Bioenvironmental Engineering 117

11:117:100 Introduction to Bioenvironmental Engineering (1) Overview of specializations within bioenvironmental engineering. Expanding role of biological and environmental sciences in engineering. Analysis of selected problems. Review of professional opportunities.

11:117:240 Elements of Horticultural Engineering (3) Elements of controlled environment horticulture in crop production systems: greenhouse design, environmental control, intensive plant production methods, and postharvest handling and storage.

11:117:413 Unit Processes in Bioenvironmental Engineering I (3) Physical and chemical processes and operations commonly applied for water and wastewater treatment, including coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, adsorption, ion exchange, membrane separation, precipitation, oxidation, and disinfection; principles of chemical reaction kinetics, modeling of ideal and non-ideal batch and flow-through reactors. Prerequisites: 11:375:202, 203; 01:640:251. Corequisite: 11:117:423.

11:117:414 Unit Processes in Bioenvironmental Engineering II (3) Biological principles and operations, including microbial ecology, stoichiometry and kinetics of organic contaminant degradation and biomass growth, modeling of ideal biochemical reactors, design criteria for several named biochemical operations used for wastewater treatment. Prerequisites: 01:447:390, 11:117:413, or permission of instructor.

11:117:423 Bioenvironmental Engineering Unit Processes Laboratory I (1) Demonstration of physicochemical operations used in the treatment of drinking water and wastewater, including coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, carbon adsorption, disinfection, and residence time distribution analysis. Prerequisite: 01:160:171 or equivalent.  Corequisite: 11:117:413.

11:117:424 Bioenvironmental Engineering Unit Processes Laboratory II (1) Demonstration of biochemical operations used in the treatment of municipal and industrial wastewater, including biodegradability and biodegradation kinetics, energy balance in a biological reactor, respirometry, activated sludge, anaerobic toxicity, and aerobic digestion. Prerequisite: 01:160:171 or equivalent. Corequisite: 11:117:414.

11:117:450 Applied Instrumentation and Control (4) Digital electronics, advanced sensing techniques, signal conditioning. Computer-based data acquisition, analysis, and control applications. Prerequisite: 11:117:290 or equivalent.

11:117:462 Design of Solid Waste Treatment Systems (3) Design of integrated solid waste management systems, including waste minimization, collection, composting, materials recovery, recycling, incineration, and landfilling. Open only to junior and senior engineering students.

11:117:468 Hazardous Waste Treatment Engineering (3) Engineering and process design aspects of hazardous waste management. Waste reduction and recovery, waste treatment, and site remediation. Case studies. Engineering solutions to model hazardous waste problems. Prerequisites: 11:117:413, 01:160:209, 14:180:382, 01:447:390, or permission of instructor.

11:117:474 Air Pollution Engineering (3) Engineering design techniques for air quality control. Control of particulate and gas emissions from stationary sources. Control of mobile source emissions. Design for indoor air quality and regional air quality control. Prerequisite: 14:155:303 or 14:180:387 or 14:650:312 or permission of instructor.

11:117:488 Bioenvironmental Engineering Design I (2) Design morphology. Case studies and special design problems. Solutions developed using creative design processes that include analysis, synthesis, and iterative decision making. Safety and professional ethics. Open only to seniors in bioenvironmental engineering.

11:117:489 Bioenvironmental Engineering Design II (2) Completion of bioenvironmental engineering senior design project. Evaluation. Presentation of final report. Prerequisite: 11:117:488.

11:117:490 Structural Design and Environmental Control (3) Functional requirements and design aspects for controlled environment plant production systems, including structures, energy flows and balances, and environmental control equipment. Prerequisites: 14:180:215, 243.

11:117:492 Energy Conversion for Biological Systems (3) Principles of energy conversion techniques and their application to various biomechanical systems, including solar energy systems, compostation, methane and alcohol production, and the internal combustion engine. Prerequisite: 14:650:351.

11:117:493 Unit Processes for Biological Materials (3) Theory and design of unit operations for handling and processing of biological materials with emphasis on particulate solids separation, comminution, mixing, heat transfer, dehydration, and process control. Pre- or corequisite: 14:155:308 or 14:650:351.

11:117:494 Land and Water Resources Engineering (3) Engineering aspects of land and water conservation: basic hydrology, soil-water-plant relationships, surface and subsurface drainage, flood control, irrigation, and groundwater pollution. Prerequisite: 14:180:387.

11:117:495 Environmental Systems Analysis for Engineers (3) Principles of procedural and heuristic systems analysis. Overview of mathematical modeling. Techniques of simulation and optimization. Topics of applied intelligence. Solutions for environmental engineering problems by systems analysis methods. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

11:117:496 Planning and Design of Land Treatment Systems (3) Engineering design of land treatment systems for municipal and industrial wastewater, including spray irrigation, overland flow, infiltration/percolation, and subsurface soil absorption systems. Facilities planning. Prerequisite: 14:180:387.

11:117:497,498 Special Problems in Bioenvironmental Engineering (BA,BA) Studies of special interest in some selected area of bioenvironmental engineering. Prerequisite: Permission of department.