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3.00 Credits
Two hours of lecture and three hours of group instruction per week. Overview of ecological engineering theory and practice. Key concepts, empirical models, and case studies of ecological engineering. Living machines, treatment wetlands, bioremediation, municipal composting, agroforestry, traditional ecological knowledge, emergy analysis, and ecosystem restoration. Spring. Prerequisites: one semester each of calculus, biology, chemistry, and ecology. Forest Engineering students only or by permission of instructor.
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1.00 Credits
One hour of lecture or three hours of laboratory per week. A focus on application of design processes to the needs and desires of society, with emphasis on systems useful in resource manipulation and development. Concepts of planning and design are reinforced through study, conduct and critique of design exercises and projects. Fall.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours of lecture per week. An introduction to numerical and computing methods commonly used in engineering. The coverage includes equation solving, optimization, curve fitting, numerical integration and differentiation and the solution of both ordinary and partial differential equations. Focus will be on problem solving and algorithm development. Fall. Prerequisite: APM 485 Differential Equations/Matrix Algebra.
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4.00 Credits
Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory and discussion per week. Introduction to water resources engineering. Hydraulics processes explored include pipe flow, open-channel 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 runoff, 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. Pre- or co-requisite: MAE 341 or equivalent. Note: Credit will not be granted for both FEG 340 and ERE 540.
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2.00 Credits
Two hours of lecture per week. The fundamentals of acquiring, analyzing and utilizing remote sensing data in the performance of natural resource inventories, environmental quality surveys and site development analyses. Oriented for multidisciplinary participation. Spring. Prerequisite: Junior status.
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3.00 Credits
Two hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Qualitative and quantitative introduction to the fundamentals of acquiring, analyzing and utilizing remote sensing data in the performance of natural resource inventories, environmental quality surveys, site development studies and land use analyses. Oriented for multidisciplinary participation. Spring. Prerequisites: Junior status, physics and calculus or permission of instructor. Note: Credit will not be granted for both FEG 352 and ERE 552.
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3.00 Credits
Two hours of lecture and discussion, three hours of laboratory per week. Basic photogrammetric and photo interpretation concepts as a means of acquiring reliable data for engineering and management planning. Potentials, limitations, instrumentation and unique requirements are considered. Fall or Spring. Prerequisite: ERE 371. Note: Credit will not be granted for both FEG 363 and ERE 563.
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4.00 Credits
Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory and discussion per week. Introduction to water resources engineering. A qualitative and quantitative introduction to the fundamentals of acquiring, analyzing and utilizing remote sensing data. Introductory concepts and methods in digital image processing and photogrammetry. Spring. Prerequisite: ERE 371 Surveying for Engineers. Note: Credit will not be granted for both FEG 365 and ERE 565.
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4.00 Credits
Three hours of lecture, three hours of computation laboratory and discussion per week. Engineering principles in the analysis, planning design and construction of components and framed structures under various types of loadings. The proportioning of wood, steel and composite members and the design of statically determinate structural systems. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between theoretical stress analysis and codes and specifications for appropriate materials and structural design practices. Fall. Prerequisites: ERE 362, scientific computing.
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1.00 Credits
Three hours of discussion, demonstration and/or field exercises per week. An introduction to mensuration, harvesting operations, methods analysis, mechanization, and interrelationships between the production and silvicultural aspects of harvesting is presented. Fall. Prerequisites: FOR 321, ERE 362.
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