Environmental Engineering

Catalog description

This course introduces application of engineering and scientific principles to protect and preserve human health and the environment. It embraces broad environmental topics and concerns, including mass and energy transfer, environmental chemistry, mathematics of growth, water pollution, water quality control, air pollution, global climate change and solid waste management; and laboratory analysis of water and wastewater samples and treatment process tests. Students gain an understanding of the interrelatedness of environmental problems around the world and how different socioeconomic, technological, ethical, and other factors can impact both the environment and the approach to solving environmental problems. Factors and parameters affecting design of environmental systems are discussed and design in environmental engineering is introduced.