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systems from diffusion flame processes to current
developing technologies including millisecond catalytic
combustion processes, noncarbon fueled
combustion, fuel cells and plasma combustion.
EAEE E6210x Quantitative environmental risk
analysis
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Yegulalp.
Prerequisite: EAEE E3101, SIEO W4150, or the
equivalent. Comprises the tools necessary for
technical professionals to produce meaningful risk
analyses. Review of relevant probability and statistics;
incorporation of probability in facility failure
analysis. Availability, assessment, and incorporation
of risk-related data. Contaminant transport to
exposed individuals; uptake, morbidity, and mortality.
Computational tools necessary to risk modeling.
Use and applicability of resulting measurements
of risk, and their use in public policy and regulation.
EAEE E6212x Carbon sequestration
Lect. 3. 3 pts. Professor Lackner.
Prerequisite: EAEE E4900 or the equivalent, or
the instructor’s permission. New technologies for
capturing carbon dioxide and disposing of it away
from the atmosphere. Detailed discussion of the
extent of the human modifications to the natural
carbon cycle, the motivation and scope of future
carbon management strategies, and the role of
carbon sequestration. Introduction of several carbon
sequestration technologies that allow for the
capture and permanent disposal of carbon dioxide.
Engineering issues in their implementation,
economic impacts, and the environmental issues
raised by the various methods.
EAEE E6220x Remedial and corrective action
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Not given in 2009–2010.
Prerequisite: EAEE E4160 or the equivalent.
Integrates the engineering aspects of cleanup
of hazardous materials in the environment. Site
assessment/investigation. Site closure, containment,
and control techniques and technologies.
Techniques used to treat hazardous materials
in the environment, in situ and removal for treatment,
focusing on those aspects that are unique
to the application of those technologies in an
uncontrolled natural environment. Management,
safety, and training issues.
CHEE E6220y Equilibria and kinetics in
hydrometallurgical systems
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Duby.
Prerequisite: CHEE E4050 or EAEE E4003.
Detailed examination of chemical equilibria in
hydrometallurgical systems. Kinetics and mechanisms
of homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions
in aqueous solutions.
EAEE E6228y Theory of flotation
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Not given in 2009–2010.
Prerequisite: CHEE E4252 or the instructor’s permission.
A detailed study of the physicochemical
principles of the flotation process.
EAEE E6240x or y Physical hydrology
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Gong.
Prerequisite: Engineering hydrology or the equivalent.
Spatial/temporal dynamics of the hydrologic
cycle and its interactions with landforms and vegetation.
Hydroclimatology at regional to planetary
scales, focusing on mechanisms of organization
and variation of water fluxes as a function of
season, location, reservoir (ocean, atmosphere,
land), and time scale. Land-atmosphere interaction
and the role of vegetation and soil moisture.
Topography as an organizing principle for landwater
fluxes. Geomorphology and the evolution
of river networks. Sedimentation, erosion, and hill
slope hydrology. Dynamics of water movement
over land, in rivers, and in the subsurface, with
an emphasis on modeling interfaces. Integrated
models and the scale problem. Emphasis on
data-based spatial/temporal modeling and exploration
of outstanding theoretical challenges.
CHEE E6252y Applied surface and colloid
chemistry
Lect: 2. Lab: 3. 3 pts. Professors Somasundaran
and Farinato.
Prerequisite: CHEE E4252. Applications of surface
chemistry principles to wetting, flocculation,
flotation, separation techniques, catalysis, mass
transfer, emulsions, foams, aerosols, membranes,
biological surfactant systems, microbial surfaces,
enhanced oil recovery, and pollution problems.
Appropriate individual experiments and projects.
Lab required.
EAEE E6255x-E6256y Methods and applications
of analytical decision making in mineral
industries
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Not given in 2009–2010.
Prerequisite: The instructor’s permission.
Advanced study of decision-making problems with
critical survey and applications of quantitative
decision-making techniques in mineral industries.
Systematic development of methods of the formulation,
analysis, and resolution of these problems.
EAEE E8229x Selected topics in processing
minerals and waste
Lect: 2. Lab: 3. 3 pts. Professors Somasundaran
and Nagaraj.
Prerequisite or corequisite: CHEE E4252 or the
instructor’s permission. Critical discussion of current
research topics and publications in the area
of flotation, flocculation, and other mineral processing
techniques, particularly mechanisms of
adsorption, interactions of particles in solution,
thinning of liquid films, and optimization techniques.
EAEE E8231y Selected topics in hydro- and
electrometallurgy
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Duby.
Prerequisite: EAEE E4003 and CHEE E4050, or the
instructor’s permission. Review of current research
and literature in the field of hydrometallurgy, electrometallurgy,
and corrosion. Topics will be selected
by the instructor to illustrate the application of
thermodynamics and rate phenomena to the design
and control of electrochemical engineering processes.
EAEE E8233x and y Research topics in
particle processing
Points: 0 to 1. Professor Somasundaran.
Emergent findings in the interactions of particles
with reagents and solutions, especially inorganics,
surfactants, and polymers in solution, and
their role in grinding, flotation, agglomeration,
filtration, enhanced oil recovery, and other
mineral processing operations.
EAEE E8273x-E8274y Mining engineering
reports
0 to 4 pts. Professor Yegulalp.
May be substituted for formal thesis, EAEE E9271,
upon recommendation of the student’s adviser.
EAEE E9271x and y, and s Earth and environmental
engineering thesis
0 to 6 pts. The staff.
Research work culminating in a creditable dissertation
on a problem of a fundamental nature
selected in conference between student and
adviser. Wide latitude is permitted in choice of
a subject, but independent work of distinctly
graduate character is required in its handling.
EAEE E9273x-E9274y Earth and environmental
engineering reports
0 to 4 pts. The staff.
May be substituted for the formal thesis, EAEE
E9271, upon recommendation of the department.
EAEE E9281x-E9282y Earth and environmental
engineering seminar, I and II
Lect: 1.5. 0 or 1 pt. Instructor to be announced.
Verbal presentation and discussion of current
findings and related literature, preferably related
to thesis research project. Lectures will be given
by Columbia scientists and representatives from
state and city agencies on the chosen topic.
Students will have to write several papers and
assignments on a variety of problems and solutions
appropriate to the topic.
EAEE E9302x and y Mining engineering
research
0 to 4 pts. Professor Yegulalp.
Graduate research directed toward solution of
technicoscientific problems in mining.
EAEE E9305x and y, and s Earth and environmental
engineering research
0 to 12 pts. The staff.
Graduate research directed toward solution of a problem
in mineral processing or chemical metallurgy.
EAEE E9800x and y, and s Doctoral research
instruction
3, 6, 9, or 12 pts. The staff.
A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree in mineral
engineering must register for 12 points of doctoral
research instruction. Registration in EAEE E9800
SEAS 2009–2010