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Course Outline:
Compulsory Course
Elective Courses
5.5.1 Detailed Contents of Courses for the M. Engg.
Program in Environmental Engineering
COMPULSORY COURSES
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Advance
Waste Water Treatment Engineering and Design |
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Pre-design
Studies, Process Kinetics. Mass/Balance. Reactor Design,
Pretreatment Clarification, Chemical Treatment, Biological
Treatment (Aerobic and Anaerobic) and Disinfection, Sludge,
Management Natural and Aquatic Plants-Based Treatment
Systems. Effluent Disposal and / or Reuse, Plant Hydraulic.
Flow Measurements. Pumps, Instrumentation and Control. |
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Physico
Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering |
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Coagulation
and Flocculation, Sedimentation, Filtration, Adsorption,
Ion-Exchange, Membrane Processes, Chemical Oxidation,
Distillation, Corrosion, Sludge Dewatering/Drying, Centrifuges
and Conversion (Combustion). |
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Environmental
Management |
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Environmental
Organization, Legislation, Standards, Monitoring and Compliance
Assurance, Environmental Economics, Regional Development,
Planning, Environmental Decision-Making for Industries.
NEQA, ISO- 14000 and Occupational Safety and Hazards Regulations.
Risk Analysis. |
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Municipal
and Hazardous Solid Waste Management Practices |
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Integrated
Municipal Solid Waste Management Practices Combined with
the Principles Hazardous Waste Management and Site Remediation
Technology, Topic Areas include Waste Generation, Waste
Properties, Waste Classification, Collection Systems,
Transformation, Recycling, Thermal Conversion, Land filling
and Site Remediation Technologies such as Bioremediation,
Air Stripping and Vapour Extraction. |
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Air
Pollution and Control |
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Theory and
Practices related to Engineering Management of Air Resources.
Atmospheric Dispersion of Pollutants. Analysis of Control
Systems for Gaseous and Particulate Emissions Utilizing
Dry Collection, Wet Collection, Absorption and Catalytic
Processes, Discussion of Source Control and Air Quality
Standards, Part of the Course focuses on Biological and
Chemical aspects. Physiological Effects of Aerosols. Analysis
of Organic and inorganic Constituents of the Atmosphere
and Rationale for Establishing Air Quality Criteria and
Emission Standards. |
ELECTIVE COURSES
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Introduction
to Environmental Engineering |
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Characteristics
of Natural Resources, Ecology and Eco Systems, Cycles
in Nature, Environmental Quality Objectives, Environmental
Legislation, Standards, and Technologies. Interrelations
of Air, Water Pollutions and Solid Waste Management, Radiation,
Noise Pollution, Effect of Pathogens and Chemicals on
Health, Economics of Environmental Pollution Control.
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Environmental
Applied Sciences |
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Physical, Chemical
and Biochemical Properties of Water, Wastewater, Air,
and Solid Waste. Aquatic Chemistry and Sediment Characteristics.
Basic Principles of Biology, Biochemistry and Microbiology
with Emphasis on Energetic, Biogeochemistry Cycling and
Interactions among Biological Populations and Influence
of Environmental Factors on The Growth and Distributions
of Biological Life in Different Environment. Concepts
of Biotechnology as applied to The Pollution Control and
Waste Conversion. |
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Advance
Mathematics |
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Part
- 1 Numerical Analysis
Error Analysis and Computer Arithmetic, Linear Systems
of Algebraic Equations, Solution of Large System of Linear
Algebraic Equations. Nonlinear Algebraic Equations, Finite
Difference, Polynomial Approximation for Equally and Unequally
Spaced Arguments, Interpolation, and Extrapolation, Numerical
Differentiation and Integration. Part -
11 Probability & Statistics.
Probability: Definitions, Sample Space, Events, Laws
of Probability, Conditional Probability, Dependent and
independent Events. Review of Measures of Central Tendency
and Measures of Dispersion.
Random Variable: Introduction, Distribution Function,
Discrete Random Variable and its Probability Distribution.
Continuous Random Variable and its Probability Density
Function. Mathematical Expectation of A Random Variable.
Moment Generating Functions.
Probability Distribution: Binomial, Poisson, Uniform,
Exponential and Normal Distribution Functions and their
Approximation to Poisson Distribution.
Sampling and Estimation, Statistical Tests, Regression
Analysis, Analysis, of Variants, Design of Experiments.
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Environmental
Impact Assessment |
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Purpose and
Aims of EIA, Environmental Issues and Priorities, Environmental
Laws and Regulations in Pakistan, Pak-EPA Standard Guidelines
for the Preparation and Reviews of Environmental Reports,
Framework for Environmental Assessment as Recommended
by International Agencies, Public Involvement, Screening,
Scoping, EIA Methods and Techniques, Mitigation Measures,
EIA Reporting, Review of EIA Quality, Decision Making,
Environmental Management Plan and Monitoring, Case Histories
and Case Studies. |
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Modeling
in Environmental Engineering |
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Fundamental
Principles of Deterministic and Stochastic Modeling applied
to Environmental Problems, Utilization of Mathematical
Software for the Development of Computer Models and Simulation
related to Treatment Plant Performance, Stream and Lake
Modeling and Contaminant Dispersion in Air, Water and
Soil |
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Process Dynamics
in Environmental Systems |
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Dynamics of Transformation
in Processes in Natural and Engineered Environmental Systems.
Application of Ideal and Non-ideal Reactor Concepts to
System Modeling. Energetics and Rates of Mass Transport
and Reaction Processes in surface and Groundwater, Treatment
Operations and other Systems of Concern in Environmental
Engineering. |
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Industrial
Waste Treatment and Disposal |
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Evaluation of industrial
Waste Problems, Legislation, Characteristics of Wastes
Produced from Industry and Case Studies on Application
of Engineering Principles and Processes for Pollution
Prevention, Waste Treatment, Recovery and Disposal. |
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Water Resources
Management |
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Metrology and Hydrologic
Cycle, Precipitation, Infiltration and Evapotranspiration,
Stream flow Hydrographs, Flood Routing. Hydrograph Analysis.
Ground Water Hydrology. Well Hydraulics. Application of
Hydrology Problem (Volume and Peak Discharge Management,
Water Logging Control, Water quality Management etc.) |
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Environmental
Health |
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Communicable Diseases,
Water Borne Disease Control, Excrete Disposal and Disease
Control, Health Hazards Related to Bathing Places and
Plumbing Vector and Rodent Born Disease Control, Health
Relationship in Lighting, Ventilation and Air Conditioning,
Housing and Institution Hygiene, Disease aspects of Occupational
Health, Radiation uses and Protection. |
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Water Supply
and Sewer System Design |
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Design of Water Supply
System, Storm Drains, Sanitary Sewers, Pumping Stations,
HSR and Hydro-pneumatic System. |
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Sustainable
Development & Appropriate Technology |
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Development Policies and
their Economic and Social Implication, Urban and Rural
Inter-relations and the effects on Employment, Migration
and the Natural Environment, Urban infrastructure System
and Housing Program Related to General System Properties
such as Scale, Regulation, Financing and Pricing Linking
those to the Interpretations of Sustainable Development,
Rational use of Land and Water for Sustainable Regional
Development. |
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Introduction
to Ocean and Coastal Engineering |
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Fundamental aspects of
Incompressible Fluid Mechanics and its Applications to
Analysis of Wave Motions, Circulations, and other Free
Surface Flows in Coastal and Offshore Regions, Wave Spectra,
Water-Level Fluctuation, Tides Dynamics, Oscillations
and Storm Surges, Wind-Surges, Wind Generated Waves including
Wave Statistics and Wave Spectra, Beaches, Sediment Transport
in the Coastal Regime, Estuaries and Deltas, Response
of Beaches to Wave Action and Structures. Tidal Inlets,
Beach Nourishment, Wind Transport in Sand Dune Stabilization. |
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Marine Pollution
and Control |
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Effects of Pollution Discharges,
Oil Spills, Coast Development, Beach Erosion, Channel
Dredging and Changing Sea-Level on Marine Environment
and Control Measures, Modeling for Pollution Dispersion,
Study of Marine Biology (Organism, Fisheries and Mangroves),
Coastal Geology and Estuarine Ecology. Marine Resources
Management. |
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Special topics
in Environmental Engineering |
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GIS AND REMOTE
SENSING
History and Scope of Remote Sensing, Electromagnetic Radiation,
Photogrammetry, Mosaics, Digital Data, Satellite Characteristics,
Image Resolution, Remote Sensing Imagery Types, Remote
Sensing Satellites, Pre-Processing, Image Classification,
Accuracy Assessment, Applications of Satellite Remote
Sensing, ERDAS Imagine Software.
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Analysis
of Environmental Contaminants |
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Standard Methods for Testing
Data Quality, Quality Control / Quality Assurance Procedures,
Introduction to ISO 17025 (Laboratory Management), Collection
of Samples, Preservation Techniques, Safety Rules for
Laboratory, Calibration of Instruments.
Analytical Techniques: Colorimetry, Gravimetric, and
Electro Chemical Methods, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry
and Gas Chromatography.
Performance and Determination of Physical / Chemical
Characteristics of Water, Waste Water, Solid Waste,
Soils and Air, Micro Biological Examinations of Water
and Waste Water, Toxicity Tests for Aquatic Organisms.
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