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Bacteria and viruses cause most of today's known infectious diseases and pose signifi cant challenges to medical care and public health systems around the world. Also troubling is the rate at which new infectious diseases such as AIDS, SARS, and mad cow disease have emerged in just the last twenty to thirty years. This course introduces students to the biology of pathogenic microbes, the disease process, the immune system, and mechanisms by which vaccines, antibiotics, and antiviral work to protect us from disease. We also explore ways in which humans have unwittingly (and sometimes intentionally) promoted the spread of infectious disease within the United States and around the world. Topics will be presented in the context of emergency management, with focus on public health issues and bioterrorism. Prerequisite: MS-2221 STCW: None
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An introduction to the disciplines, authorities, and policies involved in the fi eld of emergency management. Topics include: hazard analysis and underlying social and environmental processes, vulnerability analysis, hazard mitigation, emergency response, and disaster recovery. Prerequisite: None STCW: None
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An introduction to computerized databases and data acquisition. Students will learn to develop databases using industry-standard database management systems (DBMS), and spreadsheet programs, to perform data searches, and to produce reports and graphs. Students will also learn how to gather data in the fi eld using automated data acquisition devices, and to import the data into computer applications. Prerequisite: None STCW: None
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This course provides an introduction to nuclear physics, chemistry, nuclear processes, and chart of nuclides. Topics include: nuclear chemistry; radioactivity; naturally occurring radioactive isotopes; nuclear reactions; transuranium elements; energetics of nuclear reactions; nuclear fi ssion; effect of radiation on matter; radioactive waste disposal; nuclear physics; nuclear structure; radioactivity, decay rate/half life; nuclear stability and safety; radiation detection and applications. Prerequisite: SM-2127, SM-1131 STCW: None
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This course follows the FEMA protocol of organizing resources, assessing risks, developing a mitigation plan, and implementing the plan. Assessing the risk is the major part of the course as it involves identifying the hazards, profi ling the hazard events, inventorying assets, and estimating losses. During the Introduction to GIS course, base maps for assigned towns are constructed in MARPLOT and ArcGIS. These base maps have much of the population and inventory in place. The MARPLOT map is used in the CAMEO system to determine the effect of a technological hazard on population and inventory. The ArcGIS base map is used with an extension called HAZUS to estimate the losses of a hurricane. Mitigation measures are then applied through each of the systems to estimate the effect on the losses of same. A Risk Management Plan is generated on the above studies. Prerequisite: MS-2244 STCW: None
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Review of the most catastrophic and hazardous earth-based disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes, fl oods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and climate change as important elements that are continuously shaping our planet Earth and affecting human populations and their properties. Students will learn the principles or processes governing or leading to the evolution of these disasters/hazards. Prerequisite: EM-2212, SM-1252 STCW: None
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The basics of human and environmental toxicology will be covered. Introduction to toxicity, quantifying and measuring toxicological effects, contaminant sources and measurement of toxicants, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of toxicity. Topics include hazard identifi cation; factors affecting exposure; health effects of exposure; environmental effects of exposure and control of exposure, of chemical hazards, biological hazards, and radiological hazards. Prerequisite: SM-2232, EM-3111 STCW: None
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This course introduces students to the general roles and responsibilities of the public health system in the United States and to the role public health plays in emergency preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. Included in this introduction is an examination of the tools that public health agencies use to prepare for and respond to emergencies, not just those related to bioterrorism but to all emergencies involving public health concerns. Selected topics include traditional and nontraditional disease surveillance; outbreak investigations; isolation and quarantine; emergency dispensing sites, rapid health assessments, sheltering displaced populations; and vector control programs. Case studies, practical exercises, and computer applications will be used to examine these and other public health issues in emergency management. Prerequisite: EM-2111 STCW: None
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The co-op experience requires a student to work approximately eight weeks, typically during January and February, in industry for academic credit. The student will be exposed to "real life" experiences throughthese co-ops. He/she will gain fi rsthand knowledge of practices and technology presently being used today by the facilities professional. The co-op requires a technical report to be submitted at the conclusion of the experience. Also required is an evaluation by the supervisor. Students may participate in more than three co-ops, if their schedule permits. Prerequisite: None STCW: None
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This course will introduce the student to man made hazards and their mitigation. Hazards such as power generation from coal, oil, and nuclear fuels, biological and hazardous materials use, storage and removal. Disasters topics include technological disasters such as nuclear power and structural collapse and failure; wildfi re disasters; bioterrorism; weapons of mass destruction. Course includes case studies and simulations using the CAMEO/MARPLOT computer modeling system. Prerequisite: EM-3211 STCW: None
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