3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Upper Division
(CE 45600) Fundamental design principles and practice of wastewater treatment to prepare students for designing wastewater treatment systems. The major topics include design and construction process, preliminary treatment of wastewater, primary treatment, wastewater microbiology, secondary treatment, nitrogen removal, phosphorus removal, attached microbial growth, secondary settling, disinfection and post-aeration, tertiary treatment, and wastewater plant residuals management.
Learning Outcomes1Understand design principles and practice of wastewater treatment.
2Apply the knowledge to select the best process to treat wastewater.
3Design a wastewater treatment component or process to meet water quality goals.
4Critically review relevant literature or contemporary issues in wastewater treatment.
Prerequisites
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