ELEMENTS OF PUBLIC HEALTH ENGINEERING
Overview of the public health profession and the role of environmental sanitary engineers in public health. Introduction to chemical and microbial contaminants of public health concern - their routes of exposure and development of regulatory standards for drinking water, air, hazardous wastes, and industrial workplaces. Introduction to occurrence, toxicity, and virulence as components of public health risk and the engineer's role in identifying occurrence and design of engineering controls for public health protection.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: CIV ENGR 320 , graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2022 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe methods used to characterize risks associated with chemical toxins and microbial pathogens Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Describe the contributions of exposure and potency/virulence to risk and calculate risks Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. List alternative routes of exposure and estimate the contribution of different sources to overall exposure Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Explain how regulatory standards are derived from risk estimates Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. List the technologies that environmental engineers can design, build, and operate to limit exposure to a specified chemical toxin or microbial pathogen Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Connect the topics of this course with their graduate research work Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe methods used to characterize risks associated with chemical toxins and microbial pathogens Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Describe the contributions of exposure and potency/virulence to risk and calculate risks Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. List alternative routes of exposure and estimate the contribution of different sources to overall exposure Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Explain how regulatory standards are derived from risk estimates Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. List the technologies that environmental engineers can design, build, and operate to limit exposure to a specified chemical toxin or microbial pathogen Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Connect the topics of this course with their graduate research work Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027