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  • CE/EEE 456 Wastewater Treatment Processes
    The objectives of this course are to introduce the fundamental design principles and practice of wastewater treatment and to prepare students for designing wastewater treatment systems. The major topics include preliminary treatment of wastewater, primary treatment, wastewater microbiology, secondary treatment, nitrogen removal, phosphorus removal, attached microbial growth, secondary settling, disinfection and postaeration, tertiary treatment, and wastewater plant residuals management.
  • CE/EEE 55201 Environmental Biotechnology
    This course focuses on fundamentals of molecular biology and biotechnology for environmental applications. The major topics include activated sludge processes, stoichiometry, bioenergetics, anaerobic digestion, biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal, molecular microbiology tools, biofouling, antibiotic resistance, and biofuels.
  • CE 597 Advanced Wastewater Treatment
    This course covers the same material as CE/EEE456 but is designed for graduate students seeking to learn wastewater treatment. Graduate students attend the same lectures as students in CE/EEE 456 and are expected to complete assignments that meet the expectations of graduate-level work.
  • CE 597 Biological Wastewater Treatment (online asynchronous course)
    This course is designed for graduate students and working professionals to learn biological principles in wastewater treatment, biological nutrient removal and resource recovery principles, and modern biotechnologies in wastewater treatment.
  • CE 597 Design Principles and Practice of Drinking Water Systems (online asynchronous course)
    This course is designed for graduate students and working professionals who would like to learn design principles in drinking water systems and how to apply the principles to design, operate, and optimize drinking water treatment systems and plants. The objectives of this course are to introduce the fundamental design principles and practice of water treatment and to prepare students for designing water treatment systems.
  • EEE 560 Membranes For Water Treatment
    This course module is intended to provide students with fundamental knowledge on various membrane processes for water treatment. The main topics include micro-filtration, nano-filtration, reverse osmosis, and their applications in water treatment and water reuse.
  • EEE 560 Emerging Contaminant Removal
    This module provides students with fundamental knowledge on emerging contaminant removal. The main topics include definitions of emerging contaminants, health risks of emerging contaminants, conventional treatment technologies, membrane filtration techniques, and case studies on emerging contaminant removal.
  • EE 560 Direct Potabilization (Co-lecturer)
    This course module is intended to provide students with an introduction to direct potabilization, its related technical and non-technical issues, and regulatory constraints.
  • EE 480 Senior Design (Co-lecturer)
    The objectives of this course are to provide an integrated, multidisciplinary, and flexible design experience for students, allowing students to integrate knowledge and skills gained earlier in the degree program to create and evaluate designs that address important issues of environmental and ecological engineering.
  • ENGR 39697 Global Professional Practice (Co-lecturer)
    Seminar for students participating in global professional practice experiences. Students will be introduced to various aspects of professional practice in a particular host country including how engineers are trained, approaches to problem solving and communication, processes involved in designing and manufacturing products, and areas of research important to both the public and private sector. The course will be offered as a departmental study abroad program organized by the Office of Professional Practice. Wastewater surveillance on SAS-COV-2, poliovirus, and antibiotic resistant bacteria/antibiotic resistance genes are reviewedwith collaboration of USFQ and PAHO.
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  • ESE 3301 Environmental Microbiological Principles
    This course provides students with a foundation in environmental microbiology and its application to pollution control and biotechnology. It provides an introduction to the basic concepts, processes, and principles of microbiology, as well as the microbial aspects of wastewater treatment.
  • ESE 4301 Wastewater Biotechnology
    This course introduces students to the biological aspects of wastewater biotechnology. These include process metabolism, biology and functions in activated sludge, anaerobic digestion, nutrients removal, and biofilm processes. This course will enable students to expand their background of environmental technology in the biological aspects of wastewater treatment processes, and to integrate the biological aspects of wastewater treatment into the physical and chemical aspects previously learned. The students will also learn how to identify solutions for operational problems associated with wastewater treatment processes.
  • ESE 6301 Topics in Environmental Biotechnology
    This course aims to introduce students the essential tool for understanding and designing microbiological processes used for environmental protection and improvement. This course will enable students to expand their background of environmental biotechnology, and to integrate these aspects into the physical and chemical aspects of environmental technology previously learned. The major topics include aspects on foundation in microbiology and engineering principles, major environmental biological applications, quantitative analysis of biotechnology, detoxification of hazardous chemicals, clean technology, and resource biorecovery in environmental monitoring.
  • ESE 4501 Wastewater Treatment System Design (Coordinator and Resource Person on Biological Treatment Processes)
    The students are assigned a design project involving various environmental considerations. The module provides the opportunity for students to work as a team on an environmental project integrating knowledge they have gained from modules they have taken in earlier years. The module will also enhance their interpersonal, communication and leadership skills through group projects, report writing and oral presentations.
  • ESE 5001 Environmental Engineering Principles (Co-lecturer)
    This course is to allow graduate students from non-environmental engineering background to gain basic knowledge of environmental science and engineering. Acquisition of this basic knowledge will prepare them for advanced courses in environmental science and engineering. This module provides a systematic introduction to water and air quality and their engineering control, quantitative overview of the properties of environmental contaminants, and the transport and transformation processes that govern their concentrations in air and water. Topics include environmental chemical equilibriums and kinetics, and elementary transport phenomena, introduction to water quality engineering, air quality engineering, and solid waste treatment and management.