ECI 289 course offerings are constantly evolving. These are typically specialty courses offered by faculty on a trial basis, that may or may not become permanent course offerings. Below is a list of recently offered or to-be-offered ECI 289 courses. The list may not be complete. When in doubt about when a 289 course will be offered or about course content for a particular offering, contact the instructor. You might also check the course matrix. Some non-CEE courses that are taught by CEE Graduate Group members that may be of interest are also included.
Offered: Spring 2018
Instructor: Maureen Njoki Kinyua
Short Course Description: This 4-unit course will provide students fundamental knowledge on how to design, operate and maintain appropriate technologies to control environmental pollutants found in developing regions and smaller communities in North America. Topics will draw from engineering areas (water, waste and wastewater treatment, water supply etc), public health (water and air quality) and social science (gender disparity, mixed methods etc). Understanding the importance of the inter-relationship between engineering, public health and social science will serve to develop the globally competency of graduate students as they design and implement environmentally, socially and economically sustainable technologies. The course design project will involve water, sanitation and hygiene technologies for use in schools in Kenya.
Pre-requisites: Students must have taken a microbiology and/or chemistry course.
Offered: Spring 2018
Instructor: Patrick Lucia
Short Course Description: The goal of the course is to 1) Provide students with an understanding of how technical knowledge is incorporated into the business world to meet the requirements of professional registration, ethics, the economics of consulting, the Standard of Care, risk management practices, and the demands of business and professional development and 2) Increase the students proficiency in applying critical thinking in solving real world geotechnical problems by the process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion.
Offered: Spring 2018 (Pending approval as ECI 239)
Instructor: Sabbie Miller
Short Course Description: Material selection and design play a large role in the environmental impacts associated with the built environment. This is an interdisciplinary course that combines material mechanics and life cycle assessment to use both in the design of “greener” materials. This course covers topics pertaining to the selection of engineered material constituents and processing techniques and discusses altering mechanical properties and microstructure as well as the influence the environmental impacts.
Offered: Every Fall Quarter
Instructor: Veronica Morales
Short Course Description: Solute and colloid mass transport processes in porous media. Characterizing and quantifying physical processes of advection, diffusion/dispersion, as well as basic biogeochemical reactions. Colloid-facilitated transport in porous media. Analytical and numerical solutions to the reactive advection-dispersion equation in Eulerian and Lagrangian forms.
Offered: Every Spring Quarter
Instructor: Veronica Morales
Short Course Description: The course covers select topics regarding colloid occurrence, properties, behavior in different environments, and transport mechanisms in water and soils. Particular attention is paid to their role in water contamination.
Offered: Last offered Fall 2016. Next Offering Fall 2018
Instructor: Prof. Jon Herman
Short Course Description: Global optimization methods for engineering problems with noisy, discontinuous, or multimodal objective functions. Representation, variation, and selection operators. Convergence assessment and hypothesis testing. Multi-objective methods. Application to binary and real-valued optimization problems such as model calibration, shortest path, and scheduling problems. Prerequisite – Programming (Python, Matlab, or R)
Offered: Winter 2018
Instructor: Prof. Holly Oldroyd
Short Course Description: This course exposes students to fundamental theory, statistics, analysis tools and models for turbulence and turbulent flows. The course objectives are geared toward students developing practical skills related to the study of turbulence (e.g., statistical analyses, time series analyses and basic turbulence modeling).
Offered: Winter 2018
Instructor: Prof. Heather Bischel
Short Course Description: Human health and the environment are inextricably linked. This course focuses on identifying, evaluating, and addressing environmental factors that impact public health. Students will learn processes of hazard identification, exposure and dose-response assessments, and risk characterization to perform quantitative microbial risk assessments. Environmental exposures to and risks from harmful chemicals will also be addressed, though the primary focus is microbial risk assessment.
Offered: Winter/Spring 2018 (2 part series)
Instructor: Prof. Colleen Bronner
Short Course Description: This course provides an overview of Engineering Education to students interested in teaching engineering and designing outreach education modules to communicate their research. Content covers student learning objectives, Bloom’s taxonomy, strategies for engaging students, evidence-based teaching methods (e.g., active learning methods, problem-based learning), facilitating professional skills, and incorporating diversity and inclusion in learning activities. A sequential laboratory course, offered in Spring 2018, will provide students the opportunity to apply knowledge by developing lesson plans and activities relating to their research area.
Offered: Winter 2018
Instructor: Prof. Norm Abrahamson
Short Course Description: Deterministic and probabilistic approaches for seismic hazard analysis. Separation of uncertainty into aleatory variability and epistemic uncertainty. Seismic source and ground motion characterization and hazard computation. Near-fault effects on ground motions. Site-specific hazard using regionalized and non-ergodic ground-motion models. Treatment of uncertainty in design ground motions. Development of time histories for dynamic analyses of structures and seismic risk computation, including selection of ground motion parameters for estimating structural response, development of fragility curves, and methods for risk calculations.
Offered: Winter 2018
Instructor: Prof. Miguel Jaller
Short Course Description: The course discusses freight transportation systems with specific emphasis on urban operations, economics, management, and planning with the aim of achieving a more sustainable system. Moreover, the course will focus on city logistics strategies with national and international examples.
Offered: Fall 2017
Instructor: Prof. Alex Forrest
Short Course Description: In rivers, lakes and oceans, flows are modified locally by the existing topography or bathymetry (be it the natural conditions or built infrastructure). Marine survey techniques have been developed through the field of hydrography and are commonly used in ocean / estuarine settings. Increasingly, these techniques have also been used in lakes and smaller water bodies as well. This course aims to introduce emerging mapping and remote sensing technologies that can be used to map freshwater resources in any context. Focusing on underwater technologies and a review of the fundamentals will allow key concepts to be analyzed and applied to other natural and man-made systems not covered in the course. The ability to map and observe small and large scale changes in both lakes and oceans enables water resource engineers to predict how these systems will change through both internal and external forcings.
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Instructor: Prof. John Harvey
Short Course Description: Concepts and knowledge needed by planners and managers to understand pavements. Includes basic understanding of materials, design, construction, maintenance and rehabilitation and end-of-life, and how these influence costs, environmental impacts and societal impacts. Discussions of asset management, pavement finance, new types of pavement for different purposes (permeable pavement for stormwater management, pavements with lower tire/pavement noise, pavements and bicycle ride comfort, etc). How to communicate pavement issues with decision-makers. Discussion of alternatives to current approaches for providing pavement functionality (different materials and structures).
Offered: Winter 2018
Instructor: Prof. Sam Sandoval
Short Course Description: Ten water resource software programs will be introduced in this course, and workshops will be assigned for seven of the ten software programs: HEC-DSS, HEC-SSP, HEC-HMS, HEC-ResSim, HEC-RAS, HEC-FIA and HEC-RTS.
