ENERGY 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: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the sources and limitations of renewable and non-renewable energy Audience: Graduate 2. Describe options to minimize the use of energy and maximize its production from renewable resources Audience: Graduate 3. Describe important environmental consequences of energy production and consumption Audience: Graduate 4. Prepare process flow diagrams and perform relevant energy balance calculations for an environmental engineering system or process Audience: Graduate 5. Estimate the performance efficiency of a process or component from thermodynamic principles and size a pump, compressor, or other machine based on these principles Audience: Graduate 6. Estimate heat transfer, heat losses, and heating demand for a system or process Audience: Graduate 7. Using at least two energy principles, complete a preliminary design of an environmental engineering system, process, or component to meet stated needs Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the sources and limitations of renewable and non-renewable energy Audience: Graduate 2. Describe options to minimize the use of energy and maximize its production from renewable resources Audience: Graduate 3. Describe important environmental consequences of energy production and consumption Audience: Graduate 4. Prepare process flow diagrams and perform relevant energy balance calculations for an environmental engineering system or process Audience: Graduate 5. Estimate the performance efficiency of a process or component from thermodynamic principles and size a pump, compressor, or other machine based on these principles Audience: Graduate 6. Estimate heat transfer, heat losses, and heating demand for a system or process Audience: Graduate 7. Using at least two energy principles, complete a preliminary design of an environmental engineering system, process, or component to meet stated needs Audience: Graduate