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EAEE E4009x Geographic information
systems (GIS) for resource, environmental,
and infrastructure management
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Gorokhovich.
Prerequisite: The instructor’s permission. Basic
concepts of geomatics, spatial data representation
and organization, and analytical tools that
comprise GIS are introduced and applied to a
variety of problems including watershed protection,
environmental risk assessment, material
mass balance, flooding, asset management, and
emergency response to natural or man-made
hazards. Technical content includes geography
and map projections, spatial statistics, database
design and use, interpolation and visualization of
spatial surfaces and volumes from irregularly
spaced data, and decision analysis in an applied
setting. Taught in a laboratory setting using ArcGIS.
Access to New York City and other standard databases.
Term projects emphasize information synthesis
toward the solution of a specific problem.
EAEE E4011y Industrial ecology for
manufacturing
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Not given in 2009–2010.
Prerequisite: EAEE E4001 or the instructor’s
permission. Application of industrial ecology to
Design for Environment (DFE) of processes and
products using environmental indices of resource
consumption and pollution loads. Introduction of
methodology for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of
manufactured products. Analysis of several DFE
and LCA case studies. Term project required on
use of DFE/LCA on a specific product/process:
(a) product design complete with materials and
process selection, energy consumption, and
waste loadings; (b) LCA of an existing industrial
or consumer product using a commercially established
method.
CHEE E4050x Industrial and environmental
electrochemistry
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Duby.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3010. A presentation of
the basic principle underlying electrochemical
processes. Thermodynamics, electrode kinetics,
and ionic mass transport. Examples of industrial
and environmental applications illustrated by
means of laboratory experiments: electroplating,
refining, and winning in aqueous solutions and
in molten salts; electrolytic treatment of wastes;
primary, secondary, and fuel cells.
ECIA W4100y Management and development
of water systems
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Lall and Dr. Arumugam.
Decision analytic framework for operating, managing,
and planning water systems, considering
changing climate, values, and needs. Public and
private sector models explored through U.S.-international
case studies on topics ranging from integrated
watershed management to the analysis
of specific projects for flood mitigation, water
and wastewater treatment, or distribution system
evaluation and improvement.
EAEE E4150y Air pollution prevention and control
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Fthenakis.
Adverse effects of air pollution, sources and
transport media, monitoring and modeling of air
quality, collection and treatment techniques, pollution
prevention through waste minimalization and
clean technologies, laws, regulations, standards,
and guidelines.
EAEE E4160y Solid and hazardous waste
management
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Somasundaran.
Generation, composition, collection, transport,
storage, and disposal of solid and hazardous
waste. Impact on the environment and public
health. Government regulations. Recycling and
resource recovery.
CIEE E4163x Environmental engineering:
wastewater
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Becker.
Prerequisites: Introductory chemistry (with lab)
and fluid mechanics. Fundamentals of water pollution
and wastewater characteristics. Chemistry,
microbiology, and reaction kinetics. Design of
primary, secondary, and advanced treatment systems.
Small community and residential systems.
EAEE E4190x Photovoltaic systems engineering
and sustainability
Lect: 3. 3pts. Professor Fthenakis.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing or the instructor’s
permission. A systems approach for intermittent
renewable energy involving the study of
resources, generation, demand, storage, transmission,
economics, and politics. Study of current
and emerging photovoltaic technologies, with
focus on basic sustainability metrics (e.g., cost,
resource availability, and life-cycle environmental
impacts). The status and potential of first- and
second-generation photovoltaic technologies
(e.g., crystalline and amorphous Si, CdTe, CIGS)
and emerging third-generation ones. Storage
options to overcome the intermittency constraint.
Large scales of renewable energy technologies
and plug-in hybrid electric cars.
EAEE E4200y Production of inorganic materials
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Duby.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3010 or the equivalent.
Production and recycling of inorganic materials in
aqueous and high-temperature systems. Industrial
and environmental applications of hydrometallurgy,
pyrometallurgy, and electrometallurgy. Reactor
systems for, e.g., leaching, precipitation, and
solvent extraction, bath and flash smelting reactors,
rotary kilns, and fluid bed reactors. Thermodynamic
and kinetic factors and material/energy
balances involved in the design and performance
of such reactors in typical applications.
EAEE E4241x Solids handling and transport
systems
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Not given in 2009–2010.
Analysis and design of transportation systems for
bulk solids in tunnels, mines, and large excavations.
Design of hoisting, cable transport, rail and
trackless haulage systems, conveyor belts, selection
of loaders, excavators, off-highway trucks,
and draglines for large excavations.
CHEE E4252x Introduction to surface and
colloid chemistry
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Somasundaran.
Prerequisite: Elementary physical chemistry. Thermodynamics
of surfaces, properties of surfactant solutions
and surface films, electrostatic and electrokinetic
phenomena at interfaces, adsorption; interfacial
mass transfer and modern experimental techniques.
CIEE E4252y Environmental engineering
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Gong.
Prerequisites: CHEM C1403, or the equivalent;
ENME E3161 or the equivalent. Engineering
aspects of problems involving human interaction
with the natural environment. Review of fundamental
principles that underlie the discipline of
environmental engineering, i.e., constituent transport
and transformation processes in environmental
media such as water, air, and ecosystems.
Engineering applications for addressing environmental
problems such as water quality and treatment,
air polution emissions, and hazardous
waste remediation. Presented in the context of
current issues facing the practicing engineers and
government agencies, including legal and regulatory
framework, environmental impact assessments,
and natural resource management.
CIEE E4257y Groundwater contaminant
transport and remediation
Lect: 3.3 pts. Professor Mutch.
Prerequisite: CIEE E3250 or the equivalent.
Single- and multiple-phase transport in porous
media; contaminant transport in variably saturated
heterogeneous geologic media; physically based
numerical models of such processes.
EAEE E4257y (section 001) Environmental
data analysis and modeling
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professors Yegulalp, Lall, and
Gorokhovich.
Prerequisite: SIEO W3600 or SIEO W4250, or the
equivalent. Statistical methods for the analysis of
the space and time structure in environmental
data. Application to problems of climate variation
and change; hydrology; air, water, and soil pollution
dynamics; disease propagation; ecological
change; and resource assessment. Applications
are developed using the ArcView Geographical
Information System (GIS), integrated with currently
available statistical packages. Team projects that
lead to publication-quality analyses of data in
various environmental fields of interest. An interdisciplinary
perspective is emphasized in this
applications-oriented class.
EAEE E4350x Planning and management of
urban hydrologic systems
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Rangarajan.
SEAS 2009–2010