Geo-Environmental Engineering

Hours

3.0 Credit, 3 Lecture, 0 Lab

Semester

Fall

Hazardous waste statutes and regulations; introduction to hazardous waste treatment, storage, disposal, and monitoring techniques. Geotechnical aspects of environmental engineering. Topics include municipal and hazardous solid waste landfill design and characterization and remediation techniques for contaminated soil and groundwater.

Design

Be able to produce a preliminary design of a landfill. This inlcudes understanding regulations, chemical fate and transport, geotechnical design methods, and project planning issues.

Communication

Be able to communicate the design and design decisions to a non-specialist but technical audiance. This will include communicating the reasons for basic assumptions and why they were made.