Water and Wastewater

This course is designed to familiarize the student with water supply and wastewater control. Emphasis is on the engineering aspects of water supply, water distribution, wastewater collection, and wastewater treatment and disposal. Upon completion, students should be able to apply engineering and scientific concepts and principles of water supply and wastewater control.

This course is designed to train prospective water treatment plant operators and managers in the practical aspects of operating and maintaining water treatment plants, with emphasis on the use of safe practices and procedures. Students will learn how to safely operate and maintain coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection processes. They will also learn how to control tastes and odors in drinking water, control corrosion to meet the requirements of the Lead and Copper Rule, perform basic water laboratory procedures, and solve arithmetic problems commonly associated with water treatment plant operations.

This course is designed to train prospective wastewater treatment plant operators and managers in the practical aspects of operating and maintaining wastewater treatment plants, with emphasis on the use of safe practices and procedures. Students will learn how to safely operate and maintain racks, screens, comminutors, sedimentation tanks, trickling filters, rotating biological contactors, package activated sludge plants, oxidation ditches, ponds, and chlorination facilities. Students will also learn how to analyze and solve operational problems and how to perform mathematical calculations relating to wastewater treatment process control.

This course is designed to acquaint the student with the fundamentals of microbiology and chemistry applicable to water and wastewater management. Emphasis is on laboratory procedures pertinent to water/wastewater treatment. Upon completion, students should be able to perform relevant laboratory procedures.

This course focuses on the basic fundamentals of instrumentation applicable to water and wastewater management. The application, maintenance, and calibration of instruments in water and wastewater systems are emphasized. Upon completion, students should be able to read, calibrate and maintain mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic sensing equipment, and indicating, recording, and control equipment.

This course is designed to provide the student with an understanding of practical hydraulic design related to water supply and wastewater control. Topics include the collection, treatment, and distribution of water and collection and treatment of domestic and industrial wastewater. Upon completion, students should be able to apply principles of hydraulic systems to water and wastewater management practices.

This course is designed to allow a student first-hand experience in a municipal wastewater facility or a research facility. These placements will be coordinated through the wastewater treatment program and may include compensated or uncompensated placement.