This undergraduate course examines hydrology as it pertains to civil engineering applications.  The course objectives are as follow:

• Learn the fundamental concepts of surface and groundwater hydrology as they pertain to engineering applications;
  
  

• Examine natural and engineering parameters that affect the occurrence, distribution, and movement of water on earth; and
  
  

• Learn practical hydrologic concepts and techniques that are applied in the engineering field.

This course is designed to introduce relevant topics in environmental microbiology to undergraduate and graduate students in the environmental engineering and environmental science programs.  The material presented within the course is intended to serve as an introduction to microbiology and provide a basis for the application of microbiological principles in environmental systems.  The course examines fundamental principles of microbiology, biochemistry, and microbial ecology in the context of civil and environmental engineering applications.

This course consists of four parts that complement each other and build upon the previous sections:

Part 1:  Review of Biochemistry

Part 2:  Microorganisms in Natural and Engineered Environments

Part 3:  Microbial Ecology

Part 4:  Civil and Environmental Engineering Applications
 

This senior/graduate level course introduces students to the fundamental principles involved in designing and monitoring biological treatment systems in the natural environment.  The application of bioremediation as a remedial alternative at contaminant sites is addressed and current methods for enhancing or supporting in-situ biodegradation are presented with a highlight on methods of monitoring remediation.

This course is designed to introduce the theoretical principles and operation of biological unit processes for wastewater treatment to graduate students in environmental engineering.  The course material focuses on developing a strong fundamental understanding of how engineered biological systems operate and are designed in practice.  The course addresses the classical theory behind biological reactor design as well as exploring contemporary issues facing wastewater engineering and hazardous waste treatment.

This course will be introduced in four sections designed to provide a comprehensive description of the biological processes used in wastewater treatment:

Part 1:  Introduction to Wastewater Treatment

Part 2:  Biological Growth and Reaction Engineering

Part 3:  Process Analysis and Reactor Design

Part 4:  Nutrient Removal and Single Sludge Processes

This graduate level course focuses on environmental engineering processes used to treat industrial wastewaters.  Societies throughout the world rely on industrial processes to produce many of the products that consumers use every day.  These industries may include the manufacture or processing of the following: petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, pulp and paper, metal and mineral processing.  Unfortunately, these processes can generate a significant quantity of wastewater containing a variety of dissolved or suspended contaminants (organic carbon, suspended solids, toxic metals, priority pollutants, nitrogen and phosphorous, etc.).  This course examines the characteristics of different industrial wastewaters and various pretreatment and treatment technologies used in engineering practice to minimize contaminant discharge. 

This course is designed to introduce students to the theory and application of chemistry principles within an environmental engineering framework.  The primary themes of the course center around the application of equilibrium principles and chemical speciation models for water treatment, wastewater treatment, natural systems, and atmospheric chemical reactions.  The roles of acid-base reactions, complexation, precipitation, and oxidation-reduction on environmental processes are also covered.

All of the courses I teach are supplemented with online content using WebCT.  The link to enter the WebCT domain is provided below.  All regular UNR faculty and students now use their UNR netID to access WebCT. Your netID and password are used as your WebCT user ID and password. To activate your netID please go to computing.unr.edu/netid.