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3.00 Credits
Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Explore challenges and goals of creating a start-up venture in environmental science or technology. Recognize trends in the marketplace, and where commercial opportunities can be created. Analyze feasibility and potential to create a sustainable venture. Other topic areas include critical success factors and key start-up issues unique to science and technology firms. Spring. Pre- or Co-requisites: FOR 207 Introduction to Economics or equivalent; or permission of instructor.
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Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Analysis of heavy construction operations and related environmental concerns. Production calculations, means and methods selection and operating costs of heavy construction equipment are addressed. The economics of equipment use are analyzed. The use of a digitizer in earthwork quantity takeoff is explored. The outcome of the course is to select the most cost efficient and performance efficient method and equipment. A term paper is required. Fall. Note: Credit will not be granted for both ERE 525 and WPE 350.
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Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Occupational Safety and Health practices in the construction industry. An overview of the U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Regulations, 29 CFR 1910 and 29 CFR 1926. Comprehensive review of: general safety and health requirements, hazard communication, confined space entry, lockout/tagout programs, workplace violence, personal protective equipment, fire protection, signs and barricades, rigging, small tools - hand and power, welding and cutting, electrical, fall protection, scaffolding, cranes, mobile equipment, excavation and trenching, steel erection, stairways and ladders and permissible exposure limits. A term paper is required. Fall. Note: Credit will not be granted for both ERE 531 and WPE 331.
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Three hours of lecture per week. Principles of heat and mass transfer as applied to the bioprocess industries. Topics include conduction, convective heat and mass transfer, diffusion of both steady-state and transient situations, analogies for heat and mass transfer, boundary layers, porous media transport, heat and mass transfer analysis. Discussion of specific bioprocess examples. Spring. Note: Credit will not be granted for both BPE 335 and ERE 534.
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Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Statistics, cost of money, rates of return, cash flow, budget development, cost tracking, productivity and progress, constructability and value engineering, change control and risk analysis. Synthesis research report on a cost engineering topic required. Fall. Note: Credit will not be granted for both WPE 335 and ERE 535.
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Three hours of lecture per week. Introduction to water resources engineering. Hydraulics processes explored include pipe flow, openchannel flow, flows within control structures, and flow through porous media. Hydrologic processes explored include scaling rainfall across time and space, computing the timing and magnitude of watershed run-off, and routing flood waves through detention basins and streams. Engineering analysis to link hydrologic and hydraulic systems and use probability distributions to access the system failure. Spring. Note: Credit will not be granted for both FEG 340 and ERE 540.
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Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Bioprocess kinetics, reaction engineering, mass and energy balances, stoichiometry, enzyme kinetics, growth and product synthesis kinetics, mass transfer effects, bioreactor analysis and design, instrumentation and control, batch processing, bioreactor scale-up, agitation, oxygen delivery, heat removal and kinetics of sterilization (clean and sterilization in place - CIP and SIP). Spring. Prerequisites: Mass and Heat Transfer, or Transport Phenomena Note: Credit will not be granted for both ERE 542 and PBE 421.
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Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Definition and explanation of estimating/bidding theory and process. The processes for reviewing and interpreting contracts, specifications and blueprints as well as their role in the estimating/bidding process. Perform a quantity takeoff. Create a final estimate/bid, including the appropriate General Conditions and Markups. Several projects based on the concepts listed above as well as utilizing either a spreadsheet or Timberline Precision Estimating. A term paper describing how the relevant topics of the course fit a specific industry application, and production of an additional project based on Timberline Precision Estimating software or equivalent are required. Spring. Prerequisites: Estimating experience or permission of instructor. Note: Credit will not be granted for both ERE 543 and WPE 343.
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Three hours of lecture and discussion per week. Classroom instruction and exercises introduce advanced concepts in open channel hydraulics, including the energy and momentum principles, critical flow, uniform flow, flow profiles, and unsteady flow, as appropriate. Students will prepare a research paper describing their work on an independent project. Fall. Note: Credit will not be granted for both FEG 448 and ERE 548. Pre- or co-requisites: Fluid mechanics or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Two hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Definition, development and general concepts of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Topics will include data acquisition and position specification, data processing, data manipulation, and analysis, information output, and selecting and implementing GIS. Readings with written assessment will be assigned from the current literature. Participation in a group project is required. Fall. Note: Credit will not be granted for both ERE 450 and ERE 550.
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