Sustainability Coursework
The following are courses in Engineering for Sustainability that
have been or are currently being taught at Tufts School of Engineering.
For the most up-to-date listing of courses applicable to sustainability,
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Sustainable Energy
CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND POLICY ISSUES
CHBE0173
Chemical and Biological Engineering
(Cross-listed with Fletcher School) This course considers current issues in
power generation, identifying the technologies used to meet Clean Air Act
regulations by the electric utilities and automobile manufacturers. Topics
include the electric utility deregulation, distributed power sources, new
energy markets, fuel efficiency, and global effects of fossil fuel use.
Alternative fuels and engines will be examined from the point of view of
technology readiness and global market penetration to curb air pollution and
decrease carbon emissions. The costs of energy technologies and the global
impacts of present policies in the U. S. and abroad will be evaluated.
POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS
ME 0145
Mechanical Engineering
Design and engineering of electric power production systems. Thermal-mechanical
principles of electrical energy conversion, cogeneration, and storage using
fossil fuel, geothermal, hydroelectric, nuclear, ocean, solar thermal, and wind
power sources. Direct generation using fuel cells and photovoltaics. Economic
and environmental sustainability aspects.
Water and the Environment
RIVER HYDRAULICS AND RESTORATION
CE 0131
Civil and Environmental Engineering
The physical and mathematical basis for steady and unsteady flow processes in
hydraulic engineering, with emphasis on fluvial systems. Numerical procedures for
gradually varied steady flow and rapidly varied unsteady flow will be covered with
applications to floodplain delineations, flood routing, dam safety, and river
restoration. Other applications may include the design of hydraulic structures
such as culverts, stilling basins, spillways, levees, weirs, fish ladders, and
retention/detention ponds. With laboratory.
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING PROCESSES
CE 0132
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Study of the chemical, physical, and biological basis for the unit processes commonly
used in environmental engineering. Processes representing applications in all
environmental media are examined. Emphasis is on rational design of unit processes,
with attention to fundamental principles and experimental methods. With laboratory.
BIOREMEDIATION: NATURAL AND ENHANCED
CE 0139
Civil and Environmental Engineering
(Cross-listed with Environmental Studies 139). Biodegradation of organic contaminants
is evaluated in natural settings and in treatment processes. Aerobic and anaerobic
pathways, their prediction and control are examined. Water, soil, and vapor phase
transformations are evaluated. Subject areas include kinetics, equilbria, sorption,
gas transfer, and transformation products. Process design for treatment plants and
in-situ applications applied to case studies.
ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY
CE 0167
Civil and Environmental Engineering
(Cross-listed as Environmental Studies 167.) This course is designed to present the
basic scientific principles of toxicology and the relationship of toxicology to
health-based risk assessment and hazardous materials management. The toxic effects
of hazardous substances on specific organ systems are described, as well as the
mechanisms of action of some frequently encountered environmental contaminants.
Specialized topics related to the field of toxicology are also discussed, including
animal to human extrapolation of data, mutagenicity/carcinogenicity, and teratogenesis.
FATE AND TRANSPORT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS
CE 0172
Civil and Environmental Engineering
A study of the movement and distribution of contaminants in surface water, ground water,
and soil. An in-depth study of fate and transport mechanisms. Transport modeling,
measurement, and monitoring, as well as analytical methodologies for measuring
environmental contaminants and quality assurance protocols.
CHEMICAL PRINCIPLES IN ENVIRONMENTAL & WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING
CE 0212
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Basic principles of water chemistry related to environmental and water resources engineering.
Thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium, acid-base reactions, alkalinity, complexation,
precipitation, dissolution, sorption, and reduction-oxidation reactions. Quantitative
problem solving. Fall.
TRANSPORT PRINCIPLES IN ENVIRONMENTAL & WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING
CE 0213
Civil and Environmental Engineering
An examination of transport phenomena in the natural or engineered environment. Topics
include: momentum transport, energy transport, mass transport, interphase mass transfer,
and environmental applications of ideal and non-ideal reactor models. Students will enhance
their ability to apply a first principles approach for analysis of complex environmental
systems. Fall.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND WATER RESOURCE SYSTEMS
CE 0214
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mathematical models of water resource and environmental systems are presented in combination
with optimization procedures, decision theory, and environmental applied statistics to
generate an integrated approach to the planning, design, and management of complex water
resources systems. Water resources systems applications are formulated as decision problems
where an optimal solution is sought, yet cost, safety, environment, and technology appear as
competing constraints. Applications include regional water quality management; siting treatment
plants; reservoir system operations; and design, irrigation, flood control, and watershed
planning.
TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
CHBE0170
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Survey of environmental problems arising from commonplace technologies, e.g., transportation,
power generation, microelectronics processing, chemicals manufacturing. The course considers
the introduction of chemicals into the environment and illustrates how to predict the fates
of those chemicals in air-water-land-biota systems. Environmental and health consequences of
products and the processes used for their manufacture are examined. Life Cycle Analysis
methodologies are implemented in case studies. Development of technologies and policies for
pollution prevention and a sustainable environment are discussed.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND SYSTEMS
EE 94-01
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Junior or senior level introductory course that addresses the technologies and implementation
of sustainable energy sources and systems, including renewable energy processes that utilize
solar, wind, wave, tidal, biomass, hydroelectric, geothermal, photovoltaic, hydrogen-cell, and
thin-film technologies to produce energy in a sustainable manner.
Sustainable Infrastructure
FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
CE 0105
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Finite element analysis of problems important in civil infrastructure engineering. Overview of
direct stiffness method. Discretization of continuum to finite elements for approximate solution
of complex engineering problems. Development of governing equations, stiffness, and load matrices
for deformation and stress analysis. Work and energy theorems. Hands-on experience with computers,
CAD, and practical applications to problems in structural and geotechnical engineering.
STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
CE 0106
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Fundamentals of vibration theory with applications important in civil infrastructure engineering.
Free, forced, and transient vibration of one and two degrees of freedom systems, including damping
and nonlinear behavior. Base excitation and seismic instrumentation. Duhamel's integral and time
step integration. Multi-degree of freedom systems, modal analysis and seismic response spectra.
Introduction to earthquake design for geotechnical and structural engineering.
ADVANCED STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
CE 0123
Civil and Environmental Engineering
The application of mechanics to the analysis of indeterminate structural forms important to civil
and aeronautical engineering, with emphasis on modern structural types. The analysis of fundamental
structural forms, including curved beams, arches, rings, thin-walled cell-type structures, and
members with variable inertia, for stress and deflection by the classical methods. Influence lines
for indeterminate structures. Introduction to matrix analysis and vibration of structures.
BRIDGE DESIGN AND REHABILITATION
CE 0129
Civil and Environmental Engineering
A practical introduction to bridge engineering, exploring the design, behavior, maintenance
and rehabilitation of bridges. Bridge systems, loadings, superstructures, substructures, details,
and inspections will be discussed. The theory behind development of certain provisions in AASHTO
code will be reviewed, with the purpose of developing an understanding of the code and its related
commentary, and the objective of preparing students to use the criteria not as a
"black box." Approximate analysis methods will be discussed. Design of elements including
steel and pre-stressed concrete beams, abutments, piers, joints, and bearings using AASHTO code
(LRFD) will be covered.
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