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Advanced Environmental Engineering Course Syllabus

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1. Course Overview

  • Population, economic growth, industrialization, urbanization and energy-use as causes of environmental pollution
  • Mass and energy balance for environmental engineering systems under steady state and unsteady state conditions
  • Physical and transport properties of homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures
  • Contaminant partitioning and transport in air, water and solids
  • Characteristics of particles, chemistry of solutions and gases, material balances, reaction kinetics, microbiology and ecology as related to the environment
  • Application of environmental principles (technical and non-technical) to water resource management, water and wastewater treatment, air pollution control, solid waste management, environmental impact assessment, and environmental ethics
  • Thermal pollution, noise pollution, greenhouse effect, acid precipitation, ozone depletion, air toxics, and ground-level ozone and fine particulates (photochemical smog)
  • Sustainable development, life cycle analysis, and principles of environmental quality objectives, standards and guidelines
  • Applicable federal and provincial environmental regulations, analysis of environmental impact using technical and non-technical parameters
  • Environmental impact assessment legislation and regulatory framework
  • Environmental impact assessment applied to solid and liquid waste management, effluent control, air pollution control, urban development, and transportation systems
  • Environmental audits, introduction to geographical information systems (GIS)
  • Environmental management systems (EMS) ISO 14000/14001 standards and applications
  • Principles of sustainable development and implications of finite biosphere and complexities for engineering design and decision-making
  • Design of controlled environments to enhance health and protection of natural resources for sustainable development
  • Resource problems and design with ecological, economic, demographic and social dimensions
  • Techniques to integrate knowledge and define policy: Risk analysis, Life cycle analysis, Risk Management

2. Textbooks (latest editions recommended)

  • Mines, R. and Lackey, L. Introduction to Environmental Engineering
  • Sarte, S. B. Sustainable Infrastructure: The Guide to Green Engineering and Design
  • Carroon, J. Sustainable Preservation: Greening Existing Buildings
  • Pearce, A. and Ahn, Y.H. Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure: Paths to the Future