Environmental Engineering & Science
CEE 270 Movement and Fate of Organic Contaminants in Waters
3 units; A. Robertson
Transport of chemical constituents in surface and groundwater, including advection, dispersion, sorption, interphase mass transfer, and transformation; water quality requirements for various beneficial uses. Emphasis is on the behavior of hazardous waste contaminants.
CEE 274A Environmental Microbiology I
3 units; C. Krieger
The fundamental aspects of microbiology and biochemistry. The biochemical and biophysical principles of biochemical reactions, energetics, and mechanisms of energy conservation. Diversity of microbial catabolism, flow of organic matter in nature: the carbon cycle, and biogeochemical cycles. Bacterial physiology, phylogeny, and the ecology of microbes in soil and marine sediments, bacterial adhesion, and biofilm formation. Microbes in the degradation of pollutants.
CEE 276 Introduction to Human Exposure Analysis
3 units; R. Kopperud
Scientific and engineering issues involved in quantifying human exposure to toxic chemicals in the environment. Pollutant behavior, inhalation exposure, dermal exposure, and assessment tools. Overview of the complexities, uncertainties, and physical, chemical, and biological issues relevant to risk assessment. Lab projects.
CEE 376 Organic Analyses in Environmental Sciences
3 units; M. Reinhard
Theory and practice of instrumental methods used in environmental engineering and sciences, emphasizing determination of organic substances by gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, and high pressure liquid chromatography. Interpretation of mass spectra adaptation of techniques to specific environmental matrices. Case studies and preparation of a research proposal employing instrumental analysis.
Environmental Fluid Mechanics & Hydrology
CEE 264A Rivers, Streams and Canals
4 units; D. Fong
Introduction to the movement of water through natural and engineered channels, streams, and rivers. Basic equations and theory (mass, momentum, and energy equations) for steady and unsteady descriptions of the flow. Application of theory to the design of flood- control and canal systems. Flow controls such as weirs and sluice gates; gradually varied flow; Saint-Venant equations and flood waves; and method of characteristics. Open channel flow laboratory experiments: controls such as weirs and gates, gradually varied flow, and waves.
CEE 268 Groundwater Hydrology
3 units; Michael Cardiff
Flow and mass transport in porous media through analytical techniques. Applications of potential flow theory to practical groundwater problems: flow to and from wells, rivers, lakes, drainage ditches; flow through and under dams; streamline tracing; capture zone of wells; and mixing schemes for in-situ remediation.
