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NOTE: This course will be taught in-person on main campus, in hybrid format with Zoom options. The goal of this course is to learn the foundations of ecological modeling with a specific (but not exclusive) focus on marine conservation and sustainable exploitation of renewable resources. Students will be introduced to a range of methods - from basic to advanced - to characterize population structure, conduct demographic analyses, estimate extinction risk, identify temporal trends and spatial patterns, quantify the effect of environmental determinants and anthropogenic pressures on the dynamics of marine populations, describe the potential for adaptation to climate change. This course will emphasize learning by doing, and will rely heavily on practical computer laboratories, in R and/or Phyton, based on data from our own research activities or peer reviewed publications. Students with a background knowledge of statistics, programming and calculus will be most welcome. Formally BIOHOPK 143H and 243H.

Sociotechnical systems associated with the human use of water as a resource and the hazards posed by too much or too little water. Relevant watershed hydrologic processes; the physical, institutional, and regulatory infrastructure supporting potable and non-potable water use and conservation. Depending on student interest, this might include: irrigation, hydroelectric power generation, rural and urban water supply systems, storm water management, flood-damage prevention and mitigation, drought mitigation, or riverine ecosystem renaturalization. Emphasis is on engineering design. Prerequisite: CEE 101B or equivalent.

This course develops a foundation of economic principles for the electric utility on the topics of regulation, planning, and operation. Topics covered in regulation include cost of capital, calculation of the revenue requirement, and rate design. Topics covered in planning include generation costs (fixed and variable), reliability, marginal costs, and cost-effectiveness. Topics covered in operations include least-cost dispatch and energy markets. The course is geared toward emerging electricity sector topics including renewable energy, distributed energy resources, energy storage, and clean firm resources. The course also covers the history of the U.S. electricity sector and its evolution to the current technical and regulatory structure with the goal that economic principles can be used to achieve a system that is both economically efficient and environmentally sustainable.

Application design thinking to make sustainability compelling, impactful and realizable. Analysis of contextual, functional and human-centered design thinking techniques to promote sustainable design of products and environments by holistically considering space, form, environment, energy, economics, and health. Includes Studio project work in prototyping, modeling, testing, and realizing sustainable design ideas. Prerequisite: Enrollment limited and by Permission Number only. Email instructor for application form.

This course covers basic hydraulics and the fundamental processes used to treat wastewater. In addition to understanding the details behind the fundamental processes, students will learn to feel comfortable developing initial design criteria (30% designs) for fundamental processes. Students should also develop a feel for the typical values of water treatment parameters and the equipment involved. After covering conventional processes, the class addresses newer processes used to meet emerging treatment objectives, including nutrient removal, composting of biosolids and recycling of wastewater for beneficial uses, including potable reuse.n(Note this course was formerly CEE 174B)

Students will learn the principles of structural engineering design including how to design structural components of reinforced concrete (e.g., beams, columns, and slabs) and steel (e.g., beams, columns, tension and compression members, and connections) for various structural systems. Skills will be gained through problem sets and a design project. (Note: this course replaces the combination of CEE 181 and CEE 182 taught separately in previous years). Pre-requisite: CEE 180.

Written report or oral presentation required. Students must obtain a faculty sponsor.