Undergraduate Program in Bioenvironmental Engineering
Courses11:117:100. INTRODUCTION TO BIORESOURCE ENGINEERING (1) Overview of specializations within bioresource/bioenvironmental engineering. Expanding role of biological and environmental sciences in engineering. Analysis of selected problems. Review of professional opportunities.
11:117:413. UNIT PROCESSES IN BIOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING I (3) Prerequisites: 01:640:244, 11:375:202, 11:375:203, and 14:180:387 Physical and chemical processes and operations commonly applied for water and wastewater treatment, including coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, adsorption, ion exchange, membrane separation, precipitation, oxidation, and disinfection; principles of chemical reaction kinetics, modeling of ideal and non-ideal batch and flow-through reactors.
11:117:414. UNIT PROCESSES IN BIOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING II (3) Prerequisites: 11:117:413 or permission of instructor. Biological principles and operations for wastewater treatment, bioremediation and energy production including: microbial ecology; energetics, stoichiometry and kinetics of microbial growth; kinetics of pollutant degradation; modeling ideal bioreactors; design criteria for specific wastewater treatment processes; and new developments in use of microorganisms in bioenvironmental engineering.
11:117:423. BIOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING UNIT PROCESSES LAB I (1) Prerequisite: 01:160:171, 01:160:211, 14:180:389 or equivalent. Corequisite: 11:117:413 Demonstration of physicochemical processes and operations used in drinking water and wastewater treatment, including reactor design and residence time distribution, coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, carbon adsorption, chemical oxidation, and oxygen transfer.
11:117:424. BIOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING UNIT PROCESSES LAB II (1) Prerequisite: 01:160:171 or equivalent. Corequisite: 11:117:414 Demonstration and investigation of biological processes used in the treatment of wastewater, including: natural biological processes in biotreatment ponds; biodegradability and biodegradation kinetics; activated sludge reactors; anaerobic digestion for bioenergy production; use of laboratory methods and analytical equipment to assess biological processes; and introduction to activated sludge simulation software.
11:117:462. DESIGN OF SOLID WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEMS (3) Prerequisite: Open only to junior and senior engineering students. Analysis and design of integrated solid waste management systems, including waste minimization, quantity estimates, waste characteristics, collection, composting, materials recovery, recycling, incineration, and landfilling.
11:117:468. HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT ENGINEERING (3) Prerequisites: 11:117:413 or permission of instructor. Engineering and process design aspects of hazardous waste management and remediation of hazardous waste sites, waste reduction and recovery, regulatory process, case studies and engineering solutions to model hazardous waste problems.
11:117:474. AIR POLLUTION ENGINEERING (3) Prerequisites: 14:180:387 or 14:650:312 or 14:155:303 or permission of instructor. Engineering design techniques for air quality control. control of particulate and gas emissions from stationary sources. control of mobile source emissions. design for indoor air quality and regional air quality control.
11:117:488. BIORESOURCE ENGINEERING DESIGN I (2) Open only to seniors in bioresource engineering. Design morphology. Case studies and special design problems. Solutions developed using creative design processes that include analysis, synthesis, and iterative decision making. safety and professional ethics.
11:117:489. BIORESOURCE ENGINEERING DESIGN II (2)
Prerequisite: 11:117:488. Completion of bioresource engineering senior design project. Evaluation. Presentation of final report.
11:117:494. LAND AND WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING (3) Prerequisites: 14:180:387. Engineering aspects of land and water conservation: basic hydrology, soil-water plant relationships, erosion control, surface and subsurface drainage, flood control, irrigation, non-point source pollution.
11:117:495. ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS FOR ENGINEERS (3) Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Principles of procedural and heuristic systems analysis. overview of engineering economics. Techniques of simulation and optimization. Topics of applied intelligence. solutions for bioresource engineering problems by systems analysis methods.
11:117:496. PLANNING AND DESIGN OF LAND TREATMENT SYSTEMS (3) Prerequisite: 14:180:387 or 14:650:312. Engineering design of land treatment systems for municipal and industrial wastewater, including spray irrigation, overland flow, infiltration/percolation, and subsurface soil adsorption systems. Facilities planning.
11:117:497, 498. SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN BIORESOURCE ENGINEERING (BA, BA,) Prerequisite: Permission of department Studies of special interest in some selected area of bioresource engineering.