Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering (ENVR)
MICHAEL D. AITKEN, Chair
Donald L. Fox, Associate Chair
Professors
Michael D. Aitken (66) Wastewater and Hazardous Waste Treatment, Applied Biotechnology
Richard N. L. (Pete) Andrews (50) Environmental Policy
Louise M. Ball (62) Metabolism, Toxicology and Genotoxicity of Xenobiotics
John M. Bane Jr., Marine Sciences, Physical Oceanography
Russell F. Christman (5) (Retired) Organic Water Chemistry, Pollutant Identification, Environmental Management Strategies
Francis A. DiGiano (51) (Retired) Water and Wastewater Treament Processes, Mathematical Modeling of Mass Transport
Michael R. Flynn (61) Relationship between Exposure and the Capture Efficiency of Local Exhaust Hoods, Computer-Aided Optimization of Ventilation Systems
Donald L. Fox (8) Atmospheric Chemistry
Avram Gold (43) Environmental Chemistry
William G. Gray (104) Environmental Modeling
Milton S. Heath Jr. (39) (Retired) Natural Resource Law
Harvey E. Jeffries (14) Atmospheric Chemistry, Modeling, and Computerized Data Acquisition
Richard M. Kamens (55) Atmospheric Gas-Particle Partitioning of Semivolatile Toxic Organics, Reactions of Atmospheric PAH and Other Organic Toxics, Modeling Biogenic Aerosol Formation from Gas Phase Reactions
David H. Leith (56) Air Pollution Control Engineering, Aerosol Technology
Richard A. Luettich Jr., Marine Sciences, Physics of Shallow Water Bodies
Christopher S. Martens (92) Marine Sciences, Biogeochemistry
Cass T. Miller (59) Multiphase Porous Media Systems, Environmental Modeling
David H. Moreau (48) (Retired) Water Resources Planning
Leena A. Nylander-French (95) Quantitative Measurement of Skin and Inhalation Exposures to Toxicants, Exposure Modeling to Standardize and Improve Exposure and Risk Assessment
Hans W. Paerl (65) Environmental Microbial Ecology
Frederic K. Pfaender (25) Environmental Microbiology
Philip C. Singer (31) Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes, Aquatic Chemistry
Mark D. Sobsey (38) Environmental Microbiology, Virology, Toxicology
James A. Swenberg (77) Environmental Toxicology, Chemical Carcinogenesis
Paul B. Watkins, Director, The Verne S. Caviness General Clinical Research Center, UNC School of Medicine
Dale Whittington (70) Water Resources Economics, International Development
Associate Professors
Gregory W. Characklis (98) Water Resources
Ivan I. Rusyn (103) Environmental Genomics
Stephen C. Whalen (93) Biogeochemistry, Limnology, Greenhouse Gases
Assistant Professors
Rebecca C. Fry (7) Toxicogenomics and Genetic Toxicology
Jacqueline A. MacDonald (15) Environmental Risk Assessment, Environmental Decision Analysis
Marc L. Serre (100) Environmental Modeling, Hydrology, Geostatistics, GIS, Exposure Assessment, Environmental Epidemiology, Risk Assessment, Medical Geography.
William Vizuete (6) Air Quality Modeling
Jill R. Stewart (26) Water Quality Microbiology, Ecological Assessment and Prediction
Howard S. Weinberg (96) Aquatic Chemistry
J. Jason West (16) Air Pollution, Climate Change, Atmospheric Modeling, Global Health, Environmental Policy, Environmental Engineering
Research Assistant Professors
Gunnar Boysen (67) The interplay between chemical carcinogenesis and nutritional or lifestyle habits,such as diet selection and physical activity
Karupiah Jayaraj (29) Chemical Synthesis
Jun Nakamura (108) Environmental Toxicology
Otto D. (Chip) Simmons (111) Environmental Microbiology
Research Associate Professor
Lori A. Todd (75) Application of Computer Tomography and Optical Remote Sensing for Sampling and Evaluating Gases in Workplace Air
Adjunct Professors
Francis S. Binkowski, Air Quality, Meteorology
Linda S. Birnbaum (86) Xenotonic Metabolism, Biochemical Toxicology
Gaylen R. Brubaker, Bioremediation
Daniel L. Costa (97) Pulmonary Toxicology
David M. DeMarini (81) Genetic Toxicology
Alfred D. Eisner, Aerosol Science
David S. Ensor (80) Aerosol Science
Chong Kim, Human Exposure Assessment
Joellen Lewtas, Genetic Bioassays
Charles R. O'Melia, Water Chemistry
Paul W. Prendiville, Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Design
Barbara T. Walton, Ecotoxicology, Bioremediation, Biomonitoring
William E. Wilson, Aerosols, Photochemistry, Smog Chambers
Adjunct Associate Professors
Philip W. Albro (58) Environmental Chemistry
Nelson W. Couch, Radiological Hygiene
John M. Dement (60) Industrial Hygiene
Robert T. Hitchcock, Physical Agents
R. Wayne Litaker, Coastal Estuaries
Joseph Pinto (82) Atmospheric Modeling
Jane Ellen Simmons (91) Hepatic and Renal Toxicology
Thomas B. Starr, Risk Assessment
Adjunct Assistant Professors
Martin W. Doyle, Hydrology
Jane E. Gallagher, Environmental Toxicology
M. Ian Gilmour, Immunotoxicology
Michael C. Madden, Ozone Reactions with Biomolecules
Rachel T. Noble (110) Marine Sciences
Andrew V. Petkash, Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Design
Michael C. Piehler (33) Marine Environmental Sciences, Environmental Microbial Ecology
Terrence K. Pierson, Environmental Risk Assessment
Woodall Stopford, Occupational Medicine Physics
Douglas J. Taylor, Biostatistics
Russell W. Wiener (83) Indoor Air Quality, Aerosol Monitoring
Adjunct Lecturer
Raymond W. Hackney, Industrial Hygiene
Professors Emeriti
William H. Glaze
Robert L. Harris
J. Donald Johnson
Donald T. Lauria
Parker C. Reist
Morris A. Shiffman
Mark S. Shuman
Charles M. Weiss
James E. Watson Jr.
Clinical Professor Emeritus
Donald E. Francisco
Courses
296 [100] READING IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING (1–9). Prerequisite, permission required for students outside the department. Extensive library study of a specific subject in environmental sciences and engineering. The subject and requirements of the project are arranged with the faculty in each instance. Fall, spring and summer. Staff.
400 [103] SEMINAR SERIES (1). Presents the results of ongoing research projects in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering. Topics and presenters are selected from among the departmental graduate students and faculty. Fall and spring. Weinberg.
401 [104] UNIFYING CONCEPTS (3). Unifying concepts of environmental systems, including conservation principles, modeling, economics and policy with applications from throughout natural, engineered and human systems. Interfaces among scientific, engineering and policy aspects of the field. Fall. Staff.
402 [105] PROBLEM BASED LEARNING (2). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. A problem common to the field of environmental science will be studied in detail through the use of small groups of students from the various disciplinary areas in the department. Staff.
403 [110] ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY PROCESSES (ENST 403) (3). Prerequisite, a background in chemistry and mathematics, including ordinary differential equations. Chemical processes occurring in natural and engineered systems: chemical cycles; transport and transformation processes of chemicals in air, water and multimedia environments; chemical dynamics; thermodynamics; structure/activity relationships. Fall and summer. Kamens.
411 [111] LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND FIELD MEASUREMENTS (3). Students learn laboratory, field, and analytical skills. Provides a solid introduction to experimental research in environmental sciences and engineering. Students are provided with applications in limnology, aquatic chemistry and industrial hygiene. Fall. Nylander-French, Weinberg, Whalen.
412 [112] ECOLOGICAL MICROBIOLOGY (3). Prerequisite, one course in general microbiology. A description of microbial populations and communities, the environmental processes they influence, and how they can be controlled to the benefit of humankind. Spring. Pfaender.
413 [113] LIMNOLOGY (3). Prerequisites, introductory biology, chemistry and physics. Basic aspects of freshwater ecosystem function. Emphasis on trophic level interactions and integration of physical, chemical and biological principles for a holistic view of lake ecosystem dynamics. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Whalen.
415 [115] BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES (ENST 450, GEOL 450, MASC 450) (4). Prerequisites, CHEM 251 or 261, MATH 231, PHYS 105 or 117, or permission of the instructor. Principles of chemistry, biology and geology are applied to analysis of the fate and transport of materials in environmental systems, with an emphasis on those materials that form the most significant cycles. The course examines these processes in systems that contain the hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere and biosphere. Three lecture hours and one laboratory hour per week. Fall. (Even-numbered years.) Arnosti.
416 [116] INTRODUCTION TO AEROSOL SCIENCE (4). Prerequisite, admission to the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering or permission of the instructor. Physical and chemical principles underlying behavior of particles suspended in air. Topics include rectilinear and curvilinear motion of the particles in a force field, diffusion, evaporation and condensation, electrical and optical properties, and particle coagulation, as well as the behavior of the cloud in toto. Three lecture hours and two lab hours per week. Fall. (Even-numbered years.) Leith.
417 [117] OCEANOGRAPHY (BIOL 350, GEOL 403, MASC 401) (3). Prerequisites, major in a natural science or at least two college-level courses in natural sciences. The origin of ocean basins, chemistry and dynamics of seawater, biological communities and processes, the sedimentary record and the history of oceanography. Term paper. Intended for students with a college science background; other students should see GEOL 103. Three lecture hours per week. Fall and spring. Staff.
419 [119] CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIA IN NATURAL WATERS (3). Principles and applications of chemical equilibria to natural waters. Acid-base, solubility, complex formation and redox reactions are discussed. This course uses a problem-solving approach to illustrate chemical speciation and environmental implications. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Singer.
421 [133] ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MICROBIOLOGY (3). Prerequisite, introductory course in microbiology or permission of the instructor. Presentation of the microbes of public health importance in water, food and air, including their detection, occurrence, transport and survival in the environment; epidemiology, and risks from environmental exposure. Two lecture and two laboratory hours per week. Spring. (Odd-numbered years.) Sobsey.
422 [134] AIR AND INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE (3). Problem definition, sources of information, health effects, legislative framework and control methods for chemical, physical and biological hazards. Recognition, evaluation and remediation of hazards associated with community and industrial environments. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Fox.
423 [135] INDUSTRIAL TOXICOLOGY (3). Toxicological assessment of and a case presentation of related exposure is given. A conceptual approach is utilized to design appropriate programs to prevent worker ill health due to industrial toxicant exposure. Two lecture hours per week. Spring. Staff.
430 [130] HEALTH EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AGENTS (3). Prerequisites, basic biology, chemistry through organic, math through calculus; permission of the instructor if prerequisites not met. Interactions of environmental agents (chemicals, infectious organisms, radiation) with biological systems (including humans), with particular attention to routes of entry, distribution, metabolism, elimination and mechanisms of adverse effects. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Ball.
431 [131] TECHNIQUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES (2). Prerequisites, basic biology, chemistry through organic, math through calculus; permission of the instructor if prerequisites are not met. A practical introduction to the measurement of biological end-points, emphasizing adverse effects of environmental agents, using laboratory and field techniques. Two laboratory hours per week. Fall. Ball, Sobsey.
432 [137] OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS (PHNU 786, PUBH 786) (3). Fundamentals of occupational safety and ergonomics with emphasis on legislation and organization of industrial safety and ergonomic programs, including hazard recognition, analysis, control and motivational factors pertaining to industrial accident and cumulative trauma disorder prevention. Fall. Staff.
433 [138] HEALTH HAZARDS OF INDUSTRIAL OPERATION (3). Prerequisite, ENVR 422. An introduction to the health hazards associated with the various unit operations of industry. Field trips to local industries planned. Spring. Flynn.
434 [139] THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EXPOSURE EVALUATION (3). Prerequisite. ENVR 416. Methodology and philosophy of evaluating exposures to air contaminants in the workplace. Course is divided into lectures, case-study analyses and hands-on term project. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Staff.
442 [132] BIOCHEMICAL TOXICOLOGY (BIOC 442, TOXC 442) (3). Prerequisites, CHEM 430 plus one course in biochemistry; permission of the instructor if prerequisites not met. Biochemical actions of toxicants and assessment of cellular damage by biochemical measurements. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Rusyn.
449 [114] ECOLOGY OF WETLANDS (MASC 449) (4). Prerequisites, one year of biology, one year of chemistry, one semester of ecology and permission of the instructor. An introduction to the functioning of freshwater and estuarine marsh and swamp ecosystems, with emphasis on systems of the southeastern United States. Fall. Staff.
450 [150] PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (3). Principles that govern the behavior of contaminants in air and water. Application of these principles to engineered processes that control air and water quality. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Singer, Leith.
451 [151] PROCESS DYNAMICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS (3). Prerequisites, MATH 524 or equivalent and permission of the instructor. Application of fluid transport, mass transfer and chemical reactor principles to describe important processes in water/wastewater treatment, air pollution control and natural systems. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Vizuete.
452 [152] FLUID DYNAMICS (GEOL 560, MASC 560, PHYS 660) (3). Prerequisite, PHYS 301 or permission of the instructor. The physical properties of fluids, kinematics, governing equations, viscous incompressible flow, vorticity dynamics, boundary layers and irrational incompressible flow. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Scotti.
453 [153] GROUNDWATER HYDROLOGY (3). Prerequisites, math through differential equations and some familiarity with fluid mechanics. Conservation principles for mass, momentum and energy developed and applied to groundwater systems. Scope includes the movement of water, gas and organic liquid phases, and the transport and reaction of contaminants. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Miller.
461 [160] ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS MODELING (ENST 415, GEOL 415, MASC 415) (3). Prerequisites, MATH 383, PHYS 105 or PHYS 117 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor. Methods for developing explanatory and predictive models of environmental processes are explored. Includes discussion of the relevant scientific modes of analysis, mathematical methods, computational issues and visualization techniques. Two lecture and one computer laboratory hour per week. Spring. Rial, Werner, staff.
462 [161] GEOSTATISTICS FOR SPATIAL/TEMPORAL ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA (3). Prerequisite, statistics. Stochastic analysis of space-time environmental phenomena. Random field modeling of physical laws. Geostatistical estimation and simulation. Natural heterogeneity. Stochastic PDE of groundwater flow and solute transport. Fall. Staff.
463 [162] RANDOM FIELD MODELING OF PHYSICAL PROCESSES (3). Prerequisite, calculus through differential equations is desirable. Science of the probable. Random fields. Physical significance and methodological theses. Spatial and spatiotemporal variability. Ordinary and generalized fields of natural processes. Transport-type models. Bayesian/Maximum entropy estimation. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Staff.
468 [167] ADVANCED FUNCTION OF TEMPORAL GIS (ENST 468) (3). Advanced function of Temporal Geographical Information Systems (TGIS). These fields describe natural, epidemiological, economic and social phenomena distributed across space and time. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Serre.
470 [175] ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT (ENST 470) (3). Prerequisites, ENVR 403 and 430. Methods of environmental risk assessment, including hazard identification, exposure assessment, exposure-response assessment and risk characterization are developed and applied. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Crawford-Brown.
471 [176] QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MICROBIOLOGY (3). Prerequisites, microbiology, epidemiology and infectious diseases recommended. Survey of alternative approaches, frameworks and decision making tools for quantitative risk assessment of microbial pathogens that infect humans and cause disease by the exposure routes of water, food, air and other vehicles. Spring. (Even-numbered years.) Sobsey.
480 [154] MARINE SYSTEMS MODELING (GEOL 480, MASC 480) (1–3). Prerequisite, MATH 232 or permission of the instructor. Mathematical modeling of the dynamic system, linear and nonlinear. The fundamental budget equation. Case studies in modeling convective transport, biogeochemical process, population dynamics. Analytical and numerical techniques, chaos theory, fractal geometry. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Werner, Rial.
505 [118] CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY (GEOL 505, MASC 505) (4). Prerequisite, one semester of physical chemistry or CHEM 480, or permission of the instructor. Overview of chemical processes in the ocean. Topics include physical chemistry of seawater, major element cycles, hydrothermal vents, geochemical tracers, air-sea gas exchange, particle transport, sedimentary processes and marine organic geochemistry. Three lecture and two recitation hours per week. Spring. Martens, Arnosti, Alperin.
516 [116L] AEROSOL SCIENCE LABORATORY (2). Prerequisite or corequisite, ENVR 416. Basic laboratory exercises in aerosol sciences. Fall. (Alternate years.) Leith.
520 [120] BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY (BIOL 657, MASC 504) (4). Prerequisite, BIOL 201 or 475 or permission of the instructor. Physical, chemical and biological factors characterizing estuarine and marine environments emphasizing factors controlling animal and plant populations. Includes experimental approaches and methods of analysis, sampling and identification. Spring. Lindquist.
522 [181] ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND HUMAN HEALTH (ENST 522) (3). Prerequisites, ENST 201 or ENST 202. The course will provide students with a multidisciplinary perspective of environmental changes to encompass both human health and ecological health.
552 [125] ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY (GEOL 552, MASC 552) (3). Prerequisites, MASC 505 or CHEM 261, or permission of the instructor. Sources, transformations and fate of natural organic matter in marine environments. Emphasis on interplay of chemical, biological and physical processes which affect organic matter composition, distribution and turnover. Fall. (Alternate years.) Arnosti.
585 [185] AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (ENST 585, PLAN 585, PLCY 585) (3). Intensive introduction to environmental management and policy including environmental and health risks, policy institutions, processes and instruments; policy analysis; and major elements of American environmental policy. Lectures and case studies. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Andrews.
600 [101] ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH (2). Survey course: Relationship between environmental quality, human health and welfare. Contamination in human environment; physical, biological and social factors; trade-offs regarding prevention and remediation measures. Lectures, group discussions and projects. Emphasizes critical thinking. Satisfies core School of Public Health requirement. Two credit hours per week. Fall and spring. Staff.
661 [163] SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION I (MATH 661) (3). Prerequisites, some programming experience and basic numerical analysis. Error in computation, solutions of nonlinear equations, interpolation, approximation of functions, Fourier methods, numerical integration and differentiation. Introduction to numerical solution of ODEs, Gaussian elimination. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Minion.
662 [164] SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION II (COMP 760, MATH 662) (3). Prerequisite, MATH 661. Theory and practical issues arising in linear algebra problems derived from physical applications, e.g., discretization of ODEs and PDEs. Linear systems, linear least squares, eigenvalue problems, singular value decomposition. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Camassa.
668 [165] METHODS OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS I (MATH 668) (3). Prerequisite, undergraduate differential equations. Contour integration, asymptotic expansions, steepest descent/stationary phase methods, special functions arising in physical applications, elliptic and theta functions, elementary bifurcation theory. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. McLaughlin.
669 [166] METHODS OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS II (MATH 669) (3). Prerequisite, MATH 668 or permission of the instructor. Perturbation methods for ODEs and PDEs, WKBJ method, averaging and modulation theory for linear and nonlinear wave equations, long-time asymptotics of Fourier integral representations of PDEs, Green's functions, dynamical systems tools. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Camassa.
685 [286] WATER AND SANITATION PLANNING AND POLICY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (PLAN 685) (3). Permission of the instructor. Seminar on policy and planning approaches for providing improved community water and sanitation services in developed countries. Topics include the choice of appropriate technology and level of service, pricing, metering and connection charges; cost recovery and targeting subsidies to the poor; water vending; community participation in the management and operation of water systems; and rent-seeking behavior in the provision of water supplies. Three seminar hours per week. Spring. Whittington.
686 [186] POLICY INSTRUMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (ENST 686, PLAN 686, PLCY 686) (3). Prerequisite, ECON 410 or PLAN 710 or equivalent. Design of public policy instruments as incentives for sustainable management of environmental resources and ecosystems, and comparison of the effects and effectiveness of alternative policies. Fall. Andrews, Whittington.
701 [216] ECOLOGY OF AQUATIC PLANTS AND WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS (3). Prerequisites, BIOL 101, CHEM 101, 102 or permission of the instructor. Adaptations of aquatic plants and microorganisms of land-water interface regions of lakes and rivers, their nutrition, growth, population dynamics, competition, herbivory, productivity, physiological control measures. Wetlands functions, values to humans. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. (Even-numbered years.) Staff.
707 [231] ADVANCED TOXICOLOGY (PHCO 707, TOXC 707) (3). Prerequisite, PHCO 702 or permission of the instructor. Cellular and physiological basis of toxicity of environmental chemicals, with emphasis on organ-specific toxicology, developmental toxicology and radiation toxicology. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Swenberg.
710 [254] ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS BIOTECHNOLOGY (3). Prerequisite, a previous or concurrent course in microbiology. Theory and practice of biological processes used to remove contaminants from environmental media, including water, wastewater, soil and air. Spring. Aitken.
722 [234] SEMINARS IN TOXICOLOGY (TOXC 722) (1). This course will consist of presentations by the outside invited speakers, local faculty, advanced graduate students and postdoctoral trainees. Topics will cover all areas of research in toxicology. One seminar hour per week. Fall and spring. Rusyn.
724 [201] CURRENT TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY (1). Students will select, critically review, and discuss current research papers for content, relevance, innovation and clarity. Papers can be from any aspect of the environmental sciences. Two lecture hours per week, every other week Fall. (Even-numbered years.) Weinberg.
725 [210] ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICAL-ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (3). The physical chemistry of the partitioning, exchange and chemical transformation of organic contaminants in the water, air and soil environments. Spring. Kamens.
726 [211] INSTRUMENTAL METHODS FOR THE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES (3). Prerequisite, basic or general chemistry. Emphasis on acquiring laboratory skills and hands-on experience with instrumentation; sample handling and preparation; modern analytical techniques to include chromatography and spectroscopy; quality assurance and control. One lecture hour and four laboratory hours per week. Spring. Weinberg.
727 [213] CHEMISTRY OF HUMIC SUBSTANCES (1). Prerequisites, organic or physical chemistry and permission of the instructor. Critical analysis for Ph.D. students of the chemistry, role and function of refractory organic matter in aquatic environments. Two lecture hours per week. Fall. Christman.
728 [214] ANALYSIS OF TRACE ORGANICS (3). Prerequisites, CHEM 261–262, CHEM 481–482, and PHYS 104–105; permission of the instructor required if prerequisites not met. Basic principles of isolation, separation, and identification of trace organic chemicals in environmental and/or biological samples, including solvent extraction, liquid and gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Hass, Albro.
729 [212] REDOX PROCESSES (3). Prerequisite, physical chemistry. Redox processes in the aquatic environment. Includes thermodynamics and kinetics; photochemical process in aquatic systems; oxidation processes for treatment of natural and anthropogenic organics, using ozone, peroxides and UV radiation. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. (Alternate years.) Weinberg.
732 [232] HEALTH EFFECTS OF OUTDOOR AND INDOOR AIR POLLUTION (3). Prerequisite, knowledge of basic human physiology and biochemistry helpful. Assessing health effects of air pollutants on normal and diseased human populations, including children. Physiology, cellular and molecular biology, immunology, genetics, dosimetry will be integrated. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Hazucha.
740 [230] PRINCIPLES OF CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS (2). Prerequisite, organic chemistry. Bioactivation of carcinogens; interaction of activated metabolites with DNA, and their effects on DNA structure, replication, repair and the control of these processes during development of chemically induced carcinogenesis. Two lecture hours per week. Spring. Gold.
750 [250] PRINCIPLES OF INDUSTRIAL VENTILATION (3). Prerequisites, calculus and physics; permission of the instructor. Principles of industrial ventilation for contaminant control and design of such systems. Basic laboratory exercises. Two lecture and one laboratory hour per week. Fall. Flynn.
751 [250D] VENTILATION DESIGN PROBLEM (1). Corequisite, ENVR 750; prerequisite, permission of the instructor. Design problem for industrial operation. One seminar hour per week. Fall. Flynn.
754 [251] AIR POLLUTION CONTROL (3). Prerequisite , ENVR 422. Engineering control of air pollution control systems and discussion of air pollution regulation and standards. Spring. (Odd-numbered years.) Leith.
755 [252] ANALYSIS OF WATER RESOURCE SYSTEMS (3). Prerequisite for nonengineering students, permission of the instructor. Use of mathematical models to design and evaluate regional water supply and treatment systems. Engineering and economic methods are incorporated into quantitative analyses of regional scenarios. Social and political aspects also discussed. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Characklis.
756 [253] PHYSICAL/CHEMICAL TREATMENT PROCESSES (3). Prerequisites, ENVR 419 or equivalent, and 451 or equivalent. Fundamental descriptions of disinfection, oxidation, coagulation, precipitation, sedimentation, filtration, adsorption, ion exchange and membrane processes; applications to water and wastewater treatment. Two lecture hours per week. Spring. DiGiano, Singer.
757 [255] WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT DESIGN (3). Prerequisites, ENVR 756 and 710. The application of the theory of water and wastewater treatment to the design of municipal facilities. The course includes the principles of design and modern design practices. Design and analysis of design of specific works for water and wastewater treatment. Summer. Staff.
758 [256] ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING PROJECT (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. Ad hoc project designed for students to work as a team in addressing a current problem in environmental engineering. Projects may include: laboratory or pilot-scale studies; collection and analysis of data from full-scale systems; or comprehensive analysis of relevant problems in environmental engineering practice. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Staff.
759 [265] MULTIPHASE TRANSPORT PHENOMENA (3). Prerequisite, ENVR 463 or 661 or equivalent. Continuum mechanical approach to formulating mass, momentum, energy, and entropy equations to describe multiphase transport phenomena. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Miller.
761 [261] NUMERICAL ODE/PDE I (MATH 761, MASC 781) (3). Prerequisites, MATH 191, 192. Single, multistep methods for ODEs: stability regions, the root condition, stiff systems, backward difference formulas; two-point BVPs; stability theory; finite difference methods for linear advection diffusion equations. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Minion, Miller, Werner.
762 [262] NUMERICAL ODE/PDE II (MATH 762, MASC 782) (3). Prerequisite, MATH 661/662, a previous course in the theory of PDE, concurrent enrollment in MATH 751, or permission of the instructor. Elliptic equation methods (finite differences, elements, integral equations); Hyperbolic conservation law methods (Lax-Friedrich, characteristics, entropy condition, shock tracking/capturing); spectral, pseudo-spectral methods; particle methods, fast summation, fast multipole/vortex methods. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Minion, Miller, Werner.
763 [263] MATHEMATICAL MODELING I (MATH 768, MASC 783) (3). Prerequisites, MATH 668, 669, 661, 662. Nondimensionalization and identification of leading order physical effects with respect to relevant scales and phenomena; deviation of classical models of fluid mechanics (lubrication, slender filament, thin filing, Stokes flow); deviation of weakly nonlinear envelope equations. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Camassa, Forest, Miller, Werner.
764 [264] MATHEMATICAL MODELING II (MATH 769, MASC 784) (3). Prerequisites, MATH 668, 669, 661, 662. Current models in science and technology: topics ranging from material science applications (e.g., flow of polymers and LCPs); geophysical applications (e.g., ocean circulation, quasi-geostrophic models, atmospheric vortices). Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Camassa, Forest, Miller, Werner.
765 [275] MODEL-BASED EXPOSURE MAPPING AND RISK ASSESSMENT (3). Introduction to modern models and techniques for studying environmental and health systems which vary in space and time. Applications in environmental engineering, ecology, epidemiology, geography and health risk assessment. Spring. Serre.
766 [277] STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MODELING (3). Prerequisite, statistics. A holistic/stochastic perspective, spatiotemporal random field modeling of environmental exposure and biological variabilities. Uncertainty in environmental exposure. Biomarkers and population damage indicators for epidemiological analysis. Cell-based stochastic differential equations. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Staff.
767 [279] MODELING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ANALYSIS (3). Prerequisite, ENVR 470. Mathematical methods for development of advanced models in environmental risk assessment, including exposure assessment and exposure-response assessment, are developed and applied. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Crawford-Brown.
768 [260] MICROENVIRONMENTAL AIR FLOW MODELING (3). Prerequisites, fluid mechanics and permission of the instructor. Applications of finite element and vortex methods for modeling air flows of significance in industrial hygiene applications. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Flynn.
769 [276] ADVANCED METHODS OF EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT (3). Prerequisites, BIOS 551, 545 (545 may be taken concurrently), ENVR 430 or equivalent and permission of the instructor required for nonmajors. Covers the statistical and biological considerations in assessing environmental exposures to chemicals with particular attention to airborne chemicals in occupational settings. Spring. (Even-numbered years.) Rappaport.
770 [233] BIOLOGICAL MONITORING (2). Prerequisite, ENVR 430 or equivalent. This course provides both practical and theoretical information on biological monitoring of chemical exposures and how to evaluate and interpret exposure data. Two lecture hours per week and a term paper (two credit hours). Spring. Nylander-French.
781 [291] WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND POLICY ANALYSIS (PLAN 781) (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. Water resources planning and management. Federal and state water resources policies. Analytical skills to identify environmental problems associated with urban water resources development. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Moreau.
784 [290] ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (PLAN 784) (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. An examination of the law of resource use and development, its administration, and underlying policies. Particular attention to water resources law, regulatory law, and natural resource administration. Regulatory aspects of pollution control programs are covered. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Heath.
785 [289] PUBLIC INVESTMENT THEORY (PLAN 785, PLCY 785) (3). Prerequisite, PLAN 710 or equivalent. Basic theory, process and techniques of public investment planning and decision making, involving synthesis of economic, political and technologic aspects. Theory underlying benefit-cost analysis; adaptation to a descriptive and normative model for planning public projects and programs. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Whittington.
786 [292] ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY PLANNING (PLAN 786) (3). Planning and analysis of regional environmental systems with focus on management of mass flows that affect the quality of the regional environment. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Moreau.
850 [285] SYSTEMS ANALYSIS IN ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING (3). Prerequisite, calculus. Applications of systems analysis techniques to the management of environmental quality. Spring. Lauria.
885 [288] CURRENT APPLICATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (4). Interdisciplinary group project. Analysis of a current environmental management problem. Topic changes each year. Three lecture hours and one laboratory hour per week. Spring. Staff.
890 [200] PROBLEMS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING (1 or more). Departmental permission required. For students outside the department who wish to undertake individual study of a specific problem in environmental sciences and engineering. The subject and requirements of the project are arranged with the faculty in each individual instance. One or more hours per week. Fall, spring and summer. Staff.
892 [353] PH.D. SEMINAR IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND POLICY (PLAN 892, PLCY 892) (1). Prerequisites, doctoral standing and permission of the instructor. PhD. seminar on theory, methods, and current research and literature in environmental management and policy. One to two seminar hours per week. Fall or spring. (On demand.) Andrews.
899 [300] SEMINAR IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING (1 or more). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor for nonmajors. Readings and discussions to provide opportunity to develop new concepts and topics in various aspects of environmental sciences and engineering. Fall, spring and summer. Staff.
991 [391] RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING (1–9). Prerequisites, consultation with the faculty and approval of subject and proposed program and permission of the instructor. May be repeated. Hours and credits to be arranged. Fall, spring and summer. Staff.
992 [392] MASTER'S TECHNICAL REPORT (3–6). The technical report requirement for M.S.P.H., M.P.H., and M.S.E.E. candidates is satisfied by the extensive study of a problem in environmental sciences and engineering. Fall, spring and summer. Staff.
993 [393] MASTER'S THESIS (3–9). Fall, spring and summer. Staff.
994 [394] DOCTORAL DISSERTATION (3–9). Fall, spring and summer. Staff.