CHEMICAL PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Use basic principles of general, physical, equilibrium, colloid, and biological chemistry to solve water chemistry problems related to environmental engineering Audience: Graduate 2. Use conservation of mass and energy principles to solve water chemistry problems related to environmental engineering Audience: Graduate 3. Describe the risks to public health and welfare associated with chemical contaminants and greenhouse gases and explain how these risks are used to develop environmental policies and regulations Audience: Graduate 4. Describe the basic biochemical reactions important to environmental engineering (aerobic, anoxic, anaerobic, photosynthetic), and estimate the enthalpy of reactions when the formulation of reactants and products are known Audience: Graduate 5. Explain the roles of nutrients and organic carbon in water quality, and their relative concentrations in oligotrophic waters, eutrophic waters, and typical wastes; discuss anthropogenic sources of nutrients and policies for their control Audience: Graduate 6. Explain connections between environmental chemistry principles and processes used in environmental engineering Audience: Graduate 7. Review viable options and complete the preliminary design of a solution to an identified environmental engineering problem using at least two areas of environmental chemistry Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Use basic principles of general, physical, equilibrium, colloid, and biological chemistry to solve water chemistry problems related to environmental engineering Audience: Graduate 2. Use conservation of mass and energy principles to solve water chemistry problems related to environmental engineering Audience: Graduate 3. Describe the risks to public health and welfare associated with chemical contaminants and greenhouse gases and explain how these risks are used to develop environmental policies and regulations Audience: Graduate 4. Describe the basic biochemical reactions important to environmental engineering (aerobic, anoxic, anaerobic, photosynthetic), and estimate the enthalpy of reactions when the formulation of reactants and products are known Audience: Graduate 5. Explain the roles of nutrients and organic carbon in water quality, and their relative concentrations in oligotrophic waters, eutrophic waters, and typical wastes; discuss anthropogenic sources of nutrients and policies for their control Audience: Graduate 6. Explain connections between environmental chemistry principles and processes used in environmental engineering Audience: Graduate 7. Review viable options and complete the preliminary design of a solution to an identified environmental engineering problem using at least two areas of environmental chemistry Audience: Graduate