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Robert Brulle Quarters taught: Fall, even years |
| ENVR 771 | Theory
and Practice of Environmental Policy Analysis Examines the theoretical models of policy analysis and their practical applications. Develops an understanding of the theoretical, social, political, and ethical context of policy research, and translates this understanding into an applied practice of policy analysis. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Robert Brulle Quarters taught: Fall, odd years |
| ENVR 772 | Environmental
Policy Research Methods Focuses on the methods used in carrying out policy analyses. Develops the student's capacity to conceptualize, design, and conduct policy research. Focuses on the qualitative and quantitative methods used in carrying out policy research. Specific methods covered include secondary data analysis, survey research, content analysis, unobtrusive measures, and case studies. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Robert Brulle Quarters taught: Winter, even years |
| ENVR 773 | Practicum
in Environmental Policy Analysis Involves the application of research skills to conduct policy research. Provides students with the opportunity to conduct policy research in a specific topic of interest under faculty guidance. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Robert Brulle Quarters taught: Spring, even years |
| ENVR 797 | Research Requires actual formulation and investigation of a research problem and a written report; M.S. degree candidates electing the thesis option are required to take between 3 and 6 credits of this course. 2-12 credits/term |
| ENVR 865 | Special
Topics Covers topics of current interest to faculty and students; specific topics for each term will be announced prior to registration. May be repeated for credit if topics vary. 2-12 credits/term |
| ENVR 865 | Natural
Resource and Environmental Economics Covers introduction to the nexus between resources, environment and the economy; applicability of conventional rules for economic efficiency; theoretical foundations for resolving complications due to unique features of natural resources and the environment. Empirical issues used to illustrate the concepts include resource and environmental policy analysis, cost-benefit analysis/ environmental valuation, economics of resource exploitation, sustainable development, trade, and international development. Instructor: Quarters taught: Fall (new, 2000) |
| ENVR 865 | Solid and Hazardous Waste Provides an overview of municipal and industrial waste management, including design and economic analysis. Discusses options such as landfilling and incineration from engineering, social, and regulatory perspectives and reviews physical, chemical, and biological treatment of hazardous waste.3-0-3. Instructor: Staff Quarters taught: Winter |
| ENVR 865 |
Instructor: Dr. Jim
Spotila |
| ENVR 880 | Environment
and Society Examines the relationships between human society, including economic and political institutions, cultural beliefs, and individual behaviors, and the natural environment. Examines, through a historical perspective, the role that social organizations play in either fostering an ecologically sustainable society or in accelerating ecological destruction. 3-0-3 Instructor: Dr. Robert Brulle Quarters taught: |
| ENVR 890 | Ecology
Seminar Addresses current topics in ecology and organismal biology. Involves discussion and critical evaluation of recent papers/books. Covers a different topic each term. 1-0-1 Instructor: Team taught by ecology faculty. Quarters taught: Fall, Winter, Spring |
| ENVR 898 | Master's
Thesis Requires each student working on a thesis to file a written report each term with his or her supervisory committee and the program graduate student adviser. 2-12 credits/term |
| ENVR 998 | Ph.D. Dissertation Requires each student working on a dissertation to file a written report each term with his or her supervisory committee and the program graduate student adviser. 2-12 credits/term |