GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

570.239 (E,N)

CURRENT AND EMERGING ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES (3) Roberts Limit 25   Prereq: second semester Chemistry Scientific principles underpinning environmental issues, with an emphasis on potential impacts of anthropogenic perturbation on human and ecosystem health.

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TTh 9-10:15

570.302 (E,N)

WATER & WASTEWATER TREATMENT (3) Movahed 
NOTE:  All students wishing to enroll in 570.302 should enroll in 575.405 through the EPP Program.  575.405 will be an online course.  Please visit the EPP website http://ptesrv.apl.jhu.edu/ for more information.
Full-time AS/WSE Students will need to register in-person at the Homewood Campus Registrar’s Office using an inter-divisional registration form. Do not apply via EPP. Please contact ctkavanagh@jhu.edu with any questions.

570.304 (E,N)
(W)

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING LAB (2) Stone   Limit 20  Pre/Co-req: 570.301-302. Introduction to laboratory measurements relevant to water supply and wastewater discharge, including pH and alkalinity, inorganic and organic contaminants in water, reactor analysis, bench testing for water treatment, and measurement and control of disinfection by-products.

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Lab

F 1:30-2:20

Th 1:30-5:15pm

570.309 (N)

MICROBIOLOGY (3) Ward Prereq: Biochemistry   Limit 40 35 Introduction to microbiology, with an emphasis on prokaryotic microorganisms and their roles in environmentally and medically important issues.  Aspects of microbial growth and nutrition, diversity, ecology, genetics and genomics will be covered.

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MWF 11-11:50

570.310 (E)

ETHICS FOR ENGINEERING (3) 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 canceled 11/09/07

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TTh 10:30-11:45

570.328 (N)

GEOGRAPHY & ECOLOGY OF PLANTS (3) Brush Limit 30

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TTh 9-10:15  

570.353 (S)

HYDROLOGY (3) Hilpert   Limit 20  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.  Analyzes include the frequency of floods and droughts, time-series analyzes, flood routing, and hydrologic synthesis and simulation. 

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MWF 10-10:50

570.406 (H,S)
W)

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY (3) Schoenberger   Limit 25 Environmental history explores long-term interactions between social change and environmental transformation, or the ways in which societies modify landscapes and are themselves affected by geological, climatologic, and changing ecological conditions. This reading seminar considers classic and more recent contributions to this endeavor.

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Th 1:30-4:20

570.418 (E)

MULTIOBJECT PROGRAMMING (3) Williams/Hobbs   Limit 20 Prereq:  570.495 or Perm Req’d. Public sector problems are typically characterized by a multiplicity of objectives and decision makers.  This course presents a relatively new area of systems analysis which is useful for such problems:  multiobjective programming or vector optimization theory. The fundamental concepts are developed and various methods are presented, including multiattribute value and utility theory. 
Undergraduate level of  570.618

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MW 3-4:15

570.421 (E)

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DESIGN II (3)  Wilcock  Limit 20 Prereq: 570.302, 570.352, and 570.419 Engineering design process from problem definition to final design. Team projects include written/oral presentations. Students will form small teams that work with local companies or government agencies in executing the project.

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F 2:30-5pm 1:30-4

570.423 (N)

PRINCIPLES OF GEOMORPHOLOGY (4) Wolman    Limit 20   Prereq: 270.220 The Dynamic Earth or perm. req’d   Analysis of the factors responsible for the form of the landscape. The concept of the cycle of erosion is discussed primarily in terms of the principles that govern the processes of erosion. Climate, conditions of soil formation, and the distribution of vegetation are considered as they relate to the development of landforms.

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Field Trip

MWF 10-10:50

F 1:30-4:50

570.426 (E,N)

GEOMORPHIC AND ECOLOGIC FOUNDATIONS OF STREAM RESTORATION (3) Wilcock   Limit 25
Principles from hydrology, sedimentation engineering, geomorphology, and ecology applied to design and assessment of stream restoration. Watershed context, design alternatives, uncertainty, ecological response. Field trips, design exercises, and project assessment. Cross-listed with 575.730

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M 6-8:30pm

570.441 (N)

ENVIRONMENTAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY (3) Stone   Limit 25  Prereq: 570.443 and 030.449 or permission of instructor.

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MWF 12-12:50

570.446 (E,N)

BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES FOR WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT (3) Bouwer  Limit 25 
Prereq: 570.411 Fundamentals and application of aerobic and anaerobic biological unit processes for the treatment of municipal and industrial wastewater.

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MWF 9-9:50

570.448 (E)

PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROCESSES IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING II (3) Ball  Limit 20 Prereq: 570.445 or Perm. Req’d  Fundamentals and applications of physical and chemical processes used in water and wastewater treatment.  Emphasis on  Mass transfer processes (adsorption, gas transfer, membranes) and computerized design.

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TTh 9-10:15

570.452 (E,N) (W)

EXPERIMENTAL METHODS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AND CHEMISTRY (4) Roberts/Stone Limit 22 per section   Prereq. 570.443 An advanced laboratory course covering principles of modern analytical techniques and their applications to problems in environmental sciences. Topics include electrochemistry, spectrometry, gas and liquid chromatography. The course is directed to graduate students and advanced undergraduates in engineering and natural sciences.

Lec.

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02

Th 12-1:15

 M 1:30-5:20

W 1:30-5:20

570.470 (S)

APPLIED ECONOMICS AND FINANCE (3) Hanke  Limit 20   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.

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TBA

570.487 (S)

FUTURES MARKET RESEARCH (3) Hanke   Limit 20   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.

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TBA

570.491 (E)
(W)

HAZARDOUS WASTE ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT (3) Alavi  Limit 20 This course addresses traditional and innovative technologies, concepts, and principles applied to the management of hazardous waste and site remediation to protect human health and the environment.

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W 6-8:40pm

570.492

DEPARTMENT SEMINAR (0.5) HilpertLimit 20

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T 3-4:50
F 1:30-2:45

570.496 (E,Q)

MATHEMATICAL MODELS FOR MANAGING URBAN SYSTEMS (3) Hobbs/Williams  Limit 30  The mathematical techniques learned in “Environmental Engineering Systems Design” (alternate prerequisite: a course in linear programming) are applied to realistic problems in environmental management. Examples of such problems include management of water resources and water quality; natural areas management and restoration; solid waste collection, disposal, and recycling; public health; air quality management; pollution prevention in energy and transportation systems; and cost allocation in environmental infrastructure development; facility location analysis and optimal design of transportation networks.

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TTh 10:30-11:45

360.528

APPLIED ECONOMICS RESEARCH
Hanke   Prereq. 180.101-102
Permission required  Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only    Course given in conjunction with private business and financial institutions, governmental entities and economic research institutes. Requirements include 120 hrs of internship time and a research paper on an applied economics topic.
Cross-listed with Economics and Interdepartmental

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TBA

570.502

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

570.505

INDEPENDENT STUDY

570.607

ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY MODELING Hobbs   Limit 20 Prereq:570.493 and 570.495 or equivalent Methods for optimizing operation and design of energy systems and for analyzing market impacts of energy and environmental policies are reviewed, emphasizing both theory and solution of actual models. Review of linear and nonlinear programming and complementarity methods for market simulation.

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MW 1:30-2:45

570.611

NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS Boland Limit 50 Prereq: 180.601 or 570.493 or Perm. Req'd. Development of the economic theory of depletable and renewable private and common property natural resources, including those which may be recyclable or storable.
Course added 01/11/08

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W 11-1

570.613

SEMINAR: GEOMORPHOLOGY OF SOIL AND PLANTS Wilcock  Limit 10

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T 10:30-11:50

570.618

MULTIOBJECT PROGRAMMING Williams/Hobbs   Limit 20   Prereq:  570.495 or Perm req’d. Public sector problems are typically characterized by a multiplicity of objectives and decision makers.  This course presents a relatively new area of systems analysis which is useful for such problems:  multiobjective programming or vector optimization theory. The fundamental concepts are developed and various methods are presented, including multiattribute value and utility theory. 
Graduate level of  570.418

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MW 3-4:15

570.641

DEPARTMENT SEMINAR Hilpert  Limit 50 20

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T 3-4:50
F 1:30-2:45

570.657

AIR POLLUTION Ellis  Limit 30 Course added 01/31/08

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TTh 12-1:15

570.659

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ANALYSIS Norman Limit 30 Prereqs: 570.493 and 570.495 or equiv. This course explores the problems of making choices about environmental quality and the management of common property resources in the Amerian economic and political system. A different environmental management issue of current interest is chosen each year. Students are expected to plan and execute individual research projects which demonstrate the use of quantitative and/or economic tools in designing and evaluating responses to the environmental management problem. Course added 11/16/07

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Th 4-6:30pm

570.673

PUBLIC SYSTEMS SEMINAR Hobbs/Norman/Williams   Limit 20 50

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T 1:30-2:45

570.681

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR Bouwer   Limit 50

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F 3-4:15

570.686

MULTISCALE FLOW AND TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA Hilpert   Limit 30   The scope of this course is to quantitatively describe flow and transport processes in porous media on a variety of length scales ranging from the molecular to the field scale. Phenomena investigated include single-phase and multiphase flow, solute transport, and chemotaxis. We will derive and/or motivate the governing dynamic equations and discuss mathematical and computational methods to solve these equations. This course addresses audiences from environmental and chemical engineering as well as the hydrological sciences. The course will give an introduction to the necessary mathematical and computational methods.

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 Th 3-5:20pm

500.602

SEMINAR: ENVIRONMENTAL AND  APPLIED FLUID MECHANICS  Meneveau
Cross-listed with General Engineering, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Mechanical Engineering

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F 11-12:20

 570.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY
Sec. 01 – Staff           Sec. 11 - Hilpert
Sec. 02 – Stone         Sec. 12 - Hanke
Sec. 03 – Boland       Sec. 13 -Staff
Sec. 04 – Wilcock     Sec. 14 – Ball
Sec. 05 – Wolman     Sec. 15 – Roberts
Sec. 06 –  Alavi         Sec. 16 – Hobbs
Sec. 07 – Bouwer      Sec. 17 - Parlange
Sec. 08 – Ellis           Sec. 18 –Schoenberger
Sec. 09 – O’Melia     Sec. 19 –Alavi
Sec. 10 - Brush          Sec. 20- Brush

570.801

RESEARCH
Sec. 01 – Staff         Sec. 11 – Hilpert
Sec. 02 – Stone       Sec. 12 - Harvey
Sec. 03 – Boland     Sec. 13 - Ball
Sec. 04 – Wilcock   Sec. 14 - Roberts
Sec. 05 – Wolman   Sec. 15 - Hobbs
Sec. 06 – Alavi        Sec. 16 - Parlange
Sec. 07 – Bouwer    Sec. 17 - Schoenberger
Sec. 08 – Ellis          Sec. 18 - Ward
Sec. 09 – O’Melia   
Sec. 10 - Brush