DESIGN OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Senior standing or member of Engineering Guest Students Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Find regulatory requirements for effluent permits, design, and operation of wastewater treatment plants and incorporate them as constraints when developing design solutions Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Develop technically feasible alternative solutions, compare the alternative solutions, and recommend one of the solutions Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Create plans and specifications that allow construction of a portion of the recommended solution Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Design experiments necessary to gather data and create information for use in design Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Implement measures to consider risk, reliability, and uncertainty in wastewater treatment Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Use the skills and expertise of multiple disciplines on a design team to address complex engineering problems Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of wastewater treatment Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 8. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of wastewater treatment Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 9. Manage a group of undergraduate students through the design process Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Find regulatory requirements for effluent permits, design, and operation of wastewater treatment plants and incorporate them as constraints when developing design solutions Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Develop technically feasible alternative solutions, compare the alternative solutions, and recommend one of the solutions Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Create plans and specifications that allow construction of a portion of the recommended solution Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Design experiments necessary to gather data and create information for use in design Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Implement measures to consider risk, reliability, and uncertainty in wastewater treatment Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Use the skills and expertise of multiple disciplines on a design team to address complex engineering problems Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of wastewater treatment Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 8. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of wastewater treatment Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 9. Manage a group of undergraduate students through the design process Audience: Graduate