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The College of Engineering, created in 1925, is committed to providing a quality education that enables graduates to solve problems that will benefit society through the application of math, science, and ingenuity. The College houses 8 departments, which offer 15 Bachelor's degrees, 13 Master's degrees, and 7 doctoral degrees. Moreover, the College has its own Water Resources Center, established to encourage, conduct, and coordinate water resources research and related activities.

The College of Engineering offers a broad selection of undergraduate, graduate, and distance programs. Courses cover a wide spread of engineering topics, depending on one's focus in the College - chemical, civil, computer, electrical, engineering physics, industrial, mechanical, or petroleum. Most of the course offerings within the College that have a direct focus on water resources are within the Department of Civil Engineering. In the listing, CE refers to Civil Engineering and ENVE refers to Environmental Engineering, both of which are housed in the Department of Civil Engineering. PETR refers to courses in the Department of Petroleum Engineering.

You may also wish to visit the list of water-related faculty in the College of Engineering.

UNDERGraduate Courses

CE 3171. Environmental Engineering Laboratory I (1:0:3). Corequisite: CE 3309. Performance of standard analytical
methods used to measure water and wastewater quality. Evaluation of limits to data produced by standard methods.

CE 3309. Environmental Engineering (3:3:0). Prerequisite: CHEM 1308 and CE 3305. Corequisite: CE 3171. Water and wastewater characteristics and system design for water and wastewater treatment. Introduction of techniques of solid hazardous waste management and air pollution control.

CE 3354. Engineering Hydrology (3:3:0). Prerequisite: CE 3305. Analysis and design methods related to the occurrence and distribution of surface and groundwater; precipitation, infiltration, runoff, and frequency analysis. (Writing Intensive)

CE 3372. Water Systems Design (3:3:0). Prerequisite: CE 3305, 3354. Hydraulic analysis and design of municipal water distribution, stormwater collection, and wastewater collection systems. Oral and written presentations. (Writing Intensive)

CE 4333. Special Problems in Water Resources (3). Individual studies in water resources. May be repeated for credit.

CE 4353. Design of Hydraulic Systems (3:3:0). Prerequisite: CE 3305. Design of open channel and pressure conveyance systems for water; includes introduction to use of HEC-2.

CE 4363. Groundwater Hydrology (3:3:0). Prerequisite: CE 3354 or consent of instructor. Groundwater flow; well hydraulics, development, and management of groundwater resources; water quality; mathematical modeling with available software. Introduction to design of wells and well fields.

CE 4392. Physical and Chemical Municipal Wastewater Treatment (3:3:0). Characterization of municipal wastewaters and the application of physical and chemical design procedures to remove and dispose of criteria pollutants in wastewater.

ENVE 1100. Environmental Engineering Seminar (1:0:2). Introduction of first year and transfer students to the practice of environmental engineering.

ENVE 4307. Physical and Chemical Municipal Wastewater Treatment (3:3:0). Prerequisite: CE 3309 and consent of instructor. Characterization of municipal wastewaters and the application of physical and chemical design procedures to remove and dispose of criteria pollutants in wastewater.

ENVE 4311. Environmental Systems Models (3:2:3). Prerequisite: MATH 3350. Application of various computer models used in the analysis and solution of environmental engineering problems involving air, water, and solid and hazardous wastes.

ENVE 4385. Microbial Applications in Environmental Engineering (3:3:0). Presents information regarding bacterial cell structure and microbial genetics, metabolism and the role of microbes in the design of treatment processes and water/wastewater reuse issues.

ENVE 4390. Water and Wastewater Analysis (3:1:6). Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing; consent of instructor. Laboratory procedures for the physical, chemical, and biological examination of water, wastewater, and hazardous wastes. Interpretation of water quality data.

ENVE 4391. Advanced Water Treatment (3:3:0). Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Water chemistry and microbiology; design procedures for municipal water treatment; advanced methods of quality control, renovation, and reuse.

ENVE 4399. Biological Municipal Wastewater Treatment (3:3:0). Prerequisite: ENVE 4307, CE 3309 or consent of instructor. Municipal wastewater treatment methods, including suspend and attached growth biological systems, nitrification, denitrification, phosphorous removal, sludge stabilization, and treated effluent and sludge disposal.

PETR 4306. Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes (3:3:0). Prerequisite: PETR 3306. Introduction to EOR processes mechanisms, frontal advance theory and application, mechanisms of water-flooding and miscible processes and application to reservoir performance prediction.

PETR 4308. Advanced Reservoir Engineering (3:3:0). Prerequisite: PETR 3304, 3306, MATH 3342, 3350. Fundamental laws, anisotropic, coordinate systems and reservoir geometry, continuity and diffusivity equations, pressure-time-volume relationships. Basic theory of transient flow and testing, type curves, pressure derivative method, buildup, drawdown, interference and reservoir limit tests. Water influx, decline curves analysis, software and reservoir models. Unconventional gas reservoirs.

Graduate Courses

CE 5333. Advanced Work in Water Resources (3). Individual studies in advanced water resources. May be repeated for credit.

CE 5361. Surface Water Hydrology (3:3:0). Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Advanced study of hydrolic cycle: hydrolic abstractions (evaporation and detention storage), surface runoff mechanisms, data analysis, hydrographs, separation, runoff routing, and frequency analysis.

CE 5362. Surface Water Modeling (3:3:0). Prerequisite: CE 5360 and consent of instructor. Theory and application of one-dimensional hydrodynamics models. Theory and application of watershed models.

CE 5363. Groundwater Hydrology (3:3:0). Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Groundwater flow; well hydraulics, development, and management of groundwater resources; water quality; mathematical modeling with available software. Design of wells and well fields.

CE 5364. Groundwater Transport Phenomena (3:3:0). Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Study of sources and fates of contamination in groundwater. Mathematical modeling of reactive and nonreactive pollutant movement. Aquifer restoration strategies.

CE 5365. Storm Water Management and Erosion Control Theory (3:3:0). Theory and concepts of soil erosion are studied to develop predictive models related to storm runoff, including development of plans to reduce damage from storm events.

CE 5366. Water Resources Management (3:3:0). Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Models and other technical elements of water resources systems in context of the political, social, and other environments in which they exist.

CE 5368. Surface Water Quality Modeling (3:3:0). Contaminant transport and fate in surface water. Engineering methods assessing surface water and transport for water and sediment quality. Modeling dissolved oxygen, chemicals, water-borne substances.

CE 5385. Micro Applications in Environmental Engineering (3:3:0). The course presents information regarding bacterial cell structure and microbial genetics: metabolism and the role of microbes in the design of treatment process; and water/wastewater reuse issues.

CE 5390. Water and Wastewater Analysis (3:1:6). Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Laboratory procedures for the physical, chemical, and biological examination of water, wastewater, and hazardous wastes. Interpretation of water quality data.

CE 5391. Advanced Water Treatment (3:3:0). Water chemistry and microbiology; design procedures for municipal water treatment; advanced methods for quality control, renovation, and reuse.

CE 5392. Physical and Chemical Municipal Wastewater Treatment (3:3:0). Characterization of municipal wastewaters and the application of physical and chemical design procedures to remove and dispose of criteria pollutants in wastewater.

CE 5393. Unit Processes Laboratory (3:0:9). Operation and evaluation of water and wastewater treatment units for water quality control.

CE 5394. Natural Systems for Wastewater Treatment (3:3:0). Examination of tertiary systems for municipal wastewater; natural systems (land application, wetlands, and aquaculture) and modular facilities incorporating unit operations, biological, and chemical processes.

CE 5395 Solid and Hazardous Waste Treatment (3:3:0). Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Treatment and disposal of municipal and industrial solid and hazardous wastes.

CE 5396. Environmental Impact Analysis (3:3:0). Interdisciplinary approach to environmental analysis stemming from the National Environmental Policy Act; elements of impact-analysis and assessment methodologies.

CE 5397. Limnological Aspects of Environmental Engineering (3:2:3). Study of the biological phenomena and physical, chemical interactions that occur in fresh and marine surface waters with emphasis on water pollution control including water quality hazard assessment techniques.

CE 5398. Risk Management and Public Policy (3:3:0). Methods and principles of risk assessment will be examined. Incorporation of these findings into practical risk management programs meeting current policy requirements will be discussed.

ENVE 5305, 5306. Environmental Systems Design I, II (3:2:3 each). Student teams evaluate a waste problem, select and develop a treatment alternative in a feasibility study, and then finalize their design selections in technical memorandums.

ENVE 5307. Advanced Physical and Chemical Municipal Wastewater Treatment (3:3:0). Characterization of municipal wastewaters and the application of physical and chemical design procedures to remove and dispose of criteria pollutants in wastewater.

ENVE 5310. Principles of Environmental Technology and Management (3:3:0). The magnitude and impacts of the different waste streams produced by man and his activities on the various components of the environment will be examined.

ENVE 5311. Environmental Systems Models and Information Reporting (3:3:0). Research report will be prepared on the modeling of an environmental system of process. Course stresses the research report as well as modeling techniques.

ENVE 5399. Biological Municipal Wastewater Treatment (3:3:0). Municipal wastewater treatment methods, including suspend and attached growth biological systems, nitrification, denitrification, phosphorous removal, sludge stabilization, and treated effluent and sludge disposal.

PETR 5325. Water Flooding Techniques (3:3:0). Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Frontal advanced theory for multiphase flow, immiscible flow, capillary cross flow, psuedofunctions, streamlines, measures of heterogeneity, field case studies, pattern flooding, and use of black oil reservoir simulators.