Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Courses

CE 100 Elementary Fluid Mechanics. Principles of mechanics applied to statics and dynamics of incompressible fluids; pipe flow, open channel flow, fluid measurements, forces on submerged objects, pumps, turbines. Individual laboratory experiments conducted by the student. (Fall, Spring)

CE 101 Fluid Mechanics of Rivers, Streams, and Wetlands. Analysis of steady and unsteady open-channel flow and application to rivers and streams. Examination of mixing and transport in rivers and streams. Effects of channel complexity. Floodplain dynamics and flow routing. Interaction of vegetation and fluid flows. Freshwater and tidal marshes. Sediment transport in rivers, streams, and wetlands. Implications for freshwater ecosystem function. Offered even years only. (Spring)

CE 103 Hydrology. Principles and practical aspects of surface water hydrology. Concepts and processes of hydrologic cycle, precipitation, evaporation, infiltration, snow and snowmelt, and streamflow; theory of unit hydrograph, frequency analysis, and flood routing through reservoirs and rivers; and introduction to rainfall-runoff analyses, watershed modeling, and urban hydrology. (Spring)

CE 107 Climate Change Mitigation. Assessment of technological options for responding to the threat of climate change. Overview of climate-change science: sources, sinks, and atmospheric dynamics of greenhouse gases. Current systems for energy supply and use. Renewable energy resources, transport, storage, and transformation technologies. Technological opportunities for improving end-use energy efficiency. Recovery, sequestration, and disposal of greenhouse gases from fossil-fuel combustion. Societal context for implementing engineered responses. (Spring)

CE 108 Air Pollutant Emissions and Control. Analysis of air pollution sources and methods for controlling emissions, with focus on transportation-related air pollution. Combustion system fundamentals and pollutant formation mechanisms. Control of emissions from spark-ignition and compression-ignition engines. (Spring)

CE 109 Indoor Air Quality. Study of air pollutants in indoor environments such as private residences, offices, schools, and commercial and public buildings. Overview of factors governing indoor pollutant concentrations. Building ventilation principles and practice. Detailed exploration of characteristics and control of several pollutant classes, such as radon and its decay products, volatile organic compounds, and combustion by-products. Elements of a control strategy. (Fall)

CE 111 Environmental Engineering. Quantitative analysis of environmental processes as influenced by human activities. Concepts of hydrologic and contaminant cycling through air, water, and soil systems, air and water chemistry, transport models for contaminants, and physical, chemical, and biological treatment processes. (Fall, Spring)

CE 112 Environmental Engineering Design. Engineering design and project management of environmental quality control systems. Students complete a design project in one of the following systems: wastewater treatment plant, water treatment plant, sanitary landfill, municipal waste incinerator, contaminated groundwater remediation, or fossil-fuel-fired power plant. Lectures address process design, economic optimization, legal and institutional constraints on design, and project management. Limited to Civil and Environmental Engineering Seniors. (Spring)

CE 114 Environmental Microbiology. Fundamental microbial processes applied to water, wastewater and environmental fate of pollutants. Basic microbial physiology, biochemistry, metabolism, growth energetics and kinetics, ecology, pathogenicity, and genetics with a quantitative engineering approach. (Fall)

CE 115 Water Chemistry. Application of principles of inorganic, physical, and dilute solution equilibrium chemistry to aquatic systems in the environment and water and wastewater treatment processes. (Fall)

CE 116 Environmental Aqueous Geochemistry. Geochemistry of earth materials and natural waters, with emphasis on reactions controlling the fate of pollutants in the environment. Chemical evolution of soils and groundwaters; geochemical pathways of detoxification in the subsurface zone; chemical modeling of pollutant geochemistry in multispecies, multiphase systems. (Spring)

CE 173 Groundwater and Seepage. Introduction to groundwater flow principles, including steady and transient flow through porous media, numerical analysis, pumping tests, groundwater geology, contaminant transport, and design of waste containment systems. (Fall)

CE 176 Waste Containment Systems. Waste generation and disposal; types and characterization of wastes; fate and transportation of contaminants in soils; soil-water-contaminant interactions; engineering soil properties; use of earth and geosynthetic materials in waste containment applications; principles, design, and construction of liner and leachate collection systems; application to landfill design. (Spring)

CE 193 Engineering Risk Analysis. Applications of probability theory and statistics in planning, analysis, and design of civil engineering systems. Development of probabilistic models for risk and reliability evaluation. Occurrence models; extreme value distributions. Analysis of uncertainties. Introduction to Bayesian statistical decision theory and its application in engineering decision-making. (Fall)

Environmental Engineering Graduate Courses

CE 200A  Environmental Fluid Mechanics (Formerly 105). Fluid mechanics of the natural water and air environment. Flux equation analyses; unsteady free surface flow; stratified flow; Navier-Stokes equations; boundary layers, jets and plumes; turbulence, Reynolds equations, turbulence modeling; mixing, diffusion, dispersion and contaminant transport; geophysical flows in atmosphere and ocean; steady and unsteady flow in porous media.  Application to environmentally-sensitive flows in surface and groundwater and in lower atmosphere.  (Fall)

CE 200B  Numerical Modeling of Environmental Flows (Formerly 204). Introduction to the philosophy and practice of numerical modeling of environmental flow processes. Topic will change each semester. Course of structured computer modeling assignments on a single topic in environmental flow modeling, supported by focused lectures and discussions on the physical processes and on the associated numerical analysis. Topics such as ocean outfalls, wave penetration in harbors, contaminant transport, flood and tide propagation in channels and data analysis of climate, air and water quality observations.  (Spring)

CE 202A  Vadose Zone Hydrology (Formerly 202). Course addresses fundamental and practical issues in flow and transport phenomena in the vadose zone, which is the geologic media between the land surface and the regional water table.  A theoretical framework for modeling these phenomena will be presented, followed by applications in the area of ecology, drainage and irrigation, and contaminant transport.  Hands-on applications using numerical modeling and analysis of real life problems and field experiments will be emphasized.  (Spring)

CE 202B  Geostatistics and Stochastic Hydrology (Formerly 290S). Topics in analysis and modeling of spatial heterogeneity, estimation in the earth sciences, and flow and transport processes in geological environments. Course emphasizes modeling of flow and transport under conditions of spatial heterogeneity of the hydrogeologic parameters. Fundamentals of the stochastic approach to spatial variability analysis, known as geostatistics, and fundamental, as well as practical aspects of flow and transport in heterogeneous formations.  (Spring)

CE 203N Surface Water Hydrology. Course addresses topics of surface water hydrology, such as processes of water in the atmosphere, over land surface, and within soil; advanced representation and models for infiltration and evapotranspiration processes; partition of water and energy budgets at the land surface; snow and snowmelt processes; applications of remote sensing; flood and drought, and issues related to advanced hydrological modeling. Students will address practical problems and will learn how to use the current operational hydrologic forecasting model, and build hydrological models. (Fall)

CE 205B Load Engineering. Processes and procedures to determine loadings to design or requalify structure and foundation systems including bridges, buildings, transportation, harbor, coastal, and offshore structures. Sources of loadings, load processes, loading effects. Reliability, probability, economic, and social considerations. Operating, accidental, and environmental loadings including those due to wind current and wave, ground movements, ice, snow, explosions, and fires. (Fall)

CE 206N Planning and Management of Environmental and Water Systems. Formerly 206. Course addresses the fundamental and practical issues of environmental and water planning and management. Quantitative overview of the engineering, economic, and policy aspects of water and environmental systems will be presented. Topics in water and environmental planning and management include benefit cost analysis, contingency evaluation, inflation, pricing, marketing, transfers, uncertainty and decision analysis, and system analysis and their applications. (Spring)

CE 209A Hydrologic Mixing Processes. Application of fluid mechanics principles to problems of pollutant transport and mixing in the water environment. Concepts of hydrological diffusion and transport; turbulent mixing; mixing in rivers, reservoirs, and estuaries; effects of stratification on mixing; theory of jets and plumes, and introduction to intakes and outfalls. (Spring)

CE 210A Control of Water-Related Pathogens. Comprehensive strategies for the assessment and control of water-related human pathogens (disease-causing microorganisms). Transmission routes and life cycles of commom and emerging organisms, conventional and new detection methods (based on molecular techniques), human and animal sources, fate and transport in the environment, treatment and disinfection, appropriate technology, regulatory approaches, water reuse. (Spring)

CE 211A Environmental Physical-Chemical Processes. Fundamental concepts of physical-chemical processes that affect water quality in natural and engineered environmental systems. Focus is on developing a qualitative understanding of mechanisms as well as quantitative tools to describe, predict, and control the behavior of physical-chemical processes. Topics include reactor hydraulics and reaction kinetics, gas transfer, adsorption, particle characteristics, flocculation, gravitational separations, filtration, membranes, and disinfection. (Fall)

CE 211B Environmental Biological Processes. Fundamental concepts of biological processes that are important in natural and engineered environmental systems, especially those affecting water quality. Incorporates basic fundamentals of microbiology into a quantifiable engineering context to describe, predict, and control behavior of environmental biological systems. Topics include the stoichiometry, energetics and kinetics of microbial reactions, suspended and biofilm processes, carbon and nutrient cycling, and bioremediation applications. (Spring)

CE 212 Wastewater Treatment Engineering II. Wastewater discharge and receiving water standards. Primary, secondary and tertiary wastewater treatment and sludge treatment and disposal fundamentals and design. Included are primary treatment, microbial kinetics of biological processes, activated sludge, fixed film reactors, anaerobic digestion, and nutrient removal. (Spring)

CE 214 Environmental Analytical Chemistry. This course addresses the principles and practices used to quantify trace elements, organic pollutants, smog-forming gases, and nutrients in the environment. Students will use modern analytical techniques to quantify pollutants in air, sediments, soils, and water at sites of local interest. In addition, they will assess pollutant fate, transport and degradation as well as techniques for remediating environmental contamination. During the final third of the course, students will implement independent projects to characterize pollutants at a site of their choice. (Spring)

CE 215 Process Engineering Laboratory. Unit operations and processes for water and wastewater treatment. Lectures and laboratories on tracers, filtration, aeration, adsorption chemical treatment of wastewater, biological filters, activated sludge, and anaerobic digestion. (Spring)

CE 216 Hazardous and Industrial Waste Management. Sources and characteristics of hazardous and industrial wastes in the context of current regulations. Theory and design of commonly used and highly innovative treatment technologies applicable to a range of specific hazardous and industrial wastes. State-of-the-art approaches to remediation of hazardous waste sites and groundwater contamination. (Spring)

CE 217 Environmental Chemical Kinetics. Kinetic aspects of chemical fate and transport in aquatic systems. Quantitative descriptions of kinetics of intermedia transport and pollutant transformation by abiotic, photochemical and biological reactions. Techniques for estimation of environmental reaction rates. Development of models of pollutant behavior in complex natural systems. (Fall)

CE 218A Air Quality Engineering. Quantitative overview of characterization and control of air pollution problems. Summary of fundamental chemical and physical processes governing pollutant behavior. Analysis of key elements of the air pollution system: sources and control techniques, atmospheric transformations, atmospheric transport, modeling, and air quality management. (Fall)

CE 218B Air Pollutant Dynamics. Behavior of gaseous and particulate air pollutants, with application to understanding the fate of pollutants, control device performance, and measurement systems. Particle and gas deposition. Light scattering and visibility impairment. Particle-gas interactions. Issues in monitoring and experimentation. (Spring, even years)

CE 218C Air Pollution Modeling. Theory and practice of mathematical air quality modeling. Modeling atmospheric chemical transformation processes. Effects of uncertainty in model parameters on predictions. Review of atmospheric diffusion theory and boundary layer meteorology. Dispersion modeling. Combining chemistry and transport.(Spring, odd-numbered years)

CE 219 Contaminant Transport Processes. Fate of contaminants in the environment controlled by transport processes within a single media and between media. Similarities in contaminant dispersion within air, surface water, and groundwater are emphasized. Interphase transport processes such as volatilization and adsorption are considered from an equilibrium perspective followed by the kinetics of mass transfer across environmental interfaces. (Spring)

CE 220 Structural Analysis Theory and Applications. Theory and applications of modern structural analysis. Direct stiffness method. Matrix formulations. Virtual work principles. Numerical solution methods. Modeling and practical analysis of large frame structures. Elastoplastic analysis of frames. P-delta effects. (Fall)

CE 225 Dynamics of Structures. Evaluation of deformations and forces in structures, idealized as single-degree of freedom or discrete-parameter multi-degree of freedom systems, due to dynamic forces. Evaluation of earthquake-induced deformations and forces in structures by linear response history analysis; estimation of maximum response spectrum analysis; effects of inelastic behavior. Laboratory demonstrations. (Fall)

CE 270A Advanced Soil Mechanics. Advanced topics in soil mechanics, including state of stress, consolidation and settlement analysis, shear strength of cohesionless and cohesive soils, and slope stability analysis. (Fall)

CE 271 Interpretation of Transit Acoustic Signals. Develop understandng of wave propagation and signal processing needed to rationally interpret system transient response and evaluate properties of engineering materials. Topics include waves and vibrations, damping, filters - analog and digital, time vs. frequency domain analysis, spectral estimation - Fourier and Stochastic approaches, system identification. (Spring)

CE 274 Environmental Geotechnics. Geotech-nical practice in environmental protection and restoration. Methods of soil and site characterization for siting waste repositories and site restoration. Influence of physical and chemical processes on the evaluation of contaminant distribution. Design of waste containment systems including landfills, slurry walls, and soil stabilization; applicability and use of geosynthetics. Review of technologies for site restoration and cleanup. (Spring)

CE 281 Engineering Geology. Influence of geologic origin and history on engineering characteristics of soils and rocks. Application of geology in exploration, design, and construction of engineering works. (Fall)

CE 290A Risk Evaluation and Management of Engineered Systems. Characterizations of quality (serviceability, durability, safety, compatibility) in the life-cycle of engineered systems. Reliability and probability methods. Engineering guidelines. Evaluation of demands and capacities. Human and organizational factors. Recognition and management of reliability constraints (physical, psychological, social, economic). Assessments of impacts and consequences. Historic, economic, and standard-of-practice methods to determine acceptable or desirable reliabilities. (Spring)

CE 290B  Risk Evaluation and Management of Engineered Systems.  Characterizations of quality (serviceability, durability, safety, compatibility) in the life-cycle of engineered systems.  Reliability and probability methods. Engineering guidelines.  Evaluation of demands and capacities.  Human and organizational factors.  Recognition and management of reliability constraints (physical, psychological, social, economic).  Assessments of impacts and consequences. Historic, economic, and standard-of-practice methods to determine acceptable or desirable reliabilities.  (Spring)

CE 290C  Watersheds and Water Quality.  Overview of approaches used by engineers to preserve or improve water quality at the watershed scale. Characterization and modeling of nutrients, metals and organic contaminants in watersheds. Application of ecosystem modification and pollutant trading to enhance water quality. The course emphasizes recent case studies and interdisciplinary approaches for solving water quality problems.

Related Courses in Other Departments

ARE 162 Economics of Water Resources. Urban demand for water; water supply and economic growth; water utility economics; irrigation demand; large water projects; economic impacts of surface water law and institutions; economics of salinity and drainage; economics of groundwater management. (Spring)

ARE 261 Natural Resource Economics. Theory of optimum management of renewable resources. Open access resources. Extinction. Applications to fisheries and forests. Theory of exhaustible resource depletion. Applications to energy and minerals. Relationships between resources and growth. (Fall)

ARE 262 Environmental Economics. Economic theory of pollution control regulation under certainty and uncertainty. Issues in current pollution control policy. Common property resources. Economic methods for valuing natural environments--theory and practice. (Spring)

ChE 150A Transport Processes. Principles of fluid mechanics and heat transfer with application to chemical processes. Flow in ducts, around submerged objects, and in porous media. Flow measurements. Heat conduction and radiation; heat-transfer coefficients. (Fall and Spring)

ChE 150B Transport Processes. Principles of heat and mass transfer with application to chemical processes. Diffusion. Convective heat and mass transfer, transfer in boundary layers, analogies. Interphase transfer. Heat- and mass-transfer coefficients; correlations. (Fall and Spring)

ChE 170 Biochemical Engineering. Special methods and theory for design and operation of processes in biochemical industries, with special emphasis on fermentation systems. (Fall)

ChE 170E Environmental Biotechnology. The application of biotechnology and chemical engineering to environmental problems. Macro- and homogeneous and heterogeneous sytems; microbial growth, physiology, and genetics and how these can be manipulated to remediate toxic contaminants; case studies from the literature.

ChE 170L Biochemical Engineering Laboratory. Laboratory techniques for microbial culture and enzymatic conversion processes. (Fall)

ChE 230 Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering. Mathematical formulation and solution of problems drawn from the fields of heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynam-ics, and reaction kinetics employing ordinary and partial differential equations, variational calculus, and Fourier methods. (Fall and Spring)

ChE 248 Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry. Principles of surface and colloid chemistry with current applications; surface thermodynamics, wetting, adsorption from solution, disperse systems, association colloids, interacting electrical double layers and colloid stability, kinetics of coagulation, and electrokinetics. (Spring)

CRP 251 Environmental Planning and Regulation. Environmental planning as a process for determining desirable environmental outcomes and design of regulatory methods for achieving those outcomes; analysis of traditional and non-traditional regulatory methods regulating "residuals" as they affect air, water, and land. (Spring)

ERG 151 Politics of Energy and Environmental Policy. How existing agencies and policy makers incorporate new concerns into their deliberations; how agencies given the mandate to address the newer concerns seek to fold their priorities into existing institutional and policy structures. (Fall)

ERG 200 Interdisciplinary Energy Analysis. Interacting technological, economic, environmental, and sociopolitical aspects of energy supply and use, including regional, national, and international issues. Emphasizes systematic assessment of alternative strategies and options from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. (Fall)

ERG 202 Modeling Ecological and Meteorological Phenomena. Modeling methods in ecology and meteorology; stability analysis; effects of anthropogenic stress on natural systems. (Fall)

E 201 Ocean Engineering Seminar. New developments in ocean, arctic engineering. Ice mechanics, determination of global and local forces, and other ice actions on structures. (Spring)

E 230A Engineering Analysis. Laplace transforms. Fourier series and integrals. Classification of partial differential equations. Linear analysis; operators, Green's functions. Sturm-Lieuville theory. Solutions of P.D.E. in rectangular domain. Bessel functions. Legrendre polynomials. Complex variables. Integration in complex plane. (Fall)

E 230B Engineering Analysis. Integral equations. Variational methods. Wiener-Hopf technique. Asymptotic integration. Regular perturbations. Singular perturbations. (Spring)

E 240 Fundamentals of Multiphase Flow (Formerly Mineral Engineering 251).  Multiphase flow in deformable porous media; mass, momentum, and energy balances; volume averaging, Darcy law; gravity; thermodynamics of capillarity, Leverett J-function, drainage and imbibition; inspectional scaling of governing equations; trapping, relative permeabilities for two and three phases; Buckley-Leverett theory, method of coherence in two- and three-phase flow; inverse modeling, parameter estimation. Sponsoring department: Materials Science and Mineral Engineering. (Fall)

E 266A Finite Difference Methods for Fluid Dynamics. Application of finite difference methods to current problems of fluid dynamics, including compressible and incompressible flow. (Fall)

ESPM 112 Microbial Ecology. Introduction to ecology of microorganisms. Interrelationships of microorganisms and their environment; role of bacteria, actinomycetes, algae, protozoa, and fungi in cycling of the elements, in macroecology and in global ecology; physical, chemical, and biological properties of terrestrial, aquatic, and organismal habitats; population dynamics. (Spring)

ESPM 115A Freshwater Ecology. Description of biota and their interactions in lakes and streams. Entrophication, thermal pollution, reservoirs, introduced species, spawning of salmonids. Laboratory is an independent research project. (Spring)

ESPM 115B Biology of Aquatic Insects. Identification and ecology of aquatic insects, including their role as indicators of environmental quality. (Fall, odd-numbered years)

ESPM 131 Soil Microbiology. Introduction to soil microorganisms; diversity, ecology, and activity in relation to biogeochemical cycling, rhizosphere, and soil organic matter. (Spring, even- numbered years)

ESPM 131L Soil Microbiology Laboratory. Laboratory on soil micro-organisms, their isolation and handling, and measurement of their activities in soil. Accompanies lectures in 131. (Spring, even-numbered years)

ESPM 180 Atmospheric Chemistry. Processes controlling the chemical composition of the earth's atmosphere. Effects of human influence: stratospheric ozone depletion, increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, changes in the oxidation capacity of the troposphere, smog. (Spring)

ESPM 222 Surface and Colloid Chemistry of Natural Particles. Structure and coordination chemistry of natural particles; solute adsorption mechanisms and theoretical models; colloidal phenomena and chemical factors influencing them in aqueous systems. (Fall, even-numbered years)

ESPM 223 Advanced Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry. Microbial processes and their role in soil nutrient transformations. Ecology of microbes in soil environment. (Fall, even-numbered years)

ESPM 224 Soil Physics. Special topics in soil physics and physics of the plant environment with emphasis on soil-plant-atmosphere flow of water. (Spring, even-numbered years)

ESPM 293 Research Concepts and Methods. Conceptual and methodological bases of research design, data analysis and interpretation. Case studies and individual projects critiqued. (Spring)

Geol 120 Analysis of Environmental Data. Fundamentals of exploratory data analysis and hypothesis testing for environmental scientists, with emphasis on characterizing and evaluating uncertainty. Introduction to selected topics relevant to environmental analysis, including error propagation, design of experiments, and monte carlos methods.

Geol 217 Fluvial Geomorphology. Application of fluid mechanics to sediment transport and development of river morphology. Form and process in river meanders, the pool-riffle sequence, aggradation, grade, and base-level. (Spring)

Geol 225 Advanced Geomorphology. Discussion of problems in fluvial processes, sediment transport, and hillslope development. (Fall)

IEOR 220 Economics and Dynamics of Production. Modeling and analysis of production-service systems and engineering projects. Engineering economics, including project evaluation and risk analysis. Econometric and programming models of production, dynamic systems and production networks for analyses of resource utilization and output possibilities. (Fall)

IEOR 231 Decision Analysis and Forecasting. Theory and applications of Decision Analysis and Forecasting models. Systematic review of decision-making problems under uncertainty. Emphasizing formulation, analysis and use of decision-making and forecasting techniques. Formulation of risk problems and probabilistic risk assessments. Event trees, decision trees, and influence diagrams focussed on model formulation and sensitivity analyses. (Spring)

IEOR 262A Mathematical Programming I. Introduction to network flows and non linear programming. Formulation and model building. Simplex method and its variants. Duality theory. Sensitivity analysis, parametric programming. convergence (theoretical and practical). Polynomial time algorithms. Introduction to network flow models. Optimality conditions for non linear optimization problems. (Fall)

IEOR 262B Mathematical Programming II. Optimization and non-linear programs. Formulation and model building. Theory of optimization for constrained and unconstrained problems. Algorithms for non linear optimization with emphasis on design consideration and performance evaluation. (Spring)

IEOR 263A Applied Stochastic Process I. Conditional expectation. Poisson and Renewal processes. Renewal reward processes applied to inventory, congestion and replacement models. Discrete and continuous time Markov chains with applications to various stochastic processes such as exponential queueing systems, inventory models and reliability systems. (Fall, Spring)

IB 106 Biological Oceanography. Interactions of organisms with physical, chemical and geological processes in the ocean. Physical, chemical and geological principles and major functional groups of marine organisms. Open-ocean pelagic systems, the deep sea, coastal oceans, estuaries, and intertidal environments. (Fall)

IB 153 Population and Community Ecology. Principles of microbial, animal, and plant population ecology, illustrated with examples from marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats. Consideration of the roles of physical and biological processes in structuring natural communities. Observational, experimental, and theoretical approaches to population and eommunity ecology will be discussed. Topics will include quantitative approaches relying on algebra and elementary calculus. Discussion section will review recent literature in ecology. (Fall)

IB 153L Laboratory in Population and Community Ecology. Introduction to field and laboratory study of ecological patterns and processes in nature. Course begins with a series of group field exercises conducted in local terrestrial, aquatic, and marine habitats. These exercises emphasize sampling methodology, experimental design, and statistical interpretation of results. Latter half of course devoted to independent research projects. A written report and class presentation of project results are required. (Spring)

Environmental Law and Policy. Fundamental legal and policy issues in environmental law. Focuses on a limited number of statutes-principally the Clean Air Act, the hazardous waste statutes, and the National Environmental Policy Act. Allows detailed study of important environmental issues, such as efficacy of technology-forcing standards, role of citizens in enforcement, value of provisions forcing agency action, role of judicial review, and optimum allocation of regulatory authority between federal and state governments. Traditional regulation and market-based alternatives, such as tradeable permits and effluent taxes.

Water Law. Western water law (with special attention to California). Public rights in water, public trust, area of origin claims, Federal and Indian reserved rights, and interstate contro-versies. It deals only peripherally with water-pollution. The course theme is that water is a distinctive species of property, a community resource that can never be fully privatized and that is required to be used in the public interest.

MSME 145 Subsurface Characterization (Formerly Engineering 135).  The theory and practice of geophysical methods for determining  the subsurface distribution of physical properties of rock and soil. The  entire process, which starts with basic principles and field measurements and  terminates with a geological or hydrologic map or section, is illustrated with  numerous case histories related to archaeological sites, groundwater  exploration, contaminant isolation, and other applications in geotechnical  engineering and mineral and petroleum exploration. Also listed as Geophysics 145 and Engineering 145.

MSME 145L Subsurface Characterization Laboratory (Must be taken concurrently with Material Science and Mineral Engineering 145.) This course enables the student to gain experience in the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of geoscientific data in terms of the subsurface distribution  of physical properties of soil and rock and the preparation of geological maps  and sections that are the final product of the data interpretation process.  The course program includes six sessions of field measurements at the UC  Berkeley Richmond Field Station and eight laboratory sessions dedicated to the  interpretation of field data and measurement of rock and/or soil properties.  Also listed as Engineering 145L and Geophysics 145L.

Math 128A Numerical Analysis. Programming for numerical calculations, round-off error, approximation and interpolation, numerical quadrature, and solution of ordinary differential equations. Practice on computer. (Fall, Spring)

Math 128B Numerical Analysis. Evaluation of iterative solution of systems of nonlinear equations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices, applications to simple partial differential equations. Practice on computer. (Fall, Spring)

ME 213 Fluid Mechanics of Biological Systems. Fluid mechanical aspects of various physiological systems including circulatory, pulmonary, and renal systems. Motion in large and small blood vessels. Pulsated and peristatic flow. Analysis of prosthetic devices. Fluid flow related to biological systems in bioprocessing application. Instrumentation for fluid flow measurements in biological systems.

ME 248 Transport in Porous Media. Single and multiple phase transport in porous media. Compressible and incompressible flow. Nondarcian and real fluid flow. Heat and mass transfer in porous media. Capillarity driven transport. Phase change phenomena. (Fall)

ME 256 Combustion. Combustion modeling. Multicomponent conservation equations with reactions. Laminar and turbulent deflagrations. Rankine-Hugoniot relations. Diffusion flames. Boundary layer combustion, ignition, and stability. (Spring)

ME 265A Viscous Flow.  Kinematics. The Newtonian fluid. Conservation equations. Flows with nearly constant viscosity and density. Vorticity Biot-Savart law. Dimensional analysis and similarity. Exact solutions. Thin layers; lubrication; laminar boundary layers. External creeping flows. Porous media. (Fall)

ME 265B Viscous Flow. Mathematical properties of Navier-Stokes equations. Scaling. Perturbation theory. Flow at low and moderate Reynolds numbers. Compressible, unsteady, and three-dimensional laminar boundary layers. Vortex methods. Buoyant and rotating flows. Linear and non-linear stability analysis. Constituent models for turbulence. (Spring)

ME 267 Geophysical Fluid Mechanics. Fluid mechanics and atmospheric motions of the Earth's interior (mantle and core). Buoyant creeping flow. Rotation inside a sphere. Modes of wave propagation in rotation and stratified flows. (Spring)

NE 224 Safety Assessment for Geological Disposal of Radioactive Wastes. Multi-barrier concept, ground water hydrology, mathematical modeling of mass transport in heterogeneous media, source term for far-field model, near-field chemical environment, radionuclide release from waste solids, radionuclide transport modeling in the near field, temperature effects on repository performance, effects of water flow, geochemical conditions, and engineered barrier alteration, overall performance assessment, performance index, uncertainty associated with assessment, regulation and standards. (Spring)

NE 275 Principles and Methods of Risk Analysis. Principles and methods for assessing and managing technological risks. Probabilistic safety assessment, environmental and public health risk assessment, uncertainty and variability, risk-based decision making and risk-based regulation. Fault and event trees, environmental transport and fate, exposure assessment, dose/response, decision trees and influence diagrams, cost/benefit, multi-attribute decision theory and risk communication. Application to aerospace, chemical, energy, environmental, manufacturing, and nuclear systems with consideration of institutional issues. (Fall)

PH 150 Introduction to Epidemiology and Environmental Health. Introduction to principles, methods and uses of epidemiology and environmental health. The course is divided into two modules. Module 1: principles and methods of epidemiology, epidemiology of important specific diseases. Module 2: analysis of environmental risks and their control. (Spring)

PH 220C Risk Assessment, Policy and Toxics Regulations. Basic scientific components of risk assessment and policy context in which risk management decisions are made. Principal activities in risk assessment; hazard identification; dose response assessment; exposure assessment and risk characterization. Risk management; occupational and environmental laws. Interaction of social demands for risk management with scientific complexities of risk assessment. (Spring)

PH 245 Introduction to Multivariate Statistics. Topics discussed in the context of biomedical and biological application: multiple regression, loglinear models, discriminant analysis, principal components. Laboratory instruction in statistical computing. (Fall)

PH 254A Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology. Principles and methods of epidemiology with focus on interpreting and critiquing published occupational and environmental epidemiology studies and making casual inference from them. (Fall)

PH 270A Exposure Assessment and Control. Direct and indirect methods and procedures for estimation and control of human exposure to chemical, physical and biological agents of concern to health in community and occupational settings. Review of measurement technologies, exposure assessment strategies, and multipathway analyses used by regulatory agencies. Exposure control options and strategies including administrative procedures, personal protective equipment and various engineering control approaches. (Fall)

PH 270B Toxicology. Principles of toxicology applied to evaluation and control of chemical hazards in air, food, and water. Biological mechanisms of toxicity. (Fall)

Stat 248 Analysis of Time Series. Frequency-based techniques of time series analysis, spectral theory, linear filters, estimation of spectra, estimation of transfer functions, design, system identification, vector-values stationary processes, model building. (Spring)

Stat 250 Applied Stochastic Processes. Various aspects of applied stochastic processes. (Fall)