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2.00 Credits
Presents thought processes and quantitative tools, including life-cycle assessment (LCA) and the LEED rating system, applicable to integrated/whole building design with the goal of minimizing the waste of materials, energy, and water. Readings, lectures, site visits, and assignments encourage systematic thinking and interdisciplinary collaboration to make sustainable design a reality. Includes a team project of students' choice, such as a conceptual design of a sustainable new building, a "green" retrofit, or a comparative LCA.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the processes affecting organic compounds in the environment. Uses physical chemical properties to predict chemical transfers between environmental compartments (air, water, sediments, and biota). Uses molecular structure-reactivity relationships to estimate chemical, photochemical, and biochemical transformation rates. Resulting process models are combined to predict environmental concentrations (and related biological exposures) of anthropogenic and natural organic compounds. Graduate students taking 1.83 for H-level credit have additional reading and homework emphasizing structure-activity relationships.
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Prereq: 5.60, 18.03
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the processes affecting organic compounds in the environment. Uses physical chemical properties to predict chemical transfers between environmental compartments (air, water, sediments, and biota). Uses molecular properties to estimate chemical, photochemical, and biochemical transformation rates. Resulting process models are combined to predict environmental concentrations (and related biological exposures) of anthropogenic and natural organic compounds.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 5.60, 18.03
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3.00 Credits
Provides a detailed overview of the chemical transformations that control the abundances of key trace species in the Earth's atmosphere. Emphasizes the effects of human activity on air quality and climate. Topics include photochemistry, kinetics, and thermodynamics important to the chemistry of the atmosphere; stratospheric ozone depletion; oxidation chemistry of the troposphere and photochemical smog; aerosol chemistry; and source and sinks of greenhouse gases.
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Prereq: 5.60
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3.00 Credits
Overview of engineering approaches to protect water quality with an emphasis on fundamental principals. Theory and conceptual design of systems for treating municipal wastewater and drinking water. Reactor theory, process kinetics, and models. Physical, chemical, and biological processes, including sedimentation, filtration, biological treatment, disinfection, and sludge processing. Engineered and natural processes for wastewater treatment.
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Prereq: 1.061, 1.61, or 1.725
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Principles of infrastructure planning in developing countries, with a focus on appropriate and sustainable technologies for water and sanitation. Incorporates technical, socio-cultural, public health, and economic factors into the planning and design of water and sanitation systems. Upon completion, students are able to plan simple, yet reliable, water supply and sanitation systems for developing countries that are compatible with local customs and available human and material resources. Graduate and upper division students from any department who are interested in international development at the grassroots level are encouraged to participate in this interdisciplinary subject.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Students will read and discuss primary literature covering key areas of microbial research with emphasis on methods and approaches used to understand and manipulate microbes. Limited to students in the microbiology program.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor or Coreq: 7.493
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4.00 Credits
Covers aspects of microbial genetic and genomic analyses, central dogma, horizontal gene transfer, and evolution.
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Prereq: 7.03, 7.05, 7.28 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Designed for students in fluid mechanics and engineering who want to explore applications of physics and fluids to biology and ecology, and for students in the biological sciences seeking to understand the physical constraints of life at the microscale. Topics include mass exchange and flow at the scale of microbes, motility and chemotaxis, encouter rates and predation, and small-scale turbulence. Emphasizes the application of physical and fluid dynamical principles to life at the microscale, in particular (but not limited to) aquatic systems.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
A general introduction to the diverse roles of microorganisms in natural and artificial environments. Topics include: cellular architecture, energetics, and growth; evolution and gene flow; population and community dynamics; water and soil microbiology; biogeochemical cycling; and microorganisms in biodeterioration and bioremediation.
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Prereq: 7.014
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