CEIE 355 Environmental Engineering and Science

CEIE 355 Environmental Engineering Systems introduces students to the concepts of water pollution, air pollution, and solid waste generation and management. Relationships between human population growth and pollution are introduced. Contemporary environmental engineering topics such as sustainability and global climate change are presented.

Course objectives

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Identify sources and causes of environmental pollution in soil, air, and water;
• Apply the principles of basic chemistry, microbiology, and mass and energy balances to the formulation and solution of environmental engineering models and problems;
• Analyze the impacts of human development on air, land, and water resources;
• Understand the need for multidisciplinary approaches to engineering solutions to environmental problems and the cross-media (air, water, soil) nature of environmental problems; and
• Relate environmental engineering practices to environmental laws and regulations.

Course syllabus

The Fall 2025 syllabus is available here.

Course tools

An online tool for visualizing dissolved oxygen model output is available here.