ENVE 1010. Synthesis and Design Studio I. 2 hours. 6 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ENVE STUDIO I.
Prerequisite: Permission of major.
Development of students' creative problem-solving and design skills through two major design challenges with specific instruction on observation, modeling (e.g., AutoCAD, Stella, sculpture, drawing), design, creativity, and synthesis. The environmental design challenges will result in concrete and locally implementable deliverables.
Non-traditional format: Topics are analyzed in the context of the relevant engineering factors as well as non-engineering disciplines such as the economic, political, sociological, and historical elements as to how the issue developed. Students will begin development of their Professional Development Profiles, an activity that will be monitored throughout their engineering education and will culminate in the senior year.
Offered fall semester every year.
ENVE 1020. Synthesis and Design Studio II. 1 hour. 3 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ENVE STUDIO II.
Prerequisite: ENVE 1010 or permission of department.
Continuation of the development of students' creative problem- solving and design skills through one major design challenge with continued instruction on observation, modeling, design, creativity, synthesis, and reflection. The students will continue to develop professional development profiles to demonstrate that they have reached all of the studio objectives.
Non-traditional format: Hand and spreadsheet calculations will be utilized in most analyses. The concept of modeling and problem-framing will be integrated throughout the course. Investigations will be done individually and in teams under the guidance of the instructor with students demonstrating the use of their current semester’s coursework. Students will continue development of their Professional Development Profiles which will include introductory principles of engineering design methodology.
Offered spring semester every year.
ENVE 1110. Engineering Graphics and Visualization. 2 hours. 1 hour lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ENGR GRAPH VISUAL.
Prerequisite: Permission of major.
Introductory course in engineering graphics and visualization as applied to processes, devices and systems appropriate to students’ individual engineering disciplines. Class will be comprised of common lectures for all engineering students accompanied by relevant laboratory measurements and data collection to be incorporated into a graphics format appropriate to the students’ respective engineering focuses.
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.
ENVE 2010. Synthesis and Design Studio III. 2 hours. 6 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ENVE STUDIO III.
Prerequisite or corequisite: ENVE 1020 or permission of department.
Continuation of the development of students' problem-solving and design skills through two major design challenges with specific instruction on problem identification, problem framing, determination of appropriate analytical approaches, design, synthesis, and reflection. The environmental design challenges will result in concrete and locally implementable deliverables.
Offered fall semester every year.
ENVE 2020. Environmental Engineering Synthesis IV. 2 hours.
Oasis Title: ENVE ENGR SYNTH IV.
Prerequisite: ENVE 2010 or permission of department.
Final course in a sequence of four synthesis courses focused on the study of one or more basic issues and topics relevant to environmental engineering and today’s society. Students will engage in an advanced topic that necessitates the integration of societal, technological, and environmental constraints.
Non-traditional format: Students will conclude the synthesis portion of their Professional Development Profiles by delivering a final synthesis project that includes written documentation and oral presentation. Moreover, students will begin preparation for the design portion of their environmental engineering program will begin in the subsequent semester.
Offered spring semester every year.
ENVE 2140. Mechanics of Solids. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: MECH SOLIDS.
Prerequisite: PHYS 1211-1211L and MATH 2500.
Prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 2700.
Introduction to the fundamental principles and methods of structural mechanics. Static equilibrium; force resultants; supports; analysis of beams, trusses, and frames; stress and strain in structures; shear; bending torsion; statically indeterminate systems; displacement; deformation; matrix methods; and elastic stability.
Offered spring semester every year.
ENVE 2320. Environmental Engineering – Urban Systems. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENV ENGR URBAN.
Prerequisite: MATH 2250 and ENVE 2610.
Prerequisite or corequisite: CHEM 1211 and CHEM 1211L.
Introduction to the urban system as a biological habitat, including concepts of engineered infrastructure, ecology, watersheds, water/air quality, solid waste, pollutant fate/transport, public health, human behavior, environmental policy, economics, and conservation. Sources of environmental pollution and the technologies for measuring and remediating the impact of environmental pollution will be considered.
Offered fall semester every year.
ENVE 2610. Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Sustainability. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTRO ENV ENGR SUST.
Prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 1113 or permission of department.
An introduction to what is meant by a sustainable economy and society, and how that relates to current conditions in the United States and the world. Emphasis is placed on the key topics such as energy, water, natural resources, transportation, food production, materials use and processing, and waste handling.
Offered every year.
ENVE 3210. Energy Analysis I. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENERGY I.
Prerequisite: (CHEM 1211 and CHEM 1211L and PHYS 1211-1211L) or permission of department.
Prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 2700.
Introduction to energy principles and analysis based on the fundamentals of thermodynamics and heat transfer. The first law of thermodynamics will be introduced and examined in-depth with respect to its applications at multiple scales.
Offered fall semester every year.
ENVE 3220. Energy Analysis II. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENERGY II.
Prerequisite: ENVE 3210 or permission of department.
Extension of energy, thermodynamics, and heat transfer fundamentals from Energy Analysis I using the second law of thermodynamics and the field of energetics. Concepts of exergy and energy transformations will be developed and used in the analysis of ecosystem function in the open environment. Additional attention will be given to availability analysis in energy production and utilization in building design and industrial systems with an emphasis on how these concepts influence the overall sustainability of systems.
Offered spring semester every year.
ENVE 3250. Ecoengineering Applications. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ECOENGR APP.
Prerequisite: MATH 2250 and ENVE 2610 and BIOL 1104.
Applications of environmental engineering based on biological and ecological constraints. Environmental engineering practices and ecotechnology at various spatial scales ranging from local to watershed to regional will be developed with an emphasis on balancing technological objectives with environmental requirements.
Offered spring semester every year.
ENVE 3340. Transport Process in the Environment. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: TRANS PROC ENV.
Prerequisite: (MATH 2700 and ENGR 3160) or permission of department.
Introduction to transport in environmental flows, the fate and transport of chemicals and biological components, and the physical nature of environmental processes.
ENVE 3460. Groundwater Hydrology for Engineers. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: GROUNDWATER HYDROL.
Prerequisite: CHEM 1212 and CHEM 1212L and ENGR 3410.
Unsaturated and saturated water flow will be modeled along with fate and transport of inorganic and organic pollutants. Classical analytical approaches beginning with the Dupuit- Forchheimer assumptions and classic analytical approaches will be covered. Modern numerical approaches will be covered. Emphasis will be placed on natural and engineered approaches that remove pollutants and minimize risk.
Offered every year.
ENVE 3510. Modeling, Statistical Analysis, and Uncertainty. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: MODEL, STAT ANALY.
Prerequisite: MATH 2260.
Modeling and analysis of engineering problems under uncertainty with applications of probability and statistical concepts and methods. Data collection, measurements, simulation, model development, misinformation, validation, and analysis with environmental applications.
Offered fall semester every year.
ENVE 3520. Engineering Economics and Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENGR ECON AND MGMT.
Prerequisite: ENVE 3510.
Introduction to economic principles and economic analysis from a micro and macro scale. Statistics and system performance studies of environmental engineering systems. Statistics and system performance studies, probabilistic models and simulation, basic economics and capital investments, project elements and organization, managerial concepts and network technique, project scheduling.
Offered spring semester every year.
ENVE 3910. Environmental Engineering Design I. 2 hours.
Oasis Title: ENVE ENGR DES I.
Prerequisite: ENVE 2020 or permission of department.
First course in a four-semester sequence designed to provide environmental engineering students with a long-term design experience. Projects will require synthesis of knowledge and skills learned through the Environmental Engineering program of study into a cogent design solution.
Non-traditional format: Students will participate on a project team that matches their interests and will be selected for participation by the student team members under guidance of ENVE faculty mentors. Project teams will function independently albeit under the guidance of faculty mentors. This course will serve as preparation for students to engage in design solutions for the subsequent junior level design course. As a junior level course, the design project will be commensurate with junior-level engineering status. Students will begin the development of the design portion of their Professional Development Profiles.
Offered fall semester every year.
ENVE 3920. Environmental Engineering Design II. 2 hours.
Oasis Title: ENVE ENGR DES II.
Prerequisite: ENVE 3910 or permission of department.
Second course in a four-semester sequence designed to provide environmental engineering students with a long-term design experience. Projects will require synthesis of knowledge and skills learned through the Environmental Engineering program of study into a cogent design solution.
Non-traditional format: Students will continue working with teams organized from Environmental Engineering Design I and will engage in developing final design solutions, project reporting, and oral communication of solutions. Students will conclude the junior- level design portion of their Professional Development Profiles.
Offered spring semester every year.
ENVE 4230. Ecosystem Energetics. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ECOSYS ENERG.
Prerequisite: ENVE 3220 or permission of department.
Ecosystem energy values and transformations starting as radiation from the sun, percolating through the greater ecosystem, including industrial civilization, to its final form as heat radiating back into space.
ENVE 4240. Sustainable Energy Systems in a Global Economy. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: SUSTAINABLE ENERGY.
Prerequisite: ENVE 2320.
Prerequisite or corequisite: ENVE 3210.
Analysis of various approaches for conducting energy-based engineering projects in developed and underdeveloped countries around the world. Concepts and principles of various energy systems will be integrated with regard to their respective efficiencies and long-term prospects for sustaining and promoting the current quality of life on all scales.
Offered every year.
ENVE 4250. Industrial Ecology. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INDUS ECOL.
Prerequisite: ENVE 2320.
Prerequisite or corequisite: ENVE 3250.
An in-depth study of industrialized urban systems on the basis of material and energy flows and with a view toward assessing environmental impacts of engineered technologies while at the same time using engineered technologies to remediate environmental impact.
Offered every year.
ENVE 4260. Renewable Energy Systems. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: RENEWABLE ENERGY.
Prerequisite: ENVE 3220.
Renewable energy systems will be studied in separate modules, which cover the fundamental engineering and scientific basis for the system, and the economic, political, and other factors that are constraints to full implementation of each system.
Offered fall semester every year.
ENVE 4460/6460. Groundwater Hydrology for Engineers. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: GROUNDWATER HYDROL.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ENGR 3160.
Graduate prerequisite: Permission of department.
Occurrence and movement of ground water, derivation of equations of saturated and unsaturated flow, aquifer hydraulic parameter estimation, analytical solutions to flow problems. Solute transport equations and development of analytical solutions. Use of numerical tool for solving flow and transport problems.
Offered every year.
ENVE 4530. Energy and Environmental Policy Analysis. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENERGY ENV POLICY.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
A study of how public policy is shaped by the energy and environmental issues of society since the mid-1900’s. Topics will include the advent of stronger environmental protection regulations in the later 1960’s and 1970’s due to increased public awareness and the ever-evolving energy policy starting with the initial energy shortages in the 1970’s and continuing on to the current energy policies which include energy supply, energy demand, and environmental concerns.
Offered every year.
ENVE 4540. Economics of Energy and Sustainable Development. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ECON SUSTAIN DEVEL.
Prerequisite: ENVE 3520.
Economic analysis of energy and development, including renewable and non-renewable energy systems, and how they influence the development of sustainable urban and industrial systems.
Offered every year.
ENVE 4550. Environmental Life Cycle Analysis. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ENV LCA.
Prerequisite: ENVE 2320.
An in-depth look at life cycle analysis (LCA), the existing models and analytical methodologies, and their applications. Conducting Life Cycle Analyses for small scale items such as individual manufactured products up through larger scaled engineered system items such as an engineered structure, transportation system, etc.
Offered every year.
ENVE 4620. Sustainable Design in Urban Systems. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: SUSTAIN DES URBAN.
Prerequisite: ENVE 2610 and ENVE 3320.
Use of case study examples of both good and bad urban system designs that illustrate the magnitude of the challenges (technical and non-technical), the integration needed between those disciplines, as well as a vision of how sustainable design concepts can be implemented into these complex urban systems.
Offered every year.
ENVE 4710. GIS for Urban Engineering, Planning, and Development. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ENGINEERING GIS.
Prerequisite: ENVE 1110 and ENGR 3410.
Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for quantifying spatial distribution and quantity of entities on the landscape will be demonstrated. Mapping for utility management, identifying potential pollution sources, natural resources, and population will be emphasized.
Offered every year.
ENVE 4720. Urban Infrastructure Planning and Development. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: URBAN INFRASTRUCT.
Prerequisite: LAND 1500 or GEOG 1125 and ENVE 2320.
The process for planning and developing urban systems, emphasizing environmental impact and interactions between natural and engineered systems. A review of past development and case studies for new developments intended to lead to a more sustainable urbanized area. Comparison of planning/development in the U.S. with other parts of the world.
Offered every year.
ENVE 4910. Environmental Engineering Design III. 2 hours.
Oasis Title: ENVE ENGR DES III.
Prerequisite: ENVE 2010 or permission of department.
Third course in a four-semester sequence designed to provide environmental engineering students with a long-term design experience. Students will participate on a project team that matches their interests and will be selected for participation by the student team members under guidance of Environmental Engineering faculty mentors.
Non-traditional format: Project teams will function independently albeit under the guidance of faculty mentors. As a senior-level course, students will fully engage in the application of the full suite of knowledge developed throughout their engineering program of study. Projects may be a continuation from Environmental Engineering Design II or newly identified. Students will continue development of the design portion of their Professional Development Profiles and will initiate efforts to conclude the profiles.
Offered fall semester every year.
ENVE 4920. Environmental Engineering Design IV. 2 hours.
Oasis Title: ENVE ENGR DES IV.
Prerequisite: ENVE 4910 or permission of department.
Final course in a four-semester sequence designed to provide environmental engineering students with extensive design experience. Projects will require synthesis of knowledge and skills learned through the Environmental Engineering program of study into a cogent design solution.
Non-traditional format: Students will continue working with teams organized from Environmental Engineering Design III and will engage in developing mature design solutions, project reporting, and oral communication of solutions. Students will conclude the senior- level design portion of their Professional Development Profiles and develop their final comprehensive profile.
Offered spring semester every year.
ENVE 4960. Undergraduate Research in Environmental Engineering. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: UNDERGRAD RES ENV.
Not open to students with credit in ENVE 4960H.
Prerequisite: (Third-year or fourth-year student standing) and permission of department.
Directed research in engineering.
Non-traditional format: Directed study.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
ENVE 4960H. Undergraduate Research in Environmental Engineering (Honors). 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: UNDERGRAD RES ENV.
Not open to students with credit in ENVE 4960.
Prerequisite: Permission of Honors and permission of department.
Directed research in engineering.
Non-traditional format: Credit hours are based on directed study project.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
ENVE 4970. Directed Reading and/or Projects in Environmental Engineering. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DIR READ OR PROJ.
Not open to students with credit in ENVE 4970H.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Individual study, reading, and/or research projects under the direction of a faculty director.
Non-traditional format: Students in this course meet with their supervising professor as needed to successfully complete assignments and readings and/or projects.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
ENVE 4970H. Directed Reading and/or Projects in Environmental Engineering (Honors). 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DIR READ OR PROJ.
Not open to students with credit in ENVE 4970.
Prerequisite: Permission of Honors and permission of department.
Individual study, reading, and/or research projects under the direction of a faculty director.
Non-traditional format: Students in this course meet with their supervising professor as needed to successfully complete assignments and readings and/or projects.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
ENVE 4980. Directed Study in Environmental Engineering. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DIR STUDY ENGR.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Directed study in engineering design, analysis, or synthesis.
Not offered on a regular basis.
ENVE 8110. Ecological Energetics. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ECOENERGETICS.
Prerequisite: Graduate student standing in Engineering or Ecology.
Ecological thermodynamics analyses as applied to ecosystems. First law energy balances and second law entropy generation analyses of ecosystem scale problems will be covered through conventional thermodynamic approaches, a new Lagrangian-based analyses approach, and the Odum Energy approach to thermodynamics.
Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year.