ENVE 1010.
Environmental Engineering Synthesis I.
1 hour.
Oasis Title: ENVE ENGR SYNTH I.
Prerequisite: Permission of major.
First in a sequence of four synthesis courses focused on the
study of one or more basic issues and topics relevant to
environmental engineering and today’s society. Students will
be introduced to broad issues that comprise the field of
environmental engineering and conduct basic, introductory level
research into the influences that are most germane to the
environmental engineering practice.
Non-traditional format: Topics are analyzed in the context of the relevant engineering
factors as well as non-engineering disciplines such as the
economic, political, sociological, and historical elements as
to how the issue developed. Students will begin development of
their Professional Development Profiles, an activity that will
be monitored throughout their engineering education and will
culminate in the senior year.
Offered fall semester every year.
ENVE 1020.
Environmental Engineering Synthesis II.
2 hours.
Oasis Title: ENVE ENGR SYNTH II.
Prerequisite: ENVE 1010 or permission of department.
Second in a sequence of four synthesis courses focused on the
study of one or more basic issues and topics relevant to
environmental engineering and today’s society. Students will
conduct detailed investigations and research in the topics
under consideration, and apply appropriate principles from math
and basic sciences, commensurate with a sophomore level
engineering status, to analyze identified issues while also
conducting outside research, and engaging in group discussions
and debates.
Non-traditional format: Hand and spreadsheet calculations will be utilized in most
analyses. The concept of modeling and problem-framing will be
integrated throughout the course. Investigations will be done
individually and in teams under the guidance of the instructor
with students demonstrating the use of their current semester’s
coursework. Students will continue development of their
Professional Development Profiles which will include
introductory principles of engineering design methodology.
Offered spring semester every year.
ENVE 1110.
Engineering Graphics and Visualization.
2 hours.
1 hour lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ENGR GRAPH VISUAL.
Prerequisite: Permission of major.
Introductory course in engineering graphics and visualization
as applied to processes, devices and systems appropriate to
students’ individual engineering disciplines. Class will be
comprised of common lectures for all engineering students
accompanied by relevant laboratory measurements and data
collection to be incorporated into a graphics format
appropriate to the students’ respective engineering focuses.
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.
ENVE 2010.
Environmental Engineering Synthesis III.
2 hours.
Oasis Title: ENVE ENGR SYNTH III.
Prerequisite: ENVE 1020 or permission of department.
Third in a sequence of four synthesis courses focused on the
study of issues and topics with an increase in complexity
compared with Environmental Engineering Synthesis II. Students
will engage in rigorous exercises that involve problem
identification, problem-framing, and determination of
appropriate analyses for developing solutions to environmental
engineering issues. Students will continue development of
their Professional Development Profiles.
Offered fall semester every year.
ENVE 2020.
Environmental Engineering Synthesis IV.
2 hours.
Oasis Title: ENVE ENGR SYNTH IV.
Prerequisite: ENVE 2010 or permission of department.
Final course in a sequence of four synthesis courses focused on
the study of one or more basic issues and topics relevant to
environmental engineering and today’s society. Students will
engage in an advanced topic that necessitates the integration
of societal, technological, and environmental constraints.
Non-traditional format: Students will conclude the synthesis portion of their
Professional Development Profiles by delivering a final
synthesis project that includes written documentation and oral
presentation. Moreover, students will begin preparation for
the design portion of their environmental engineering program
will begin in the subsequent semester.
Offered spring semester every year.
ENVE 2140.
Mechanics of Solids.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: MECH SOLIDS.
Prerequisite: PHYS 1211-1211L and MATH 2500.
Prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 2700.
Introduction to the fundamental principles and methods of
structural mechanics. Static equilibrium; force resultants;
supports; analysis of beams, trusses, and frames; stress and
strain in structures; shear; bending torsion; statically
indeterminate systems; displacement; deformation; matrix
methods; and elastic stability.
Offered spring semester every year.
ENVE 2320.
Environmental Engineering – Urban Systems.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENV ENGR URBAN.
Prerequisite: MATH 2250 and ENVE 2610.
Prerequisite or corequisite: CHEM 1211 and CHEM 1211L.
Introduction to the urban system as a biological habitat,
including concepts of engineered infrastructure, ecology,
watersheds, water/air quality, solid waste, pollutant
fate/transport, public health, human behavior, environmental
policy, economics, and conservation. Sources of environmental
pollution and the technologies for measuring and remediating
the impact of environmental pollution will be considered.
Offered fall semester every year.
ENVE 2610.
Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Sustainability.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTRO ENV ENGR SUST.
Prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 1113 or permission of department.
An introduction to what is meant by a sustainable economy and
society, and how that relates to current conditions in the
United States and the world. Emphasis is placed on the key
topics such as energy, water, natural resources,
transportation, food production, materials use and processing,
and waste handling.
Offered every year.
ENVE 3210.
Energy Analysis I.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENERGY I.
Prerequisite: (CHEM 1211 and CHEM 1211L and PHYS 1211-1211L) or permission of department.
Prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 2700.
Introduction to energy principles and analysis based on the
fundamentals of thermodynamics and heat transfer. The first
law of thermodynamics will be introduced and examined in-depth
with respect to its applications at multiple scales.
Offered fall semester every year.
ENVE 3220.
Energy Analysis II.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENERGY II.
Prerequisite: ENVE 3210 or permission of department.
Extension of energy, thermodynamics, and heat transfer
fundamentals from Energy Analysis I using the second law of
thermodynamics and the field of energetics. Concepts of exergy
and energy transformations will be developed and used in the
analysis of ecosystem function in the open environment.
Additional attention will be given to availability analysis in
energy production and utilization in building design and
industrial systems with an emphasis on how these concepts
influence the overall sustainability of systems.
Offered spring semester every year.
ENVE 3250.
Ecoengineering Applications.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ECOENGR APP.
Prerequisite: MATH 2250 and ENVE 2610 and BIOL 1104.
Applications of environmental engineering based on biological
and ecological constraints. Environmental engineering
practices and ecotechnology at various spatial scales ranging
from local to watershed to regional will be developed with an
emphasis on balancing technological objectives with
environmental requirements.
Offered spring semester every year.
ENVE 3340.
Transport Process in the Environment.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: TRANS PROC ENV.
Prerequisite: (MATH 2700 and ENGR 3160) or permission of department.
Introduction to transport in environmental flows, the fate and
transport of chemicals and biological components, and the
physical nature of environmental processes.
ENVE 3460.
Groundwater Hydrology for Engineers.
3 hours.
2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: GROUNDWATER HYDROL.
Prerequisite: CHEM 1212 and CHEM 1212L and ENGR 3410.
Unsaturated and saturated water flow will be modeled along with
fate and transport of inorganic and organic pollutants.
Classical analytical approaches beginning with the Dupuit-
Forchheimer assumptions and classic analytical approaches will
be covered. Modern numerical approaches will be covered.
Emphasis will be placed on natural and engineered approaches
that remove pollutants and minimize risk.
Offered every year.
ENVE 3510.
Modeling, Statistical Analysis, and Uncertainty.
3 hours.
2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: MODEL, STAT ANALY.
Prerequisite: MATH 2260.
Modeling and analysis of engineering problems under uncertainty
with applications of probability and statistical concepts and
methods. Data collection, measurements, simulation, model
development, misinformation, validation, and analysis with
environmental applications.
Offered fall semester every year.
ENVE 3520.
Engineering Economics and Management.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENGR ECON AND MGMT.
Prerequisite: ENVE 3510.
Introduction to economic principles and economic analysis from
a micro and macro scale. Statistics and system performance
studies of environmental engineering systems. Statistics and
system performance studies, probabilistic models and
simulation, basic economics and capital investments, project
elements and organization, managerial concepts and network
technique, project scheduling.
Offered spring semester every year.
ENVE 3910.
Environmental Engineering Design I.
2 hours.
Oasis Title: ENVE ENGR DES I.
Prerequisite: ENVE 2020 or permission of department.
First course in a four-semester sequence designed to provide
environmental engineering students with a long-term design
experience. Projects will require synthesis of knowledge and
skills learned through the Environmental Engineering program of
study into a cogent design solution.
Non-traditional format: Students will participate on a project team that matches their
interests and will be selected for participation by the student
team members under guidance of ENVE faculty mentors. Project
teams will function independently albeit under the guidance of
faculty mentors. This course will serve as preparation for
students to engage in design solutions for the subsequent
junior level design course. As a junior level course, the
design project will be commensurate with junior-level
engineering status. Students will begin the development of the
design portion of their Professional Development Profiles.
Offered fall semester every year.
ENVE 3920.
Environmental Engineering Design II.
2 hours.
Oasis Title: ENVE ENGR DES II.
Prerequisite: ENVE 3910 or permission of department.
Second course in a four-semester sequence designed to provide
environmental engineering students with a long-term design
experience. Projects will require synthesis of knowledge and
skills learned through the Environmental Engineering program of
study into a cogent design solution.
Non-traditional format: Students will continue working with teams organized from
Environmental Engineering Design I and will engage in
developing final design solutions, project reporting, and oral
communication of solutions. Students will conclude the junior-
level design portion of their Professional Development Profiles.
Offered spring semester every year.
ENVE 4230.
Ecosystem Energetics.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ECOSYS ENERG.
Prerequisite: ENVE 3220 or permission of department.
Ecosystem energy values and transformations starting as
radiation from the sun, percolating through the greater
ecosystem, including industrial civilization, to its final form
as heat radiating back into space.
ENVE 4240.
Sustainable Energy Systems in a Global Economy.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: SUSTAINABLE ENERGY.
Prerequisite: ENVE 2320.
Prerequisite or corequisite: ENVE 3210.
Analysis of various approaches for conducting energy-based
engineering projects in developed and underdeveloped countries
around the world. Concepts and principles of various energy
systems will be integrated with regard to their respective
efficiencies and long-term prospects for sustaining and
promoting the current quality of life on all scales.
Offered every year.
ENVE 4250.
Industrial Ecology.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: INDUS ECOL.
Prerequisite: ENVE 2320.
Prerequisite or corequisite: ENVE 3250.
An in-depth study of industrialized urban systems on the basis
of material and energy flows and with a view toward assessing
environmental impacts of engineered technologies while at the
same time using engineered technologies to remediate
environmental impact.
Offered every year.
ENVE 4260.
Renewable Energy Systems.
3 hours.
2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: RENEWABLE ENERGY.
Prerequisite: ENVE 3220.
Renewable energy systems will be studied in separate modules,
which cover the fundamental engineering and scientific basis
for the system, and the economic, political, and other factors
that are constraints to full implementation of each system.
Offered fall semester every year.
ENVE 4530.
Energy and Environmental Policy Analysis.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENERGY ENV POLICY.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
A study of how public policy is shaped by the energy and
environmental issues of society since the mid-1900’s. Topics
will include the advent of stronger environmental protection
regulations in the later 1960’s and 1970’s due to increased
public awareness and the ever-evolving energy policy starting
with the initial energy shortages in the 1970’s and continuing
on to the current energy policies which include energy supply,
energy demand, and environmental concerns.
Offered every year.
ENVE 4540.
Economics of Energy and Sustainable Development.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ECON SUSTAIN DEVEL.
Prerequisite: ENVE 3520.
Economic analysis of energy and development, including
renewable and non-renewable energy systems, and how they
influence the development of sustainable urban and industrial
systems.
Offered every year.
ENVE 4620.
Sustainable Design in Urban Systems.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: SUSTAIN DES URBAN.
Prerequisite: ENVE 2610 and ENVE 3320.
Use of case study examples of both good and bad urban system
designs that illustrate the magnitude of the challenges
(technical and non-technical), the integration needed between
those disciplines, as well as a vision of how sustainable
design concepts can be implemented into these complex urban
systems.
Offered every year.
ENVE 4710.
GIS for Urban Engineering, Planning, and Development.
3 hours.
2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: ENGINEERING GIS.
Prerequisite: ENVE 1110 and ENGR 3410.
Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for
quantifying spatial distribution and quantity of entities on
the landscape will be demonstrated. Mapping for utility
management, identifying potential pollution sources, natural
resources, and population will be emphasized.
Offered every year.
ENVE 4720.
Urban Infrastructure Planning and Development.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: URBAN INFRASTRUCT.
Prerequisite: LAND 1500 or GEOG 1125 and ENVE 2320.
The process for planning and developing urban systems,
emphasizing environmental impact and interactions between
natural and engineered systems. A review of past development
and case studies for new developments intended to lead to a
more sustainable urbanized area. Comparison of
planning/development in the U.S. with other parts of the world.
Offered every year.
ENVE 4910.
Environmental Engineering Design III.
2 hours.
Oasis Title: ENVE ENGR DES III.
Prerequisite: ENVE 3920 or permission of department.
Third course in a four-semester sequence designed to provide
environmental engineering students with a long-term design
experience. Students will participate on a project team that
matches their interests and will be selected for participation
by the student team members under guidance of Environmental
Engineering faculty mentors.
Non-traditional format: Project teams will function independently albeit under the
guidance of faculty mentors. As a senior-level course,
students will fully engage in the application of the full suite
of knowledge developed throughout their engineering program of
study. Projects may be a continuation from Environmental
Engineering Design II or newly identified. Students will
continue development of the design portion of their
Professional Development Profiles and will initiate efforts to
conclude the profiles.
Offered fall semester every year.
ENVE 4920.
Environmental Engineering Design IV.
2 hours.
Oasis Title: ENVE ENGR DES IV.
Prerequisite: ENVE 4910 or permission of department.
Final course in a four-semester sequence designed to provide
environmental engineering students with extensive design
experience. Projects will require synthesis of knowledge and
skills learned through the Environmental Engineering program of
study into a cogent design solution.
Non-traditional format: Students will continue working with teams organized from
Environmental Engineering Design III and will engage in
developing mature design solutions, project reporting, and oral
communication of solutions. Students will conclude the senior-
level design portion of their Professional Development Profiles
and develop their final comprehensive profile.
Offered spring semester every year.
ENVE 4960.
Undergraduate Research in Environmental Engineering.
1-6 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: UNDERGRAD RES ENV.
Not open to students with credit in ENVE 4960H.
Prerequisite: (Third-year or fourth-year student standing) and permission of department.
Directed research in engineering.
Non-traditional format: Directed study.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
ENVE 4960H.
Undergraduate Research in Environmental Engineering (Honors).
1-3 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: UNDERGRAD RES ENV.
Not open to students with credit in ENVE 4960.
Prerequisite: Permission of Honors and permission of department.
Directed research in engineering.
Non-traditional format: Credit hours are based on directed study project.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
ENVE 4970.
Directed Reading and/or Projects in Environmental Engineering.
1-3 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DIR READ OR PROJ.
Not open to students with credit in ENVE 4970H.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Individual study, reading, and/or research projects under the
direction of a faculty director.
Non-traditional format: Students in this course meet with their supervising professor
as needed to successfully complete assignments and readings
and/or projects.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
ENVE 4970H.
Directed Reading and/or Projects in Environmental Engineering (Honors).
1-3 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DIR READ OR PROJ.
Not open to students with credit in ENVE 4970.
Prerequisite: Permission of Honors and permission of department.
Individual study, reading, and/or research projects under the
direction of a faculty director.
Non-traditional format: Students in this course meet with their supervising professor
as needed to successfully complete assignments and readings
and/or projects.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
ENVE 4980.
Directed Study in Environmental Engineering.
1-3 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DIR STUDY ENGR.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Directed study in engineering design, analysis, or synthesis.
Not offered on a regular basis.