HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT
Environmental regulations, remediation site characterization, contaminant characterization, detailed engineering and management considerations related to the design and operation of hazardous waste remediation systems involving water pollution, air pollution, solid waste, and groundwater pollution.
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: Summer 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Find regulatory requirements for hazardous waste management, remediation, and water quality, 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 hazardous waste management 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 energy and resource use in hazardous waste remediation Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 8. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of hazardous waste management Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 9. Manage a group of undergraduate students through the design process Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Find regulatory requirements for hazardous waste management, remediation, and water quality, 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 hazardous waste management 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 energy and resource use in hazardous waste remediation Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 8. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of hazardous waste management Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 9. Manage a group of undergraduate students through the design process Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027