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aspects of problems involving human interaction
with the natural environment. Review of fundamental
principles that underlie the discipline of
environmental engineering, i.e., constituent transport
and transformation processes in environmental
media such as water, air, and ecosystems.
Engineering applications for addressing environmental
problems such as water quality and treatment,
air polution emissions, and hazardous
waste remediation. Presented in the context of
current issues facing the practicing engineers and
government agencies, including legal and regulatory
framework, environmental impact assessments,
and natural resource management.
CIEE E4257y Groundwater contaminant
transport and remediation
Lect: 3.3 pts. Professor Mutch.
Prerequisite: CIEE E3250 or the equivalent.
Single- and multiple-phase transport in porous
media; contaminant transport in variably saturated
heterogeneous geologic media; physically based
numerical models of such processes.
EAEE E4257y (section 001) Environmental
data analysis and modeling
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professors Yegulalp, Lall, and
Gorokhovich.
Prerequisite: SIEO W3600 or SIEO W4250, or the
equivalent. Statistical methods for the analysis of
the space and time structure in environmental
data. Application to problems of climate variation
and change; hydrology; air, water, and soil pollution
dynamics; disease propagation; ecological
change; and resource assessment. Applications
are developed using the ArcView Geographical
Information System (GIS), integrated with currently
available statistical packages. Team projects that
lead to publication-quality analyses of data in
various environmental fields of interest. An interdisciplinary
perspective is emphasized in this
applications-oriented class.
EAEE E4350x Planning and management of
urban hydrologic systems
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Rangarajan.
Prerequisite: ENME E3161 or the equivalent. Introduction
to runoff and drainage systems in an urban
setting, including hydrologic and hydraulic analyses,
flow and water quality monitoring, common regulatory
issues, and mathematical modeling. Applications
to problems of climate variation, land use
changes, infrastructure operation and receiving
water quality, developed using statistical packages,
public-domain models, and Geographical Information
Systems (GIS). Team projects that can lead to
publication of quality analyses in relevant fields of
interest. Emphasis on the unique technical, regulatory,
fiscal, policy, and other interdisciplinary
issues that pose a challenge to effective planning
and management of urban hydrologic systems.
EAEE E4361y Economics of Earth resource
industries
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Yegulalp.
Prerequisite: EAEE E3101 or the instructor’s
permission. Definition of terms. Survey of Earth
resource industries: resources, reserves, production,
global trade, consumption of mineral commodities
and fuels. Economics of recycling and
substitution. Methods of project evaluation: estimation
of operating costs and capital requirements,
project feasibility, risk assessment, and
environmental compliance. Cost estimation for
reclamation/remediation projects. Financing of
reclamation costs at abandoned minesites and
waste-disposal postclosure liability.
CHEE E4530y Corrosion of metals
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Duby.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3010 or the equivalent.
The theory of electrochemical corrosion, corrosion
tendency, rates, and passivity. Application to
various environments. Cathodic protection and
coatings. Corrosion testing.
EAEE E4550x Catalysis for emissions control
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professors Castaldi and Farrauto.
Prerequisites: ENME E3161 and MSAE E3111 or
the equivalent. Fundamentals of heterogeneous
catalysis, including modern catalytic preparation
techniques. Analysis and design of catalytic emissions
control systems. Introduction to current
industrial catalytic solutions for controlling
gaseous emissions. Introduction to future catalytically
enabled control technologies.
EAEE E4560x Particle technology (section 1)
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Park.
Prerequisites: ENME E3161 and MSAE E3111 or
the equivalent. Introduction to engineering
processes involving particulates and powders.
The fundamentals of particle characterization,
multiphase flow behavior, particle formation, processing
and utilization of particles in various engineering
applications with examples in energy and
environment related technologies. Engineering of
functionalized particles and design of multiphase
reactors and processing units with emphasis on
fluidization technology. Particle technology is an
interdisciplinary field. Due to the complexity of
particulate systems, particle technology is often
treated as art rather than science. In this course,
the fundamental principles governing the key
aspects of particle science and technology will be
introduced, along with various industrial examples.
EAEE E4900x Applied transport and chemical
rate phenomena
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Lackner.
Introduction to fluid dynamics, heat and mass
transfer, and some applications in heterogeneous
reaction systems. Effect of velocity, temperature,
and concentration gradients and material properties
on fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and rate
of chemical reactions; differential and overall balance;
engineering concepts and semi-empirical
correlations; application to chemical and materials
processing and environmental problems.
EAEE E4901y Environmental microbiology
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Chandran.
Basic microbiological principles; microbial metabolism;
identification and interactions of microbial
populations responsible for the biotransformation
of pollutants; mathematical modeling of microbially
mediated processes; biotechnology and engineering
applications using microbial systems for pollution
control.
EAEE E4950x Environmental biochemical
processes
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Chandran.
Prerequisites: EAEE E4901 or CIEE E4252 or
EAEE E4003 or the instructor’s approval.
Qualitative and quantitative considerations in
engineered environmental biochemical processes.
Characterization of multiple microbial reactions in
a community and techniques for determining
associated kinetic and stoichiometric parameters.
Engineering design of several bioreactor configurations
employed for biochemical waste treatment.
Mathematical modeling of engineered biological
reactors using state-of-the-art simulation packages.
EAEE E4980 Urban environmental technology
and policy
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Not given in 2008–2009.
Progress of urban pollution engineering via contaminant
abatement technology, government policy,
and public action in urban polution. Pollutant
impact on modern urban environmental 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
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Not given in 2008–2009.
Prerequisite: EAEE E3112 and CIEN E4241,
or the 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 E6151y Applied geophysics
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Not given in 2008–2009.
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
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Yegulalp.
SEAS 2008–2009