Eng.Outreach
SPRING 2008
Engineering Outreach Tentative Outline
contact Dr. Jan Boll: 1-800-824-2889 (press 1), ext 7324
fax: (208) 885-8923
NOTE: This web page is jointly used by on- and off-campus students, so you should not use 'home', 'lab section', and 'this week'.
session
Topic
Assignment Due Dates
1
Introduction + Definitions
2
More Definitions + "Setting the Stage"
Receiving Water Impacts
3
Physical, Chemical & Biological Characteristics of Water
4
5
Oxygen Problem
6
Oxygen Problem & Eutrophication
7
Eutrophication
8
Quality Assurance, Water Quality Criteria & Monitoring + QA handout
Sources of Water Pollution
9
Fate of Contaminants in Soils, Isotherms
10
Degradation and Transformation in Soils
11
Potential Pollutant Interaction + handout
12
Atmospheric Deposition
Midterm Exam
Transport of Pollutants & Loading Calculations
13
Hydrologic Components, Mass Balance
14
Erosion and Sediment Transport: Loading Functions
SPRING BREAK
Exam Answers, after Midterm Exam
EPA DOCUMENT
15
Solid-Phase and Dissolved Chemical Loads
16
Distributed-phase Chemical Loads
17
Salt Loads in Irrigation Return Flows
18
Urban Runoff Loads
19
Groundwater Waste Loads
20
21
Groundwater Waste Loads (slide show)
Control of Pollutants
22
Definitions & Agricultural Management Practices
23
Urban and Forest Management Practices
24
NPS Modeling and GIS
25
Term Paper Presentations I
26
Term Paper Presentations II
Final Exam (take home)