Teaching
NC State
CE 373 - Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering
Concepts of sustainability and green engineering; energy and climate; overview of contaminants in water, air and terrestrial environments; introduction to water and wastewater treatment, air pollution control, and solid waste management.
CE 378 - Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology
Fundamentals of aquatic chemistry, including acid-base chemistry, solubility, precipitation, thermodynamics, and complexation. Introduction to microbiological principles with an emphasis on pathogens and communities in wastewater treatment operations. Hands-on labs focused on methods to measure a variety of constituents, including alkalinity, hardness, coliforms, and phosphorus, along with introduction to unit operations such as coagulation, flocculation, and sedimentation.
CE 573 - Biological Principles of Environmental Engineering
Concepts in environmental microbiology including cell structure and function, phylogeny, survey of environmentally relevant microbial groups, metabolism under different redox conditions, catabolism of macromolecules, methods in microbial ecology. Relationships to engineering processes are emphasized.
Syracuse University
CIE 442/642 - Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes and Lab
Fundamental engineering concepts and principles used for the design and operation of water and wastewater treatment systems. Estimating water demand and wastewater flows in the urban water use cycle. Significance of government regulations and standards. Includes lab sessions on coagulation (jar testing), disinfection kinetics, reactor hydraulics, and aeration kinetics.
CIE 472/672 - Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Lab
General Principles and application of environmental microbiology and microbial processes. Role of microbes in water pollution control, environmental health, and element cycling in the environment. Includes lab sessions on microscopy, enzyme kinetics, BOD, microbial enumeration, and disinfection.
Penn State
CE 475 - Aquatic Chemistry and Lab
An introduction to chemical principles in natural and engineered environmental systems. Thermodynamics and kinetics of reactions; acid-base chemistry; environmental organic chemistry; treatment process design applications. Includes lab sessions on BOD, COD, nutrients, solids, and alkalinity.
