Four-Week Online Course
1.2 CEUs

Course Level:

Review/Refresher

Time to Complete:

This course will take approximately 12 hours to complete. Registrants will have 4 weeks to complete the course. Note: Once registered in the A&WMA E-Learning Center, students will have unlimited access to their Student Notebook and Transcripts. (For more information about these features, click here.)

Promotional Overview:

For the first time in an online format, we are offering one of the most popular A&WMA courses ever taught. By combining asynchronous online discussions, and reading and problem sets, this course provides the engineer or scientist working in environmental areas an overview of the basic science and engineering important to all environmental calculations. Taught by the highly rated professional development course instructor, Dr. Tim Keener, this course will include a thorough review of chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, and engineering over a 4-week period.

The practice of environmental science and engineering is strongly rooted in the fundamentals of science and engineering. An individual attempting to plan the remediation of a waste site, or design a piece of air pollution control equipment, needs to know a multitude of information that encompasses physics, chemistry, and engineering.

This material can serve as both a review and a stand-alone course for the study of fundamental concepts in environmental engineering and science.

The format includes explanatory material followed by many solved examples where the explanation of the fundamentals needs an example of practical application. In some cases, the explanatory material stands alone.

Prerequisites:

This course assumes that the reader has some previous knowledge of the subject matter.The material was written for scientists, engineers, or anyone with a desire to learn. Students should have a technical background, including standard college freshman chemistry, physics, and statistics.

Outline:

The course is composed of four modules:

Module 1: Basic Environmental Assessment, Thermodynamics, and Physical Chemistry I

1. Ecology
2. Toxicology
3. Risk Assessment
4. Thermodynamics
5. Gas Laws and Solubility

Module 2: Physical Chemistry II and Basic Review of Organic Chemistry

1. Physical Chemistry II
2. Organic Chemistry

Module 3: Basic Engineering and Statistics

1. Basic Engineering Concepts
2. Probability/Statistical Distributions

Module 4: Review of Air Pollution Control, Drinking Water, Wastewater Treatment, and Hazardous Waste Concepts

1. Air Pollution Control/Air Quality Management
2. Water, Water Quality, and Wastewater Treatment
3. Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal

Participants will have a total of four weeks to cover the material, and all modules will be accessible from the start of the course. There is not a defined schedule to follow, and there are no assignments to complete by certain deadlines. Rather, this is a review course, and students are free to move at their own pace. Participants can jump from topic to topic if desired. In this way, students will be able to focus on those areas where the most review is needed and also skip those areas of current strengths.

Following completion of the modules, participants will complete a final exam.

Objectives:

The objective of the course will be to teach students how to solve problems typically found in environmental engineering and science.

The student should leave the course with renewed sense of knowledge of the fundamental science and engineering associated with environmental remediation and control. Basic science and engineering concepts are presented in a clear, straightforward manner, followed by problems, which are designed to illustrate those concepts. The problems are multi-faceted involving many aspects of the concepts so that the student may cover as much ground as possible in the least amount of time.

Successful completion of the course does not guarantee that an individual will be able to pass the Qualified Environmental Professional (QEP)* or other environmental professional certification exams. Rather, it is a review course to assess areas of weakness that need further study.

*The Institute of Professional Environmental Practice (IPEP) is the independent, not-for-profit certifying organization for the Qualified Environmental Professional (QEP) and the Environmental Professional Intern (EPI) certifications. [Note: This certification body is in compliance with American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) accreditation criteria.]

Audience:

This course is written with the intent of helping those interested in reviewing their science and engineering skills as they relate to environmental problem solving. Those interested in using this material as a refresher before taking certification examinations (e.g., QEP) should find it most helpful.

Instructor: Tim C. Keener, Ph.D., P.E., QEP Professor of Environmental Engineering University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH

Dr. Keener holds a doctorate in environmental engineering, is a registered professional environmental engineer in the State of Ohio, and has been certified by the Institute of Professional Environmental Practice as a Qualified Environmental Professional (QEP). He has published over 100 refereed journal and conference publications on environmentally related subjects and has co-authored 3 books.

Dr. Keener has over twenty years of classroom teaching experience. He has been awarded a Certificate for Outstanding Teaching from the University of Cincinnati and directs the Environmental Training Institute where he is responsible for the creation and delivery of short courses on environmentally related subjects. He has been teaching the GEN-100 course for A&WMA since 1996.

Dr. Keener's educational background includes:The University of Tennessee, Mechanical Engineering, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1975; The University of Tennessee, Civil Engineering, M.S. in Environmental Engineering, 1977; The University of Tennessee, Civil Engineering, Ph.D. in Civil (Environmental) Engineering, 1982.

System Requirements:

• There are no computer hardware requirements.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or better, or Netscape 4.7 or better, is required. You can check your browser version by pulling down the "Help" menu on your menu bar and clicking on "About...". To download the most recent version of either browser, click Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator/Communicator.
• The browser must be configured to accept cookies.
• Your browser should be set to enable JavaScript. In Netscape, this is typically accomplished by pulling down the "Edit" menu, clicking on "Preferences", then selecting "advanced", and checking the "Enable JavaScript" check box.
• Recommend: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat Reader

Additional Resources:

A&WMA offers a variety of publications available for purchase in the Online Library to help professionals prepare for the QEP certification exam. Click on the link to "QEP Materials" in the left-hand toolbar. The Environmental Practices Review Study Guide provides a more hands-on approach to studying for the QEP exam and gives sample questions and answers.

Course Demo:

To view a course demo, click here.

Course Offerings:

• February 12 - March 11, 2007 (GEN-100E-23)
• August 27 - September 23, 2007 (GEN-100E-24)
• October 1 - October 28, 2007 (GEN-100E-25)

Registration Fees:

Please review the System Requirements (above) and the Registration Information before enrolling in an online course.

Four-Week Online Course: $390 Members, $555 Nonmembers