Graduate Courses

CEE 520. Deterministic and Stochastic Models in Hydrology
Prerequisites: CEE 421, basic knowledge of Matlab (R, or any other programming language). Winter (3 credits)
Mathematical description of key elements of the hydrologic cycle. Water in the atmosphere, convection. Turbulent transfer of admixtures. Surface energy budget. Water flow in soils. Runoff generation. Overland flow. Flood routing through reservoirs and rivers. Linear and nonlinear models for small watershed analysis. Application of time series analysis to hydrologic data. Streamflow simulation by autoregressive and moving average models. Stochastic differential equations. The course will emphasize the numerical approach to problem solving.

CEE 521. Flow in Open Channels
Prerequisite: CEE 421. Fall, even years (3 credits)
Conservation laws for transient flow in open channels; shallow-water approximation; the method of characteristics; simple waves and hydraulic jumps; nonreflective boundary conditions; dam-break analysis; overland flow; prediction and mitigation of flood waves.

CEE 522. Sediment Transport
Prerequisite: CEE 325 or equivalent. Fall, odd years (3 credits)
Mechanics of sediment transport processes in Fluvial systems; initiation of motion; bed forms; resistance to flow; suspended sediment transport; bed load transport; cohesive sediments; geomorphology principles.

CEE 523 (Aero 523) (ME 523). Computational Fluid Dynamics I
Prerequisite: Aero 520 or ME 520. Fall (3 credits)
Physical and mathematical foundations of computational fluid mechanics with emphasis on applications. Solution methods for model equations and the Euler and the Navier-Stokes equations. The finite volume formulation of the equations. Classification of partial differential equations and solution techniques. Truncation errors, stability, conservation and monotonicity. Computer projects and homework.

CEE 524. Environmental Turbulence
Prerequisite: CEE 325 or equivalent. Winter, odd years (3 credits)
Introduction to the topic of turbulence with special emphasis on physical processes; characterization of fundamental turbulent flows such as shear layers, wakes, jets, plumes, and thermals; effect of stratification on turbulence; forcing and control of turbulence by acceleration and pulsation.

CEE 525. Turbulent Mixing in Buoyant Flows
Prerequisite: CEE 325 or equivalent. Fall, odd years (3 credits)
Analysis of submerged turbulent buoyant jets; scaling relations; consideration of ambient effects including density stratification, ambient currents, and limited depth; numerical models for buoyant jet mixing; hydraulics of two-layer stratified flow and control on mixing processes.

CEE 526. Design of Hydraulic Systems
Prerequisite: CEE 325 or equivalent. Winter (3 credits)
Hydraulic design of piping systems including pumps and networks; pump system design including variable speed operation, cavitation, and wet well design; waterhammer and other transient phenomena; control valves and flow metering considerations; hydraulic control structures.

CEE 527. Coastal Hydraulics
Prerequisite: CEE 325 or equivalent. Fall, even years (3 credits)
General description of wave systems including spectral representation; solutions to oscillatory wave equation; wave breaking; harbor resonance; wave shoaling, refraction, and diffraction; wave forecasting; selection of design wave conditions; forces on coastal structures; shoreline erosion processes.

CEE 529. Hydraulic Transients I
Prerequisite: CEE 325. Not regularly scheduled (3 credits)
Incompressible unsteady flow through conduits; numerical, algebraic and graphical analysis of waterhammer; solution of transient problems by the method of characteristics; digital computer applications to pump failures, complex piping systems; valve stroking, and liquid column separation.

CEE 567. Energy Infrastructure Systems
Prerequisite: Senior standing. Winter (3 credits)
Technologies and economics of electric power generation, transmission, and distribution are discussed. Centralized versus distributed generation, and fossil fuels versus renewable resources, are considered in regard to engineering, market and regulatory principles. Students develop an understanding of energy challenges confronting society and investigate technologies that seek to address future needs.

CEE 570 (Nat Res 569). Introduction to Geostatistics
Prerequisite: IOE 265 (statistics and probability) or equivalent. Winter (3 credits)
Sampling design and data representativity. Univariate and bivariate data analysis: continuous and categorical environmental attributes. Description and modeling of spatial variability. Deterministic vs. stochastic models. Spatial interpolation of environmental attributes. Soil and water pollution data will be analyzed using geostatistical software.

CEE 580. Physicochemical Processes in Environmental Engineering
Prerequisite: CEE 460. Winter (3 credits)
Physicochemical separation and transformation processes in natural and engineered environmental systems; process modeling; design of operations involving state and phase transformation; chemical oxidation, reduction, sorption, stripping, and exchange processes, membrane separations, particle aggregation and coagulation, sedimentation and filtration.

CEE 581. Aquatic Chemistry
Prerequisite: Chem 130. Winter (3 credits)
Chemical principles applicable to the analysis of the chemical composition of natural waters and engineered water systems; chemistry of water purification technology and water pollution control; chemical processes which control the movement and fate of trace contaminants in aquatic environments including precipitation-dissolution, oxidation-reduction, adsorption-desorption, and complexation.

CEE 582. Environmental Microbiology
Prerequisite: Chem 130. Fall (3 credits)
Discussion of basic microbial metabolic processes, thermodynamics of growth and energy generation, and genetic and metabolic diversity. Emphasis is placed on the application of these concepts to biogeochemical cycling, subsurface microbiology, wastewater microbiology, pollutant degradation, and microbial ecology.

CEE 583. Surfaces and Interfaces in Aquatic Systems
Prerequisite: CEE 581 or permission of instructor. Not regularly scheduled (3 credits)
Introduction to the principles of surface and interfacial aquatic chemistry, surface complexation theory, and interfacial phenomena. Topics covered include capillarity, wetability, surface tension, contact angle, and surface active agents; surface-chemical aspects of adsorption, ion-exchange, and electrical double layer theory. Discussion of the effects of surfaces and interfaces on transformation reactions of aquatic pollutants.

CEE 586 (Nat Res 557). Industrial Ecology
Prerequisite: senior standing. Winter (3-4 credits)
Analysis of material and energy flows in industrial systems to enhance eco-efficiency and sustainability. Methods: life cycle assessment quantifies energy, waste, emissions (greenhouse gases) for materials production, manufacturing, product use, recovery/disposition. Life cycle design integrate environmental, performance, economic, and regulatory objectives. Multi-objective analysis, engineering design analysis, cross-functional teamwork, large sea modeling skills.

CEE 587 (Nat Res 558). Water Resource Policy
Prerequisite: senior or graduate standing. Winter (3 credits)
Consideration of policy processes associated with the development and utilization of water resources. Special attention is given to the history and development of policy related to water quality. Multi-objective planning is presented. Consideration of institutional problems associated with the implementation of water policy in the federal, state, regional, and local arenas.

CEE 589 (Nat Res 595). Risk and Benefit Analysis in Environmental Engineering
Prerequisite: senior or graduate standing. Fall (3 credits)
Introduction to techniques of risk-benefit analysis as applied to water resources and environmental engineering. Techniques of multi-objective water resource planning. The engineering political interfaces; consideration of political bargaining and decision-making.

CEE 590. Stream, Lake, and Estuary Analysis
Prerequisite: CEE 460 or permission of instructor. Winter (3 credits)
Development of mass balance equations for the characteristics and spatial and temporal distributions of contaminants in natural aquatic systems. Role of biochemical kinetics and mass transfer processes on oxygen resources in streams, lakes, and estuaries. Demonstration of case studies and applied problems.

CEE 592. Biological Processes in Environmental Engineering
Prerequisite: CEE 460. Winter (3 credits)
Theoretical principles, qualitative and quantitative description of suspended growth and biofilm processes, as applicable to wastewater treatment and the bioremediation of soils, sediments and groundwater. Bioremediation processes discussed include bioventing and biosparging, in situ intrinsic and enhanced bioremediation of chlorinated and non-chlorinated compounds.

CEE 593. Environmental Soil Physics
Prerequisite: CEE 428 or CEE 445. Not regularly scheduled (3 credits)
Principles of soil physics with emphasis on environmental problems. Topics include characteristics of solid, liquid and gaseous components of soil; capillarity, air entrapment and the static distribution of water in the unsaturated zone; infiltration, exfiltration and the redistribution of water. Extension of principles to movement of organic liquids in subsurface.

CEE 594. Environmental Soil Chemistry
Prerequisite: CEE 581. Not regularly scheduled (3 credits)
Introduction to the principles of soil chemistry. Topics covered include chemical composition of soils, chemical structure of minerals and soil organic matter, soil colloidal phenomena, sorption, ion-exchange, surface complexation theory, reactivity of soil constituents with inorganic and organic environmental contaminants. Emphasis on the relationship between chemical structure and reactivity.

CEE 596. Chemical Fate and Transport
Prerequisite: CEE 260 or equivalent. Not regularly scheduled (3 credits)
Analysis of the fate, transport and persistence of chemical using fugacity-based modeling methods. Identification of key chemical properties affecting fate and transport. Characterization of environmental and biological media. Distribution mechanisms: partitioning, advection, reaction, diffusion. Hierarchical assessment of chemical fate for steady-state, transient, equilibrium and non-equilibrium conditions. Application to multi-media environmental systems; bioaccumulation in food webs; pharmacokinetic modeling; exposure and risk assessment.

CEE 621. Free Surface Flow
Prerequisite: CEE 521. Fall, odd years (3 credits)
Transient, incompressible flow in three space dimensions. Reynolds averaging and large eddy simulation of turbulent flows. Kinematic and dynamic conditions at air-water interfaces. Numerical solution by finite element and finite volume methods. Algorithms for locating a free surface. Applications to river, lake and estuary models.

CEE 622. Special Problems in Hydraulic Engineering or Hydrology
Prerequisites: permission of instructor. Fall, Winter, Spr/Summer (to be arranged)
Assigned work on an individual basis. Problems of an advanced nature may be selected from a wide variety of topics.

CEE 622 (Section 09). Stream Restoration
Prerequisites: Senior or graduate standing. Fall, even years (3 credits)
Topics covered include sediment transport, fluid mechanics/bluff body flows, hydraulics, geomorphology, dimensional analysis and field measurement techniques, such as particle image velocimetry, acoustic doppler velocimetry, flow and wave gauges. Biological overview of fishes, macrobenthos and plants. Current restoration techniques in a variety of environments.

CEE 682. Special Problems in Environmental Engineering
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Fall, Winter, Spr/Summer (to be arranged)
Special problems designed to develop perspective and depth of comprehension in selected areas of sanitary, environmental or water resources engineering.

CEE 682 (Section 038). Analytical Techniques in Environmental Engineering
Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Winter, odd years (3 credits)
Introduction to chromatographic, spectroscopic and other analytical techniques that are used in environmental engineering. Intended mainly for students will be using the department's analytical facilities during the course of their research.

CEE 682 (Section 039). Inverse Problems in Environmental Engineering
Prerequisites: CEE 270 or IOE 265 or permission of the instructor. Not regularly scheduled (1 or 3 credits)
Introduction to the mathematical and numerical tools used for inverse problems, parameter estimation, and data assimilation in environmental systems. Lectures and guest presentations. Course can also be taken as a 1-credit seminar course, in which case students attend guest presentations, as well as final presentations made by students taking the class for 3 credits.

CEE 686 (ChE 686). Case Studies in Environmental Sustainability
Prerequisite: senior or graduate standing. Winter (2-3 credits)
Case studies focusing on utilization of the principles of industrial ecology and environmental sustainability in professional practice. Development of environmental literacy through examination of current and historical examples of environmental issues and related corporate and industrial practices.

CEE 693. Environmental Molecular Biology
Prerequisite: CEE 592 or permission of instructor. Fall, even years Not regularly scheduled (3 credits)
Principles and techniques of molecular biology with an emphasis on genetic analysis of enzymatic systems capable of pollutant degradation: Genetic systems and gene probing in unusual prokaryotes: Use of molecular biological techniques for the enumeration and characterization of natural microbial communities: Biochemistry and kinetics of enzymatic systems. Lectures and laboratory.

CEE 880. Seminar in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Prerequisite: none. Fall, Winter (1 credit)
Presentation and discussion of selected topics relating to environmental and water resources engineering. Student participation and guest lecturers.

CEE 921. Hydraulic and Hydrological Engineering Research
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Fall, Winter, Spr/Summer (to be arranged)
Assigned work in hydraulic and hydrological research; a wide range of matter and method permissible.

CEE 980 (Section 023). Sustainable Urban Environments
Prerequisites: permission of the instructor. Fall (3 credits)
Sustainable urban environments require an interdisciplinary, systems level approach to ensure that needs are accurately identified and resolved, with the end goal of managing urban environments such that interests of multiple stakeholders are met, including citizens, industries and developers to achieve urban areas that are both environmentally and economically viable. This course will discuss how multiple disciplines can be integrated to identify and discuss this broad goal, including law, public health, engineering, finance, communication, land planning, and construction. The most recent offering of the course includes a field trip to Chicago, Illinois to illustrate these issues.

CEE 980. Research in Environmental Engineering
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Fall, Winter, Spr/Summer (to be arranged)
A research study of some problems relating to water resource development and water supply, waste treatment and pollution control, or sanitation and environmental health; a wide range of both subject matter and method is available, including field investigations, laboratory experimentation, library and public record searches, and engineering design work.

CEE 990. Dissertation/Pre-Candidate
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Fall, Winter, Spr/Summer (to be arranged)
Dissertation work by doctoral student not admitted to status as candidate. The defense of the dissertation, that is, the final oral examination, must be held under a full-term candidacy enrollment.

CEE 995. Dissertation/Candidate
Prerequisite: Graduate School authorization for admission as a doctoral candidate. Fall, Winter, Spr/Summer (to be arranged)
Election for dissertation work by a doctoral student who has been admitted to candidate status. The defense of the dissertation, that is, the final oral examination, must be held under a full-term candidacy enrollment.