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ISEN 430 NUvention Energy (1): This NUvention Energy course invites graduate students from all over campus to participate in forming interdisciplinary teams to develop a product or service and a business in the burgeoning sustainable energy industry. Consistent with the NUvention approach, student teams develop their own business ideas, rather than consult to companies to develop company ideas or technologies. This courses helps students develop creative, interpersonal, business and technical skills. Prerequisites: Permission and interview with the instructor.
ISEN 440 Sustainability Practicum (1): This is a project-based course in which multidisciplinary teams of graduate students will tackle problems related to the challenges associated with the transition to a sustainable economy and society. Projects are sponsored by industry, corporate, and small business partners and will cover topics such as the development of policy and business strategies for carbon management, energy and water audits for sustainable buildings, etc. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.
Related Courses
CHEM_ENG 364 Chemical Processing and the Environment (1): Application of chemical engineering fundamentals to environmental problems. Chemistry and mechanisms, chemical reactions and rate, and transport emphasized. Risk assessment and analysis revealed through case studies. Prerequisites: CHEM_ENG 212 and CHEM_ENG 307.
CHEM_ENG 365 Sustainability, Technology and Society (1): Technical discussion of sustainability, sustainable development, global warming, natural and renewable resources and utilization, industrial ecology, eco-efficiency, technology related to sustainability, and risk assessment.
CIV_ENG 349 Environmental Management (1): Roles and responsibilities of project managers who deal with environmental issues. Addresses how managers deal with previously created environmental problems, respond to current requirements, and anticipate future needs. A technical background is required.
CIV_ENG 359 Hazardous Waste Management (1): Definition and regulation of wastes. Pollutant transport, fate, and toxicology. Management via audits and prevention. Treatment and control. Risk and site assessment and site remediation.
CIV_ENG 360 Environmental Impact Evaluation (1): Environmental legislation and quality indices. Methods for evaluating impact of engineering projects on environmental quality. Impact statements, projects, and summary impact reports.
CIV_ENG 361 Environmental Microbiology and Public Health (1): Basic principles of microbiology; etiology of infectious and noninfectious diseases; control of environmentally based health hazards.
CIV_ENG 363 Environmental Engineering Applications I: Air & Land (1): The nature and control of air pollution. Sources, physical and chemical properties, and effects of major air pollutants; analytical measurements and monitoring of air pollutants; engineering and legislative control.
CIV_ENG 364 Sanitary Engineering (1): Engineering elements of water supply and pollution abatement. Water quality standards, water and wastewater treatment processes, and the management of receiving waters to control pollution.
CIV_ENG 366 Ecosystems and Ecotoxicology (1): Terrestrial, freshwater, marine, and estuarine ecosystems. Fundamentals of toxicology, and application to natural environments and biotic components; tolerance limits and adaptation of organisms to environmental change brought on naturally or by human technology and activity.
CIV_ENG 367 Aquatic Chemistry (1): Chemical equilibria in natural waters. Development of the theoretical basis for the chemical behavior of aquatic systems emphasizing a problem-solving approach. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
CIV_ENG 370 Environmental Engineering Design (1): Culminating student team design experience in Environmental Engineering: decision making in selection and implementation of environmental control measures, including evaluation of economic, social and environmental impacts of alternative proposed projects. Prerequisites: Senior standing in the Environmental Engineering program or permission of the instructor.
CIV_ENG 371 Introduction to Transportation Planning and Analysis (1): Analysis and design of solutions to transportation problems; introduction to selected operations research and statistical analysis techniques; use of case studies in urban transportation, intercity passenger transport, and freight movements.
CIV_ENG 376 Transportation System Operations (1): Traffic flow theory; vehicle and human factors; intersection performance and control; management and control of arterial streets and networks; neighborhood traffic restraint; urban transit operations. Operations concepts and theories applied to actual problems through laboratory practice.
CIV_ENG 382 Infrastructure Facilities and Systems (1): Culminating student team design experience in Civil and Environmental Engineering, with overview of function, design, and operation of modern infrastructure systems, through lecture-discussions and weekly field trips to working systems. Prerequisites: Senior standing in Civil and Environmental Engineering, or permission of the instructor.
ECON 370 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (1): Externalities and the role of property rights, pollution, waste disposal, common property problems, renewable resource management, nonrenewable resource use and depletion, recyclable resources, water allocation, and management of public lands. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
IEMS 325 Engineering Entrepreneurship (1): Overview of the entrepreneurial process from an engineering perspective. Idea evaluation; planning; financing; marketing; protecting; staffing; leading; growing; harvesting. Lectures, guest speakers, case studies. a startup business plan will be written. Prerequisites: One course in accounting or finance, such as IEMS 326, or permission of instructor.
MAT_SCI 395 Special Topics in Materials Science (1): Topics may be suggested by students or faculty, with the approval of the department.
MECH_ENG 346 Introduction to Tribology (1): Fundamentals of surface contact: surface topography; asperity contact; interfacial phenomena. Friction theories and wear mechanisms. Temperatures in sliding contacts. Hydrodynamic, hydrostatic, elastohydrodynamic, and boundary lubrication.
MECH_ENG 379 Elements of Combustion Engineering (1): Introduction to combustion processes; flame processes as they relate to efficiency and pollution due to propulsion and power-generating systems. Diffusion and premixed flames; problems of ignition, quenching, inflammability limits, and detonation.
MECH_ENG 395 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering (1): Topics suggested by students or faculty, with approval of the department.
SOCIOL 305 Demography and Population Problems (1): Population and social structure. Fertility, mortality, and migration. Age-sex structure, spatial distributions, and socioeconomic composition. Problems of growth, distribution, population control, and scarce resources in developed and underdeveloped countries.
SOCIOL 312 Social Basis of Environmental Change (1): Relationship of the social organization of production and consumption to environmental degradation. Evaluation of social forces supporting and opposing environmental reform. Social welfare considerations in alternative models of reform.
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