570.108 (E)

INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (3) Alavi     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 

Sec. 01

MTW 12

570.205 (N)

ECOLOGY (3) Brush    
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

MTW 11

570.301 (E,N)

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING I: FUNDAMENTALS (3) O'Melia  Prereq: Calculus and one year of Chemistry  Coreq: 570.351 or Perm. Req'd.     Mass and energy transfer, hazardous substances and risk analysis, water quality modeling, water and wastewater treatment, air pollution.

Sec. 01

MTW 1

570.303 (E)

THE ENVIRONMENT AND YOUR HEALTH (3) Kensler
This course surveys basic environmental health sciences (toxicology, risk assessment), current public health issues (hazardous waste, radon, water-borne diseases), and emerging global health threats (global warming, ozone depletion, sustainability).

Cross-listed with Public Health Studies

Sec. 01

MW 8:30-10

570.305 (E,Q)

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SYSTEMS DESIGN (4) Ellis
Techniques 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

ThF 10:30-12

570.334 (E,S)

ENGINEERING MICROECONOMICS (3) Norman Hobbs 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

ThF 9-10:30

570.351 (E)

INTRODUCTION TO FLUID MECHANICS (3) Wilcock   Prereq: Statistics, 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.

Lec.

Sec. 01

MTW 10

Th 12-1:30

570.353 (E)

HYDROLOGY (3) Hilpert   Prereq: Differential equations, fluid mechanics
The occurrence, distribution, movement, and properties of the waters of the Earth. Topics include precipitation, infiltration, evaporation, transpiration, groundwater and streamflow.

Sec. 01

MW 4:30-6pm

570.367 (S)

THE ECONOMICS OF FINANCIAL AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKETS  (3) Hanke   Limit 3 Perm Req'd   Prereq: 180.101-102
Theoretical and empirical analysis of how spot, futures, and options markets function and how they affect resource allocation. Markets covered include financials (debt instruments, interest rate options, and stock indexes) and foreign currencies.

Sec. 01

TBA

570.395 (N)

PRINCIPLES OF ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT: THE CHESAPEAKE BAY (3) Brush
Course added 04/26/05

Sec. 01

T 5-8pm

570.403 (E,N)

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

Sec. 01

MTW 11

570.411 (E,N)

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY (4) Ward
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

ThF 9-10:30

Th 2-5 or 6-9pm

570.419 (E)

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DESIGN I (1) Bouwer   Limit 10
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

570.427(S)

NATURAL RESOURCES, SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT (3) Schoenberger   How do we produce and consume natural resource and what are the social and environmental impacts of our patterns of resource use? Technological and social determinants of resource use and their consequences will be examined.
Cross-listed with Public Health Studies

Sec. 01

W 1-4

570.442 (N)

ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (3) Roberts    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

MW 3-4:30

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

MTW 12

570.445 (E)

PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROCESSES FOR WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT (3) Ball  Prereq: 570.301-302 or Perm. Req'd.     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 unit operations in common use for water and wastewater treatment.

Sec. 01

MTW 9

570.450 (E,N)

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY FOR ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS (3) Ward  Instructor's Consent Required

Course added 06/08/05

Lec.

01

M 11

T 9-12 2-5pm

570.465 (H,S)

WATER RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT: HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES (3) Wolman 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

Th 12:30-2:30

570.470 (S)

APPLIED ECONOMICS AND FINANCE (3) Hanke 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 Perm. Req'd. Course added 04/26/05

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 Th 5:30-8:15pm

570.492 (S)

DEPARTMENT SEMINAR (1) Markus Ward Undergraduates only

Sec. 01

T 3-5

570.493 (E,S,Q)

ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS (3) Norman Hobbs   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

ThF 9-10:30

570.495 (E,Q)

MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR PUBLIC DECISION MAKING (3) Williams Revelle    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

ThF 10:30-12

195.477 (S)

              (W)

INTRODUCTION TO URBAN POLICY (3) Newman    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.   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

360.528

APPLIED ECONOMICS INTERNSHIP Hanke   
Prereq: 180.101-102     Perm. Req'd.
Course given in conjunction with private business and financial institutions, governmental entities and economic research institutes in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. Requirements include 120 hours of internship time and a research paper on an applied economics topic.

Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only

Cross-listed with Economics and Interdepartmental

570.600

ENGINEERING HEALTH CRISIS Roberts, Les      Limit 50     This course addresses strategies for stopping and preventing waterborne disease outbreaks both in the U.S. and settings without piped water supplies, with special emphasis on refugee populations.
Cross-listed with Public Health Studies

Sec. 01

Th 6-8:30pm

570.610

POLITICAL ECOLOGY Schoenberger
Political ecology analyzes social and institutional “rules of the game” concerning use of ecological resources and adaptations to environmental conditions. Reading seminar covering classic works in the field and emerging trends.

Sec. 01

Th 3:30-5:30

570.613

SEMINAR: GEOMORPHOLOGY Wilcock    

Sec. 01

T 12-2

570.641

DEPARTMENT SEMINAR Markus Ward

Sec. 01

T 3-5,
F 1:30-3

570.644

DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS SIMULATION AND DECISION ANSLYSIS Hobbs The first half of this course introduces numerical methods and object-oriented software for simulating the behavior over time of environmental systems described by ODEs and PDEs. The second half introduces the principles of dynamic decision analysis for system planning and control.

Sec. 01

ThF 1-2:15

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

ThF 9-10:30

Th 6-8pm

570.673

PUBLIC SYSTEMS SEMINAR Williams/Hobbs Revelle

Sec. 01

T 1-3

570.681

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR Bouwer

Sec. 01

F 12-1:30

360.605

SEMINAR: ENVIRONMENT AND APPLIED FLUID MECHANICS Meneveau

Cross-listed with Interdepartmental, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Mechanical Engineering

Sec. 01

F 11

570.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY
Sec. 01  - Staff
Sec. 02  - Stone
Sec. 03 - Boland
Sec. 05  - Wolman
Sec. 06  - Revelle
Sec. 07  - Bouwer
Sec. 08  - Ellis
Sec. 09  - O'Melia
Sec. 10 - Brush
Sec. 11 - Hilpert
Sec. 15 - Roberts
Sec. 16 - Hobbs
Sec. 17 - Parlange
Sec. 18 - Schoenberger
Sec. 19 - Ward (Sec. 19 added 08/18/05)

570.801

RESEARCH See 570.800 for faculty sections