Graduate Courses

CIEG 630 Water Quality Modeling (3 credits)
Water quality modeling and criteria. Application to lakes, streams, and estuaries. Dissolved oxygen, BOD, nitrification. Eutrophication; carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and silica mass balances; chlorophyll, primary production and dissolved oxygen; Toxic chemicals; PCBs, PAHs, toxic metals; partitioning theory, organic carbon normalization; coupled water column-sediment models.
PREREQ: MATH302.

CIEG 631 Water Quality and Pollution Control (3 credits)
Covers water and its impurities, water quality criteria and monitoring, transport and transformation of chemicals in the aquatic environment, stream sanitation, ecological aspects of impoundments and eutrophication processes, groundwater systems, decontamination of subsurface water systems, land application of wastewater and current topics in water pollution.

CIEG 632 Chemical Aspects of Environmental Engineering (3 credits)
The principles and applications of aqueous chemistry to environmental systems. Includes a review of general chemistry, with emphasis on the structure of matter and stoichiometry; chemical thermodynamics; chemical kinetics; equilibrium reactions in homogeneous and heterogeneous solutions; applied electrochemistry and Redox reaction; and interfacial phenomena.

CIEG 633 Hazardous Waste Management (3 credits)
Toxicological, risk assessment and regulatory aspects of hazardous waste management, characterization of hazardous wastes and materials, waste reduction strategies, storage and transportation methods, engineering processes for the chemical, physical and biological treatment of toxic and hazardous wastes, remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater of existing disposal sites.

CIEG 634 Contaminant Transport and Separation in Environmental Systems (3 credits)
Applies the fundamentals of physical phenomena governing the behavior of pollutants to practical problems.

CIEG 635 Air Pollution and Its Control (3 credits)
Sources and effects of atmospheric pollutants; meteorological and solar radiation phenomena and atmospheric chemistry. Emphasis on gas cleaning operations such as absorption, chemical conversion and particulate removal process design, among other control measures.
RESTRICTIONS: Requires upper division or graduate standing in engineering.

CIEG 636 Biological Aspects of Environmental Engineering (3 credits)
Presents fundamental molecular biological concepts which pertain to cellular function in the environment and in engineered environmental treatment systems. Briefly reviews elementary organic chemical classifications.
PREREQ: CIEG233

CIEG 637 Water and Wastewater Quality (3 credits)
Principles and applications of analysis of solids, organic load, dissolved oxygen, disinfectants, nutrients, trace metals, trace organic compounds and microorganisms. Lecture and laboratory.
PREREQ: CIEG233

CIEG 639 Ocean Fluid Dynamics (4 credits)
Kinematics and dynamics of incompressible fluids with emphasis on coastal and ocean problems, governing equations, examples of solutions for viscous flows, potential flows, vorticity, flows on a rotating planet, density vary flows, boundary layers, turbulence. May be cross-listed with MAST691.
PREREQ: CIEG305

CIEG 667 Industrial Ecology – The Science of Environmental Sustainability (3 credits)
Discussion of topics and models covering materials processing, energy resources, environmental management, life cyle assessment, pollution prevention, and environmental sustainability.

CIEG 668 Principles of Water Quality Criteria (3 credits)
Toxicological and chemical background and technical basis necessary for understanding models of water and sediment quality criteria for individual and mixtures of organic chemicals and metals that focus on bioavailability: narcosis models of toxicity, complexation models applied to both water column and sediments.
PREREQ: CHEM104 (or 103) or permission of instructor.

CIEG 678 Transport and Mixing Processes (3 credits)
Application of hydrodynamics to mixing and transport processes in the water environment.
PREREQ: CIEG672.

CIEG 679 Sediment Transport Mechanics (3 credits)
Mechanics and mathematical modelling of sediment transport in unidirectional and oscillatory flow; sediment properties, initiation of sediment movement, bedload and suspended load transport rates, formation of bed forms and flow resistance, erosion and deposition in the vicinity of structures, and practical applications.
PREREQ: CIEG305

CIEG 683 Probablistic Enginering Analysis (3 credits)
Operational techniques, derived distributions and expectations are used to develop random models to analyze and design in a random environment. Applications may span topics in mechanics, stream and reservoir flows and technologic decision making and management.

CIEG 698 Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport (3 credits)
Development and application of models for fluid flow and contaminant transport in porous media. Derivation of governing equations, analytical and numerical solutions, and application to the movement of groundwater and transport of contaminants at an actual field site.
PREREQ: CIEG305 and MATH302; or permission of instructor.

CIEG 831 Theory of Water Treatment (3 credits)
Application of physical, chemical and engineering techniques to water treatment processes: aeration, coagulation, sedimentation, filtration and disinfection. Advanced purification methods including adsorption and demineralization processes.
PREREQ: CIEG632 and CIEG634

CIEG 832 Theory of Wastewater Treatment (3 credits)
Composition of wastes; physical, chemical and biological methods of wastewater treatment; treatment and disposal of sludges produced at wastewater treatment plants.
PREREQ: CIEG636

CIEG 833 Fate of Organic Pollutants in the Environment (3 credits)
Study of processes governing the distribution and transformation of organic pollutants in natural and engineered environments. Equilibrium and kinetics of exchange among soil, water, sediment, air and biota. Photolysis, hydrolysis, oxidation, and reduction reactions of organic chemicals involving naturally occurring and man-made agents. Mechanisms and model prediction of different fate processes.
PREREQ: CIEG632, CIEG634, CIEG636

CIEG 865 Civil Engineering Seminar (1 credit)

CIEG 868 Research (1-6 credits)

CIEG 869 Master's Thesis (1-6 credits)
An independent investigation under supervision of a member of the civil engineering graduate faculty.

CIEG 964 Pre-Candidacy Study (3-12 credits, PF)
Research and readings in preparation of dissertation topic and/or qualifying examinations for doctoral students before admission to candidacy but after completion of all required course work.
RESTRICTIONS: Not open to students who have been admitted to candidacy.

CIEG 969 Doctoral Dissertation (1-12 credits, PF)