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4.00 Credits
This course is an overview of the safety management tools utilized in today's industry. Students are expected to have a foundational knowledge of safety management techniques upon completion of this course. Topics examined include recordability and safety indices; incident investigation; guarding, electrical and material handling; welding, fi re prevention, excavation; medical surveillance and worker's compensation; inspection techniques and auditing; committee's incentives and voluntary programs. Class 4, Credit 4
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the principles of product stewardship. The ethical, legal, liability and economic issues which product manufacturers face will be covered. In addition students will be exposed to the methods used to identify and manage product environmental, health and safety (EHS) issues in today's world. The concept of sustainability will be covered and students will learn the principles of product life cycle assessment. Students will also learn and use specifi c EHS analysis techniques. Case studies will also be reviewed. This course is open to 4th and 5th year engineering technology, packaging science, safety technology and environmental management and technology students who have completed at least one co-op or with permission of the instructor. Class 4, Credit 4
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4.00 Credits
An overview of environmental law and regulatory activities at the federal and state levels, with emphasis on New York State. Topics include a review of the historical and modern sources for environmental protection and regulation, including Federal and State roles, the responsibilities of the separate branches of government and the emergence of administrative law. The class will discuss how the current enthusiasm for private property concepts, state's rights and deregulation are being used to limit or revise existing environmental programs. In addition, the environmental review and permitting process will be discussed, using New York State and DEC procedures as representative models. Open only to fourth-year or fi fth-year students. Class 4, Credit 4
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4.00 Credits
This course has been designed to give the student an overview of the fundamental concepts of modern project management. Areas of focus include: the Project Life Cycle (PLC), the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), Review Technique (PERT), Critical Path Method (CPM) and various budgeting and resource allocation techniques. Discussion of project management organizations, negotiation and confl ict resolution and project termination will be included, along with an introduction to Project Management Institute (PMI) and Microsoft Project for Windows. (Open only to upper division students) Class 4, Credit 4
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4.00 Credits
Special topics are courses offered periodically. Watch for the titles in the course listing each quarter. Examples include alternative energy, contaminate hydrology and wetland delineation. Class 4, Credit 4
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4.00 Credits
This course will focus on strategies for reducing the use of material and environmental resources. It builds upon environmental management and technology courses for controlling air emissions, wastewater and solid and hazardous waste and moves upstream into the production process to reduce or eliminate waste by not producing it in the fi rst place. Students learn how to conduct resource reduction assessments and identify opportunities to reduce or conserve resources. This course will take you beyond end-of-the-pipe controls and look at life cycle assessment as an environmental management tool. (0630-350, 352, 354) Class 4, Credit 4
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1.00 Credits
This individualized course prepares the student for the senior project, 0630-511 Credit 1
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3.00 Credits
Consists of independent work demonstrating the ability to solve a signifi cant safety or environment management problem in a comprehensive fashion. The problem will focus on future or emerging technologies as well as current techniques. (0630-509) Credit 3
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4.00 Credits
Presents the fundamentals of how companies manage their environmental issues. Explores regulatory and environmental motivations and strategies for corporate environmental management. Identifi es organizational considerations in managing corporate environmental programs. Introduces concepts of total quality management and its applications to corporate environmental problem solving. The course focuses on elements of environmental management systems including: environmental policies, codes of conduct, setting objectives and targets, implementing programs, and evaluating and auditing environmental performance. The course also addresses the environmental manager's role in training and corporate environmental reporting. (Open only to fi fth-year environmental management majors) Class 4, Credit 4
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4.00 Credits
Today's professional engineers and technologists face ethical, legal and economic responsibilities to incorporate environmental protection, health and safety (EHS) elements into the design of products, activities and services of the organizations they serve. This course will provide engineering technology and other technology students with an overview of key EHS issues. This course will also provide students with an awareness of the role of EHS professionals, and of the integrated role engineers and technologies play in recognizing and controlling EHS issues. Students will also be provided with an overview of the legal and liability concerns associated with EHS, the principles of incident causation and prevention, the role of perceptions and behaviors (i.e. the human element) in EHS, the identifi cation and control of EHS issues. Class 4, Credit 4
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