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3.00 Credits
This course is intended to foster an appreciation for the complex nature of environmental issues in the context of Brownfield sites. Topics will include historical conditions that have produced such sites, economic, and regulatory issues that complicate their re-use, technical challenges involved in their characterization and clean-up, and social factors that simultaneously make their rejuvenation difficult yet mandatory. Students will become familiar with the vernacular and issues surrounding Brownfield sites in particular and environmental issues in general.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the basic concepts needed by first responders, emergency operations personnel, industry, and law enforcement to evaluate the potential hazards and behaviors of materials considered hazardous. It examines the reasons for the chemical behavior of hazardous materials and is designed to improve decision-making in safety operations, handling, entrance protection, mitigation, and decontamination procedures. Units of the course include the Periodic Table, chemical and physical aspects of chemical compounds and how these properties affect emergency incidents, salts, non-salts, the hydrocarbon family, hydrocarbon derivatives, and physical process of combustion.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a comprehensive overview of renewable energies, including solar energy, wind power, hydropower, fuel cells, biomass, and alternative transportation options. Students will be taught the principles of solar home design, solar hot water, pool and space heating, and solar cooling for both new and existing construction. Students will learn how to assess the viability of a wind power, hydropower or biomass system for a given site. Students will also learn about the impact of government regulations on the use of renewable energies. Students will analyze these renewable energy systems and will calculate savings fractions; backup energy needs, financing options, and economic analyses.
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3.00 Credits
This course will identify and explain all of the energy efficiency/conservation methods available for energy use reduction. Energy-consuming facilities, both domestic and commercial, will be analyzed by the students for energy efficiency opportunities. The student will calculate energy savings and environmental impacts for most energy efficiency methods in order to identify and assess energy conservation opportunities. In addition, the student will demonstrate the appropriate usage of energy monitoring and measuring equipment commonly used by energy specialists and energy auditors.
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3.00 Credits
This is an advanced course offered through OSHA's outreach program that prepares and upon successful completion authorizes the student to instruct OSHA's 10 or 30 hour construction courses.
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3.00 Credits
This is an advanced course offered through OSHA's outreach program that prepares and upon successful completion authorizes the student to instruct OSHA's 10 or 30 hour general industry courses. Prerequisite: HZMT 1914 OSHA General Industry Regs
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0.50 Credits
This course provides students with eight hours of refresher training requirements of 29 CFR 1910.120(e)(8) for occupational health and safety workers who respond to hazardous waste and chemical spills. Topics include toxicology, chemical awareness, monitoring, personal protective equipment, safety, confined space entry, incident command, site control, medical surveillance, decontamination, safe work practices and emergency procedures. Training also may include any critique of incidents that have occurred in the past year that can serve as training examples of related work, and other relevant topics.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a detailed review and familiarization of how to prepare dangerous goods for commerical airlift in accordance with the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulation. Topics include identifying the dangerous goods that can be transported on a commercial aircraft, identify the different restrictions and variations for air carriers and host nations, preparing shipping documents, selecting appropriate containment devices and recognizing their immediate limitations, and selecting the correct markings and labels that are used to communicate the hazard(s) of the items.
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3.00 Credits
This course will concentrate on general environmental management systems and tools, which comprise the scope of ISO 14000, the voluntary international standard for environmental management systems. Students will explore specific requirements for environmental management systems, to enable an organization to formulate policies and objectives, which minimize the impact of its operation on the environment. Examples of environmental management systems that will be reviewed include policies, organizational systems, management, planning, operational procedures, effect and regulatory identification procedures, objectives, targets, vendor controls, auditing, record keeping and many others. Students will be given practical exercises requiring application and critical thinking to add structure and perspective to their learning process.
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3.00 Credits
This is an introductory course in broadcasting. It examines the tools, techniques and applications necessary in today's age of broadcasting. Fulfills: Humanities Requirement
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