Teaching
Courses taught @ ISU
ENV E 120 Learning Community
Every Fall semester since 2020
Course catalog description: Integration of first-year students into the Environmental Engineering program. Assignments and activities involve personal and leadership skill development, teamwork, academic planning and career readiness. Completed both individually and in learning teams under the direction of instructors and peer mentors.
ENV E 190 Introduction to Undergraduate Research
Every Spring semester since 2017
Course catalog description: Introduction to research, focusing on sub-disciplines of civil and environmental engineering. Research questions, hypotheses, literature reviews, experimental design, data collection, data analysis, and presentation.
ENV E 201 Measurements and Analysis
Fall 2020, Fall 2021
Course catalog description: Introduction to environmental monitoring, environmental field and laboratory sampling, sample preservation and chain of custody, quality assurance and quality control, measurements of common chemical and biological components in different media, and analysis of environmental quality in natural and engineered systems. Concentrations and material balances concepts as applied to environmental engineering. Laboratory testing and experiments.
ENV E 426 Environmental Engineering Science
Every Fall semester since 2021
Course catalog description: Physical, chemical and biological principles related to environmental engineering and management. Topics include physical principles (mass transfer, mass balances, reactor systems), chemical principles (kinetics and equilibrium, acid-base, redox and precipitation), and biological principles (common environmental microbial processes, microbiology). Laboratory testing and experiments.
ENV E 427 Environmental Engineering Systems
Every Spring semester since 2022
Course catalog description: Integrated systems and modeling-based evaluation of natural and engineered environments including water, soil, and air. Exploration of public health outcomes and risk assessment in environmental engineering. Analysis of socio-environmental systems.
CE 326 Principles of Environmental Engineering
Fall 2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2021
Course catalog description: Introduction to environmental problems, water quality indicators and requirements, potable water quality and quantity objectives, water sources and treatment methods; water pollution control objectives and treatment methods; survey of solid and hazardous waste management and air pollution control.
CE 421/521 Environmental Biotechnology
Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019
Course catalog description: Fundamentals of biochemical and microbial processes applied to environmental engineering processes, role of microorganisms in wastewater treatment and bioremediation, bioenergetics and kinetics, metabolism of xenobiotic compounds, waterborne pathogens and parasites, and disinfection.
CE 622E Advanced Topics in Environmental Engineering: Instrumental Methods for Environmental Analysis
Spring 2016
Introduction to basic and state-of-the-art techniques such as chromatography, mass spectrometry, various spectroscopy, surface chemistry analysis, molecular biology, and omics methods (the exact topics will be decided based on the students’ research interests). In addition, the course will focus on environmental sampling, sample preparation techniques, experimental design, and data interpretation and analysis. The class is open to all graduate students who are currently conducting or interested in environmental research that involves physical, chemical, and microbiological instrumentation.