Course Flowsheets

MTH 141LR College Calculus 1

Beginning of a three-semester sequence in calculus for students of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering. Covers differentiation and integration with applications. This course is the same as MTH 136 + 137 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

CHE 107LR Gen Chem for Engineers I

Meets the general chemistry requirement for students wishing to receive an engineering degree. Examinations are scheduled outside of the listed class times.

CHE 127LAB General Chem for Engineers 1

Laboratory to accompany CHE 107, General Chemistry for Engineers 1. Experiments focus upon stoichiometry, reactions in aqueous solutions, thermochemistry, and properties of gases. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade other than W may repeat the course in the summer or winter; or only in the fall or spring semester with a petition to the College of Arts and Sciences Deans' Office.

EAS 199SL UB Seminar

The three credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps students with common learning outcomes focused on fundamental expectations for critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and oral communication, and learning at a university, all within topic focused subject matter. The Seminars provide students with an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 199 offered in any subject.

ENG 105LEC Writing and Rhetoric

An introduction to research, writing, and rhetorical practices employed in academic and professional contexts. The course examines the operation of genres, the audiences they address, and the purposes they serve. The course focuses on the analysis and development of student writing and rhetorical practice. Assignments include research essays, digital compositions, and oral presentations.

MTH 142LR College Calculus 2

Differentiation and integration of transcendental functions; infinite sequences; series and power series; integration methods; additional topics in analytic geometry.. This course is the same as MTH 138 and MTH 139 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

CHE 128LAB General Chem for Engineers 2

Laboratory to accompany CHE 108, General Chemistry for Engineers 2. Experiments focus upon kinetics, chemical equilibria, acid-base chemistry, electrochemistry and coordination chemistry. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade other than W may repeat the course in the summer or winter; or only in the fall or spring semester with a petition to the College of Arts and Sciences Deans' Office.

CHE 108LR Gen Chem for Engineers II

Meets the general chemistry requirement for students wishing to receive an engineering degree in four years. Cannot be used for science distribution credit. Examinations are scheduled outside of the listed class times.

PHY 107LR General Physics 1

A calculus-based introductory course primarily for chemistry, engineering, and physics majors. Covers kinematics, Newton's laws, energy, momentum, rotational motion, and oscillations. This course satisfies 4 credits as required by different majors and also 4 credits (out of the mandated 7 credits total) of UB's Science Literacy and Inquiry general education requirement sequence. Enrollment is not allowed in PHY107 if a student has current enrollment in PHY101.

EAS 202SEM Impact On Society

EAS 202 is a one credit first year seminar course aimed at broadening students' vision of engineering problem solving, and elucidating how engineers can make a difference in meeting key societal needs. The course focus is the National Academy of Engineering's 'Grand Challenges' for the future. It includes a series of interactive presentations by engineering faculty who are experts in these areas, offering an understanding both of these problems and engineering approaches to solving them. Students also explore a self-selected area of personal interest as a step toward identifying possible niches for their own career path.

MTH 241LR College Calculus 3

Geometry and vectors of n-dimensional space; Green's theorem, Gauss theorem, Stokes theorem; multidimensional differentiation and integration; application to 2- and 3-D space.

EAS 207LR Statics

Applies mechanics to studying static equilibrium of rigid and elastic bodies. Topics include composition and resolution of forces, moments and couple, equivalent force systems, free-body diagrams, equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies, forces in trusses and beams, friction forces, first and second moments of area, moments and product of inertia, and methods of virtual work and total potential energy.

CIE 177LLB Intro to Civil Eng CAD

The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with Civil Engineering CAD software and reading civil based drawings. Students will also develop a skill to visualize 3D terrains and 3D objects from their 2D projections in order to think in 3D about objects in space. One formal lecture per week, focused on civil and environmental engineering applications of the software is given. This is supplemented by multiple tutorials written for the software. Students will be required to complete the tutorials in recitation and on their own time and submit a copy of completed tutorials by the due date.

CIE 340LR Environmental Engineering

This course introduces the quantitative analysis of natural and engineered systems in the context of environmental engineering. Basic concepts include mass, energy, and number balances and risk. Applications include water pollution and treatment, air pollution and its control, solid waste management, sustainability, and global climate change.

MTH 306LR Intro Diff Equations

Analytic solutions, qualitative behavior of solutions to differential equations. First-order and higher-order ordinary differential equations, including nonlinear equations. Covers analytic, geometric, and numerical perspectives as well as an interplay between methods and model problems. Discusses necessary matrix theory and explores differential equation models of phenomena from various disciplines. Uses a mathematical software system designed to aid in the numerical and qualitative study of solutions, and in the geometric interpretation of solutions.

EAS 209LR Mechanics of Solids

Studies the mechanical behavior of solid bodies under various types of loading. Topics include stresses and strain, stress-strain relationships, plane stress and plane strain; shear and bending moments in beams, stresses in beams; deflection of beams, torsion of shafts, buckling of columns, energy methods, and failure criteria.

EAS 230LLB Engineering Computations

This is a first course in computer programming that develops programming concepts using MATLAB with application to engineering problems. Topics include data structures, arithmetic expressions, I/O, plotting, branching and loop structures, debugging, and user-defined functions. These concepts will be illustrated and emphasized through applications in chemical process mass balances, transport processes, truss structures, data fitting, principal component analysis in fluid and solid mechanics, and modal analysis in dynamics.

CIE 341LEC Environmental Engineering Sci

CIE 341 covers basic concepts of environmental microbiology and chemistry and their links to applications in environmental engineering such as water and wastewater treatment, nutrient removal, anaerobic digestion, and disinfection.

BIO 309LEC Ecology

Processes that control the abundance and distribution of organisms in their natural environments; emphasizing population, community and evolutionary ecology. This course is the same as GLY 309, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

CIE 334LLR Soil Mechanics

Soil formation and identification. The physical and mechanical properties of granular and cohesive soils. The nature and flow of water in soils, stress distribution, consolidation, analysis of deformation and strength of soils, stress path dependent behavior and slope stability.

CIE 354LR Fluid Mechanics

Provides an introductory treatment of the dynamics of fluids, emphasizing incompressible fluids. Develops and applies hydrostatics, thermodynamics, fluid characteristics, kinematics, and dynamics; methods of analysis including the infinitesimal and finite control volume; stress rate-of-strain relations; and basic equations for continuity, energy, motion, and force-momentum. Measurement methods.

CIE 308LR Engineering Probability & Stat

Introduces sampling, descriptive and inferential statistics, probability, probability distribution functions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, covariance and correlation, and linear regression.

CIE 360LLB Env Eng Lab

Laboratory testing to enhance and extend the student's understanding of the fundamental principles of fluid mechanics and environmental engineering, including modern methods of pollutant analysis. Data are collected and analyzed using statistical and numerical tools. Individual and group reports serve as vehicles for the development of technical communication skills. One 3-hour lab per week or equivalent.

CIE 344LEC Sustainability

Engineering policy dimensions of sustainability. Topics include: (1) definitions and concepts of sustainability (including ethics discussions), (2) introduction to climate change science and policy, (3) energy production options and impacts, and (4) relevant analytical tools such as life cycle assessment and carbon footprint analysis.

CIE 343LLR Hydraulics and Hydrology

Application of fundamentals of fluid mechanics to pressurized flow systems, hydraulic machinery and open channel systems with introduction to hydraulic drag and surface/subsurface hydrology. Topics include minor and major losses in laminar and turbulent flow, pipe networks, flow measurements, pump and turbine operation and design, uniform and nonuniform open channel flow, surface profiles, hydraulic drag formulas, introduction to steady groundwater flow with emphasis on well hydraulics and introduction to hydrologic processes with detailed coverage of surface runoff.

CIE 441LEC Pollutant Fate and Transport

Focuses on the physical, chemical, and hydrodynamic processes governing pollutant fate in natural systems. Topics include mass and energy balances, mixing processes, partitioning processes (exchange with solids and air). Examples from natural systems address lake, river, and atmospheric pollution.

EAS 360LEC STEM Communications

Prepares students to successfully communicate, across a range of professional genres and media, to technical, professional, and public audiences; to produce communications individually and as part of a team; and to produce communications which are consistent with ethical engineering practice.

CIE 444LEC Hydrologic Engineering

This course discusses engineering approaches to understanding and managing different elements of the hydrologic water cycle, with a focus on applications involving mass balance concepts. Physical processes including precipitation, interception, infiltration, evapotranspiration, and runoff are discussed. Rainfall-runoff relationships are addressed as a function of land use, soil type, and other features through traditional approaches including the Rational method and Soil Conservation Service methods. Unit hydrograph theory is reviewed and routing procedures for surface water and detention basins are described. Statistics and frequency analysis are presented, and model conceptualization is described for applications in hydrologic design and watershed management. Students should have completed previous coursework in introductory engineering statistics and hydraulics.

CIE 442LR Treatment Process Eng

Fundamentals of conventional and emerging environmental engineering treatment technologies in the context of water treatment, wastewater treatment, and water reuse. Analysis and design of treatment units and systems.

CIE 415LEC Prof Practice Issues

Ethical issues in civil engineering practice, the professional licensure process, the project life cycle, engineering economics fundamentals, construction contracts and delivery methods, cost estimating fundamentals, project scheduling fundamentals, project control fundamentals.

CIE 445LEC Groundwater Engineering

Fundamentals of fluid flow and mass transport in porous media. Derives the governing mass and energy balance equations and develops several commonly applied solutions. Particular topics include groundwater flow under saturated and unsaturated conditions, well hydraulics, introduction to transient flow, fundamentals of solute transport, geostatistics, and remediation of contaminated aquifers.

CIE 449LEC Env Eng Design

Design of environmental engineering systems, such as water-distribution networks; storm and wastewater collection systems; treatment systems for air, water, and wastewater; and hazardous waste site remediation. This is a professional practice-oriented course and includes process engineering principles, system analysis and design, regulations, economics, guest lectures, and field trips. Students work in design teams and produce written and oral reports for a major design project.

CIE 448LEC Chem Princ Env Eng

Presents fundamentals in aquatic chemistry as applied to natural waters, water treatment, and wastewater treatment. Topics include equilibrium concepts, chemical thermodynamics, acid-base reactions, precipitation and dissolution, oxidation and reduction, carbonate system chemistry, and complexation. This course is dual-listed with CIE 564.

CIE 461LEC Air Pollution

Introduces the fundamental aspects of the science and technologies associated with air pollution. Topics include: atmospheric chemistry and basic chemical kinetics; photochemical reactions in the atmosphere; aerosol physics and chemistry; sources of air pollution; climatic effects; design of air pollution measurement, analytical, and reduction techniques; health effects; and atmospheric models.

CIE 469LEC Brownfield Restoration

A brownfield is a property whose redevelopment is complicated by the presence or potential presence of hazardous substances. With more than an estimated 450,000 brownfields in the U.S., their cost-effective and sustainable management is an important national priority. This course covers a variety of engineering and policy issues associated with subsurface pollution. Topics include: (1) evolution of current laws dealing with the management of hazardous wastes and contaminated land; (2) environmental fate and transport of hazardous chemicals; and (3) investigation and remediation of sites with soil and/or groundwater contamination. Students are expected to have familiarity with basic concepts of contaminant chemistry, groundwater, and engineering mathematics.

GEO 281LEC Web-Based GIS

Recent Advances in internet technology have stimulated rapid development of on-line imaging and mapping systems. This course provides a systematic introduction to these internet-based digital imaging and mapping systems in order to familiarize students with Internet-based tools and data and allow them to explore and understand the spatial distribution of natural and constructed phenomena. Through a combination of lectures and exercises, students will develop and practice the following on-line skills: using interface of on-line systems, digital map display in 2D and 3D, digital image display in 2D and 3D, flight simulation, multiple image and map management, measurements, navigation, spatial query, feature selection and buffering, and customized map making.

GEO 481LLB Geographical Info Systems

Provides a general introduction to the principles and applications of geographic information systems (GIS). The lectures cover several fundamental aspects of GIS: (1) the basics of a GIS system, (2) GIS data and sources of data, (3) GIS analysis functions, and (4) GIS applications and related issues. The laboratory exercises are based on the leading GIS software, ArcGIS, and are designed to help students understand the lecture materials and gain hands-on experiences in GIS data acquisition, spatial database management, spatial analysis, and mapping. This course is dual-listed with GEO 506.

UBC 399MNT UB Curriculum Capstone

UB Curriculum Capstone (UBC 399) is the culminating general education requirement. It is a one-credit course in which you will work in UBPortfolio, with the support of your Capstone instructor, to create a reflective and integrative Capstone ePortfolio based on your UB Curriculum coursework and lived experiences outside of the classroom. All UB Curriculum courses must be completed or in-progress to enroll in and complete UBC 399. Students who drop an in-progress course will be removed from UBC 399 through the add/drop period. Students who resign an in-progress course may not be able to successfully complete the Capstone.

MTH 141LR College Calculus 1

Beginning of a three-semester sequence in calculus for students of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering. Covers differentiation and integration with applications. This course is the same as MTH 136 + 137 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

CHE 107LR Gen Chem for Engineers I

Meets the general chemistry requirement for students wishing to receive an engineering degree. Examinations are scheduled outside of the listed class times.

CHE 127LAB General Chem for Engineers 1

Laboratory to accompany CHE 107, General Chemistry for Engineers 1. Experiments focus upon stoichiometry, reactions in aqueous solutions, thermochemistry, and properties of gases. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade other than W may repeat the course in the summer or winter; or only in the fall or spring semester with a petition to the College of Arts and Sciences Deans' Office.

ENG 105LEC Writing and Rhetoric

An introduction to research, writing, and rhetorical practices employed in academic and professional contexts. The course examines the operation of genres, the audiences they address, and the purposes they serve. The course focuses on the analysis and development of student writing and rhetorical practice. Assignments include research essays, digital compositions, and oral presentations.

MTH 142LR College Calculus 2

Differentiation and integration of transcendental functions; infinite sequences; series and power series; integration methods; additional topics in analytic geometry.. This course is the same as MTH 138 and MTH 139 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

CHE 128LAB General Chem for Engineers 2

Laboratory to accompany CHE 108, General Chemistry for Engineers 2. Experiments focus upon kinetics, chemical equilibria, acid-base chemistry, electrochemistry and coordination chemistry. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade other than W may repeat the course in the summer or winter; or only in the fall or spring semester with a petition to the College of Arts and Sciences Deans' Office.

CHE 108LR Gen Chem for Engineers II

Meets the general chemistry requirement for students wishing to receive an engineering degree in four years. Cannot be used for science distribution credit. Examinations are scheduled outside of the listed class times.

PHY 107LR General Physics 1

A calculus-based introductory course primarily for chemistry, engineering, and physics majors. Covers kinematics, Newton's laws, energy, momentum, rotational motion, and oscillations. This course satisfies 4 credits as required by different majors and also 4 credits (out of the mandated 7 credits total) of UB's Science Literacy and Inquiry general education requirement sequence. Enrollment is not allowed in PHY107 if a student has current enrollment in PHY101.

MTH 241LR College Calculus 3

Geometry and vectors of n-dimensional space; Green's theorem, Gauss theorem, Stokes theorem; multidimensional differentiation and integration; application to 2- and 3-D space.

EAS 207LR Statics

Applies mechanics to studying static equilibrium of rigid and elastic bodies. Topics include composition and resolution of forces, moments and couple, equivalent force systems, free-body diagrams, equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies, forces in trusses and beams, friction forces, first and second moments of area, moments and product of inertia, and methods of virtual work and total potential energy.

CIE 177LLB Intro to Civil Eng CAD

The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with Civil Engineering CAD software and reading civil based drawings. Students will also develop a skill to visualize 3D terrains and 3D objects from their 2D projections in order to think in 3D about objects in space. One formal lecture per week, focused on civil and environmental engineering applications of the software is given. This is supplemented by multiple tutorials written for the software. Students will be required to complete the tutorials in recitation and on their own time and submit a copy of completed tutorials by the due date.

MTH 306LR Intro Diff Equations

Analytic solutions, qualitative behavior of solutions to differential equations. First-order and higher-order ordinary differential equations, including nonlinear equations. Covers analytic, geometric, and numerical perspectives as well as an interplay between methods and model problems. Discusses necessary matrix theory and explores differential equation models of phenomena from various disciplines. Uses a mathematical software system designed to aid in the numerical and qualitative study of solutions, and in the geometric interpretation of solutions.

EAS 209LR Mechanics of Solids

Studies the mechanical behavior of solid bodies under various types of loading. Topics include stresses and strain, stress-strain relationships, plane stress and plane strain; shear and bending moments in beams, stresses in beams; deflection of beams, torsion of shafts, buckling of columns, energy methods, and failure criteria.

EAS 230LLB Engineering Computations

This is a first course in computer programming that develops programming concepts using MATLAB with application to engineering problems. Topics include data structures, arithmetic expressions, I/O, plotting, branching and loop structures, debugging, and user-defined functions. These concepts will be illustrated and emphasized through applications in chemical process mass balances, transport processes, truss structures, data fitting, principal component analysis in fluid and solid mechanics, and modal analysis in dynamics.

BIO 309LEC Ecology

Processes that control the abundance and distribution of organisms in their natural environments; emphasizing population, community and evolutionary ecology. This course is the same as GLY 309, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

CIE 334LLR Soil Mechanics

Soil formation and identification. The physical and mechanical properties of granular and cohesive soils. The nature and flow of water in soils, stress distribution, consolidation, analysis of deformation and strength of soils, stress path dependent behavior and slope stability.

CIE 354LR Fluid Mechanics

Provides an introductory treatment of the dynamics of fluids, emphasizing incompressible fluids. Develops and applies hydrostatics, thermodynamics, fluid characteristics, kinematics, and dynamics; methods of analysis including the infinitesimal and finite control volume; stress rate-of-strain relations; and basic equations for continuity, energy, motion, and force-momentum. Measurement methods.

EAS 198SEM UB Seminar

The one credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps transition to UB through an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 198 offered in any subject.

CIE 308LR Engineering Probability & Stat

Introduces sampling, descriptive and inferential statistics, probability, probability distribution functions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, covariance and correlation, and linear regression.

CIE 340LR Environmental Engineering

This course introduces the quantitative analysis of natural and engineered systems in the context of environmental engineering. Basic concepts include mass, energy, and number balances and risk. Applications include water pollution and treatment, air pollution and its control, solid waste management, sustainability, and global climate change.

CIE 360LLB Env Eng Lab

Laboratory testing to enhance and extend the student's understanding of the fundamental principles of fluid mechanics and environmental engineering, including modern methods of pollutant analysis. Data are collected and analyzed using statistical and numerical tools. Individual and group reports serve as vehicles for the development of technical communication skills. One 3-hour lab per week or equivalent.

CIE 343LLR Hydraulics and Hydrology

Application of fundamentals of fluid mechanics to pressurized flow systems, hydraulic machinery and open channel systems with introduction to hydraulic drag and surface/subsurface hydrology. Topics include minor and major losses in laminar and turbulent flow, pipe networks, flow measurements, pump and turbine operation and design, uniform and nonuniform open channel flow, surface profiles, hydraulic drag formulas, introduction to steady groundwater flow with emphasis on well hydraulics and introduction to hydrologic processes with detailed coverage of surface runoff.

CIE 441LEC Pollutant Fate and Transport

Focuses on the physical, chemical, and hydrodynamic processes governing pollutant fate in natural systems. Topics include mass and energy balances, mixing processes, partitioning processes (exchange with solids and air). Examples from natural systems address lake, river, and atmospheric pollution.

EAS 360LEC STEM Communications

Prepares students to successfully communicate, across a range of professional genres and media, to technical, professional, and public audiences; to produce communications individually and as part of a team; and to produce communications which are consistent with ethical engineering practice.

CIE 341LEC Environmental Engineering Sci

CIE 341 covers basic concepts of environmental microbiology and chemistry and their links to applications in environmental engineering such as water and wastewater treatment, nutrient removal, anaerobic digestion, and disinfection.

CIE 444LEC Hydrologic Engineering

This course discusses engineering approaches to understanding and managing different elements of the hydrologic water cycle, with a focus on applications involving mass balance concepts. Physical processes including precipitation, interception, infiltration, evapotranspiration, and runoff are discussed. Rainfall-runoff relationships are addressed as a function of land use, soil type, and other features through traditional approaches including the Rational method and Soil Conservation Service methods. Unit hydrograph theory is reviewed and routing procedures for surface water and detention basins are described. Statistics and frequency analysis are presented, and model conceptualization is described for applications in hydrologic design and watershed management. Students should have completed previous coursework in introductory engineering statistics and hydraulics.

CIE 442LR Treatment Process Eng

Fundamentals of conventional and emerging environmental engineering treatment technologies in the context of water treatment, wastewater treatment, and water reuse. Analysis and design of treatment units and systems.

CIE 415LEC Prof Practice Issues

Ethical issues in civil engineering practice, the professional licensure process, the project life cycle, engineering economics fundamentals, construction contracts and delivery methods, cost estimating fundamentals, project scheduling fundamentals, project control fundamentals.

CIE 445LEC Groundwater Engineering

Fundamentals of fluid flow and mass transport in porous media. Derives the governing mass and energy balance equations and develops several commonly applied solutions. Particular topics include groundwater flow under saturated and unsaturated conditions, well hydraulics, introduction to transient flow, fundamentals of solute transport, geostatistics, and remediation of contaminated aquifers.

CIE 449LEC Env Eng Design

Design of environmental engineering systems, such as water-distribution networks; storm and wastewater collection systems; treatment systems for air, water, and wastewater; and hazardous waste site remediation. This is a professional practice-oriented course and includes process engineering principles, system analysis and design, regulations, economics, guest lectures, and field trips. Students work in design teams and produce written and oral reports for a major design project.

CIE 448LEC Chem Princ Env Eng

Presents fundamentals in aquatic chemistry as applied to natural waters, water treatment, and wastewater treatment. Topics include equilibrium concepts, chemical thermodynamics, acid-base reactions, precipitation and dissolution, oxidation and reduction, carbonate system chemistry, and complexation. This course is dual-listed with CIE 564.

CIE 461LEC Air Pollution

Introduces the fundamental aspects of the science and technologies associated with air pollution. Topics include: atmospheric chemistry and basic chemical kinetics; photochemical reactions in the atmosphere; aerosol physics and chemistry; sources of air pollution; climatic effects; design of air pollution measurement, analytical, and reduction techniques; health effects; and atmospheric models.

CIE 469LEC Brownfield Restoration

A brownfield is a property whose redevelopment is complicated by the presence or potential presence of hazardous substances. With more than an estimated 450,000 brownfields in the U.S., their cost-effective and sustainable management is an important national priority. This course covers a variety of engineering and policy issues associated with subsurface pollution. Topics include: (1) evolution of current laws dealing with the management of hazardous wastes and contaminated land; (2) environmental fate and transport of hazardous chemicals; and (3) investigation and remediation of sites with soil and/or groundwater contamination. Students are expected to have familiarity with basic concepts of contaminant chemistry, groundwater, and engineering mathematics.

CIE 344LEC Sustainability

Engineering policy dimensions of sustainability. Topics include: (1) definitions and concepts of sustainability (including ethics discussions), (2) introduction to climate change science and policy, (3) energy production options and impacts, and (4) relevant analytical tools such as life cycle assessment and carbon footprint analysis.

GEO 281LEC Web-Based GIS

Recent Advances in internet technology have stimulated rapid development of on-line imaging and mapping systems. This course provides a systematic introduction to these internet-based digital imaging and mapping systems in order to familiarize students with Internet-based tools and data and allow them to explore and understand the spatial distribution of natural and constructed phenomena. Through a combination of lectures and exercises, students will develop and practice the following on-line skills: using interface of on-line systems, digital map display in 2D and 3D, digital image display in 2D and 3D, flight simulation, multiple image and map management, measurements, navigation, spatial query, feature selection and buffering, and customized map making.

GEO 481LLB Geographical Info Systems

Provides a general introduction to the principles and applications of geographic information systems (GIS). The lectures cover several fundamental aspects of GIS: (1) the basics of a GIS system, (2) GIS data and sources of data, (3) GIS analysis functions, and (4) GIS applications and related issues. The laboratory exercises are based on the leading GIS software, ArcGIS, and are designed to help students understand the lecture materials and gain hands-on experiences in GIS data acquisition, spatial database management, spatial analysis, and mapping. This course is dual-listed with GEO 506.

UBC 399MNT UB Curriculum Capstone

UB Curriculum Capstone (UBC 399) is the culminating general education requirement. It is a one-credit course in which you will work in UBPortfolio, with the support of your Capstone instructor, to create a reflective and integrative Capstone ePortfolio based on your UB Curriculum coursework and lived experiences outside of the classroom. All UB Curriculum courses must be completed or in-progress to enroll in and complete UBC 399. Students who drop an in-progress course will be removed from UBC 399 through the add/drop period. Students who resign an in-progress course may not be able to successfully complete the Capstone.

EAS 198SEM UB Seminar

The one credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps transition to UB through an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 198 offered in any subject.

CIE 360LLB Env Eng Lab

Laboratory testing to enhance and extend the student's understanding of the fundamental principles of fluid mechanics and environmental engineering, including modern methods of pollutant analysis. Data are collected and analyzed using statistical and numerical tools. Individual and group reports serve as vehicles for the development of technical communication skills. One 3-hour lab per week or equivalent.

CIE 308LR Engineering Probability & Stat

Introduces sampling, descriptive and inferential statistics, probability, probability distribution functions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, covariance and correlation, and linear regression.

CIE 354LR Fluid Mechanics

Provides an introductory treatment of the dynamics of fluids, emphasizing incompressible fluids. Develops and applies hydrostatics, thermodynamics, fluid characteristics, kinematics, and dynamics; methods of analysis including the infinitesimal and finite control volume; stress rate-of-strain relations; and basic equations for continuity, energy, motion, and force-momentum. Measurement methods.

CIE 334LLR Soil Mechanics

Soil formation and identification. The physical and mechanical properties of granular and cohesive soils. The nature and flow of water in soils, stress distribution, consolidation, analysis of deformation and strength of soils, stress path dependent behavior and slope stability.

BIO 309LEC Ecology

Processes that control the abundance and distribution of organisms in their natural environments; emphasizing population, community and evolutionary ecology. This course is the same as GLY 309, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

CIE 340LR Environmental Engineering

This course introduces the quantitative analysis of natural and engineered systems in the context of environmental engineering. Basic concepts include mass, energy, and number balances and risk. Applications include water pollution and treatment, air pollution and its control, solid waste management, sustainability, and global climate change.

EAS 360LEC STEM Communications

Prepares students to successfully communicate, across a range of professional genres and media, to technical, professional, and public audiences; to produce communications individually and as part of a team; and to produce communications which are consistent with ethical engineering practice.

CIE 441LEC Pollutant Fate and Transport

Focuses on the physical, chemical, and hydrodynamic processes governing pollutant fate in natural systems. Topics include mass and energy balances, mixing processes, partitioning processes (exchange with solids and air). Examples from natural systems address lake, river, and atmospheric pollution.

CIE 343LLR Hydraulics and Hydrology

Application of fundamentals of fluid mechanics to pressurized flow systems, hydraulic machinery and open channel systems with introduction to hydraulic drag and surface/subsurface hydrology. Topics include minor and major losses in laminar and turbulent flow, pipe networks, flow measurements, pump and turbine operation and design, uniform and nonuniform open channel flow, surface profiles, hydraulic drag formulas, introduction to steady groundwater flow with emphasis on well hydraulics and introduction to hydrologic processes with detailed coverage of surface runoff.

CIE 341LEC Environmental Engineering Sci

CIE 341 covers basic concepts of environmental microbiology and chemistry and their links to applications in environmental engineering such as water and wastewater treatment, nutrient removal, anaerobic digestion, and disinfection.

CIE 415LEC Prof Practice Issues

Ethical issues in civil engineering practice, the professional licensure process, the project life cycle, engineering economics fundamentals, construction contracts and delivery methods, cost estimating fundamentals, project scheduling fundamentals, project control fundamentals.

CIE 442LR Treatment Process Eng

Fundamentals of conventional and emerging environmental engineering treatment technologies in the context of water treatment, wastewater treatment, and water reuse. Analysis and design of treatment units and systems.

CIE 444LEC Hydrologic Engineering

This course discusses engineering approaches to understanding and managing different elements of the hydrologic water cycle, with a focus on applications involving mass balance concepts. Physical processes including precipitation, interception, infiltration, evapotranspiration, and runoff are discussed. Rainfall-runoff relationships are addressed as a function of land use, soil type, and other features through traditional approaches including the Rational method and Soil Conservation Service methods. Unit hydrograph theory is reviewed and routing procedures for surface water and detention basins are described. Statistics and frequency analysis are presented, and model conceptualization is described for applications in hydrologic design and watershed management. Students should have completed previous coursework in introductory engineering statistics and hydraulics.

UBC 399MNT UB Curriculum Capstone

UB Curriculum Capstone (UBC 399) is the culminating general education requirement. It is a one-credit course in which you will work in UBPortfolio, with the support of your Capstone instructor, to create a reflective and integrative Capstone ePortfolio based on your UB Curriculum coursework and lived experiences outside of the classroom. All UB Curriculum courses must be completed or in-progress to enroll in and complete UBC 399. Students who drop an in-progress course will be removed from UBC 399 through the add/drop period. Students who resign an in-progress course may not be able to successfully complete the Capstone.

GEO 281LEC Web-Based GIS

Recent Advances in internet technology have stimulated rapid development of on-line imaging and mapping systems. This course provides a systematic introduction to these internet-based digital imaging and mapping systems in order to familiarize students with Internet-based tools and data and allow them to explore and understand the spatial distribution of natural and constructed phenomena. Through a combination of lectures and exercises, students will develop and practice the following on-line skills: using interface of on-line systems, digital map display in 2D and 3D, digital image display in 2D and 3D, flight simulation, multiple image and map management, measurements, navigation, spatial query, feature selection and buffering, and customized map making.

GEO 481LLB Geographical Info Systems

Provides a general introduction to the principles and applications of geographic information systems (GIS). The lectures cover several fundamental aspects of GIS: (1) the basics of a GIS system, (2) GIS data and sources of data, (3) GIS analysis functions, and (4) GIS applications and related issues. The laboratory exercises are based on the leading GIS software, ArcGIS, and are designed to help students understand the lecture materials and gain hands-on experiences in GIS data acquisition, spatial database management, spatial analysis, and mapping. This course is dual-listed with GEO 506.

CIE 448LEC Chem Princ Env Eng

Presents fundamentals in aquatic chemistry as applied to natural waters, water treatment, and wastewater treatment. Topics include equilibrium concepts, chemical thermodynamics, acid-base reactions, precipitation and dissolution, oxidation and reduction, carbonate system chemistry, and complexation. This course is dual-listed with CIE 564.

CIE 461LEC Air Pollution

Introduces the fundamental aspects of the science and technologies associated with air pollution. Topics include: atmospheric chemistry and basic chemical kinetics; photochemical reactions in the atmosphere; aerosol physics and chemistry; sources of air pollution; climatic effects; design of air pollution measurement, analytical, and reduction techniques; health effects; and atmospheric models.

CIE 469LEC Brownfield Restoration

A brownfield is a property whose redevelopment is complicated by the presence or potential presence of hazardous substances. With more than an estimated 450,000 brownfields in the U.S., their cost-effective and sustainable management is an important national priority. This course covers a variety of engineering and policy issues associated with subsurface pollution. Topics include: (1) evolution of current laws dealing with the management of hazardous wastes and contaminated land; (2) environmental fate and transport of hazardous chemicals; and (3) investigation and remediation of sites with soil and/or groundwater contamination. Students are expected to have familiarity with basic concepts of contaminant chemistry, groundwater, and engineering mathematics.

CIE 449LEC Env Eng Design

Design of environmental engineering systems, such as water-distribution networks; storm and wastewater collection systems; treatment systems for air, water, and wastewater; and hazardous waste site remediation. This is a professional practice-oriented course and includes process engineering principles, system analysis and design, regulations, economics, guest lectures, and field trips. Students work in design teams and produce written and oral reports for a major design project.

CIE 445LEC Groundwater Engineering

Fundamentals of fluid flow and mass transport in porous media. Derives the governing mass and energy balance equations and develops several commonly applied solutions. Particular topics include groundwater flow under saturated and unsaturated conditions, well hydraulics, introduction to transient flow, fundamentals of solute transport, geostatistics, and remediation of contaminated aquifers.

CIE 344LEC Sustainability

Engineering policy dimensions of sustainability. Topics include: (1) definitions and concepts of sustainability (including ethics discussions), (2) introduction to climate change science and policy, (3) energy production options and impacts, and (4) relevant analytical tools such as life cycle assessment and carbon footprint analysis.