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ENVS 4999 Capstone in Coastal Environmental Science (1)
Also offered as OCS 4999 . Prereq.: Senior standing as a declared Coastal Environmental Science Major and consent of instructor. May be taken for a maximum of 2 hours of credit, but only one hour will count towards the Coastal Environmental Science BS degree. Required of all students in the Coastal Environmental Science BS degree program. Written paper, poster and oral presentation of an analysis of a chosen environmental issue as selected by the student and the instructor.
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ENVS 7010 Mathematical Modeling in Energy and Environmental Management (3)
Prereq.: OCS 4410 or equivalent. Advanced studies in the development of models of energy and environmental systems.
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ENVS 7040 Environmental Planning and Management (3)
Prereq.: consent of instructor. Environmental systems planning and management at local, state and federal government levels using problem identification; design of alternative solutions, evaluation of alternatives, political action decision processes and implementation and monitoring.
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ENVS 7041 Environmental Policy Analysis (3)
Prereq.: consent of instructor. Management-oriented approach to major phases of environmental policy; formulation, implementation, evaluation; theoretical bases and analytical techniques.
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ENVS 7042 Environmental Conflict Resolution (3)
Practical approaches and techniques commonly used to mediate environmental conflicts and facilitate participatory group decision making among stakeholders.
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ENVS 7043 Environmental Law and Regulation (3)
Introduction to basic principles of federal and state laws, regulations and court decisions involving pollution of the environment, including the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Oil Pollution Act; current topical legal developments.
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ENVS 7044 Regulation of Toxic Substances (3)
Federal laws, regulations, judicial decisions and policies regarding the development, production, use and disposal of toxic substances, including the Toxic Substances Control Act, Federal Insecticide, Rodenticide, and Fungicide Act and the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; toxic tort lawsuits will be reviewed.
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ENVS 7046 International Environmental Law (3)
International and multilateral agreements and practices for controlling pollution and depletion of natural resources; relationship between international trade agreements and environmental quality; other international environmental issues.
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ENVS 7047 Environmental Economics and Policy (3)
Prereq.: ECON 4720 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Economic concepts applied to the development of appropriate policies to achieve environmental protection goals; emphasis given to linkages between economics and the environment, the role of market failure and economic instruments that can be used to address environmental concerns.
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ENVS 7048 Natural Resources Law and Policy (3)
Legal frameworks and resultant policy debates surrounding natural resources management; mechanisms by which law and policy facilitate resource management in the U.S. and worldwide; assessment of the science supporting such management.
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ENVS 7050 Spatial Modeling of Environmental Data (3)
Prereq.: EXST 7003 or EXST 7004 or EXST 7005 . Development of an approach to analyze spatial and temporal processes for environmental data modeling.
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ENVS 7061 Water Quality Management and Policy (3)
Also offered as RNR 7061 . Physical, chemical and biological characteristics of surface water in natural systems; sources and effects of water pollutants; water quality standards and criteria; total maximum daily loads; federal water quality regulations; watershed approach and application of mathematical models to water quality management.
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ENVS 7110 Toxicology of Aquatic Environments (3)
Cross listed with OCS 7110 . Aquatic pollution and toxicology of industrial materials related to environmental risk assessment in coastal areas; physical, chemical and biological factors affecting the fate of toxicants in marine and freshwater coastal areas.
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ENVS 7112 Concepts in Marine Ecotoxicology (3)
Also offered as OCS 7112 . Prereq.: ENVS 7110 or permission of instructor Marine pollution and toxicology of industrial and non-point sources materials related to ecological risk assessment in costal and marine areas; biological processes and wastes in the ocean; physicochemical processes and wastes in the ocean; laboratory and field techniques in epibiotic, endobiotic and fecal-sestonic habitats; benthic habitats and metals/chemical specification/geoavailability; fish as a biological model; microcosm theory and design for littoral and neritic habitats; approaches to ecological risk assessment in marine habitats.
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ENVS 7151 Watershed Hydrology and Floodplain Analysis (3)
See RNR 7151 .
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ENVS 7623 Toxicology I (3)
Prereq.: ENVS 4477 or consent of instructor. Fundamental principles of toxicology, dose response relationship, design and conduct of acute and chronic toxicity tests, basic analytical toxicology, biochemical markers, basic principles of hazard evaluation and risk assessment, industrial toxicology, principles of toxicology applied to the environment and ecosystems.
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ENVS 7626 Toxicology IV: Genetic Toxicology (3)
Also offered as BIOL 7626 . Prereq.: ENVS 7623 or approval of instructor. Evaluation of induced heritable and/or phenotypic changes in the organism and individual cells (germline and somatic); emphasis on human and mammalian species; reproductive toxicology and teratogenesis; testing and screening agents for genotoxic activities; molecular genetic approaches to human and environmental biomonitoring.
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ENVS 7700 Integrated Environmental Issues (3)
Multi- disciplinary analysis of a current environmental issue. Discussion of topics from the perspectives of natural science, economics, social science and political science. Integration and synthesis of information to develop a science-based approach to environmental decision-making.
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ENVS 7900 Special Problems in Environmental Sciences (1-4)
May be taken for a max. of 4 hrs. credit. Individual study of a specific environmental problem.
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ENVS 7950 Special Topics in Environmental Sciences (1-6)
Research and methodological review of current topics.
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ENVS 7995 Environmental Seminar (1)
Reports and discussions of student/faculty activities in environmental sciences.
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ENVS 7997 Environmental Practicum (1-6)
Prereq.: Graduate standing in Environmental Sciences and consent of the instructor. Pass-fail grading. May be taken for a maximum of 12 credit hours, but no more than 3 hours may count toward the student’s degree. Required of all students in the ENVS Professional Option program. Open to students accepted by an approved internship program or accepted for an approved team research project.
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ENVS 7998 Environmental Colloquium (2)
May only be taken during semester of graduation. Non-thesis students only. Written and oral presentation of a literature review on a selected environmental issue, as approved by the departmental non-thesis committee.
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ENVS 8000 Thesis Research (1-12 per sem.)
“S”/”U” grading.
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ENVS 9000 Dissertation Research (1-12 per sem.)
“S/U” grading.
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EXST 2000 Introduction to Microcomputers (3)
Credit will not be given for this course and CSC 1100 , ISDS 1100 and LIS 2001 . 2 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. A user-oriented introduction to microcomputers and applications software; terminology; hardware; software: the operating system, word processing, spreadsheets, data management, graphics, communications.
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EXST 2201 Introduction to Statistical Analysis (4)
This is a General Education course. Prereq.: MATH 1021 or equivalent. 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Descriptive statistics; inferential statistical methods including confidence interval estimation and hypothesis testing for one and two population means and proportions; one-way analysis of variance; simple linear regression and correlation; analysis of categorical data.
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EXST 3201 Statistical Analysis II (4)
Prereq.: EXST 2201 or equivalent. 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Applied statistical modeling: multiple regression, variable selection, serial correlation, repeated measures, multivariate tools, logistic regression, blocking and factorial design, categorical data analysis and nonparametric techniques.
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EXST 3999 Supervised Independent Study and Research (1-4)
Prereq.: consent of instructor. May be taken for a max. of 8 sem. hrs. of credit with consent of department head. Investigation of areas of interest not covered in other departmental courses, under the guidance of departmental faculty.
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EXST 4012 Introduction to Sampling Techniques (3)
Su Prereq.: EXST 2201 or equivalent. Simple random, stratified random, cluster, systematic, multistage, multiphase and unequal probability sampling procedures methods and applications; ratio and regression estimation; non-response and non-sampling errors.
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EXST 4025 SAS Programming (3)
Prereq.: EXST 2201 or equivalent. Reading, processing, manipulating, transforming and outputting data in various formats; descriptive and summary statistics procedures; subsetting and combining data sets; DO loops and arrays; industry standard programming practices.
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EXST 4050 Principles and Theory of Statistics (4)
Prereq.: or equivalent and MATH 1550 or equivalent. 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Probability distributions as models for real-world processes; sampling distributions and the central limit theorem; estimation and confidence region methods; principles of hypothesis testing; modeling; emphasis on links between theory, methodology and application.
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EXST 4087 Special Topics in Applied Statistics (3)
Prereq.: EXST 2201 or equivalent. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. of credit when topics vary.
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EXST 7003 Statistical Inference I (4)
Prereq.: MATH 1021 or equivalent. Credit will be given for only one of the following: EXST 7003, , EXST 7005 , EXST 7009 . 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Basic concepts of statistical models and sampling; descriptive and inferential methods; normal, t, chi-square and F distributions; tests of hypothesis and estimation, analysis of variance, correlation, regression, analysis of categorical data; emphasis on social and behavioral sciences research problems; computer software applications.
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EXST 7004 Experimental Statistics I (4)
Prereq.: MATH 1021 or equivalent. Credit will be given for only one of the following: EXST 7003 , 7004, EXST 7005 , EXST 7009 . 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Basic concepts of statistical models and use of samples; measures of variation and central tendency; normal, t, chi-square and F distributions; test of hypothesis, analysis of variance, regression and correlation; emphasis on laboratory-oriented sciences research problems; computer software applications.
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EXST 7005 Statistical Techniques I (4)
Prereq.: MATH 1021 or equivalent. Credit will be given for only one of the following: EXST 7003 , EXST 7004 , 7005, EXST 7009 . 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Basic concepts of statistical models and sampling methods, descriptive statistical measures, distributions, tests of significance, analysis of variance, regression, correlation and chi-square; emphasis on field-oriented life sciences research problems; computer software applications.
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EXST 7009 Statistical Methods I–Web-Based (3)
Prereq.: MATH 1021 or equivalent and knowledge of SAS statistical analysis software. Credit will be given for only one of the following: EXST 7003 , EXST 7004 , EXST 7005 , 7009. Basic concepts of statistical models and use of samples; measures of variation and central tendency, normal, t, chi-square and F distributions; tests of hypothesis; analysis of variance, regression and correlation; emphasis on field-oriented life science research problems.
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EXST 7011 Nonparametric Statistics (3)
Su Prereq.: EXST 7003 or EXST 7004 or EXST 7005 or equivalent. Nonparametric one- and two-sample location and distribution tests, including binomial, chi-square, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Mann-Whitney U, Wilcoxon; analyses of variance, including Cochran’s Q, Kruskal-Wallis, Friedman; correlation and regression, including Kendall’s tau, Spearman’s rho and point biserial.
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EXST 7013 Statistical Inference II (4)
Prereq.: EXST 7003 or equivalent. Credit will be given for only one of the following: EXST 7013, EXST 7014 , EXST 7015 , EXST 7019 . 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Analyses of variance and experimental designs; completely randomized and complete block designs; latin square designs; split plot; arrangements of treatments; multiple comparisons; covariance analysis; multiple and curvilinear regression techniques; emphasis on social and behavioral sciences research problems.
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EXST 7014 Experimental Statistics II (4)
Prereq.: EXST 7004 or equivalent. Credit will be given for only one of the following: EXST 7013 , 7014, EXST 7015 , EXST 7019 . 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Multiple classification analysis of variance and covariance, individual degrees of freedom, factorial arrangement of treatments and multiple regression; emphasis on science/laboratory research problems.
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EXST 7015 Statistical Techniques II (4)
Prereq.: EXST 7005 or equivalent. Credit will be given for only one of the following: EXST 7013 , EXST 7014 , 7015, EXST 7019 . 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Multiple classification analyses of variance and covariance, sampling designs, parameter estimation, multiple regression and correlation, tests of specific hypothesis, and factorial experiments; emphasis on field-oriented life sciences research problems
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EXST 7019 Statistical Methods II–Web-Based (3)
Prereq.: EXST 7003 or EXST 7004 or EXST 7005 or EXST 7009 or equivalent and knowledge of SAS statistical analysis software. Credit will be given for only one of the following: EXST 7013 , EXST 7014 , EXST 7015 , 7019. Multiple classification analyses of variance and covariance; sampling designs, parameter estimation, multiple regression and correlation, tests of specific hypotheses and factorial experiments; emphasis on field-oriented life science research problems.
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EXST 7025 Biological Population Statistics II (3)
Prereq.: EXST 7015 or equivalent. Extensive development and application of statistical techniques to parameter estimation in population dynamics; principles of model building and role of model building in population management.
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EXST 7031 Experimental Design (3)
Prereq.: EXST 7013 or EXST 7014 or EXST 7015 or equivalent. Comparison of designs, models and analyses; emphasis on factorial experiments, complete and incomplete block designs, and confounding.
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EXST 7034 Regression Analysis (3)
Prereq.: EXST 7013 or EXST 7014 or EXST 7015 or equivalent and knowledge of matrix algebra. Fundamentals of regression analysis, stressing an understanding of underlying principles; response surfaces, variable selection techniques and nonlinear regression.
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EXST 7036 Categorical Data Analysis (3)
Prereq.: EXST 7013 or EXST 7014 or EXST 7015 or equivalent. Statistical techniques used in analyzing data from discrete distributions; contingency tables, loglinear and logit models, logistic regression and repeated measures for nominal and ordinal data; emphasis on computer analysis and interpretation.
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EXST 7037 Multivariate Statistics (3)
Prereq.: EXST 7013 or EXST 7014 or EXST 7015 or equivalent and knowledge of matrix algebra. Comparison of multivariate techniques and analyses; emphasis on discriminant analysis, factor analysis and principal component analysis, canonical correlation, cluster analysis and multivariate analysis of variance.
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EXST 7039 Statistical Methods for Reliability and Survival Data (3)
Prereq.: EXST 7013 or EXST 7014 or EXST 7015 . Characteristics of lifetime data; non-parametric methods including Kaplan Meier estimation; lifetime parametric models, parametric methods for single distribution data; planning life test; system reliability concepts; failure time regression; accelerated testing.
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EXST 7060 Probability and Statistics (3)
Prereq.: MATH 2057 or equivalent. Probability, random variables, discrete and continuous distribution functions; expected values, moment generating functions; functions of random variables.
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EXST 7061 Statistical Theory (3)
Prereq.: EXST 7060 or equivalent. Point estimation; hypothesis testing; interval estimation; large sample theory; new developments in statistical inference.
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EXST 7083 Practicum in Statistical Consulting I (2)
Prereq.: EXST 7013 or EXST 7014 or EXST 7015 and permission of instructor. Pass-fail grading. 4 hrs. independent study Supervised application of statistical techniques to research problems; readings, oral presentations and discussions on statistical consulting; problem-solving; mock-consulting sessions; participation in real-life statistical consulting sessions under faculty supervision.
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EXST 7084 Practicum in Statistical Consulting II (2)
Prereq.: EXST 7083 and permission of instructor. Pass-fail grading. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. credit. 4 hrs. independent study. Primary responsibility for statistical consulting projects under the supervision of graduate faculty.
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EXST 7085 Special Problem in Statistics (1-3)
Prereq.: permission of department. Pass-fail grading. A technical paper on an advanced topic in statistics is required. Development of a topic in advanced statistics under faculty supervision.
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EXST 7086 Advanced Seminar in Statistics (1)
Prereq.: consent of instructor. Pass-fail grading. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Develop and present a 50-minute seminar on an advanced topic in statistics as a part of the department’s seminar series.
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EXST 7087 Advanced Topics in Statistics (1-3)
Prereq.: consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Lectures on advanced topics in statistics not covered in other experimental statistics courses.
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EXST 7142 Statistical Data Mining (3)
Prereq.: EXST 7013 , EXST 7014 , EXST 7015 , EXST 7019 or equivalent. Data preparation; predictive modeling, including normal-based and logistic regression, decision trees, neural networks, ensemble methods; handling missing data; model assessment and model comparison; model implementation and scoring of new data; pattern discovery.
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EXST 7152 Advanced Topics in Statistical Modeling (3)
Prereq.: EXST 7013 or EXST 7014 or EXST 7015 and EXST 7034 or equivalent or consent of department head. Regularized linear regression and classification methods; penalized spline fitting to normal and non-normal data; tree-based methods; ensemble methods including boosting; support vector machine and kernel-based methods.
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EXST 7999 Independent Study (1-3)
Prereq.: permission of instructor. May be taken for a max. of 9 sem. hrs. of credit when topics vary. Independent study under the guidance of graduate faculty.
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EXST 8000 Thesis Research (1-12 per sem.)
“S”/”U” grading.
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EVEG 1050 Introduction to Environmental Engineering (1)
Designed for Environmental Engineering majors; open to non-majors by consent of department. 2 hrs. lab. Introduction to the environmental engineering discipline; fundamentals of engineering design and methods; overview of professional ethics, regulations, and the multimedia aspects of the discipline; technical presentation and communication skills.
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EVEG 2000 Environmental Engineering I (3)
Prereq.: CHEM 1202 and MATH 1550 . Basic principles of calculations in environmental engineering; overview of professional ethics; regulations and multimedia aspects of environmental problem solving with emphasis on fundamental concepts and definitions.
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EVEG 2050 Environmental Engineering Design Methods (1)
Designed for Environmental Engineering majors; open to non-majors by consent of department. 2 hrs. lab. Case-based, design studies to expose students to the components of professional environmental designs; component exposure includes regulations, numerical methods software, design drawing interpretation, ethics, economics, social consideration, design alternative decision analysis.
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EVEG 3050 Global Issues in Environmental Engineering (1)
Designed for Environmental Engineering majors; open to non-majors by consent of department. 2 hrs. lab. Past and current global topics used to investigate the impact of global issues on local, regional and state environmental engineering design and decision-making processes.
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EVEG 3110 Water and Wastewater Treatment (3)
Prereq.: (a grade of “C”or better is required in CE 2200 ). Physical, chemical and biological characteristics of water and wastewater; water quality regulation; basic reactor engineering; operation and simple design of physical, chemical and biological unit processes in water and wastewater treatment.
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EVEG 3120 Chemical Equilibrium and Kinetics of Environmental Processes (3)
Same as CHE 3100 .
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EVEG 3145 Environmental Engineering III (3)
Prereq.: CHEM 2060 /CHEM 2261 . Application of chemical principles to water quality problems in the area of water supply, wastewater treatment, and pollution of natural waters. Fundamentals of equilibrium chemistry, chemical kinetics, organic and colloidal chemistry as applied to environmental engineering.
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EVEG 3200 Water Resources Engineering (3)
Prereq.: CE 2200 . Fundamentals of fluid mechanics applied to problems in the field of water; steady and unsteady flow in closed conduits including analysis of water supply systems, flow in open channels, storm and wastewater collection systems and turbo machinery; emphasis on computer methods.
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EVEG 3271 Senior Project I: Consulting Format (3)
Prereq.: EVEG 3200 , EVEG 3110 . Student project teams tackle selected design projects within a designated time allocation. Project management (proposals, flow charts, technical content) mimicking methodologies utilized by professional consulting firms; findings presented using professional format, i.e., final reports address rationale, process treatment trains and/or process sizing.
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EVEG 3273 Independent Undergraduate Research Project (1-4)
Prereq.: EVEG 3145 , EVEG 4136 , and consent of department. Independent research project under the direction of a faculty member. Students develop the objectives and scope of the research and conduct appropriate analytical and experimental (field and/or laboratory) studies. Results and conclusion of the project are summarized in a report and defended orally.
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EVEG 3400 Environmental Engineering II (3)
Prereq.: CHEM 2060 (CHEM 2261 ); EVEG 2000 . Fundamentals of microbiology, ecology, enzyme kinetics and biochemistry as applied to environmental engineering; applications to biological wastewater treatment; bioremediation of soil, air, surface and ground waters, landfill and natural systems.
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EVEG 4105 Quantitative Water Management (3)
Prereq.: EVEG 3110 . Quantitative tools used to solve water management problems based upon hydraulic, mass balance, stoichiometric, kinetic and equilibrium phenomena.
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EVEG 4110 Unit Operations Laboratory (1)
Prereq.: CHEM 2060 , EVEG 3110 , EVEG 3145 .
Understanding of the physical, biological and chemical operations and processes commonly utilized in environmental engineering; presentation of theoretical concepts and operational problems; laboratory experiments; and formal reports.
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EVEG 4120 Design of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Systems (3)
Prereq.: EVEG 3110 and EVEG 4125 . Design of solid and hazardous waste systems; process selection; elements of waste management systems; physicochemical, biological, and thermal process design; regulations related to design of waste management systems.
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EVEG 4125 Environmental Transport Processes (3)
Prereq.: EVEG 3120 and EVEG 3200 . Fundamentals of chemical transport in engineered environments and natural systems with an emphasis on applications to environmental engineering practice.
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EVEG 4136 Water Quality Analysis Laboratory (1)
Prereq.: CHEM 1212 , ENGL 2000 , EXST 2201 and credit or registration in EVEG 3145 .
Water quality analysis of wastewater and natural waters.
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EVEG 4150 Integrated Environmental System Design I (3)
Prereq.: EVEG 3110 and EVEG 4125 . Preliminary designs will be applied to final full designs in EVEG 4151 . Principles of integrated environmental system design; economic, regulatory and risk-based requirements in initial preliminary design of environmental systems incorporating minimization, destruction, treatment and disposal technologies in all media; emphasis on preliminary design and screening of classical management systems.
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EVEG 4151 Integrated Environmental System Design II (3)
Prereq.: EVEG 4150 . Continuation of EVEG 4150 . Final project designs are presented to representatives of the public and private sectors. Economic, regulatory and risk-based requirements in completion of environmental design projects developed in 4150; minimization, destruction, treatment and disposal technologies in all media.
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EVEG 4153 Hazardous Waste Management (3)
Prereq.: consent of instructor. Identification and classification of wastes; regulations; treatment, storage and disposal techniques; facilities parameters.
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EVEG 4154 Sustainability Engineering (3)
Prereq.: CE 2450 or equivalent and consent of instructor. Engineering analysis and design approaches that minimize impacts on the environment, human health and social conditions; ecodesign; life cycle assessment; full-cost accounting; pollution prevention.
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EVEG 4156 Water and Wastewater Treatment in Developing Countries (3)
Prereq.: EVEG 3200 and EVEG 3110 . Design of sustainable water and wastewater treatment approaches in the developing world; low-cost, low-energy and low-maintenance treatment approaches; technology constraints; decentralized treatment strategies; case studies.
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EVEG 4780 Special Topics in Environmental Engineering Design (3)
Prereq.: senior standing and departmental approval. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. of credit when topics vary. More than one section of this course may be taken for credit concurrently when topics differ. Selected topics in environmental engineering design.
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EVEG 4781 Special Topics in Environmental Engineering Science (3)
Prereq.: senior standing and departmental approval. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. of credit when topics vary. More than one section of this course may be taken for credit concurrently when topics differ. Selected topics in environmental engineering science.
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FIN 1060 Personal Money Management (1)
See HUEC 1060 .
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FIN 2060 Survey of Investing I (1)
Prereq.: credit or registration in FIN 1060 . Introduction to historical and contemporary issues in personal investing, including stocks, bonds, insurance, real estate and banking.
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FIN 3351 Principles of Real Estate (3)
Prereq.: BLAW 3201 or FIN 3715 or FIN 3716 . Purchasing, owning and operating real estate relative to interest in realty, liens, contracts, deeds, titles, leases, brokerage, management.
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FIN 3352 Real Estate Valuation and Investment (3)
Prereq.: FIN 3351 or FIN 3715 or FIN 3716 or equivalent. Principles of valuation applied to single-family and income-producing real property; techniques for making investment decisions in alternative types of real property; cash flow analysis considering income tax effects, financial leverage, risk-return trade-offs and alternative methods of disposition.
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FIN 3353 Real Estate Finance (3)
Prereq.: FIN 3351 or FIN 3715 or FIN 3716 or equivalent. Real estate financing decisions for residential and income-producing properties; risk-return analysis for varying conditions of financial leverage; decision making related to pricing, alternative financing methods, refinancing, mortgage portfolio management; financing methods; government involvement in mortgage market and housing finance.
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FIN 3440 Risk and Insurance (3)
Prereq.: BLAW 3201 . Nature of nonspeculative risks and possible alternative methods of treating them; specific application of these methods to personal and business risks arising from life, health, property and liability contingencies; influence of public policy on risk treatment.
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FIN 3460 Risk Management (3)
Prereq.: FIN 3715 or FIN 3716 . Risk management from the business manager’s viewpoint; insurance and financial market methods of pooling and managing risk; identification and evaluation of risk; hedging, self insurance, recontracting and organizational design.
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FIN 3632 Bank Administration (3)
Prereq.: FIN 3715 or FIN 3716 . For students interested in commercial banking careers or in the role of banks within the American enterprise system. Economic role and evolution of banks; structure of banking; lending and investment techniques; bank organization and regulation; asset and liability management; credit risk management; bank performance analysis.
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FIN 3636 Financial Markets and Institutions (3)
Prereq.: FIN 3715 or FIN 3716 or equivalent. Characteristics and functions of financial markets and institutions; process of financial intermediation and allocation of financial resources; analysis of current developments in financial institutions and in money and capital markets; factors in interest rate determination; management of credit risk, interest rate risk and operating risk.
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FIN 3715 Business Finance (3)
Prereq.: ECON 2000 and ECON 2010 , or ECON 2030 ; and ACCT 2000 or ACCT 2001 . Credit will not be given for this course and FIN 3716 . Not open to students in the E. J. Ourso College of Business. Finance function within the business enterprise; techniques of financial management, concepts of capital structure and dividend policy, working capital management, capital budgeting, institutional and international environment of the firm.
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FIN 3716 Financial Management (3)
Prereq.: ECON 2000 and ECON 2010 and ACCT 2001 . Credit will not be given for both this course and FIN 3715 . Intended primarily for students in the E. J. Ourso College of Business. Students minoring in business should enroll in FIN 3715 . Principles and procedures of financial management; investment and financing decisions within the business enterprise.
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FIN 3717 Advanced Business Finance (3)
Prereq.: FIN 3716 . Open only to finance majors; open to others with permission of department. Material presented in real-world cases. Hands on applications of financial tools introduced in FIN 3716 ; financial analysis, forecasting, capital budgeting and business evaluation.
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FIN 3718 Multinational Managerial Finance (3)
Prereq.: FIN 3715 or FIN 3716 . Multinational financial management; nature of international finance system; financing, investment and risk management of the multinational corporation.
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FIN 3826 Investments (3)
Prereq.: FIN 3716 . Open only to finance majors; open to others with permission of the department.
Characteristics and valuation of common stocks, bonds, options, function and efficiency of U.S. securities markets; theory and practice of portfolio selection.
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FIN 3840 Fixed Income Securities (3)
Prereq.: FIN 3826 . Mechanics of fixed-income markets and securities; valuation of fixed income securities and contingent claims; interest rate risk, term structure, product fundamentals and bond portfolio strategies.
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FIN 3845 Student Managed Investment Fund (3)
Prereq.: FIN 3715 or FIN 3716 or equivalent and permission of instructor. Course may be repeated for a max. of 9 sem. hrs. of credit. Analysis of equity investment opportunities in conjunction with the management of the Student Managed Investment Fund; emphasis on valuation techniques and fundamental analysis; operation of investment reporting systems.
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FIN 3900 Directed Study and Research (1-6)
Prereq.: consent of instructor. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. of credit. Research under direction of faculty member; written proposal must be approved by faculty member and department chair prior to registration.
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