Teaching

This course involves application of environmental engineering principles to solve an environmental engineering problem. The students apply their knowledge that they have acquired over the course of their studies to showcase their skills and abilities to find a solution and/or design a real-life project. This is a great opportunity for the students to improve their design, technical writing, teamwork, presentation, and stakeholder consultation skills to facilitate their entry into professional career.

The course is continuation of the work done in EVEN 400 and involves design of the unit operations and processes recommended by the students during EVEN 400 course. The course covers technical and non-technical aspects of an environmental engineering problem and generally includes designing an environmental engineering system encompassing water sampling and characterization, water treatment, wastewater treatment, etc. Students also undertake projects on emerging technologies including PFAS, microplastics, and electrocoagulation work including field work, design, and operation of table-top models.

This course, encompassing both unit operations and unit processes, is designed as a training tool for the students pursuing environmental engineering career. The course provides students the opportunities to observe, experiment, analyze, trouble shoot, and apply their engineering knowledge to learn about the treatment operations, analysis, and processes commonly employed in municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment facilities. An experiment related to pumping of water and wastewater is also included. In addition, the course includes experiments on chemical absorption/adsorption techniques for removing air pollutants. Students are also taught the use of state-of-the-art gas chromatograph (GC). While conducting the experiments, students learn the use of laboratory techniques, protocols and writing reports.