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Fall 2006 

230 [80]       Environmental Health Issues

295  [99]       Undergraduate Research

296 [100]     Readings in ENVR

300 [95]       Analysis & Solution of Environmental Problems

400 [103]     Seminar Series

411 [111]     Laboratory Techniques and Field Measurements

413 [113]     Limnology

416    [116]     Aerosol Science

417 [117]     Oceanography

419 [119]   Chemical Equilibria in Natural Waters

430 [130]   Health Effects of Environmental Agents

431 [131]     EHS Techniques

432 [137]     Occupational Safety & Ergonomics

432 [137]     Occupational Safety & Ergonomics

451 [151]     Process Dynamics in Environmental Systems

452 [152]     Fluid Dynamics

453 [153]     Groundwater Hydrology

468 [167]     Advanced Functions of Temporal GIS

585 [185]     American Environmental Policy

600 [101]     Environmental Health

661 [163]     Scientific Computation I

668 [165]     Methods of Applied Mathematics I

691H [99H]  Undergraduate Honors Research

692H [98H]  Honors Thesis

707 [231]     Advanced Toxicology

722 [234]     Toxicology Seminar

727 (213)     Chemistry of Humic Substances

732 [232]     Health Effects of Outdoor and Indoor Air Pollution

750 [250]     Principles of Industrial Ventilation

751[250D]   Ventilation Design Problem

757 [255]     Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Design

761 [261]   Numerical ODE/PDE, I

763 [263]     Mathematical Modeling I

784 [290]     Environmental Law

799 (PLAN 310) Internat'l Conflict Mgmt

890 [200]     Problems in ENVR

890 [200]     Problems in ENVR: Urban Atmos Chem

890 [200]     Aerosol Chem & Physics

890 [200]     TBA

890 [200]     TBA

990 Proposed     Policy Practicum

991 [391]     Research in Environmental Sciences and Engineering

992   [392]     Master's Technical Report

993 [393]     Master's Thesis

994 [394]     Doctoral Dissertation

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Course catalog

These are the official descriptions taken from the University catalog. Additional courses may be added on a semester basis at the discretion of the department.

296 (100) READING IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING (1-6). Prerequisite, permission required for students outside the department. Extensive library study of a specific subject in environmental sciences and engineering. The subject and requirements of the project are arranged with the faculty in each instance. Fall, spring, and summer. Staff.

400 (103) SEMINAR SERIES (1). Presents the results of ongoing research projects in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering. Topics and presenters are selected from among the departmental graduate students and faculty. Fall and spring. Weinberg. 

401 (104) UNIFYING CONCEPTS (3). Unifying concepts of environmental systems, including conservation principles, modeling, economics, and policy with applications from throughout natural, engineered, human systems. Interfaces among scientific, engineering, and policy aspects of the field. Fall. Staff.

402 (105) PROBLEM BASED LEARNING (2). Prerequisite, permission of instructor. A problem common to the field of environmental science will be studied in detail through the use of small groups of students from the various disciplinary areas in the department. Staff.

403 (110) ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY PROCESSES (ENST 403) (3). Prerequisites, a background in chemistry and mathematics, including ordinary differential equations, is essential. Chemical processes occurring in natural and engineered systems: chemical cycles; transport and transformation processes of chemicals in air, water and multimedia environments; chemical dynamics; thermodynamics; structure/activity relationships. Fall. (Alternate years.) Weinberg.

411 (111) LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND FIELD MEASUREMENTS (3). Learn laboratory, field, and analytical skills. Provides a solid introduction to experimental research in environmental sciences and engineering. Students are provided with applications in limnology, aquatic chemistry, and industrial hygiene. Fall. Nylander-French, Weinberg, Whalen.

412 (112) ECOLOGICAL MICROBIOLOGY (3). Prerequisite, one course in general microbiology. A description of microbial populations and communities, the environmental processes they influence, and how they can be controlled to the benefit of humankind. Spring. Pfaender.

413 (113) LIMNOLOGY (3). Prerequisites, introductory biology, chemistry, and physics. Basic aspects of freshwater ecosystem function. Emphasis on trophic level interactions and integration of physical, chemical, and biological principles for a holistic view of lake ecosystem dynamics. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Whalen.

414 (114) ECOLOGY OF WETLANDS (MASC 449) (4). Prerequisites, one year of biology, one year of chemistry, one semester of ecology, and permission of instructor. An introduction to the functioning of freshwater and estuarine marsh and swamp ecosystems, with emphasis on systems of the southeastern U.S. Fall. Staff.

415 (115) BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES (GEOL 450) (MASC 450) (4). Prerequisites, one year biology plus organic and/or physical chemistry or one of MASC 401, GEOL 510, ENVR 419, or permission of the instructor is required. (Note: Advanced graduate students should consider MASC 550.) Integrated application of biological and chemical concepts to understand the processes controlling the cycling of carbon, nutrients, and bioactive trace elements in seawater and marine sediments. Fall. (Alternate years.) Arnosti.

416 (116) INTRODUCTION TO AEROSOL SCIENCE (4). Prerequisite, admission to the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering or permission of the instructor. Physical and chemical principles underlying behavior of particles suspended in air. Topics include rectilinear and curvilinear motion of the particles in a force field, diffusion, evaporation, and condensation, electrical and optical properties and particle coagulation, as well as the behavior of the cloud in toto. Three lecture hours and two lab hours a week. Fall. (Even-numbered years.) Leith.

417 (117) OCEANOGRAPHY ((BIOL 350) (MASC 401) (GEOL 403) (3). Prerequisites, major in a natural science or at least two college-level courses in natural sciences. The origin of ocean basins, chemistry and dynamics of seawater, biological communities and processes, the sedimentary record, and the history of oceanography. Term paper. Intended for students with college science background; other students should see Geology 103. Three lecture hours a week. Fall and spring. Staff.

418 (118) CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY (MASC 505) (4). Prerequisite, one semester of physical chemistry or ENVR 419 or CHEM 480, or permission of instructor. Variation and abundance of sea water constituents, the chemical, physical, and biological processes contributing to their distribution, as well as problems of dispersion of conservative and nonconservative substances. Three lecture and two recitation hours a week. Spring. Martens, Arnosti, Alperin.

419 (119) CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIA IN NATURAL WATERS (3). Principles and applications of chemical equilibria to natural waters. Acid-base, solubility, complex formation, and redox reactions are discussed. This course uses a problem-solving approach to illustrate chemical speciation and environmental implications. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Singer.

421 (133) ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MICROBIOLOGY (3). Prerequisite, introductory course in microbiology or permission of the instructor. Presentation of the microbes of public health importance in water, food, and air, including their detection, occurrence, transport, and survival in the environment; epidemiology and risks from environmental exposure. Two lecture and two laboratory hours per week. Spring. (Odd-numbered years.) Sobsey.

422 (134) AIR AND INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE (3). Problem definition, sources of information, health effects, legislative framework, and control methods for chemical, physical, and biological hazards. Recognition, evaluation, and remediation of hazards associated with community and industrial environments. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Fox.

423 (135) INDUSTRIAL TOXICOLOGY (2). Toxicological assessment of and a case presentation of related exposure is given. A conceptual approach is utilized to design appropriate programs to prevent worker ill health due to industrial toxicant exposure. Two lecture hours per week. Spring. Staff.

430 (130) HEALTH EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AGENTS (3). Prerequisites, basic biology, chemistry through organic, math through calculus; permission of the instructor if prerequisites not met. Interactions of environmental agents (chemicals, infectious organisms, radiation) with biological systems including humans, with particular attention to routes of entry, distribution, metabolism, elimination, and mechanisms of adverse effects. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Ball.

431 (131) TECHNIQUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES (1). Prerequisites, basic biology, chemistry through organic, math through calculus; permission of the instructor if prerequisites not met. A practical introduction to the measurement of biological end-points, emphasizing adverse effects of environmental agents, using laboratory and field techniques. Two laboratory hours per week. Fall. Ball, Sobsey. 

432 (137) OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS (PHNU 786) (3). Fundamentals of occupational safety and ergonomics with emphasis on legislation and organization of industrial safety and ergonomic programs, including hazard recognition, analysis, control, and motivational factors pertaining to industrial accident and cumulative trauma disorder prevention. Fall. Staff.

433 (138) HEALTH HAZARDS OF INDUSTRIAL OPERATION (3). Prerequisite, ENVR 422. An introduction to the health hazards associated with the various unit operations of industry. Field trips to local industries planned. Spring. Flynn.

434 (139) THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EXPOSURE EVALUATION (3). Prerequisites, permission of instructor. Methodology and philosophy of evaluating exposures to air contaminants in the workplace. Course is divided into lectures, case-study analyses, and hands-on term project. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Staff.

442 (132) BIOCHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR TOXICOLOGY (BIOC 442) (TOXC 442) (3). Prerequisites, any combination of two courses in biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, or cell physiology or permission of the instructor. This course focuses on development of a comprehensive understanding of biochemical and actions of environmental chemicals and toxicants, and proper application of novel laboratory techniques for hypothesis-driven mechanistic research. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Rusyn.

450 (150) PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (3). Principles that govern the behavior of contaminants in air and water. Application of these principles to engineered processes that control air and water quality. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Singer, Leith. 

451 (151) PROCESS DYNAMICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS (3). Prerequisites, MATH 524 or equivalent, permission of the instructor. Application of fluid transport, mass transfer, and chemical reactor principles to describe important processes in water/wastewater treatment, air pollution control, and natural systems. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Vizuete.

452 (152) FLUID DYNAMICS (GEOL 560) (MASC 560) (PHYS 660) (3). Prerequisite, PHYS 301 or permission. The physical properties of fluids, kinematics, governing equations, viscous incompressible flow, vorticity dynamics, boundary layers, irrational incompressible flow. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Scotti. 

453 (153) GROUNDWATER HYDROLOGY (3). Prerequisites, math through differential equations and some familiarity with fluid mechanics. Conservation principles for mass, momentum, and energy developed and applied to groundwater systems. Scope includes the movement of water, gas, and organic liquid phases, the transport and reaction of contaminants. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Miller.

460 (154) MARINE SYSTEMS MODELING (GEOL 480) (MASC 480) (3). Prerequisite, MATH 232 or permission of instructor. Mathematical modeling of the dynamic system, linear and nonlinear. The fundamental budget equation. Case studies in modeling convective transport, biogeochemical process, population dynamics. Analytical and numerical techniques, chaos theory, fractal geometry. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Werner, Rial.

461 (160) ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS MODELING (ENST 415) (GEOL 415) (MASC 415) (3). Prerequisites, Math 383, Physics 105, or Physics 117 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of instructor. Methods for developing explanatory and predictive models of environmental processes are explored. Includes discussion of the relevant scientific modes of analysis, mathematical methods, computational issues, and visualization techniques. Two lecture and one computer laboratory hour per week. Spring. Staff, Rial, Werner.

462 (161) GEOSTATISTICS FOR SPATIAL/TEMPORAL ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA (3). Prerequisite, statistics. Stochastic analysis of space-time environmental phenomena. Random field modeling of physical laws. Geostatistical estimation and simulation. Natural heterogeneity. Stochastic PDE of groundwater flow and solute transport. Fall. Staff.

463 (162) RANDOM FIELD MODELING OF PHYSICAL PROCESSES (3). Prerequisite, BIOS 135 or equivalent; calculus through differential equations is desirable. Science of the probable. Random fields. Physical significance and methodological theses. Spatial and spatiotemporal variability. Ordinary and generalized fields of natural processes. Transport-type models. Bayesian/Maximum entropy estimation. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Staff. 

468 (167) ADVANCED FUNCTION OF TEMPORAL GIS (3). Advanced function of Temporal Geographical Information Systems (TGIS). These fields describe natural, epidemiological, economic, and social phenomena distributed across space and time. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Serre.

470 (175) ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT (3). Prerequisites, ENVR 403, ENVR 430. Methods of environmental risk assessment, including hazard identification, exposure assessment, exposure-response assessment, and risk characterization, are developed and applied. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Crawford-Brown. 

471 (176) QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MICROBIOLOGY (3). Prerequisites, microbiology, epidemiology, and infectious diseases recommended. Survey of alternative approaches, frameworks, and decision-making tools for quantitative risk assessment of microbial pathogens that infect humans and cause disease by the exposure routes of water, food, air and other vehicles. Spring. (Even-numbered years.) Sobsey.

516 (116L) AEROSOL SCIENCE LABORATORY (2). Prerequisite or corequisite, ENVR 416. Basic laboratory exercises in aerosol sciences. Fall. (Alternate years.) Reist.

520 (120) BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY (BIOL 657) (MASC 504) (4). Prerequisite, BIOL 201 or 475 or permission of instructor. Physical, chemical, and biological factors characterizing estuarine and marine environments emphasizing factors controlling animal and plant populations, including methods of analysis, sampling, and identification. Spring. Lindquist.

585 (185) AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (PLAN 585) (PLCY 585) (3). Intensive introduction to environmental management and policy, including environmental and health risks, policy institutions, processes, and instruments, policy analysis, and major elements of American environmental policy. Lectures and case studies. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Andrews.

600 (101) ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH (2). Survey course: relationship between environmental quality, human health and welfare. Contamination in human environment; physical, biological, and social factors; trade-offs regarding prevention and remediation measures. Lectures, group discussions, and projects. Emphasizes critical thinking. Satisfies core SPH requirement. Two credit hours per week. Fall and spring. Staff.

661 (163) SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION I (MATH 661) (3). Error in computation. Solution of nonlinear equations. Interpolation. Approximation of functions. Fourier methods. Numerical integration and differentiation. Introduction to numerical solution of ODEs. Introduction to numerical linear algebra. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Minion.

662 (164) SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION II (MATH 662) (3). Direct methods for linear systems. Least squares problems. Iterative methods for linear systems. Direct and iterative methods for eigenvalue problems. The singular value decomposition. Methods for (stiff) systems of ODEs. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Camassa.

668 (165) METHODS OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS I (MATH 668) (3). Topics: Contour integration in the complex plane, asymptotic expansions and steepest descent/stationary phase methods, special functions often arising in physical applications, elliptic functions and theta functions, Sturm-Liouville spectral theory. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. McLaughlin.

669 (166) METHODS OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS II (MATH 669) (3). Topics: Perturbation methods for ODE and PDE; WKBJ method, averaging, modulation theory for linear dispersive PDEs and nonlinear wave equations; long-time asymptotics of Fourier integral representations of PDEs; Green's functions; physical applications. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Camassa.

685 (286) WATER AND SANITATION PLANNING AND POLICY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (PLAN 685) (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. Seminar on policy and planning approaches for providing improved community water and sanitation services in developing countries. Topics covered include the choice of appropriate technology and level of service; pricing, metering, and connection charges; cost recovery and targeting subsidies to the poor; water vending; community participation in the management and operation of water systems; and rent-seeking behavior in the provision of water supplies. Three seminar hours per week. Spring. Whittington.

701 (216) ECOLOGY OF AQUATIC PLANTS AND WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS (3). Prerequisites, BIOL 101, CHEM 101, 102, or permission. Adaptations of aquatic plants and microorganisms of land-water interface regions of lakes and rivers, their nutrition, growth, population dynamics, competition, herbivory, productivity, physiological control measures. Wetlands functions, values to humans. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. (Even-numbered years.) Staff.

707 (231) ADVANCED TOXICOLOGY (TOXC 707) (3). Prerequisite, PHCO 702 or permission of the instructor. Cellular and physiological basis of toxicity of environmental chemicals, with emphasis on organ-specific toxicology, developmental toxicology, and radiation toxicology. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Swenberg.

710 (254) ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS BIOTECHNOLOGY (3). Prerequisite, a previous or concurrent course in microbiology. Theory and practice of biological processes used to remove contaminants from environmental media, including water, wastewater, soil, and air. Spring. Aitken. 

722 (234) Seminars in Toxicology (TOXC 722) (1). This course will consist of presentation by the outside invited speakers, local faculty, advanced graduate students, and postdoctoral trainees. Topics will cover all areas of research in toxicology. One seminar hour per week. Fall and spring. Rusyn.

724 (201) CURRENT TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY (1). Students will select, critically review, and discuss current research papers for content, relevance, innovation, and clarity. Papers can be from any aspect of the environmental sciences. Two lecture hours per week, every other week Fall. (Even-numbered years.) Weinberg.

725 (210) ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICAL-ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (3). The physical chemistry of the partitioning, exchange, and chemical transformation of organic contaminants in the water, air, and soil environments. Spring. Kamens.

726 (211) INSTRUMENTAL METHODS FOR THE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES (3). Prerequisite, basic or general chemistry. Emphasis on acquiring laboratory skills and hands-on experience with instrumentation; sample handling and preparation; modern analytical techniques to include chromatography and spectroscopy; quality assurance and control. One lecture hour and four laboratory hours per week. Spring. Weinberg. 

727 (213) CHEMISTRY OF HUMIC SUBSTANCES (1). Prerequisites, organic or physical chemistry and permission of instructor. Critical analysis for PhD students of chemistry, role, and function of refractory organic matter in aquatic environments. Two lecture hours per week. Fall Christman.

728 (214) ANALYSIS OF TRACE ORGANICS (3). Prerequisites, CHEM 261-262, CHEM 481-482, and PHYS 104-105; permission of the instructor required if prerequisites not met. Basic principles of isolation, separation, and identification of trace organic chemicals in environmental and/or biological samples including solvent extraction, liquid and gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Hass, Albro.

729 (212) REDOX PROCESSES (3). Prerequisite, physical chemistry. Redox processes in the aquatic environment. Includes thermodynamics and kinetics; photochemical process in aquatic systems; oxidation processes for treatment of natural and anthropogenic organics, using ozone, peroxides, and UV radiation. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. (Alternate years.) Weinberg. 

732 (232) HEALTH EFFECTS OF OUTDOOR AND INDOOR AIR POLLUTION (3). Prerequisite, knowledge of basic human physiology and biochemistry helpful. Assessing health effects of air pollutants on normal and diseased human populations, including children. Physiology, cellular and molecular biology, immunology, genetics, dosimetry will be integrated. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Hazucha.

740 (230) PRINCIPLES OF CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS (2). Prerequisite, organic chemistry. Bioactivation of carcinogens, interaction of activated metabolites with DNA, and their effects on DNA structure, replication, repair, and the control of these processes during development of chemically induced carcinogenesis. Two lecture hours per week. Spring. Gold.

750 (250) PRINCIPLES OF INDUSTRIAL VENTILATION (3). Prerequisites, calculus and physics; permission of the instructor. Principles of industrial ventilation for contaminant control and design of such systems. Basic laboratory exercises. Two lecture and one laboratory hour per week. Fall. Flynn.

751 (250D) VENTILATION DESIGN PROBLEM (1). Corequisite, ENVR 750; prerequisite, permission of the instructor. Design problem for industrial operation. One seminar hour per week. Fall. Flynn. 

754 (251) AIR POLLUTION CONTROL (3). Prerequisite , ENVR 422. Engineering control of air pollution control systems and discussion of air pollution regulation and standards. Spring. (Odd-numbered years.) Leith .

755 (252) ANALYSIS OF WATER RESOURCE SYSTEMS (3). Prerequisite for non-engineering students, permission of the instructor. Use of mathematical models to design and evaluate regional water supply and treatment systems. Engineering and economic methods are incorporated into quantitative analyses of regional scenarios. Social and political aspects also discussed. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Characklis.

756 (253) PHYSICAL/CHEMICAL TREATMENT PROCESSES (3). Prerequisites, ENVR 419 or equivalent, and 451 or equivalent. Fundamental descriptions of disinfection, oxidation, coagulation, precipitation, sedimentation, filtration, adsorption, ion exchange, and membrane processes; applications to water and wastewater treatment. Two lecture hours per week. Spring. DiGiano, Singer.

757 (255) WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT DESIGN (3). Prerequisites, ENVR 756 and 710. The application of the theory of water and wastewater treatment to the design of municipal facilities. The course includes the principles of design and modern design practices. Design and analysis of design of specific works for water and wastewater treatment. Summer. Staff.

758 (256) ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING PROJECT (3). Prerequisite, permission of instructor. Ad hoc project designed for students to work as a team in addressing a current problem in environmental engineering. Projects may include laboratory or pilot-scale studies, collection and analysis of data from full-scale systems, or comprehensive analysis of relevant problems in environmental engineering practice. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Staff. 

759 (265) MULTIPHASE TRANSPORT PHENOMENA (3). Prerequisite, ENVR 463 or 661 or equivalent. Continuum mechanical approach to formulating mass, momentum, energy, and entropy equations to describe multiphase transport phenomena. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Miller.

761 (261) NUMERICAL ODE/PDE I (MATH 761) (MASC 781) (3). Prerequisites, MATH 661, 662. Single, multistep methods for ODEs: stability regions, the root condition, stiff systems, backward difference formulas; two-point BVPs; stability theory; finite difference methods for linear advection diffusion equations. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Minion, Miller, Werner.

762 (262) NUMERICAL ODE/PDE II (MATH 762) (MASC 782) (3). Prerequisite, MATH 761. Elliptic equation methods (finite differences, elements, integral equations); Hyperbolic conservation law methods (Lax-Friedrich, characteristics, entropy condition, shock tracking/capturing); spectral, pseudo-spectral methods; particle methods, fast summation, fast multipole/vortex methods. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Minion, Miller, Werner.

763 (263) MATHEMATICAL MODELING I (MATH 768) (MASC 783) (3). Prerequisites, MATH 668, 669, 661, 662. Nondimensionalization and identification of leading order physical effects with respect to relevant scales and phenomena; deviation of classical models of fluid mechanics (lubrication, slender filament, thin filing, Stokes flow); deviation of weakly nonlinear envelope equations. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Camassa, Forest , Miller, Werner.

764 (264) MATHEMATICAL MODELING II (MATH 769) (MASC 784) (3). Prerequisites, MATH 668, 669, 661, 662. Current models in science and technology: topics ranging from material science applications (e.g., flow of polymers and LCPs); geophysical applications (e.g., ocean circulation, quasi-geostrophic models, atmospheric vortices). Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Camassa, Forest , Miller, Werner.

765 (275) MODEL-BASED EXPOSURE MAPPING AND RISK ASSESSMENT (3). Introduction to modern models and techniques for studying environmental and health systems which vary in space and time. Applications in environmental engineering, ecology, epidemiology, geography, and health risk assessment. Spring. Serre.

766 (277) STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MODELING (3). Prerequisite, statistics. A holistic/stochastic perspective, spatiotemporal random field modeling of environmental exposure and biological variabilities. Uncertainty in environmental exposure. Biomarkers and population damage indicators for epidemiological analysis. Cell-based stochastic differential equations. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Staff.

767 (279) MODELING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RISK (3). Prerequisite, ENVR 470. Mathematical methods for development of advanced models in environmental risk assessment, including exposure assessment and exposure-response assessment, are developed and applied. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Crawford-Brown.

 768 (260) MICROENVIRONMENTAL AIR FLOW MODELING (3). Prerequisites, fluid mechanics and permission of the instructor. Applications of finite element and vortex methods for modeling air flows of significance in industrial hygiene applications. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Flynn.

769 (276) ADVANCED METHODS OF EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT (3). Prerequisites, BIOS 551, 545 (545 may be taken concurrently), ENVR 430 or equivalent, and permission of the instructor required for nonmajors. Covers the statistical and biological considerations in assessing environmental exposures to chemicals with particular attention to airborne chemicals in occupational settings. Spring. (Even-numbered years.) Rappaport. 

770 (233) BIOLOGICAL MONITORING (2). Prerequisite, ENVR 430 or equivalent. This course provides both practical and theoretical information on biological monitoring of chemical exposures and how to evaluate and interpret exposure data. Two lecture hours per week and a term paper (2 credit hours). Spring. Nylander-French.

781 (291) WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND POLICY ANALYSIS (PLAN 781) (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. Water resources planning and management. Federal and state water resources policies. Analytical skills to identify environmental problems associated with urban water resources development. Three lecture hours per week. Fall. Moreau.

784 (290) ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (PLAN 784) (3). Prerequisite, permission of the instructor. An examination of the law of resource use and development, its administration, and underlying policies. Particular attention to water resources law, regulatory law, and natural resource administration. Regulatory aspects of pollution control programs are covered. Three lecture hours a week. Fall. Heath 

785 (289) PUBLIC INVESTMENT THEORY (PLAN 785) (PLCY 785) (3). Prerequisite, PLAN 710 or equivalent. Basic theory, process, and techniques of public investment planning and decision making, involving synthesis of economic, political, and technologic aspects. Theory underlying benefit-cost analysis, adaption to a descriptive and normative model for planning public projects and programs. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Whittington. 

786 (292) ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY PLANNING (PLAN 786) (3). Planning and analysis of regional environmental systems with focus on management of mass flows that affect the quality of the regional environment. Three lecture hours per week. Spring. Moreau.

850 (285) SURFACE WATER QUALITY: MODELING AND POLICY (3).  This course is designed to provide students with a fundamental understanding of water quality modeling theory and application, including analysis of policy-related scenarios. Concepts related to mass balances, reaction kinetics, and transport are applied within a surface water systems context. Calculus and some nominal computer skills (e.g., Excel) are required.  Mass balance and kinetics concepts will be reviewed, so while ENVR 451 is not necessary, those that have taken or are taking this course will find it to be complementary.

885 (288) CURRENT APPLICATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (4). Interdisciplinary group project. Analysis of a current environmental management problem. Topic changes each year. Three lecture hours and one laboratory hour per week. Spring. Staff.

890 (200) PROBLEMS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING (1 or more). Departmental permission required. For students outside the department who wish to undertake individual study of a specific problem in environmental sciences and engineering. The subject and requirements of the project are arranged with the faculty in each individual instance. One or more hours a week. Fall, spring, and summer. Staff.

892 (353) PHD SEMINAR IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND POLICY (PLAN 892) (PLCY 892) (1). Prerequisites, doctoral standing and permission of the instructor. PhD seminar on theory, methods, and current research and literature in environmental management and policy. One to two seminar hours per week. Fall or spring, on demand. Andrews.

899 (300) SEMINAR IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING (1 or more). Prerequisite, permission of instructor for nonmajors. Readings and discussions to provide opportunity to develop new concepts and topics in various aspects of environmental sciences and engineering. Fall, spring, and summer. Staff. 

991 (391) RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING (1-9). Prerequisites, consultation with the faculty and approval of subject and proposed program and permission of instructor. May be repeated. Hours and credits to be arranged. Fall, spring, and summer. Staff.

992 (392) MASTER'S TECHNICAL REPORT (3-9). The technical report requirement for MSPH, MPH, and MSEE candidates is satisfied by the extensive study of a problem in environmental sciences and engineering. Fall, spring, and summer. Staff.

993 (393) MASTER'S THESIS (3-9). Fall, spring, and summer. Staff.

994 (394) DOCTORAL DISSERTATION (3-9). Fall, spring, and summer. Staff.