This course introduces the most essential elements of environmental engineering to junior- and senior-level civil engineering students, although other students are welcome. The course provides a fundamental basis from which to understand and evaluate the environment and design engineered systems for environmental quality control. These systems include: drinking water and wastewater treatment, air pollution control, soil and aquifer pollution and remediation, and solid waste management. Critical evaluation of contemporary issues concerning our environment and the regulatory structure will be incorporated into the class in lecture and through the lab/recitation periods.

This upper level course provides an introduction to landfill design, including the regulatory framework, water balance, contaminant transport, waste containment, slope stability, geosynthetic fabrics, and barrier systems.  It is co-taught by Dr. Parameswan and Dr. Stacey Kulesza, P.E., a geotechnical engineer. 

This graduate level course introduces the fundamental principles and design concepts of Biological Wastewater Treatment, with emphasis on the kinetics and process mechanisms of the microbial processes and an equal focus on the design principles for treatment plant design. The need for energy positive wastewater treatment and resource recovery has changed the outlook and opportunities for the modern Environmental engineer and it extends beyond municipalities and includes agriculture, animal husbandry, industrial processes, and power generation facilities. The course navigates through all these aspects and disseminates this information through lectures, study guides, self guided examples, and a design project that aims to develop wastewater treatment for emerging wastewater streams.

This upper level course teaches core concepts and principles that govern the fate and transport of contaminants in water. Students will gain a fundamental understanding advection, dispersion, and diffusion coupled with process modeling for various reactor configurations. Phase equilibrium and partitioning in environmental systems will be discussed as well as interphase mass transfer and modeling.