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CIV_ENV 366: Dynamics in Chemical Transport & Reaction


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Description

This course will focus on the application of environmental engineering fundamentals to evaluate, model, and develop engineering solutions for different environmental contamination scenarios. Students will work as “environmental consulting engineers” to address each problem scenario by designing engineering approaches to the problems, deriving mass balances of problem contaminants, applying differential equations to model biological and chemical transformations, evaluate cost-benefit analyses and challenges of proposed engineering solutions.

Course Objectives:

  1. Derive and apply equations to describe mass balances and reactions in natural and engineered systems.
  2. Solve contamination fate and transport problems in different natural and engineered settings.
  3. Develop and evaluate alternative engineering solutions to contamination problems.
  4. Evaluate the complexity of cost-benefit challenges faced by environmental scientists and engineers.

Course Grading:                                 

Quizzes (5) 400 (40%)
Case Study 1 150 (15%)
Case Study 2 200 (20%)
Case Study 3 200 (20%)
Participation/Attendance 50 (5%)
Total 1000
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