Outreach » Undergraduate Education
It is the goal of WaterCAMPWS to recruit, develop, and educate undergraduate students through both research experiences and professional development activities. We particularly seek to increase student participation in underrepresented group at the undergraduate level with the goal of increasing diversity among graduate students and faculty. The WaterCAMPWS desires to enrich the undergraduate experience through course work and research opportunities directly related to water purity, and through exposure to dissemination of research findings via publications and conference presentations.
WaterPURE
WaterPURE (Program for Undergraduate Research and Education) enables undergraduate students, freshmen through senior, to participate in a year-long Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program with a view toward eventually entering graduate school. Beyond engaging in mentored research endeavors in WaterCAMPWS laboratories, WaterPURE participants meet monthly for sessions that include professional development, research ethics, laboratory safety, presentation skills, and technical writing. More advanced students produce research papers of publishable quality, and all students make formal presentations of their research. Click here for more detailed information on the WaterPURE program, including a 2010 application.
Courses
WaterCAMPWS courses are designed to help students become more conversant with activities in the Center that are outside their degree discipline. This course list was developed to guide advisors and students in their selection of the Center's courses. Courses selected in conjunction with the Center are in addition to those required as part of a student's MS or PhD degree.
Course List
Courses marked with an asterisk (*) indicate that Engineering WaterCAMPWS students, with the recommendation of their advisor, may be able to successfully take the course without meeting all of the prerequisites for that course. CEE 342 is highly recommended as a first course. Courses are listed alphabetically by department.
- CEE 437: Water Quality Engineering*
Fundamental theory underlying the unit processes utilized in the treatment of water for domestic and industrial usage, and in the treatment of domestic and industrial wastewaters.
Prerequisites: CEE 241; credit or concurrent registration in TAM 335
Credit Hours: 3
Units: 3/4 - CEE 443: Environmental Engineering Principles, Chemical*
Application of principles of chemical equilibrium and chemical kinetics to air and water quality. Chemistry topics are thermodynamics, kineti s, acid/base chemistry, complexation, precipitation, dissolution, and oxidation/reduction. Many applications are also presented.
Prerequisites: CEE 437
Credit Hours:4 - CEE 444: Environmental Engineering Principles, Biological*
Application of principles of biochemistry and microbiology to air and water quality, wastes, and their engineering management; biological mediated changes in water and in domestic and industrial wastewater.
Prerequisits: CEE 443 or consent of instructor
Credit Hours: 3
Units: 3/4 - CEE 449: Environment Engineering Lab*
Combination of lecture and laboratory designed to provide exposure to the use of traditional analysis tools and techniques in analysis, control, and design of natural and engineered environmental systems including air, water, wastewater, solid and hazardous waste, and ecological systems.
Prerequisites: CEE 437 or 446
Credit Hours: 3
Units: 3/4 - CEE 537: Water Quality Control Proc, I
Theory and basic design of processes used in water and wastewater treatment, including adsorption, ion exchange, chemical oxidation and reduction, disinfection, sedimentation, filtration, coagulation, flocculation, and chemical precipitation.
Prerequisites: Credit or concurrent registration 442 and 443
Credit Hours: 4
Units: 1 - CEE 538: Water Quality Control Proc, II*
Analysis of the physical principles which form the basis of many water and air quality-control operations; sedimentation, filtration, inertial separations, flocculation, mixing and principles of reactor design.
Prerequisites: CEE 442 and 443; credit or concurrent registration in CEE 444
Credit Hours: 4
Units: 1 - CHEM 315: Instrumental Characterization Lab*
Laboratory course emphasizes the application of modern instrumental techniques for characterizing the kinetic behavior and equilibrium properties of chemical systems.
Prerequisites: Either CHEM 237 or both CHEM 223 and 233
Credit Hours: 2
Units: 1/2 - CHEM 420: Instrumental Characterization*
Lecture course covers the fundamentals of instrumental characterization including: nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, potentiometry, voltammetry, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, activation analysis, electron and x-ray spectroscopy, and gas and liquid chromatography.
Prerequisites: CHEM 440, credit or concurrent registration in CHEM 442, or consent of the instructor
Credit Hours: 0 - CHEM 421: Separation Methods*
Examines theory, practice, and instrumentation in gas and liquid chromatography, extraction techniques, mass spectrometry as coupled to chromatography, electrophoresis, and separations based on phase equilibria.
Prerequisites: Credit or concurrent registration in CHEM 440 or CHEM 442
Credit Hours: 4
Units: 1 - CHEM 437: Organic Chemistry
Laboratory experiments in organic chemistry with emphasis on synthesis.
Prerequisites: CHEM 233 or 237 and credit or concurrent registration in CHEM 332 or 436
Credit Hours: 3
Units: 3/4 - CHEM 440: Physical Chemistry Principles
One-term course in physical chemistry emphasizing topics most important to students in the biological and agricultural sciences. Not open to students in the specialized curricula in chemistry and chemical engineering. Laboratory experience in this area provided by CHEM 315 to be taken preferably after CHEM 440.
Prerequisites: CHEM 121 or 222 and CHEM 232, or equivalent; PHYS 102; and MATH 242 or equivalent (calculus including partial derivatives)
Credit Hours: 4
Units: 1 - CHEM 480: Polymer Chemistry*
Comprehensive overview and examination of the methods used to synthesize macromolecules. Both descriptive and mechanistic organic chemistry, as it relates to polymer synthesis, are discussed. This course is cross listed as MATSE 357 and is the same as MSE 457 and CHEM 357.
Prerequisites: Senior standing in MATSE or CHEM
Credit Hours: 3 or 4
Units: 3/4 or 1 - MATSE 401: Thermodynamics of Materials*
Examines basic thermodynamic principles including energy, entropy, and free energy; describes the macroscopic properties of various materials systems such as equilibrium states, phases, and phase transitions; emphasizes metals, ceramics, polymers, and electronic materials. Particular attention is paid to the application of phase diagrams; introduces the statistical interpretation of thermodynamics on the atomistic level Same as CHEM 484. Credit is not given for both MSE 301 and either CHEM 444 or 484. MatSE students will not receive credit for this course toward a graduate degree.
Prerequisites: CHEM 104, PHYS 212, and MATH 342 or 385
Credit Hours: 0 - MATSE 480: Surfaces and Colloids*
Introduction to the chemistry and physics of surfaces and interfaces, with emphasis on behavior in liquid media; major areas include surface composition, surface and interfacial forces, colloidal stability and flocculation, and amphiphilic molecules 3 undergraduate hours. 3 or 4 graduate hours.
Prerequisites: One of MSE 401, CHEM 442, PHYS 427, an equivalent undergraduate course in thermodynamics or physical chemistry or consent of instructor
Credit Hours: 3
Units: 3/4 or 1 - MCB 424: Microbial Biochemistry
Examines the biochemical ecology of diverse microbial groups with emphasis on anaerobic systems.
Prerequisites: MCB 350 and 354 or consent of instructor
Credit Hours: 3
Units: 3/4 - ME 420: Intermediate Heat Transfer
Conduction heat transfer, radiation heat transfer, mass transfer, phase change, heat exchangers, and introductory numerical methods.
Prerequisites: ME 310 and ME 320 or equivalents
Credit Hours: 4
Units: 1 - ME 497: Independent Study
Independent study of advanced problems related to mechanical engineering.
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing; consent of instructor
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
Units: ?? - ME 498: Special Topics
Lectures on special topics in selected areas of mechanical engineering. May be repeated in the same or separate terms as topics vary to a maximum of 9 hours.
Prerequisite: As specified for each topic offering; see Schedule or departmental course information.
Credit Hours: 1 to 4
Units: ?? - ME 504: Nonequil Multiphase Processes
Dynamics and thermodynamics of multiphase and multicomponent systems with special relevance to air pollution control and energy conversion; relaxation phenomena; general motion of systems of disparate elemental masses; diffusion in gravitational and electric fields, and boundary layer motion with mass transport; dispersion and collection of particulate matter; and transport with surface reactions.
Prerequisites: ME 404 or consent of instructor
Credit Hours: 4
Units: 1
Mentoring for Undergraduate Students
WaterCAMPWS is committed to creating a diverse and highly qualified pool of undergraduate students who are prepared for graduate studies in water purification and technology. An important part of that goal is to provide them with personal, one-on-one guidance from faculty advisors and graduate student mentors.
Members of the WaterCAMPWS Student Leadership Council play a key role in mentoring WaterPURE students, who are paired with graduate student mentors and are involved in WaterCAMPWS research. Graduate student mentors aid WaterPURE students in their research experiences and encourage them to participate in SLC activities, professional development sessions, and WaterCAMPWS seminars.
Student Leadership Council
The Student Leadership Council (SLC) was established to enhance communication between students and administration, and is comprised of graduate and undergraduate representatives. The SLC's social and supportive components enable students to enhance their research experiences and further their career aspirations by offering opportunities for travel grants, professional development workshops, lectures from leading researchers, and mentoring programs. The SLC Executive Committee, whose responsibilities include chairing SLC meetings and mentoring activities, is comprised of graduate students nominated by WaterCAMPWS administration. Contact the SLC Executive Committee by e-mailing at campwsslc@gmail.com.
