ENGR 434 Pollution and Climate Change

This is a 3-credit elective course for Engineering graduate students and upperclassmen. It discusses the sources, dispersion, health effect, environmental impacts, and engineering solutions of various air pollutants: PM10, PM2.5, SOx, NOx, VOCs, CO, Smog-O3, and HAPs, from traditional fossil fuel-fired energy systems and natural sources. It also presents an overview of carbon emission, global warming, O3-depletion, climate changes, and natural disasters from energy systems and other human activities. The outlook of renewable/green energy and carbon control technologies will be discussed. This course gives a broad, contemporary, global, practical view, and quantitative analysis of pollution & climate change.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

ENGR 434 & ENGR 534