Teaching

CIV_ENV 395: Projects Practicum in Environmental Engineering
–This course focuses on the application of environmental engineering fundamentals to evaluate, model, and develop engineering solutions for different environmental contamination scenarios. Students will work in groups of “environmental consulting engineers” to address each problem scenario by designing engineering approaches to the problems, deriving mass balances of problem contaminants, applying differential equations to model biological and chemical transformations, evaluate cost-benefit analyses, and assess implementation challenges of solutions.

CIV_ENV 495: Environmental Particles and Surface Chemistry
–Natural particles such as mineral precipitates, mineral oxides, clay minerals, and organo-mineral composites facilitate the cycling of important elements in the environment, facilitate nutrient availability for agricultural productivity, buffer the adverse effects of climatic conditions in lakes and oceans, and mediate transport and degradation of contaminants in environmental processes. This course covers the surface chemistry of these particles, including fundamental concepts and applications of chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, and molecular spectroscopy in particle characterization.

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