School of Engineering Curriculum Issues: Oct 5, 2007
Agenda
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Announcements:
o New form: dean's statement required for proposals with
resource requirements.
o ES5 name change: "Statics and Dynamics" -> "Introduction to
Mechanics- Statics and Dynamics".
o COMP20 name change: "Multimedia Programming" -> "Web
Programming".
o Renumbering: CEE114 -> CEE214.
Change requests:
o CEE30: Environmental Chemistry
o CEE150 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems.
o CEE212: Chemical Principles in Environmental and Water
Resources Engineering
o ME145: Power Generation Systems
o EE104: Probabilistic Systems Analysis
Policy issues:
o Ethics (Levine)
o Leadership task force (Edgers)
o Half-course descriptions: "bulletin language" or "advertising"?
o Half-courses: should description describe project component?
o Cleaning house: removing unoffered courses from catalog.
New course: CEE-30 Environmental Chemistry. Basic principles of environmental chemistry
related to environmental engineering. Thermodynamics, equilibrium, kinetics, mass balance,
chemical partitioning, and reactions for predicting behavior of pollutants in air, water, and soil.
Techniques for measuring dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, nutrients, sewage
indicator bacteria, airborne particles and hydrocarbons, and other pollutants. Applications to
environmental processes. Laboratory is required. Prerequisites: Chemistry 1; CEE-11 or
equivalent. Instructor: Durant. Term: Fall.
New course: CEE150 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems. Fundamentals of
Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Basic cartography. Spatial data entry, storage,
transformation, mapping, analysis, and interpretation. Data collection and software tools for
data analysis. Hands-on application to a broad range of environmental and engineering
problems. Prerequisites: None. Instructor: Durant. Term: Spring.
New course: CEE212 Chemical Principles in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering.
Basic principles of water chemistry related to environmental and water resources engineering.
Thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium, acid-base reactions, alkalinity, buffers, complexation,
precipitation, dissolution, and reduction-oxidation reactions. Quantitative problem solving.
Prerequisites: graduate status, Chemistry 1 or equivalent. Instructor: Durant. Term: Fall
Description change: ME145.
Old ME 145: Powerplant Engineering Analysis and Design. Application of mechanical
engineering principles to the analysis and design of power plants. Review of power-plant
thermodynamics. Rankine, Brayton, and combined cycles. Irreversibilities and real systems.
Fossil-fuel-steam generation, feedwater, circulating water, cooling towers, steam turbines, fuels,
and combustion. Nuclear power: basic theory, thermal and fast reactors, safety. Alternative
sources: solar, wind, ocean, geothermal. Energy storage systems. Environmental impact.
Prerequisites: Mechanical Engineering 11 and 16.
Proposed ME 145: Power Generation Systems. Design and engineering of electric power
production systems. Thermal-mechanical principles of electrical energy conversion, cogeneration,
and storage using fossil fuel, geothermal, hydroelectric, nuclear, ocean, solar thermal, and wind
power sources. Direct generation using fuel cells and photovoltaics. Economic and environmental
sustainability aspects. Prerequisites: Senior standing. ES 7 and 8, or equivalent thermal-fluids
background with permission of instructor.
New course: EE-104. Probabilistic Systems Analysis: Development of basic analytical tools for the
modeling and analysis of random phenomena with application to problems across a range of engineering
and applied science disciplines. Introductory probability theory, sample and event spaces, discrete and
continuous random variables, conditional probability, expectations and conditional expectations, and
derived distributions. Basic random processes including Bernoulli and Poisson. Statistical analysis
methods including hypothesis testing, confidence intervals and nonparametric methods. Markov chains.