Environ Chem for Engineers

Catalog description

The course will cover basic chemical principles from general, physical, equilibrium, organic, biochemistry, colloid, and nuclear chemistry, focusing on the aspects of chemistry that are particularly valuable for solving environmental problems, thermodynamics, fugacity, charge-transfer, and properties of mixing; chemistry of aliphatic and aromatic compounds; organic functional groups and toxic organic chemicals; laboratory safety. This course is inquiry based and fully integrated with a laboratory that emphasized active learning strategies.