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Environmental Engineering (ENVE)

ENVE 301W Environmental Microbiology (3) Fundamentals of microbial ecology and environmental microbiology with an emphasis on aspects of these fields important to environmental engineers.
Effective: Fall 2003
Prerequisite: introductory chemistry high school biology  

ENVE 397 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject that may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Summer 1997
 

ENVE 401 Occupational Safety and Environmental Health (1) Regulations, management practices, hazard identification, exposure assessment, monitoring, employee protection, and program management for occupational safety and health.
Effective: Summer 2007
Prerequisite: CHEM 110  

ENVE 411 Water Supply and Pollution Control (3) Water supply, wastewater characteristics, design of unit processes for water and wastewater treatment, sludge processing, and related new technologies.
Effective: Summer 2007
Prerequisite: CHEM 301, ENVE 301W  

ENVE 413W Operation and Control of Treatment Systems (3) Wastewater treatment, water treatment, solids handling, hazardous waste site control and operations, operator certification, report writing.
Effective: Spring 2002
Prerequisite: ENVE 411, ENVE 424   Concurrent: ENVE 416

ENVE 415 Hydrology (3) Watershed response to rainfall events; hydrologic systems, ground water flow.
Effective: Spring 2007
Prerequisite: ENVE 361, MATH 446  

ENVE 416 Treatment Plant Design (3) Design of treatment facilities for water and waste water based on regulatory requirements and standards.
Effective: Spring 1999
Prerequisite: ENVE 411  

ENVE 417 Hydraulic Design (3) Design of water and waste water conveyance systems and storage facilities.
Effective: Spring 1999
Prerequisite: ENVE 415  

ENVE 424 Solid Waste Management (3) Solid waste collection and disposal techniques; recycling and design optimization; including content analysis, legislation, and planning.
Effective: Fall 1998
Prerequisite: seventh-semester standing  

ENVE 425 Hazardous Waste Management (3) Overview of regulations, risk assessment, waste minimization and pollution prevention, treatment of hazardous waste, and remediation of contaminated sites.
Effective: Spring 2008
Prerequisite: CHEM 301  

ENVE 430 Sustainable Engineering (3) A course on engineering which uses ecological principles to minimize waste and maximally use input materials.
Effective: Summer 2003
Prerequisite: Permission of program  

ENVE 441 Water Treatment Plant Design and Operation (4) This course covers water supply, design, and operation of unit operations for water treatment, and related new technologies.
Effective: Summer 2007
Prerequisite: CHEM 301  

ENVE 442 Wastewater Treatment Plant Design and Operation (4) Covers wastewater generation, design and operation of unit operations for wastewater treatment, sludge handling and disposal options, related new technologies.
Effective: Summer 2007
Prerequisite: CHEM 301, ENVE 301W  

ENVE 451 Environmental Sanitation (3) Epidemiology, toxicology, radiation health and safety, vector control, food protection, air, water, and solid waste control, environmental interrelationships.
Effective: Fall 1997
Prerequisite: fifth-semester standing  

ENVE 460 Environmental Law (3) This course provides a survey of Federal and State environmental laws, including statutory, common and administrative law. May not be taken for graduate credit by Dickinson School of Law students in the concurrent J.D./EPC programs.
Effective: Summer 2003
Prerequisite: senior standing graduate standing or permission of program.  

ENVE 470 Air Quality (3) Overview of air quality issues with regard to the sources, measurements, effects, transport and control of potential air contaminants.
Effective: Fall 2007
Prerequisite: CHEM 301  

ENVE 494 Research Project (1-12) Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.
Effective: Spring 2005
 

ENVE 494H Research Project (1-12) Supervised student activities on research projects identified on an individual or small-group basis.
Effective: Fall 2007
 

ENVE 496 Independent Studies (1-18) Creative projects, including research and design, that are supervised on an individual basis and that fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Spring 2005
 

ENVE 497 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject that may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Fall 1996
 

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