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quality, natural resources, and government,
municipal, and social planning and management
programs. Strong emphasis on current and
twentieth-century waste management in New
York City.
EAEE E6132y Numerical methods in
geomechanics
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Chen.
Prerequisites: EAEE E3112 and CIEN E4241
or instructor’s permission. A detailed survey
of numerical methods used in geomechanics,
emphasizing the Finite Element Method (FEM).
Review of the behavior of geological materials.
Water and heat flow problems. FEM techniques
for solving nonlinear problems, and simulating
incremental excavation and loading on the
surface and underground.
EAEE E6150y Industrial catalysis
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Farrauto.
Prerequisite: EAEE E4550 or equivalent, or
instructor’s permission. Fundamental principles
of kinetics, characterization and preparation of
catalysts for production of petroleum products
for conventional transportation fuels, specialty
chemicals, polymers, food products, hydrogen
and fuel cells and the application of catalysis
in biomass conversion to fuel. Update of
the ever changing demands and challenges
in environmental applications, focusing on
advanced catalytic applications as described in
modern literature and patents.
EAEE E6151y Applied geophysics
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Potential field data, prospecting, wave equations.
Huygens’ principle, Green’s functions, Kirchoff
equation, WKB approximation, ray tracing. Wave
propagation, parameters. Computer applications.
Wavelet processing, filters and seismic data.
Stratified Earth model, seismic processing and
profiling. Radon transform and Fourier migration.
Multidimensional geological interpretation.
EAEE E6200y Theory and applications of
extreme value statistics in engineering and
earth sciences
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Yegulalp.
Prerequisite: STAT W4107 or equivalent
background in probability and statistical
inference, or instructor’s permission. Introduction
of fundamental concepts in extreme value
statistics. The exact and asymptotic theory
of extremes. Development of statistical
methodology for estimating the parameters
of asymptotic extremal distributions from
experimental data. Examples of applications of
extreme value statistics to regional and global
earthquake forecasting, laboratory testing
of rocks and metals, fatigue failure, floods,
droughts, extreme wind velocities, and rainfalls.
EAEE E6208y Combustion chemistry and
processes
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Castaldi.
Prerequisite: EAEE E4900 or equivalent or
instructor’s permission. The fundamentals
of combustion phenomena and the intrinsic
chemistry of combustion processes. The theory
of the essential combustion processes such as
ignition, sustained reaction, stability and flame
quenching. Processes that govern reactant
consumption and product formation, in particular
by-products that are formed that result in pollutant
emissions, and the impacts and implications
that combustion has locally and globally on the
environment. Detailed examination of the entire
range of combustion systems from diffusion flame
processes to current developing technologies
including millisecond catalytic combustion
processes, noncarbon fueled combustion, fuel
cells, and plasma combustion.
EAEE E6210x Quantitative environmental risk
analysis
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Yegulalp.
Prerequisite: EAEE E3101, SIEO W4150, or
equivalent. Comprises the tools necessary for
technical professionals to produce meaningful
risk analyses. Review of relevant probability and
statistics; incorporation of probability in facility
failure analysis. Availability, assessment, and
incorporation of risk-related data. Contaminant
transport to exposed individuals; uptake,
morbidity, and mortality. Computational tools
necessary to risk modeling. Use and applicability
of resulting measurements of risk, and their use
in public policy and regulation.
EAEE E6212y Carbon sequestration
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Lackner.
Prerequisite: EAEE E4900 or equivalent or
instructor’s permission. New technologies for
capturing carbon dioxide and disposing of it away
from the atmosphere. Detailed discussion of the
extent of the human modifications to the natural
carbon cycle, the motivation and scope of future
carbon management strategies and the role of
carbon sequestration. Introduction of several
carbon sequestration technologies that allow for
the capture and permanent disposal of carbon
dioxide. Engineering issues in their implementation,
economic impacts, and the environmental issues
raised by the various methods.
CHEE E6220y Equilibria and kinetics in
hydrometallurgical systems
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Duby.
Prerequisite: CHEE E4050 or EAEE E4003.
Detailed examination of chemical equilibria
in hydrometallurgical systems. Kinetics and
mechanisms of homogeneous and heterogeneous
reactions in aqueous solutions.
EAEE E6220x Remedial and corrective action
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisite: EAEE E4160 or equivalent.
Integrates the engineering aspects of cleanup
of hazardous materials in the environment.
Site assessment/investigation. Site closure,
containment, and control techniques and
technologies. Techniques used to treat
hazardous materials in the environment, in situ
and removal for treatment, focusing on those
aspects that are unique to the application of
those technologies in an uncontrolled natural
environment. Management, safety, and training
issues.
EAEE E6228y Theory of flotation
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisite: CHEE E4252 or instructor’s
permission. A detailed study of the
physicochemical principles of the flotation
process.
EAEE E6240x or y Physical hydrology
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Lall.
Prerequisite: Engineering hydrology or
equivalent. Spatial/temporal dynamics of
the hydrologic cycle and its interactions with
landforms and vegetation. Hydroclimatology
at regional to planetary scales, focusing on
mechanisms of organization and variation of
water fluxes as a function of season, location,
reservoir (ocean, atmosphere, land), and time
scale. Land-atmosphere interaction and the role
of vegetation and soil moisture. Topography as
an organizing principle for land water fluxes.
Geomorphology and the evolution of river
networks. Sedimentation, erosion and hill slope
hydrology. Dynamics of water movement over
land, in rivers and in the subsurface, with an
emphasis on modeling interfaces. Integrated
models and the scale problem. Emphasis on
data-based spatial/temporal modeling and
exploration of outstanding theoretical challenges.
CHEE E6252y Advanced surface and colloid
chemistry
3 pts. Lect: 2. Lab: 3. Professor Somasundaran.
Prerequisite: CHEE E4252. Applications
of surface chemistry principles to wetting,
flocculation, flotation, separation techniques,
catalysis, mass transfer, emulsions, foams,
aerosols, membranes, biological surfactant
systems, microbial surfaces, enhanced oil
recovery, and pollution problems. Appropriate
individual experiments and projects. Lab
required.
EAEE E6255x-E6256y Methods and
applications of analytical decision making in
mineral industries
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisites: Instructor’s permission. Advanced
study of decision-making problems with critical
survey and applications of quantitative decisionmaking
techniques in mineral industries.
Systematic development of methods of the
formulation, analysis, and resolution of these
problems.
EAEE E8229x Selected topics in processing
minerals and wastes
3 pts. Lect: 2. Lab: 3.
Prerequisite: CHEE E4252 or instructor’s
engineering 2011–2012