Sustainability Courses at the University of Iowa
Certificate in Sustainability (2010-2011)
Mixed Greens: Courses Campuswide Connect Students to Sustainability (The University of Iowa Spectator)
Departments
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Courses (* indicates the home department)
Biomedical Engineering
| Course Name | Number | Prerequisites | Professor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design for Manufacturing |
also 056:032*; |
Corequisite: 057:015 | Ibrahim Ozbolat | Fundamentals of design, engineering graphics, and manufacturing processing; computer graphics using Pro/ENGINEER for CAD and CAM; typical industrial processes, including casting, welding, machining, forming; laboratory exercises and projects. |
| Introduction of Sustainability | 057:013 | None | Craig Just | Issue of sustainability; interdisciplinary teaching techniques utilizing collaboratively designed curriculum; four major components--integration of experiences, social integration, integration of knowledge, and integration as a curriculum design. |
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
| Course Name | Number | Prerequisites | Professor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy and Society | 052:030 | None | David Rethwisch | History of energy development and use throughout the world; how energy has affected the development of human societies; societal impact of engineering advances; current state of energy consumption worldwide, including distribution of energy sources, global variations in consumption, advantages and disadvantages of current energy sources; role of fossil fuel consumption in global climate change, potential scenarios for the future of energy. |
| Sustainable Systems | 052:107; also 053:107* |
None | Jerald L Schnoor |
Not offered Fall 2011 New and emerging concepts in sustainable systems design and assessment. |
| Environmental Chemistry I |
also |
004:012 | Michelle Scherer | Principles of general, physical, organic chemistry applied in water and air systems; emphasis on qualitative and quantitative understanding of chemical kinetics and equilibrium; acid-base reactions, complex formation, precipitation, dissolution, and oxidation-reduction reactions; organic nomenclature. |
| Air Pollution and Control Technology | 052:235; also 053:159* |
053:050 or consent of instructor |
Patrick T O'Shaughnessy | Not offered Fall 2011 Sources, environmental and health impacts, regulations, modeling of air pollution; processes and alternative strategies for control; global climate considerations. |
| Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics |
052:236*; also 053:161 |
052:105 | Charles O Stanier | Not offered Fall 2011 |
| Green Chemical Engineering | 052:237 | None | Charles O Stanier | Not offered Fall 2011 Strategies for pollution prevention for chemical processes studied at the macroscale (industrial sector), the mesoscale (unit operations), and the microscale (molecular level); case studies. |
| Introduction of Sustainability | 057:013 | None | Craig Just | Issue of sustainability; interdisciplinary teaching techniques utilizing collaboratively designed curriculum; four major components--integration of experiences, social integration, integration of knowledge, and integration as a curriculum design. |
Civil and Environmental Engineering
| Course Name | Number | Prerequisites | Professor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Environmental Systems | 053:050 |
004:011 | Gene F Parkin | Not offered Fall 2011 Environmental chemistry and biology of air, water, and soil quality, air and water pollution, limnology, global atmospheric change, fate and transport of pollutants; hazardous substances, risk analysis, standard setting. |
| Principles of Environmental Engineering | 053:055*; also 152:162 |
053:050 or consent of instructor |
Timothy Mattes | Not offered Fall 2011 Water supply and treatment processes; wastewater treatment processes; processes for air pollution control, groundwater remediation; solid and hazardous waste management. |
| Principles of Hydraulics and Hydrology | 053:071 | 057:020 | A. Allen Bradley, Jr. | Not offered Fall 2011 Hydraulics of pressure conduits and open channels, dimensional analysis, flow measurements, hydraulic machinery, laboratory. |
| Groundwater | 053:102 | None | Nandita Basu | Groundwater quality and quantity; Darcy's Law, 2-D flow equation, unsaturated zone, contaminant transport, redox reactions, drinking water quality, bioremediation; laboratories in permeameter testing, porous media grain size analysis, pump testing, monitoring well installation. |
| Water Quality | 053:103 | None | Jerald L Schnoor | Not offered Fall 2011 Sources, availability, uses, characteristics, criteria, best
management practices for surface waters; protection of waters
impaired by eutrophication, soil erosion and sedimentation;
pathogenic organisms, habitat destruction, wastewater
discharges, contaminated sediments, atmospheric deposition,
watershed development, invasive species, irrigation return
flows, stormwater discharges, nonpoint sources, agricultural
runoff; laboratory component, measurement of water quality
characteristics in the field. |
| Groundwater Modeling | 053:104; also 012:184* |
012:166 or 053:103, or equivalent, or consent of instructor | You-Kuan Zhang | Not offered Fall 2011 |
| Engineering Geology | 053:105*; also |
sophomore standing | TBA | Basic concepts in geology focusing on rock and soil, including
material properties, spatial variability in properties,
geological processes, external factors such as stress,
evaluation of engineering design adequacy; site investigation
and characterization techniques used to define and characterize
geotechnical and hydrological properties of geological
materials; case studies to illustrate the importance of geology
on engineering designs. |
| Sustainable Systems | 053:107*; also 052:107 |
None | Jerald L Schnoor | Not offered Fall 2011 New and emerging concepts in sustainable systems design and assessment. |
| International Perspectives: Xicotepec | 053:123 also 046:126 |
None | Hazel H Seaba, Christine M Catney | Not offered Fall 2011 Introduction to providing service to a community in a less developed country; student projects intended to improve community life in Xicotepec. |
| Fluvial Geomorphology | 053:128; also 012:138* |
None | Frank H Weirich | Not offered Fall 2011 Hydrologic principles, stream channel processes, and fluvial geomorphology within drainage basin systems; spatial and temporal variations in water distribution, analysis of hydrological data, flow mechanisms, sediment transport, forecasting procedures, hydrograph construction, modeling. |
| Design for the Developing World | 053:141 | None | Craig L Just | Not offered Fall 2011 Experience working on interdisciplinary teams to solve problems of the developing world; technologies for improving water and sanitation, energy, housing, and health; community building strategies, participatory methods, other techniques essential to good design; service-learning component. |
| Environmental Chemistry I | 053:152*; also |
004:012 | Michelle Scherer | Principles of general, physical, organic chemistry applied in water and air systems; emphasis on qualitative and quantitative understanding of chemical kinetics and equilibrium; acid-base reactions, complex formation, precipitation, dissolution, and oxidation-reduction reactions; organic nomenclature. |
| Environmental Chemistry Laboratory | 053:153 |
Corequisite: 053:152 |
Richard L Valentine | Laboratory experiments to demonstrate important concepts in environmental chemistry and to familiarize students with procedures used to characterize water and wastewater and evaluate certain treatment processes |
| Environmental Microbiology | 053:154 | Corequisite: 053:152 |
Timothy E Mattes | Fundamentals of microbiology and microbial ecology with application in water quality and biodegradation of priority pollutants; lectures and laboratory. |
| Physical-Chemcial Process Fundamentals | 053:156 | 053:050, 053:152, and 053:154 | Richard L Valentine | Not offered Fall 2011 Theory of physical and chemical operations and processes in water and wastewater treatment, including fundamental aspects of process dynamics; lectures, laboratory. |
| Environmental Engineering Design | 053:157 | 053:050, 053:055, and 053:071 | Timothy Mattes | Application of physical, chemical, and biological operations and processes to the design of water and wastewater treatment systems; applications in solid and hazardous waste treatment. |
| Solid and Hazardous Wastes | 053:158*; also 175:198 |
053:050 | Michelle M Scherer | Not offered Fall 2011 Sources, characteristics, collection, disposal of solid and hazardous wastes; environmental impacts of hazardous waste management; resource recovery systems. |
| Air Pollution and Control Technology | 053:159*; also 052:235 |
053:050 or consent of instructor |
Patrick T O'Shaughnessy | Not offered Fall 2011 Sources, environmental and health impacts, regulations, modeling of air pollution; processes and alternative strategies for control; global climate considerations. |
| Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 053:161; also 052:236* |
052:105 | Charles O Stanier | Not offered Fall 2011 |
| Civil Infrastructure | 053:168 | None | Hosin Lee | Not offered Fall 2011 Analytical methods for developing Infrastructure Management Systems (IMS); evaluation of infrastructure condition, performance modeling, rehabilitation optimization, development of the IMS; basic concepts of information technology applied in solving civil infrastructure management problems. |
| Alluvial Channel Hydraulics | 053:173 | None | Athanasios N Papanicolaou | Not offered Fall 2011 Laws governing fall velocity, applications to particle-size analysis; incipient motion, bed forms, bed load, suspended load, natural river processes; theory and practice of movable-bed model experiments. |
| Hydroclimatology | 053:179 | None | No Instructor Listed | Not offered Fall 2011 Thermodynamic and flow characteristics of the atmosphere; occurrence of precipitation associated with mid-latitude weather systems, evaporation, measuring precipitation and evaporation, floods and droughts, regional precipitation climatology, atmospheric dynamics |
| Vadose Zone Hydrology | 053:181; also 012:187* |
012:166 or 053:078 or equivalent | Not offered Fall 2011 ntroduction to vadose zone hydrology; development and application of equations describing flow and transport in vadose zone, including multiphase flow; field and laboratory methods for vadose zone characterization, vadose zone processes that cause groundwater contamination; case studies to illustrate vadose zone hydrology’s importance in engineering design, groundwater contamination. |
|
| Contaminant Hydrogeology | 053:186; also 012:186* |
012:166 or 053:103 or consent of instructor | Not offered Summer 2011 | |
| Environmental Engineering Seminar | 053:192 | senior or graduate standing | Keri C Hornbuckle, Nandita Basu | Presentation and discussion of current topics, case studies, and research in environmental science and engineering by students, guest lecturers, faculty. |
| Water Resources Sustainability | 053:195 | Senior standing prerequisite or permission of instructor | Athanasios Papanicolaou | New topics or areas of study not formally offered in other civil and environmental courses; ice engineering, chaos and strange attractors, remote sensing, nonlinear dynamics of hydrologic processes, advanced water and wastewater treatment processes, hazardous waste control, global climate change, damage mechanics; based on faculty/student interest. |
| Advanced Subsurface Hydrology | 053:196; also 012:196* |
012:166 or engineering equivalent Corequisites: |
Not offered Fall 2011 | |
| Environmental Health Policy |
also 152:252, 175:252 |
None | David Osterberg | Major concerns in environment and human health, legislation enacted to deal with these concerns; examples in renewable energy and translation of science to policy; emphasis on contemporary issues. |
| Hydrogeology Seminar | 053:215; also 012:210* |
012:166 or consent of instructor |
Not offered Fall 2011 | |
| Advanced Environmental Chemistry | 053:252 | None | No Instructor Listed | Not offered Fall 2011 |
| Environmental Processes of Organic Compounds | 053:255 | 053:152 or consent of instructor | Keri Hornbuckle | Not offered Fall 2011 According to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, Paris) there are over 70,000 (mostly organic) synthetic chemicals in daily use, including solvents, components of detergents, dyes and varnishes, additives in plastics and textiles, chemicals used for construction, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides. Control of these chemicals through engineered systems and predictions of their behavior once in the environment depend on a knowledge of the processes that govern their transport and transformations in the environment. Students will use and construct mathematical and computer models to predict the behavior of chemicals in engineered and natural systems. Assessment of learning will be based on oral presentations of case studies in current scientific and engineering literature; homework/problem solving; and a final research report. |
| Environmental Dispersion Processes | 053:272 | None | Serban G Constantinescu | Not offered Fall 2011 Review of classical diffusion theories; longitudinal dispersion, transverse and vertical mixing in free-surface turbulent shear flow; application to natural channels; selected topics including stream-tube models, mixing and dispersion of heated effluents |
| Foundations in Bioremediation | 053:274 | 053:151 | Gene F Parkin | Not offered Fall 2011 |
| Introduction of Sustainability | 057:013 | None | Craig Just | Issue of sustainability; interdisciplinary teaching techniques utilizing collaboratively designed curriculum; four major components--integration of experiences, social integration, integration of knowledge, and integration as a curriculum design. |
Electrical and Computer Engineering
| Course Name | Number | Prerequisites | Professors | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introductory Solid State Physics | 055:173; also 029:193 |
029:140 & 22M:028, or 22M:047 & 22M:048 | Michael Flatte | Not offered Fall 2011 Phenomena associated with solid state; classification of solids and crystal structures, electronic and vibrational properties in solids; thermal, optical, magnetic, dielectric properties of solids. |
| Contemporary Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering (when topic is energy harvesting; solar, wind and ocean energy conversion systems) | 055:195 | None | James Maxted | New topics or areas of study not offered in other electrical and computer engineering courses; based on faculty/student interest; not available for individual study. |
| Semiconductor Physics |
also 029:229 |
029:193, 029:246 | Maxim Khodas | Electronic, optical, and materials properties of semiconductors. |
| Introduction of Sustainability | 057:013 | None | Craig Just | Issue of sustainability; interdisciplinary teaching techniques utilizing collaboratively designed curriculum; four major components--integration of experiences, social integration, integration of knowledge, and integration as a curriculum design. |
Industrial Engineering
| Course Name | Number | Prerequisites | Professor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design for Manufacturing | 056:032*; also |
Corequisite: |
Ibrahim Ozbolat | Fundamentals of design, engineering graphics, and manufacturing processing; computer graphics using Pro/ENGINEER for CAD and CAM; typical industrial processes, including casting, welding, machining, forming; laboratory exercises and projects. |
| Process Engineering | 056:134 | None | Andrew Kusiak | Methodologies, algorithms, and tools for processing modeling, analysis, and reengineering; modeling issues in product and component design, product and process modularity, quality, reliability, agility. Offered spring semesters. |
| Wind Power Management | 056:155 | None | Andrew Kusiak | Not offered Fall 2011 Principles of wind power production, wind turbine design, wind park location and design, turbine and wind park control, predictive modeling, integration of wind power with a grid. |
| Introduction of Sustainability | 057:013 | None | Craig Just | Issue of sustainability; interdisciplinary teaching techniques utilizing collaboratively designed curriculum; four major components--integration of experiences, social integration, integration of knowledge, and integration as a curriculum design. |
Mechanical Engineering
| Course Name | Number | Prerequisites | Professor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wind Power Management | 056:155 | None | Andrew Kusiak | Not offered Fall 2011 Principles of wind power production, wind turbine design, wind park location and design, turbine and wind park control, predictive modeling, integration of wind power with a grid. |
| Introduction of Sustainability | 057:013 | None | Craig Just | Issue of sustainability; interdisciplinary teaching techniques utilizing collaboratively designed curriculum; four major components--integration of experiences, social integration, integration of knowledge, and integration as a curriculum design. |
| Design for Manufacturing |
also |
Corequisite: |
Ibrahim Ozbolat | Fundamentals of design, engineering graphics, and manufacturing processing; computer graphics using Pro/ENGINEER for CAD and CAM; typical industrial processes, including casting, welding, machining, forming; laboratory exercises and projects. |
| Energy Systems Design | 058:048 | 058:040 and 058:045 |
H S Udaykumar | Principles and design of energy conversion systems, including solar, wind, and geothermal power systems; design of thermal-fluid system components, modeling and simulation of systems, optimization techniques; design projects. |
| Mechanical Systems | 058:052 |
Corequisites: |
Olesya I Zhupanska | Topics in stress, deflection, stiffness, statistics, reliability, material behavior, manufacturing processes, static loads; introduction to finite element analysis using established software. |