Urban Water Related
Upper Division and Graduate Courses
at UC Irvine

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering

CEE161 Water and Wastewater Treatment (4) S. Water quality parameters. Water use, reclamation, and reuse. Introduction to modeling and designing of treatment systems. Extensive use of mass balances for system evaluation. Comprehensive group design project. Laboratory sessions. Prerequisites: Chemistry 1A; Engineering CEE11; MAE130A or CEE170. (Design units: 3)

CEE162 Introduction to Environmental Chemistry (4) W. Basic concepts from general, physical, and analytical chemistry as they relate to environmental engineering. Particular emphasis on the fundamentals of equilibrium and kinetics as they apply to acid-base chemistry, mineral, and gas solubility, aerosol formations, redox reactions. Laboratory sessions. Prerequisite: Chemistry 1A. (Design units: 0)

CEE163 Biological Treatment Processes (3) S. Fundamentals and analysis of natural biological processes in the aquatic environment. Design of biological treatment processes with emphasis on suspended growth systems, gas transfer, disinfection. Topics include aerobic and anaerobic treatment systems, biodegradation of contaminants in the environment. Design projects included. Prerequisites: CEE161, CEE162. (Design units: 2)

CEE165 Physical-Chemical Treatment Processes (4) S. Fundamentals and design of physical and chemical treatment processes for water and wastewater. Unit operations, such as coagulation, filtration, adsorption, ion exchange, membrane, gas-transfer, chemical oxidation, and disinfection processes. Applications to physical-chemical processes in natural waters. Design project included. Laboratory sessions. Prerequisite: CEE161, CEE162, or consent of instructor. (Design units: 2)

CEE171 Infrastructure Hydraulics (4) W. Continuity, energy, and momentum principles applied to flow in closed conduit and open channel infrastructure. Analysis of hydraulic networks. Deterministic and probabilistic factors affecting hydraulic design. Hydrologic design protocols for hydraulic systems. Prerequisites: CEE11; CEE170 or MAE130A. (Design units: 2)

CEE172 Groundwater Hydrology (4). Topics include conservation of fluid mass, storage properties of porous media, matrix compressibility, boundary conditions, flow nets, well hydraulics, groundwater chemistry, and solute transport. Design projects and computer applications included. Prerequisites: CEE170 or MAE130A or consent of instructor. (Design units: 2)

CEE173 Computer Tools for Watershed Modeling (4) W. Basic principles of hydrologic modeling are practiced in detail. Concepts of watershed, floodplains delineation, hydrologic impact, design studies, and GIS tools are discussed. Focus on the USACE (HEC) software tools (HEC-HMS) and HEC-RAS) along with their associated GIS interfaces. Prerequisites: CEE176 and CEE170. Concurrent with CEE273.

CEE176 Surface Water Hydrology (3) F. Analysis of elements in the hydrologic cycle including precipitation, infiltration, and runoff. Frequency analysis of hydrologic phenomena. Consideration of precipitation/runoff relationships. Unit hydrograph theory. Hydrologic and hydraulic routing methods. Stochastic methods in hydrology. Prerequisite: CEE171. (Design units: 2)

CEE178 River and Estuarine Flow (3) S. Continuity, momentum, and energy principles applied to open channels. Flow control. Steady and unsteady flow. Flow resistance. Shallow-water wave theory.Flood waves in rivers and tidal oscillations in coastal wetlands. Computational techniques for flow modeling. Prerequisite: CEE171. (Design units: 1)

CEE181A-B-C Senior Design Practicum (2-2-2) F, W, S. Team designs a land development project including infrastructural, environmental, circulation aspects. Focus on traffic impact studies, design of road layouts, geometry, signals, geotechnical and hydrological analysis, design of structural elements, economic analysis. Oral/written interim and final design reports. Laboratory sessions. In-Progress grading. Corequisites: CEE121 and CEE151C. Prerequisites: CEE81B, CEE110, CEE161. CEE181A-B-C must be taken in the same academic year. (Design units: 1-2-2)

CEE262 Environmental Chemistry II (4) W. Advanced concepts from physical and organic chemistry as they relate to environmental engineering. Emphasis on equilibrium and kinetics as they apply to redox reactions, coordination, adsorption, gas phase reactions, and ion exchange. Laboratory on GC, GC-MS, and ion chromatography. Prerequisite: CEE162.

CEE263 Advanced Biological Treatment Processes (3) W. Analysis of natural biological processes in the aquatic environment. Design of biological treatment processes with emphasis on suspended growth systems. Aerobic and anaerobic treatment systems, biodegradation of contaminants in the environment. Construction and use of computer models for process design and operation. Prerequisites: CEE161 and CEE162.

CEE265 Advanced Physical-Chemical Treatment Systems (3) S. Analysis of natural chemical processes in the aquatic environment. Modeling of physical-chemical treatment systems. Analysis of chemical processes which affect the fate of contaminants in the natural environment. Computer modeling of several systems included. Prerequisites: CEE161 and CEE162.

CEE267 Advanced Treatment Models (3) F. Analysis and modeling of advanced water and waste treatment methods. Fixed film and suspended growth biological nutrient removal. Fluidized bed reactors. Analysis of non-ideal reactors. Prerequisite: CEE263.

CEE268 Pollution Prevention Through Manufacturing, Materials Selection, and Product Design (3) S. Study of manufacturing, materials selection, and product design alternatives that yield less solid, air, and/or water pollutants. Analytical tools, such as life-cycle analysis and economic analysis, that can be used to compare alternatives are discussed. A case study approach is utilized.

CEE269 Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal (3) S. Theory and design of hazardous waste treatment systems. Incineration and landfill approaches. Regulations governing waste disposal. Short- and long-term considerations in design. Extensive use of case studies. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

CEE271 Flow in Unsaturated Porous Media (3) W. Fluid flow in the unsaturated zone (zone of aeration) of the subsurface. Soil-water physics, flow in regional groundwater systems, miscible displacement, mathematical modeling techniques. Prerequisite: CEE172 or consent of instructor.

CEE272 Stochastic Geohydrology (3) W. Uncertainty and spatial variability in groundwater systems. Probability concepts. Techniques for quantifying and reducing effects of uncertainty. Theory of stationary processes. Kriging as best linear unbiased estimator. Stochastic partial differential equations. Methods of parametric estimation. Resampling techniques. Prerequisite: CEE172 or consent of instructor.

CEE273 Computer Tools for Watershed Modeling (4) W. Basic principles of hydrologic modeling are practiced in detail. Concepts of watershed, floodplains delineation, hydrologic impact, design studies, and GIS tools are discussed. Focus on the USACE (HEC) software tools (HEC-HMS) and HEC-RAS) along with their associated GIS interfaces. Concurrent with CEE173.

CEE274A Transport Phenomena in Saturated Porous Media (3) F. Solute and particle transport in saturated porous media. Development of macroscopic transport equations. Mathematics of diffusion. Effective macroscopic coefficients. Dissolution of nonaqueous phase liquids. Applied mathematical modeling techniques, including Laplace and Fourier transforms and particle tracking solutions. Corequisite: CEE283. Prerequisite: CEE172 or consent of instructor.

CEE274B Transport Phenomena in Unsaturated Porous Media and Fractures (3) W. Advanced topics in contaminant transport in porous media. Development of macroscopic transport equations for saturated, partially saturated porous media and fractured formations. Colloid transport. Effects of formation heterogeneity on groundwater flow and transport. Applied mathematical modeling techniques, including self similar and small perturbation solutions. Prerequisites: CEE172 or consent of instructor; CEE283 and consent of instructor.

CEE275 Topics in Coastal Engineering (3) S. Linear wave theory. Wave properties: particle kinematics, energy propagation, shoaling, refraction, reflection, diffraction, and breaking. Wave statistics and spectra. Selected topics from: design of coastal structures; harbor engineering; littoral transport and shoreline morphology; and hydrodynamics of estuaries. Prerequisites: CEE11, CEE171, or consent of instructor.

CEE276 Surface Water Hydrology (3) S. Analysis of elements in the hydrologic cycle including precipitation, infiltration, and runoff. Frequency analysis of hydrologic phenomena. Consideration of precipitation/runoff relationships. Units hydrograph theory. Hydrologic and hydraulic routing methods. Stochastic methods in hydrology. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Formerly CEE272.

CEE277 Transport in Rivers and Estuaries (3) W. Advective, diffusive, and dispersive transport processes. Role of turbulence in transport, length scales associated with mixing. Consideration of point and non-point source pollutant transport in rivers and coastal inlets. Computational techniques for fate and transport predictions. Prerequisite: CEE278 or consent of instructor. Formerly CEE279.

CEE278 Flow in Rivers and Estuaries (3) F. Continuity, momentum, and energy principles applied to open channels. Flow control, Steady and unsteady flow. Flow resistance. Shallow-water wave theory. Flood waves in rivers and tidal oscillations in coastal wetlands. Computational techniques for flow modeling. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

CEE279A Computations in Environmental Hydraulics (3) W. Numerical solution methods for flow and transport in rivers and estuaries. Stability, accuracy, and convergence properties of schemes. Finite-difference and finite-volume formulations. High-resolution and monotonicity preserving schemes for shallow-water flow and transport. Prerequisite: CEE278 or consent of instructor.

CEE289 Analysis of Hydrologic Systems (3). Application of systems theory in hydrologic, land surface, and biogeochemical modeling. Design, identification, and calibration of conceptual models. Principles of dynamic systems and modeling approaches, theory of linear systems and mathematical concepts of differential calculus, theoretical concepts of parameter estimation and optimization theory. Same as Earth System Science 238.