ENVE 321: Intro to Environmental Engineering

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ENVE 321 Intro to Environmental Engineering

• Kenneth Williamson

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What is environmental engineering?

• Concerned with
• protecting the environment from deleterious
  impacts of human activity and the application of
  technology
• protecting humans from adverse environmental
  factors
• improving environmental quality

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Common focus of environmental engineering
curricula

• Production of safe, palatable, and ample public
  water supplies
• Disposal or recycling of wastewater and solid
  wastes
• Control of water, soil, and atmospheric pollution
• Control and remediation of hazardous wastes

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OSU Curriculum

• ENVE 321 Environmental engineering fundamentals
• ENVE 421 Water and wastewater characterization
• ENVE 422 Environmental engineering design
• ENVE 431 Transport and fate of organic
  chemicals
• ENVE 451 Air, water, and hazardous substance
  management
• ENVE 425 Air pollution control