GEOGRAPHY & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

570.108 (E)

INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (3) Alavi     Limit 50   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

570.109 (E,N)

ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY: TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY (3) Norman   Limit 15  An
introduction to understanding sustainability, with a focus on identifying and implementing solutions for a world of increasing needs and limited resources.
Cross listed with Public Health Studies 

Sec. 01

MTW 9

570.147 (H,S)
(W)

ADAM SMITH AND KARL MARX (3) Schoenberger  Limit 15       Freshman 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 Anthropology

Sec. 01

F 1-4

570.205 (N)

ECOLOGY (3) Brush   Limit 30 20
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)

(W)

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING: FUNDAMENTALS I (3) Bouwer  Limit 50 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.
Course added 4/05/07

Sec. 01

MTW 1

570.303 (E)

THE ENVIRONMENT AND YOUR HEALTH (3) Kensler  Limit 150
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/Williams  Limit 20   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 (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

ThF 9-10:15

570.351 (E)

INTRODUCTION TO FLUID MECHANICS (3) Dalrymple  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.
Sec. 01

MTW 10
Th 12-1:30

570.395 (N)

PRINCIPLES OF ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT: THE CHESAPEAKE BAY (3) Brush   Limit 25 Topics include the physical, chemical, and biological components of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem from the time it started to form some 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, when sea level began to rise as the continental glaciers receded; the geology, geomorphology, and biology of the watershed drained by the estuary; relationships between the watershed and the estuary through the millennia and the effect of climate, geomorphology, and humans on the ecology of the ecosystem and its economic productivity. Course added 7/26/07

Sec. 01

T 6-8:40pm

570.411 (E,N)

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY (4) Bouwer/Ward 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

ThF 9-10:15 30
Th 2-5 or 6-9pm

570.419 (E)

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DESIGN I (2) Alavi/Ball/Bouwer     Limit 20Through 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   Limit 20  How do we produce and consume natural resources and what are the social and environmental impacts?  Technological and social determinants of resource use and their consequences will be examined.
Cross-listed with Anthropology and Public Health Studies

Sec. 01

Th 1-4

570.442 (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

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

570.444 (E,N)

COLLOID CHEMISTRY (3) Shchukin Prereq: General Chemistry and Physics  Disperse, i.e. microheterogeneous state of the matter and predominant influence of surface (interfacial) phenomena in disperse systems are regarded as universal in nature and technology: these rocks and soils, materials suspensions, emulsions, foams and aerosols, living tissues… Formation and general colloid-chemical properties of these systems are considered, role of high dispersity, problems of stability, and ways to control them in industry and environment. Course canceled 9/11/07

Sec. 01

MW 2-3:30

570.445 (E)

PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROCESSES FOR WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT (3) Ball  Limit 40   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.Course canceled 7/10/07 *Students interested in this course should enroll in 575.745 in the part-time program (EPP) for the same credits.

Sec. 01

MTW 9

570.450 (E,N)

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY FOR ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS (4) Ward  Limit 20  Perm. Req'd.

Sec. 01

M 11, T 9-12

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

Th 12:30-2:30

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.    
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 8:15

570.492 (S)

DEPARTMENT SEMINAR (1) Hilpert Limit 40 Undergraduates only

Sec. 01

T 3-5

570.493 (Q,S)

ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS (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

ThF 9-10:15

570.494 (E,S,)

ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT DECISION MODELS (3) Williams/Hobbs   Limit 15  

Sec. 01

MW 1-2:15 M 1-4:45 Th 2:45-4
F 1-2:15

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

ThF 10:30-12

270.375 (E,N)

GROUNDWATER (3) Garven  Limit 20 Cross-listed with Earth and Planetary Sciences Course canceled 5/22/07

Sec. 01

MTW 10

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

360.528

APPLIED ECONOMICS RESEARCH (3) 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

570.613

SEMINAR: GEOMORPHOLOGY Wilcock  Limit 20  

Sec. 01

T 12-2

570.641

DEPARTMENT SEMINAR Hilpert  Limit 50

Sec. 01

T 3-5,
F 1:30-3

570.644

DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS SIMULATION AND DECISION ANALYSIS Hobbs Limit 15   This course introduces numerical methods and software for simulating the behavior of environmental systems described by ODEs, PDEs and the principles of dynamic decision analysis for planning and control.

Sec. 01

T 10, F 1:30-3:15 Th 2:45-4,
F 1-2:30

570.645

REACTION MECHANISMS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Roberts Limit 15   Prereq: 570.442 and Perm. Req'd. Detailed investigation of mechanisms of abiotic and biochemical transformations of organic pollutants in natural and engineered environments. Course added 6/4/07

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

ThF 9-10:15 30
Th 6-8pm

570.673

PUBLIC SYSTEMS SEMINAR Williams  Limit 20

Sec. 01

T 1-3

570.681

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR Bouwer  Limit 50

Sec. 01

F 12-1:30

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

MASTERS RESEARCH   Staff  Course added 9/05/07

570.805

MASTERS INTERNSHIP  Ball  Limit 2