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the field (nine field days) students plan surveys;
collect and analyze geophysical data in teams;
learn how to integrate geophysical data
with invasive data, hydrological, geological,
engineering, and contaminant transport models;
and develop a comprehensive and justifiable
model of the subsurface. Geophysical methods
include GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar),
conductivity, and magnetic and seismic methods.
Field applications include infrastructure/
environmental assessment, archeological
studies, and high resolution geology.
EAEE E4009x Geographic information
systems (GIS) for resource, environmental
and infrastructure management
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Gorokhovich.
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Basic
concepts of geomatics, spatial data representation
and organization, and analytical tools that
comprise GIS are introduced and applied to
a variety of problems including watershed
protection, environmental risk assessment,
material mass balance, flooding, asset
management, and emergency response to natural
or man-made hazards. Technical content includes
geography and map projections, spatial statistics,
database design and use, interpolation and
visualization of spatial surfaces and volumes from
irregularly spaced data, and decision analysis in
an applied setting. Taught in a laboratory setting
using ArcGIS. Access to New York City and other
standard databases. Term projects emphasize
information synthesis towards the solution of a
specific problem.
EAEE E4010y Remote sensing and
environmental change
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professors Bell and Ceccato.
Prerequisite: EAEE E4009 or EESC W4050 or
instructor’s permission. Practical and theoretical
foundations for the application of remote sensing
techniques to identification and monitoring of
environmental change. Designing and applying
spectral indices for assessment and monitoring,
time series analysis of remote sensing data for
analyzing environmental problems. Discussions
of published literature relevant to the central
topic covered in class. Analysis of remote
sensing data using IRI data library.
EAEE E4011y Industrial ecology for
manufacturing
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisite: EAEE E4001. Application of
industrial ecology to Design for Environment
(DFE) of processes and products using
environmental indices of resources consumption
and pollution loads. Introduction of methodology
for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of
manufactured products. Analysis of several DFE
and LCA case studies. Term project required on
use of DFE/LCA on a specific product/process:
(a) product design complete with materials and
process selection, energy consumption, and
waste loadings; (b) LCA of an existing industrial
or consumer product using a commercially
established method.
CHEE E4050x Industrial and environmental
electrochemistry
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Duby.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3010 or equivalent. A
presentation of the basic principle underlying
electrochemical processes. Thermodynamics,
electrode kinetics, and ionic mass transport.
Examples of industrial and environmental
applications illustrated by means of laboratory
experiments: electroplating, refining, and
winning in aqueous solutions and in molten
salts; electrolytic treatment of wastes; primary,
secondary, and fuel cells.
ECIA W4100y Management and development
of water systems
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Lall.
Decision analytic framework for operating,
managing, and planning water systems,
considering changing climate, values and needs.
Public and private sector models explored
through US-international case studies on topics
ranging from integrated watershed management
to the analysis of specific projects for flood
mitigation, water and wastewater treatment, or
distribution system evaluation and improvement.
EAEE E4101y Introduction to particle
technology
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission. Size
reduction, theory of comminution. Small particle
statistics, particle size measurement, properties
of particle aggregates, behavior of particles in
fluids, flow and retention of fluids in packings.
CHEE E4140x Engineering separations
processes
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Park.
Prerequisites: CHEN E3100, E3120, and
E3210 or permission of instructor. Design
and analysis of unit operations employed in
chemical engineering separations. Fundamental
aspects of single and multistaged operations
using both equilibrium and rate-based methods.
Examples include distillation, absorption and
stripping, extraction, membranes, crystallization,
bioseparations, and environmental applications.
EAEE E4150y Air pollution prevention and
control
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Fthenakis.
Adverse effects of air pollution, sources and
transport media, monitoring and modeling of
air quality, collection and treatment techniques,
pollution prevention through waste minimalization
and clean technologies, laws, regulations,
standards, and guidelines.
EAEE E4160y Solid and hazardous waste
management
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Somasundaran.
Generation, composition, collection, transport,
storage and disposal of solid and hazardous
waste. Impact on the environment and public
health. Government regulations. Recycling and
resource recovery.
CIEE E4163x Environmental engineering:
wastewater
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Becker.
Prerequisites: Introductory chemistry (with
lab) and fluid mechanics. Fundamentals of
water pollution and wastewater characteristics.
Chemistry, microbiology, and reaction kinetics.
Design of primary, secondary, and advanced
treatment systems. Small community and
residential systems.
EAEE E4190x Photovoltaic systems
engineering and sustainability
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Fthenakis.
Prerequisite: Senior standing or instructor’s
permission. Corequisites: N/A. A systems
approach for intermittent renewable energy
involving the study of resources, generation,
demand, storage, transmission, economics
and politic. Study of current and emerging
photovoltaic technologies, with focus on basic
sustainability metrics (e.g., cost, resource
availability, and life-cycle environmental
impacts). The status and potential of first- and
second-generation photovoltaic technologies
(e.g., crystalline and amorphous Si, CdTe, CIGS)
and emerging third-generation ones. Storage
options to overcome the intermittency constraint.
Large scales of renewable energy technologies
and plug-in hybrid electric cars.
EAEE E4200y Production of inorganic
materials
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Duby.
Prerequisite: CHEE E3010 or equivalent.
Production and recycling of inorganic materials
in aqueous and high temperature systems.
Industrial and environmental applications
of hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy, and
electrometallurgy. Reactor systems for, e.g.,
leaching, precipitation, and solvent extraction,
bath and flash smelting reactors, rotary kilns,
and fluid bed reactors. Thermodynamic and
kinetic factors and materials/energy balances
involved in the design and performance of such
reactors in typical applications.
EAIA E4200y Alternative energy resources
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professors Lackner and Walker.
Unconventional, alternative energy resources.
Technological options and their role in the world
energy markets. Comparison of conventional and
unconventional, renewable and nonrenewable,
energy resources and analysis of the
consequences of various technological choices
and constraints. Economic considerations,
energy availability, and the environmental
consequences of large-scale, widespread use
of each particular technology. Introduction to
carbon dioxide disposal as a means of sustaining
the fossil fuel option. Recitation section required.
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