Environmental Courses
Environmental Courses
*Recommended courses are highlighted*
If you do not have a undergraduate degree in engineering, you will need to take these additional courses:
(These courses will not count towards your degree)
CEGE 4502 Water Wastewater Treatment
CEGE 4522 Into Fluid Mechanics for graduate students
MATH 2243 Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
Undergraduate Courses: (Will not count towards graduate degree)
CEGE 3501 Introduction to Environmental Engineering
CEGE 3541 Environmental Engineering Laboratory
CEGE 4502 Water Wastewater Treatment
Advanced Undergraduate Courses/Graduate Courses:
CEGE 4561 Solids and Hazardous Wastes
CEGE 4562 Environmental Remediation Technologies
CEGE 4563 Pollutant Fate and Transport: Processes and Modeling
CEGE 5180 Environmental Field Methods
CEGE 5524 A Circularity Revolution: Working to Close the Loop on Global Issues
CEGE 5541 Environmental Water Chemistry
CEGE 5542 Experimental Methods in Environmental Engineering
CEGE 5551 Environmental Microbiology
CEGE 5552 Environmental Microbiology Laboratory
Advanced Graduate Courses:
CEGE 8500 Seminar: Environmental(MS students can count 1 credit towards their degree/PhD students can count 2 credits towards their degree)
CEGE 8504 Theory of Unit Operations
CEGE 8505 Biological Processes (Not Arnold lab group)
CEGE 8542 Chemistry of Organic Pollutants in Environmental Systems
CEGE 8545 Data Quality
CEGE 8551 Environmental Microbiology: Molecular Theory and Methods
CEGE 8581 Research and Professional Ethics in Water Resource and Environmental Science
Graduate Courses in Related Fields:
BBE 5753 Air Quality and Pollution Control Engineering
CEGE 5543 Introductory to Environmental Fluid Mechanics
CEGE 8503 Environmental Mass Transport
CEGE 8561 Analysis and Modeling of Aquatic Environments I
CHEM 4601 Green Chemistry
CHEM 5210 Materials Characterization
CHEM 8011 Mechanisms of Chemical Reactions
CHEM 8022 Computational Chemistry
CHEM 8151 Analytical Separation and Chemical Equilibria
CHEM 8152 Analytical Spectroscopy
CHEN 5771 Colloids and Dispersions
EEB 5601 Limnology
HINF 5502 Python Programming Essentials for the Health Sciences
LAAS 5621 Environmental Genomics and Microbiomes
PUBH 7461 Exploring and Visualizing Data in R
PUBH 7642 Advanced Programming and Data Analysis in R
STAT 5302 Applied Regression Analysis
WRS 5101/PA 5723 Water Policy
Course Detail
Units: 3 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 3501, upper division CSE or grad student
Description
This course will serve as an introduction to the topics of solid and hazardous waste management. Classes
will incorporate information about prevention, treatment options, and the regulations surrounding solid and
hazardous waste. They will also provide an opportunity to observe different methods of waste treatment in
action.
Course Detail
Units: 3 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 3501, Upper division CSE or upper division BBE student or graduate student
Description
Theory and application of current and emerging technologies used to remediate contaminated soil and
groundwater.
Prereq: CEGE 3501, Upper division CSE or graduate student or instructor consent
Course Detail
Units: 3 units
Grading Basis: A-F only
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 3101, CEGE 3501
Description
This course will focus on understanding the processes that dictate chemical fate in surface waters, including
air-water transfer, adsorption, and biological and abiotic degradation. Students will evaluate the kinetics of
these processes by interpreting experimental data. They will also characterize transport in surface waters by
building theoretical and computational models from scratch that incorporate advection, diffusion and
dispersion transport processes. Students will develop finite difference solutions to advection-diffusion-reaction
equations, using ideal and non-ideal reactor theory, to describe the ultimate fate of pollutants in surface water
systems such as rivers, lakes, and estuaries. Fate and transport of organic pollutants (such as pesticides and
pharmaceuticals), as well as biochemical oxygen demand and nutrient pollution, will be studied.
Prereq: CEGE 3101, CEGE 3501, or instructor consent
Course Detail
Units: 3 units
Grading Basis: A-F
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: CSE Student, upper division or grad
Description
A Circularity Revolution: Working to Close the Loop on Global Issues is designed to provide students the fundamental knowledge and perspectives to develop and critique sustainable solutions for water, energy, and materials use, re-use, and upcycling from technological, policy, and cultural viewpoints. The class will focus on how each student's personal and disciplinary identities intersect with society’s needs and on creating a common vocabulary, grounding students in natural elemental cycles, differing perspectives on circularity and resource use, and the importance of the co-creation of solutions. Key foci are introducing experimental analytical strategies, and basic tools and mechanisms to achieve and interrogate circularity, such as principles of green engineering, lifecycle assessment, economic and policy tools, and after-progress narratives. Case studies, social practice art interventions, and a group project will be used to demonstrate how science and technology, policy, and expansive community/stakeholder knowledge all are important aspects of developing and re-conceptualizing sustainable solutions to problems in water, material, and energy use. The course compliments a new National Science Foundation-sponsored Research Trainee Program with a circularity theme.
Prereq: grad student or upper division CSE undergraduate student
Course Detail
Units: 3 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: Grad Student, or CSE upper division, or [CEGE 3501, CHEM 1061, CHEM 1062] or [CEGE 3501, CHEM 1071H, CHEM 1072H]
Description
Introduction to water chemistry. Physical chemical principles, geochemical processes controlling chemical composition of waters, behavior of contaminants that affect the suitability of water for beneficial uses.
Prereq: CEGE 3501, Chem 1061, Chem 1062 or Chem 1071H/1072H, upper division CSE or grad student or instructor consent
Course Detail
Units: 3 units
Grading Basis: A-F or Auditr
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: CSE upper division or grad student
Description
Role of microorganisms in environmental bioremediation, pollution control, water/wastewater treatment, biogeochemistry, and human health.
Prereq: Upper division or grad student or instructor consent
Course Detail
Units: 3 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required, Laboratory Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 3501, CHEM 1022, upper division CSE or grad
Description
Tools necessary to conduct research in environmental engineering and chemistry. Theory of operation of
analytical equipment. Sampling and data handling methods, statistical analyses, experimental design,
laboratory safety. Lecture, laboratory.
Prereq: CEGE 3501, (CEGE 5541 recommended), CHEM 1022, upper division CSE or grad student or instructor consent
Course Detail
Units: 1 units
Grading Basis: A-F only
Course Components: Laboratory Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: CEGE 5551
Description
Basic microbiological techniques: isolation, identification/enumeration of bacteria, BOD, biodegradable kinetics, disinfection. Lab.
Prereq: CEGE 5551 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in CEGE 5551
Course Detail
Units: 1 units
Grading Basis: S-N or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement: CEGE grad major
Description
Broad coverage of topics in environmental engineering and science. Speakers consist primarily of graduate students in these areas, but presentations may also be given by University faculty and guest speakers.
Prereq: grad CEGE major or instructor consent
Course Detail
Units: 4 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Description
Theoretical basis, design, operation of chemical/physical processes used in treating/controlling water quality.
Adsorption, ion exchange, sedimentation, thickening, filtration, gas transfer, coagulation, flocculation,
membrane processes, disinfection.
Prereq: CEGE 5541
Course Detail
Units: 3 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Description
Theoretical principles underlying chemical and biological wastewater treatment processes, including aerobic and anaerobic treatment for organic carbon and nutrient removal. Mathematical models of microbial growth kinetics and mass transport in suspended growth and attached film applications are developed.
Prereq: CEGE 4501, CEGE 4502, or instructor consent
Course Detail
Units: 3 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Description
Structural characteristics and physico-chemical properties of organic contaminants in aquatic systems.
Emphasizes PCBs, PAHs, dioxins, insecticides, herbicides, and chlorinated solvents. Factors affecting their transport/transformation. Structure- and property-activity relationships, their use in predicting organic chemical behavior.
Prereq: CEGE 5541 or instructor consent
Course Detail
Units: 0.5 units
Grading Basis: A-F
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Requirement
Enrollment Requirement: CEGE grad major
Description
Data Quality will examine the application of quality assurance and quality control fundamentals to engineering studies in the field, in the laboratory, and in modeling. The course material will be applicable to any study. Data quality considerations are important through the planning, data generation (field, laboratory, modeling), data organization, and data interpretation stages of a project. Practical questions and problems will be considered by in-class small groups and homework assignments. These problems will be largely based on real data sets. The class topics will include: data quality as a component of effective experiment design, measures of uncertainty for experimental and analytical data, data-quality considerations in the laboratory, data-quality considerations in the field, data-quality considerations in computational modeling, documentation for data quality, and data handling, data checks.
Course Detail
Units: 3-4 units
Grading Basis: A-F or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Enrollment Requirement
Enrollment Requirement: CEGE grad major
Description
Introduction to microbial genetics and molecular phylogeny. Application of nucleic-acid techniques in
environmental microbiology and microbial ecology.
Course Detail
Units: 0.5 units
Grading Basis: S/N or audit
Course Components: Lecture Required
Description
Ethics of water resources science and environmental engineering research/practice. Societal responsibility, plagiarism, recording-keeping, authorship, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, professional relationships, fraud, reporting misconduct. Meets during first eight weeks of spring semester.
Prereq: [Environmental engineering or water resource science] grad student or instr consent