Student should have a basic knowledge of general chemistry and quantitative/qualitative analysis. It is expected that the student will be familar with basic laboratory techniques such as tritrations and pipeting. This course is designed to compliment CEE 501. Students currently enrolled in CEE 501 may take this course.

No textbook is required.

To familiarize students with some common wet chemical and insturmental methods used in environmental laboratories. It will also provide an appreciation for the problems in generating and interpreting water quality and other environmental data. The course will provide some actual field experience collecting water and sediment samples and some real time data. A final objective is to provide experience working in a team environment and to learn some techniques (total quality management techniques) useful in optimizing team interactions.

Topics covered include an overview of team interaction techniques, field sampling techniques, wet chemical methods of analysis (eg., biochemical oxygen demand and suspended solids) and instrumental techniques (e.g., spectrometry, chromatography).

The following statement indicates which of the following considerations are included in this course: economic, environmental, ethical, political, societal, health and safety, manufacturability, sustainability.

As a laboratory course in environmental analysis, the main consideration is environmental. However, health and safety is considered from the standpoint of laboratory safety as well as toxicity of certain chemicals.

CEE: Provide education in the fundamentals of CEE. Course: deepen knowledge of environ. chem. through laboratory practice and training.

CEE: Provide experiences in...professionalism. Course: Develop critical reasoning skills for environ. analysis and QA/QC.

CEE: Developing teamwork and communication skills...Course: The strategy is to provide team lab exercises with team lab reports.

Related CEE Educational Outcomes: Outcome 2: selecting, verify an appropriate solution for a defined problem... This outcome relates to course otucome on method selection.

Outcome 3: CEE students should be able to apply the methods... and determine the accuracy/precision for making measurements...This outcome relates to the course method of team, hands-on laboratory exercises and the QA/QC objective.

Outcome 6: CEE students should be able to assemble and deliver an accurate and well organized technical presentation... This outcome relates to the cousrse outcome of clear lab reports.

Outcome 7: CEE students should apply knowledge of ...chemistry...to CEE problems. This outcome relates to the course strategy of applying environmental chemistry concepts to support analysis of environmental engineering problems.

Students are divided into teams and the laboratory projects are done as a team. Reports on the laboratory experiments are prepared by the team and graded by the instructor. Part of the grade is determined by fellow members of the team