Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program
Offered Online
Course
Descriptions
ChE 504 - Air Pollution Control - 3 credits
Background
equivalent to Chem 122, Math 265, and Physics 252
or consent of instructor.
Identification of major air pollutants
from stationary and mobile sources and methods
of controlling their emissions; dispersion of air
pollutants in the atmosphere; photochemical air pollution;
federal and state regulations.
CiEn 431 - Environmental Engineering I - 3
credits
Prerequisite: CIEN 306 or consent of instructor.
Environmental quality,
water quality modeling, water & wastewater treatment
systems, sludge processing, solid wastes, hazardous
wastes, environmental law.
CiEn 533 - Industrial Wastes - 3 credits
Prerequisite:
CIEN 431 or consent of instructor.
Industrial processes and waste characterization,
regulatory law, specialized treatment systems, hazardous
wastes, economic analysis; plant tours of potato,
sugar, meat, dairy, paper and pulp products and metal
plating industries.
CiEn 535 - Hazardous Waste Management - 3 credits
Prerequisites:
CIEN 306 and Chem 121 or consent of instructor.
Regulations, generation, storage,
transportation, disposal, classification, fate and
transport of contaminants, environmental audits,
pollution prevention and management facilities, remediation
alternatives, physical-chemical treatment, bioremediation,
stabilization/solidification, thermal processes.
GeoE 417 - Hydrogeology -
3 credits
Prerequisite: Math 166 or consent of instructor.
Physical and chemical aspects of groundwater movement,
supply, and contamination.
GeoE419 - Groundwater Monitoring and Remediation
- 3 credits
Prerequisites: Math 166, Geol/GeoE 417
and a statistics course (Econ 210, Psyc 241, Math
321 or 353) or consent of instructor.
Statistical
methods for groundwater sampling and monitoring network
design. Groundwater remediation and design; including
strategies that remove contaminants for external
treatment and strategies for in-situ contaminant
treatment.
GeoE 532 - Contaminant Hydrogeology - 3 credits
Prerequisites: GeoE 417, GeoE
427, Math 265, or consent of instructor.
Chemical and physical processes affecting
contaminant behavior in groundwater with analytical/numerical modeling and case
studies.
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