Principles of sampling, monitoring, and testing air samples. Includes identification of air contaminants, methods of monitoring and sampling each type of contaminant, instruments used in monitoring and sampling, and means of calculating exposure levels. Also includes an introduction to government regulations concerning air quality and industrial air pollution control devices. Principles of environmental analysis and laboratory training. Includes chemical and biological laboratory analyses techniques, sample preparation, equipment use and maintenance, recordkeeping and report preparation, and laboratory management.
Emphasis is placed on equipment and analyses commonly employed in environmental laboratory.
Variable content designed to respond to advances in the field of environmental technology, relationships between environmental technology and other related disciplines, specific student interests and needs and faculty expertise in special topics. Principles of biological treatment. Includes trickling filters, biological towers, rotating biological contactors, conventional and modified activated sludge systems, land treatment, solids treatment, and biological nutrient removal. Emphasis is placed on utilizing visual, laboratory, and mathematical techniques for process control and troubleshooting. Includes use of chemicals, microscreens, and filters to remove solids from wastewaters, flotation processes, neutralization, coagulation and precipitation, activated carbon adsorption and process control utilizing laboratory techniques.