ENE 400 Course Syllabus

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1 ENE 400 Course Syllabus Spring 2013

2 Part I Course Organization

3 Syllabus - ENE 400 Environmental Engineering Spring 2013, 8:00 9:15 Tuesday and Thursday, KAP 148 Professor: Ronald C. Henry, KAP 224E, x-00596, rhenry@usc.edu Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 10:00 11:00 AM and 1:00 2:00 PM or by appointment Teaching Assistant: Nima Jabbari, jabbari@usc.edu Office Hours: Tuesday and Friday, 11:00-2:00 PM, KAP 239 Course Description: This course is designed for intermediate environmental engineering students. The emphasis is on physical transport and chemical transformation processes that are common to engineering analysis of human impacts on air, water, and soil. The course includes an introduction to data analysis of environmental monitoring data obtained for regulatory compliance. Learning Objectives: The students will understand: The environmental applications of acid-base, oxidation-reduction, microbial, and free radical chain reactions. Transport of pollutants by advection, diffusion and across phase boundaries. Basic modeling of combined transport and transformation of pollutants in the environment. Environmental standards, and analysis of monitoring data Textbook: W. W. Nazaroff and L. Alvarez-Cohen, Environmental Engineering Science, John Wiley & Sons 2001 Week Topics 1. Overview Chapter 1 2. Water, Air, and Their Impurities Chapter 2 3. Environmental Monitoring, Standards and Statistics Appendix F 4. Chemical Transformation Processes 1 Chapter 3, Sections A and B 5. Chemical Transformation Processes 2 Chapter 3, Sections C and D 6. Midterm I and Review 7. Physical Transport Processes 1 Chapter 4, Sections A and B 8. Physical Transport Processes 2 Chapter 4, Sections C and D 9. Transformation and Transport Models 1 Chapter 5, Section A 10. Transformation and Transport Models 2 Chapter 5, Section B 11. Midterm II and Review 12. Environmental Data Analysis 1 Class Notes 13. Environmental Data Analysis 2 Class Notes 14. Environmental Data Analysis 3 Class Notes 15. Review Topics will not necessarily be covered in the order above, and are subject to change. Examinations: Midterm 1 Thursday February 28 Midterm 2 Thursday April 4 Final Wednesday May AM USE YOUR CLASS TIME

4 Examinations There will be two midterm examinations and a comprehensive final examination. If an examination is missed the make-up will be an oral examination. The final examination will be given at the time assigned in the Catalog. Signing up for the class is taken as a commitment to take the final at this time. Do not request to take the final examination at any other time. If the final exam is not taken because of an emergency, a form to request an examination at a later time is available. Written examinations have a mix of questions with quantitative and non-quantitative answers. The final examination will cover the entire course, but will concentrate on subjects covered after the last midterm. Final Grades At the end of the course, a grade between 0 and 100 will be assigned for each of the following: class participation, homework, the midterm, and the final. The homework grade will be the average of the grades for the individual homework assignments, after dropping the lowest homework grade. The grade for class participation will include the percentage of classes attended. The final grade will be the weighted sum of the class participation (10%), homework (20%), midterm (30%), and the final (40%). Statement for Students with Disabilities Any student requesting academic accommodations based on a disability is required to register with Disability Services and Programs (DSP) each semester. A letter of verification for approved accommodations can be obtained from DSP. Please be sure the letter is delivered to me (or to TA) as early in the semester as possible. DSP is located in STU 301 and is open 8:30 a.m. 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. The phone number for DSP is (213) Statement on Academic Integrity USC seeks to maintain an optimal learning environment. General principles of academic honesty include the concept of respect for the intellectual property of others, the expectation that individual work will be submitted unless otherwise allowed by an instructor, and the obligations both to protect one s own academic work from misuse by others as well as to avoid using another s work as one s own. All students are expected to understand and abide by these principles. Scampus, the Student Guidebook, contains the Student Conduct Code in Section 11.00, while the recommended sanctions are located in Appendix A: Students will be referred to the Office of Student Judicial Affairs and Community Standards for further review, should there be any suspicion of academic dishonesty. The Review process can be found at: USE YOUR CLASS TIME

5 Part II Detailed Course Objectives

6 ENE 400 Environment Engineering Principles 3 Units USC SONNY ASTANI DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ABET Course Syllabus Course Information, Textbook, and Supplementary Materials Course Description: Analysis of water, air, and land pollution, including hazardous waste and engineering of mitigation measures. Water and waste water treatment analysis. Required for: BSCE Environmental, and BSENE Prerequisites: CHEM 105bL General Chemistry or CHEM 115bL Advanced General Chemistry; Co-Requisite: None MATH 226 Calculus III; PHYS 152L Fundaments of Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism Required Textbook: Environmental Science and Engineering, Glynn Henry and Garry Heink, 2 nd edition 1996, Prentice-Hall, Inc. Reference: None Topics Covered Environmental engineering basics Learning Outcomes 1. The Nature and Scope of Environmental Problems 2. Population and Economic Growth 3. Energy Growth, and Natural Environmental Hazardous 4. Human Environmental Disturbances 5. Physics and Chemistry 6. Atmospheric Sciences 7. Microbiology and Epidemiology 8. Ecology Environmental engineering technology: wastewater treatment objectives and influent characteristics 9. Water Resources, Water Supply, and Water Pollution 10. Air Pollution 11. Solid Wastes 12. Hazardous Wastes Lecture and Lab Schedule Lecture Lab Sessions per Week Duration per Session Sessions per Week Duration per Session 1 3 hours n/a Page 1

7 ENE 400 Environment Engineering Principles 3 Units USC SONNY ASTANI DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Contribution of Course to Meeting the Professional Component Engineering Topics Students learn the environmental engineering basics, and in particular, understand wastewater treatment objectives and influent characteristics. They will also understand and be able to apply environmental Engineering technology Engineering Topics Other Constraints and Considerations. Students will understand the diverse constraints and considerations that are representative of what they will encounter in an engineering practice. This course covers the following topics: Environmental Sustainability Health and Safety Energy Relation of Course Objectives to Program Outcomes The Civil Engineering program is designed to teach beyond the technical content of the curriculum and prepare the students to utilize what they learn in a professional setting. This course contributes to the program outcomes as outlined in the adjacent table. Course Contribution to Program Outcomes (a-k) a. An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering. c. An ability to design a system component or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability. e. An ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems. g. An ability to communicate effectively. h. The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global economic and environmental and societal context. i. Recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in lifelong learning. Key j. Knowledge of contemporary issues. Prepared by: Dr. Ronald Henry Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Date: Spring 2013 Page 2