Environmental and Water Resources Engineering

Course Offerings

 

• CE 2803. Environmental Engineering Issues – Environmental laws and regulations, introduction to governing physics concepts, ecology, and environmental management.
  
  
• CE 3804. Environmental and Water Resources Engineering I. Introduction to hydrology, open channel flow, pipe flow, and groundwater flow. Water uses and water resources project purposes and design considerations. Planning for water resources development. Potable water production and wastewater quality management. Lab.
  
  
• CE 3814. Environmental and Water Resources Engineering II. Flow in pipes and open channels, pipe networks design, storm and sanitary sewer design, pump design and selection. Lab.

• CE 4513/6513 Engineering Hydrology. Hydrologic processes; rainfall-runoff analysis; groundwater flow; frequency analysis; hydrologic design.
  
  
• CE 4523/6523 Open Channel Hydraulics. Continuity, energy and momentum principles in open channel flow; flow resistance; uniform and non-uniform flow; channel controls and transitions; unsteady flow routing.
  
  
• CE 4533/6533 Computations in Water Resources.  Review of relevant numerical analysis; numerical methods for kinematic wave, St. Venant, Boussinesq and depth-averaged equations; simulation of one- and two-dimensional free-surface flows.
  

• CE 4563/6563. Sedimentation Engineering – Processes by which cohesive and non-cohesive sediments are transported, deposited, and eroded.  Computation of transport rates. Design and operation solutions to sediment problems.
  
  
• CE 4573/6573. Waterborne Transportation.  Planning and design of Marine Transportation System facilities. Components and stakeholders of the MTS. Navigation vessels and their characteristics. Planning, design and operation of navigation ports, channels, and locks.
  
  
• CE 4583/6583. Water Resource Engineering Analysis and Computations . Three hours lecture and computer lab. Use of intelligent simulation software for analysis/design of engineering systems. Systems studied include water distribution, storm water management & detention, and sanitary sewers.

• CE 4593/6593. Water Resources Engineering Practice. Water resources engineering as practiced by public agencies in planning, designing, constructing, and operating projects. Preserving technical knowledge of expert practitioners.

• CE 4843/6843 Advanced Sanitary Analysis. Introduction to advanced theoretical concepts in sanitary engineering analysis with special emphasis on inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry.
  
  
• CE 4873/6873 Water & Wastewater Engineering. Two hours lecture. One hour laboratory. Evaluation of municipal water and waste-water characteristics and flows; application of various unit processes/unit operations for the treatment of municipal water and wastewater.
  
  
• CE 4893/6893 Hazardous Waste Management. Examination of state-of-the-art technologies available for the handling treatment; storage; and disposal of hazardous waste materials.

• CE 8533. Hydromechanics. Hydraulic equations of motion and their analytic solutions. Similitude and modeling. Unsteady, non-uniform flow in closed conduits and open channels.
  
  
• CE 8543. Tidal Hydraulics. Bay and estuarine hydrodynamics, transport, and engineering.  Unsteady, non-uniform stratified flows, tides, currents, estuarine circulation, salinity intrusion, and sedimentation, and engineering analyses and works.

• CE 8553. Computational Hydraulics. Generation of the standard geophysical flow equations from the Navier-Stokes equations and numerical techniques to apply the standard equations to rivers, lakes, wetlands, estuaries, and seas.
  
  
• CE 8563. Groundwater Resource Evaluation. Three hours lecture. Groundwater movement; Darcy’s law; equations of groundwater flow; confined and unconfined flow; wells and well field analysis; groundwater quality; aquifer management. Nonconservative pollutants in natural waters.

• CE 8573 Environmental Quality.  Discussion of physical/ chemical/ biological processes impacting conventional and toxic materials in surface waters. Overview of characteristics of rivers/streams, lakes and estuaries related to environmental quality.

• CE 8803 Unit Operations in Environmental Engineering I.  Theory and application of physical and chemical unit processes and operations available for the treatment of water and wastewater.
  
  
• CE 8823 Unit Operations in Environmental Engineering II.  Theory and application of biological processes available for the treatment of wastewater.
  
  
• CE 8833 Sludge Treatment & Disposal. Basic theory of sludge handling; treatment, disposal, and design application.
  
  
•  CE 8843 Water Treatment Plant Design. An in-depth consideration of criteria for the selection of water sources for a potable supply. Theory and design considerations for selecting treatment alternatives.
  
  
• CE 8863 Solid Waste Management. Define and characterize non-hazardous solid wastes and how to minimize, handle, transport, store, recycle and dispose of these materials.
  
  
• CE 8893 Industrial Waste Management.  Delineation of industrial wastes; the regulations pertaining to them; and the technologies applied in their being reduced, reused, recycled, treated, and disposed.
  
  
• CE 8923 Surface Water Quality Modeling. Development of the mathematical formulations describing the distribution of concentration of conservative and nonconservative pollutants describing the distribution of concentration of conservative in natural waters.

•  CE 8933 Surface Water Quality Modeling II. An advanced examination of surface water quality modeling including an overview of the present state-of-the-art as related to modeling of eutrophication and toxic materials (organic chemicals and metals) and review of recent trends.  
  
  
• CE 8943 Advanced Topics in Hydraulics.  A set of advanced hydraulic engineering topics including turbulence, transients in closed conduit flows, hydraulic structures, fluid-structure interaction, and similitude and/or others as needed to address current research.
  
  
• CE 8953 Fine Sediment Processes. Clay mineralogy. Physical and chemical processes controlling fine-grained sediment transport, erosion, and deposition. Numerical modeling of fine sediment transport. Environmental effects of sediment.

 

* Notes: 

1. 2000-4000 level courses are at the undergraduate level. 4000/6000 level courses provide undergraduate credit or graduate credit with more rigorous assignments and exams.  8000 level courses are graduate level courses that prepare students for non-standard engineering problems and advanced graduate studies.
2. The last digit in the course number indicates the number of semester hours credit.
3. Not every course is offered every year.
4. Some of these courses are new and have not yet been approved by the university.