GEOGRAPHY & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

570.109 (H,S)

ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY: TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY (3) Norman Limit 15   Overview of environmental engineering including water/air quality issues, water supply/ wastewater treatment, hazardous/solid waste management, pollution prevention, global environmental issues, public health considerations/environmental laws, regulations and ethics.
Cross listed with Public Health Studies
and History

Sec. 01

MWF 9-9:50

360.147 (H,S)
(W)

ADAM SMITH AND KARL MARX (3) Jelavich/ Schoenberger  Limit 20  Freshmen only  Smith and Marx are often treated as icons in debates about capitalism and their thinking is reduced to sound bites. In this course we read them closely to see what they really said. You may be surprised.
Cross-listed with Interdepartmental, Anthropology, and History

Sec. 01

W 1:30-4

570.205 (N)

ECOLOGY (3) Brush   Limit 30 50 Introduction to processes governing the organization of individual organisms into populations, communities, and ecosystems. Interactions between individual organisms, groups of organisms, and the environment, including adaptation, natural selection, competition.

Sec. 01

MWF 11-11:50

570.301 (E,N)

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS I (3) Bouwer    Limit 50  Prerequisites: Calculus and one year of chemistry. Corequisite: Fluid mechanics (530.327) or equivalent. Mass and energy transfer, water quality, hazardous substances and risk analysis, water and wastewater treatment, air pollution, and global environmental issues.

Sec. 01

MWF 1:30-2:20

570.305 (E,N)

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SYSTEMS DESIGN (4) Ellis   Limit 20Techniques from systems analysis applied to environmental engineering design and management problems: reservoir management, power plant siting, nuclear waste management, air pollution control, and transportation planning. Design projects are required.

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

570.310 (H,S) (E)

ETHICS FOR ENGINEERING (4) Ottens  Limit 25 In designing technical artifacts that profoundly change the way we live, engineers have a great influence on our daily life. This influence comes with responsibilities. In their professional life engineers have to make decisions, which affect the future in sometimes disastrous ways. These decisions are not always easy choices between good and evil. New technologies can bring potential benefits to a society, but with an increased risk of costs. A simple example would be the decision between coal and nuclear energy, where both have benefits and both have risks, albeit different benefits and risks. Other examples are the use of ICT versus the question of privacy, or the unforeseen consequences of nanotechnology. Rather then plunging forward despite the potential costs or halting all technical development despite potential benefits, ethics for engineering offers a toolbox for unraveling the decisions. We will focus on description and analysis of the problems encountered, codes of ethics for engineers, argumentation and reasoning, uncertainty, ignorance, risks, and their implications for responsible behavior, responsibility within and of organizations (the role of law) and (philosophical) ethics.  The material for this course will include a working book and online material. Course added 4/23/08

Sec. 01

TTh 1:30-2:45

270.320 (N)

THE ENVIRONMENT AND YOUR HEALTH (3) Kensler  Limit 300 110
Cross-listed with Public Health Studies and Earth and Planetary Sciences

Sec. 01

TTh 4:30-5:45

570.334 (S)

ENGINEERING MICROECONOMICS (3)  Norman  Limit 20  Prereq: Calculus III This course uses a calculus-based approach to introduce principles of engineering economics and microeconomics (demand and production theory) and their uses in engineering decision making.

Sec. 01 

TTh 9-10:15

570.351 (E)

INTRODUCTION TO FLUID MECHANICS (3) Wilcock Limit 20 Prereq: Statics, Dynamics and Differential Equations     Introduction to the use of the principles of continuity, momentum, and energy to fluid motion. Topics include hydrostatics, ideal-fluid flow, laminar flow, turbulent flow. Co-listed with 560.351

Lec.

Lab

MWF 10-10:50

Th 12-1:20

570.403 (N) (W)

ECOLOGY (3) Brush   Limit 50 Introduction to processes governing the organization of individual organisms into populations, communities, and ecosystems. Interactions between individual organisms, groups of organisms, and the environment, including adaptation, natural selection, competition. Course added 5/01/08

Sec. 01

MWF 11-11:50

570.404 (H,S)

POLITICAL ECOLOGY (3) Schoenberger  Limit 20 The study of how and why people use or abuse their environment in the context of complicated local social and economic histories and how they are situated in a global economic order.  Combines analysis of political economic and environmental processes.  Themes include rural development, gender relations.

Sec. 01

Th 1:30-4

570.411

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY (4) Bouwer  Limit 30    Fundamental aspects of microbiology and biochemistry as related to environmental pollution and water quality control processes, biogeochemical cycles, microbiological ecology, energetics and kinetics of microbial growth, and biological fate of pollutants.

Sec. 01

Lab

TTh 9-10:15

Th 2-4:50pm Th 6-8:50pm

570.419 (E)

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DESIGN I (2) Alavi/Ball/Bouwer Limit 20 Through general lectures and case study examples, this course will expose students to some of the non-technical professional issues that they will face as professional engineers and in their second-semester senior design project. 

Sec. 01

T 4:30-6:30pm

570.442 (E,N)

ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (3) Roberts   Limit 20  Prereq: 030.104 or Perm. Req’d. Advanced undergraduate/graduate course focusing on examination of processes that affect the behavior and fate of anthropogenic organic contaminants in aquatic environments. Students learn to predict chemical properties influencing transfers between hydrophobic organic chemicals, air, water, sediments, and biota, based on a fundamental understanding of intermolecular interactions and thermodynamic principles.

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

570.443 (E,N)

AQUATIC CHEMISTRY (3) Stone
Limit 60   Prereq: One year of both Chemistry and Calculus   Thermodynamics and equilibrium applied to processes in natural waters and water and wastewater treatment systems. Chemistry of electrolyte solutions, acids and bases, complex formation precipitation and dissolution, oxidation and reduction.

Sec. 01

MWF 12-12:50

570.445 (E)

PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROCESS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING I (3) Ball   Limit 25 Prereq: 570.301-302 or permissionof the instructor.   The application of basic physical and chemical concepts to the analysis of environmental engineering problems. Principles of chemical equilibrium and reaction, reaction engineering, interphase mass transfer, and adsorption are presented in the context of process design for unitoperations in common use for water and wastewater treatment. Topics addressed include mass balances, hydraulic characteristics of reactors, reaction kinetics and reactor design, gas transfer processes (including both fundamentals of mass transfer and design analysis), and adsorption processes (including both fundamentals of adsorption and design analysis).

Sec. 01

MWF 9-9:50 TTh 9-10:15

570.465 (H,S)

WATER RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT: HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES (3) Wolman  Limit 20 Perm. Req'd.   An attempt to review utilization and development of water in diverse environments beginning with early irrigation systems revealed by archaeology including those in the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America.
Cross-listed with Public Health Studies

Sec. 01

TTh 12-1:15

570.470 (S)

APPLIED ECONOMICS AND FINANCE (3) Hanke Limit 10  Perm. Req'd. This course focuses on the workings of equity markets. It includes an analytical review of valuation models and their application to data contained in financial statements. Research reports are required.
Cross-listed with Economics

Sec. 01

TBA

570.487 (S)

FUTURES MARKET RESEARCH (3) Hanke   Limit 10    Perm. Req'd.  An investigation of some futures market problems and preparation of a research report. Research is focused on developing and testing hypotheses about price behavior in futures markets.
Cross-listed with Economics

Sec. 01

TBA

570.490 (E)

SOLID WASTE ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT (3) Alavi    Limit 15
This course covers advanced engineering and scientific concepts and principles applied to the management of municipal solid waste (MSW) to protect human health and the environment and the conservation of limited resources through resource recovery and recycling of waste material.

Sec. 01

W 6-8:40pm

570.492

DEPARTMENT SEMINAR (1) HilpertLimit 40 Undergraduates only

Sec. 01

T 3-4:50

570.493 (Q,S)

ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS FOR PUBLIC DECISION MAKING (3) Norman   Limit 20   Prereqs: 180.101-102, 110.202 or equivalent     This course includes an exposition of intermediate level price theory, combined with a survey of applications to the analysis of public sector decisions. Theoretical topics include demand, supply, the function and behavior of the market, and introductory welfare economics.

Sec. 01

TTh 9-10:15

570.495 (E,Q)

MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR PUBLIC DECISION MAKING (3) Williams/Hobbs   Limit 20 Prereq: Calculus I & II A collection of systems analytic techniques which are frequently used in the study of public decision making is presented. Emphasis is on mathematical programming techniques. Primarily linear programming, integer and mixed-integer programming, and multiobjective programming.

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

570.497 (E,Q)

RISK AND DECISION ANALYSIS (3) Guikema  Limit 25 Prereq: Intro to Statistics This course introduces the methods of probabilistic risk and decision analysis. Topics will include risks in daily life, public attitudes towards risk, fault trees, event trees, decision trees, utility functions, risk attitude, and value of information calculations. Course added 3/26/08

Sec. 01

MWF 11-11:50

195.477 (S)
(W)

INTRODUCTION TO URBAN POLICY (3) Newman    Limit 15
Perm. Req’d.  Coreq: 195.478  
Cross-listed with Political Science, Sociology, Public Health Studies, and Public Policy

Sec. 01

T 5-7pm

195.478
(W)

URBAN POLICY INTERNSHIP (3)Newman    Perm. Req’d.   Limit 15
Coreq: 195.477
Cross-listed with Political Science, Sociology, Public Health Studies, and Public Policy

Sec. 01

TBA

570.501

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

570.505

INDEPENDENT STUDY

570.506

MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT INDEPENDENT STUDY Perm Req'd. This independent study within the MDE's Water Management Administration (WMA) will engage the student in scientific/policy literature and data research and management, field investigations, or evaluation of emerging issues and innovative approaches to surface and ground water protection and drinking water management, wastewater management, wetlands and non-point source pollution control. Each independent course will focus on a scientific, regulatory or policy topic designed to further the mission of the administration, which is to protect the public health and the aquatic environment. The student will be assigned to a WMA engineer, scientist or project manager to develop a course of study. Hours can be tailored to accommodate student's schedule. Course added 5/07/08

570.613

SEMINAR: GEOMORPHOLOGY Wilcock  Limit 20    Analysis and discussion of current research in the field.

Sec. 01

T 12-1:50

570.641

DEPARTMENT SEMINAR Hilpert  Limit 50  Visiting speakers, faculty, and students. Reports and research on topics of current interest.

Sec. 01

T 3-4:50,
F 1:30-2:50

570.647

MASS TRANSFER PROCESSES IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Ball  Limit 25   Prereq: 570.445  Principles of adsorption, phase-partitioning, diffusion, and interphase mass transfer are developed and applied to processes of contaminant fate and treatment in aqueous systems. Emphasis is on fundamentals of mass transfer in heterogeneous and complex systems, and as applied in recent environmental engineering research and practice. Examples from the literature are studied in accordance with student interests.

Sec. 01

TBA

570.661

APPLIED MATH FOR ENGINEERING Hilpert    Limit 65 This course presents a broad survey of the basic mathematical methods used in the solution of ordinary and partial differential equations: linear algebra, power series, Fourier series, separation of variables, integral transforms.

Sec. 01

TTh 9-10:15, Th 6-7:50pm

570.673

PUBLIC SYSTEMS SEMINAR Williams  Limit 20 An advanced seminar in the application of operations research and economics to public systems problems.  Guest speakers and seminar research projects.

Sec. 01

T 1:30-3:20

570.681

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR Bouwer  Limit 50  Broad coverage of environmental engineering and science problems. Guest speakers, assigned reading, and critical analysis of journal articles.

Sec. 01

F 3-4:20

Sec. 01

TBA

070.651

ANTHROPOLOGY OF “THE EVERYDAY” Khan   Limit 15   
Cross-listed with Political Science, German and Romance Languages and Literatures, the Humanities Center, and Anthropology

Sec. 01

F 10-12

500.602

SEMINAR: ENVIRONMENT AND APPLIED FLUID MECHANICS Meneveau
Cross-listed with Interdepartmental, Earth & Planetary Sciences, and Mechanical Engineering

Sec. 01

F 10:30-12:30

570.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY
Sec. 01  Staff
Sec. 02  Stone
Sec. 03 Boland
Sec. 07  Bouwer
Sec. 08  Ellis
Sec. 10   Brush
Sec. 11   Hilpert
Sec. 15   Roberts
Sec. 16   Hobbs
Sec. 17   Parlange
Sec. 18   Schoenberger
Sec. 19  Ward

570.801

RESEARCH
See 570.800 for faculty sections

570.803

MASTER’S RESEARCH   Bouwer
Investigation of an environmental engineering and chemistry problem and preparation of project report.

570.805

MASTERS INTERNSHIP  Ball 
Limit 2