Jun 28, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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CE 3530 - Basics of Environmental Engineering
Engineering concepts, theory, design, and practice as applied to solution of problems of environmental technologies; waste management; drainage; and control of water, soil, and atmospheric pollution; social and environmental impact of these solutions.
Requisites: CHEM 1510 and (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to explain various approached used in pollution prevention and waste minimization practices.
- Students will be able to identity and discuss environmental issues related to rivers, lakes, and groundwater.
- Students will be able to explain the purposes and methods of life cycle analysis (LCA), environmental impact analysis (EIA), and risk assessments.
- Students will be able to describe basic models used in air pollution and noise pollution.
- Students will be able to explain control measures used for reducing atmospheric air pollution and noise pollution.
- Students will be able to describe key environmental legislation/regulations & ethics.
- Students will be able to explain topics related to air pollution such as acid rain.
- Students will be able to explain waste management hierarchy & industrial ecology.
- Students will be able to complete problems related to chemistry, chemical reactions, mass balances & reactors.
- Students will be able to describe advection, dispersion, adsorption, and degradation as mechanisms that influence the fate of pollutants in groundwater..
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