SYLLABUS
1. Number and Name: 11:117:468 – HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT
ENGINEERING
2. Credits and contact hours: 3 credits, one 180-minute consolidated lecture period
per week.
3. Instructor:
4. Text:
Dr. Mete Talimcioglu
Geoenvironmental Engineering: Site Remediation, Waste
Containment and Emerging Waste Management Technologies
Hari D. Sharma and Krishna R. Reddy
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2004
ISBN: 0-471-21599-6
5. Specific Course Information
a. Catalog Description:
Engineering and process design aspects of hazardous
waste management. Waste reduction and recovery,
waste treatment, and site remediation. Case studies
and engineering solutions to model hazardous waste
problems.
b. Prerequisites: 11:117:413 or 11:127:413 or equivalent
c. Course Type: Required
6. Course Goals
a. Specific Instructional Outcomes: This course instructs students in the utilization of
scientific and engineering principles to assess and design
treatment systems for remediation of hazardous waste sites. The
topics include regulatory process and applicable rules and
regulations for hazardous waste operations and management, fate
and transport of contaminants, site investigation and
characterization, remedial investigation and remedial alternative
selection processes, as well as design and implementation of
selected remedial technologies.
Standard environmental
engineering practice and applicable regulations of the State of
New Jersey are covered in depth with real-life examples.
b. Specific Student Outcomes addressed by the course include:
a. Ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and
engineering
Instructional Activity: Successful completion of four to five homework
assignments as well as a term-project (real-life example of a remedial
system design) integrates classroom material (theory) with true
engineering practice.
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Assessment Activity: Instructors grades and returns each submitted
assignment to the student, and further discusses correct solutions in class.
d. Ability to function on multidisciplinary teams
Instructional Activity: Instructor assigns only one term-project to the
entire class to work on as a team. The class (typically small in size)
assigns a Team Leader to the project who in turn distributes necessary
tasks to individual members of the Team (students). Upon completion of
individual tasks, the Team collectively prepares one final report,
presenting the results and findings and the overall remedial system design.
The Team also prepares an electronic presentation of the results. The
presenter selected by the Team gives a 30-minute talk on the project at the
last day of classes/final examination period where all Team members
actively participate by asking and answering questions.
Assessment Activity: Instructor evaluates overall Team’s performance, as
well as individual performance on the basis of technical correctness,
completeness, presentation quality, and reporting aspects of the termproject.
g. Ability to communicate effectively
Instructional Activity: The in-class presentation of the term project and
the ability to ask and answer scientifically sound questions prepare the
students to experience and enhance their instructional ability.
Assessment Activity: Instructor evaluates each student’s active
participation during class on the basis of asking and answering
scientifically sound questions throughout the semester as well as during
the final presentation of the term project.
7. Topics:
Week
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Topic
Course Overview, Review of Basic Definitions
Regulatory Process
Regulatory Process
Introduction to USEPA and NJDEP Regulations
Subsurface Hydrology - Aquifer Properties
Groundwater Hydraulics – Darcy’s Law
Groundwater Hydraulics – Flow Nets
Groundwater Flow Problems for Confined Aquiifers
Groundwater Flow Problems for Unconfined Aquifers
SPRING BREAK
Midterm Examination
Fate and Transport of Contaminants – Advection, Dispersion
Fate and Transport of Contaminants – Sorption, First-Order Degradation
Site/Remedial Investigations for Soil, Groundwater, and Air Impacts
Soil and Groundwater Sampling, Vapor Intrusion Investigation/Mitigation
Monitoring Well Design and Construction - Well Drilling Technologies
Introduction to Remedial Technologies: Engineering and Institutional
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Controls
Natural Attenuation Programs - Case Studies
Soil and Groundwater Remediation Technologies – Theory and Real-Life
Examples
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Term Project Presentations/Final Examination
Grading:
Midterm Examination
Final Examination
Term Project
Homework
Prepared by: Mete Talimcioglu
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