Prof. Neal E. Armstrong's Course Information

This page contains data on the courses that I teach. For general course schedules and descriptions, see the Registrar's section of UT Austin Web Central.

CE 341 Environmental Pollution Engineering

Quantitative evaluation of the environmental, economic, and technical problems involved in control of pollutants of the air, water, and land..

CE 346K Hazardous Waste Management

This course is designed to provide the student with the principles of hazardous waste engineering. Topics include historical perspective; regulations pertaining to hazardous wastes; transport, fate, and effects of hazardous wastes; hazardous wastes management; treatment and disposal methods, and site remediation.

CE 385K.1 Stream, Impoundment, and Estuarine Analysis I

The objectives of this course are: (1) to introduce the student to the principles of water quality management including the framework for analysis, determination of uses, water quality criteria and standards, development of cause/effect relationships between inputs and water quality, and determination of alternatives for solutions of water quality problems; (2) to present simplified water quality models for conservative and nonconservative materials, steady state and nonsteady state conditions, individual and coupled systems, and fixed and variable system parameters; (3) to describe those features of natural systems needed for water quality modeling; (4) to address specific water quality problems including dissolved solids, pathogens, dissolved oxygen, eutrophication, toxic materials, and temperature, and for each the sources of materials causing the problems, the pertinent water quality criteria, applicable water quality models, typical effects, and in-stream solutions; (5) to show how costs and benefits of water quality improvement may be estimated; and (6) to delineate the elements of water quality sampling.

CE 385K.2 Stream, Impoundment, and Estuarine Analysis II

Being a problems course, students apply methods of analysis learned in CE 385K.1 to the development of a water quality management plan for a waterbody in Texas. This plan includes TMDL determination for oxygen demanding materials, nutrients, and toxic materials.

CE 385K.3 Water Quality Modeling

The objective of this course is to provide students with a basic knowledge of water quality modeling. This overall objective may be subdivided into the following specific objectives: (1) review the mass balance basis for water quality models; (2) review the simple water quality models for streams and rivers, lakes and reservoirs, and estuaries taught in CE 385K.1 Stream, Impoundment, and Estuarine Analysis I; (3) examine the bases for finite element and finite difference water quality models and their application to natural systems; (4) examine water quality model kinetics for eutrophication and toxics analysis; and (5) examine and apply several USEPA water quality models widely used in water quality modeling.

CE 385K.4 Water Pollution Ecology

The objective of this course is to provide students with a basic knowledge of water quality modeling. This overall objective may be subdivided into the following specific objectives: (1) review the mass balance basis for water quality models; (2) review the simple water quality models for streams and rivers, lakes and reservoirs, and estuaries taught in CE 385K.1 Stream, Impoundment, and Estuarine Analysis I; (3) examine the bases for finite element and finite difference water quality models and their application to natural systems; (4) examine water quality model kinetics for eutrophication and toxics analysis; and (5) examine and apply several USEPA water quality models widely used in water quality modeling.

CE 390M Water Quality Management

The overall objective of this course is to introduce the student to the principles of water quality management. Water quality management includes the generation of pollutants that reach natural systems and cause water quality problems, treatment for removal of those pollutants, analysis of fate, transport, and effect of those pollutants in the receiving water, development and application of water quality standards, and the regulation process by which desired water quality levels are maintained. Specifically, the course will include topics relating to the framework for water quality management, methods of water quality management, legislation and regulations, determination of uses, development of water quality criteria and standards and effluent limits, regulatory agency operation, social and economic aspects, and case studies. It is especially desired that the students in this class become sensitized to the social and political aspects of water quality management, for it is in this context that water quality management decisions are made in practice.

CE 397 Water Quatity Issues

The water quality issues course topics may change from semester to semester. During the Summer of 1996, the course topic was water quality modeling, and the course syllabus was not unlike CE 385K.3.

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Updated to January 5, 1996
Department of Civil Engineering, UT Austin
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