Course Description
This course introduces the concepts and practice of ecological engineering, including characteristics, classification, and modeling of ecosystems; ecosystem protection; and sustainable uses of ecosystems to meet the needs of human societies.
Course Objectives
Students completing this course will be able to understand, articulate, and recognize key ecosystem characteristics and ecological concepts, human interactions with ecosystems, ecological engineering approaches and perspectives and other ecological engineering issues. Specific student learing objectives are as follows:
- Describe, distinguish, apply and analyze important physical, chemical, and biological processes that can positively or negatively affect ecosystem integrity;
- Explain, use, and illustrate mass balances, water balances, energy balances, and chemical balances as tools to help understand and describe ecosystem functions;
- Understand, implement, differentiate, and compare concepts involved in designing and achieving sustainable uses of ecosystems, such as treatment wetlands, land treatment systems, and stormwater management;
- Analyze and illustrate the impact that designing ecosystems to solve engineering problems has in the context of societal and global issues;
- Comprehend, relate, and demonstrate key principles and practices of indusrial ecology and of sustainable business and manufacturing activities; and
- Identify and describe the contemporary issues and emerging fields in which ecological engineers will be called upon to use their expertise.
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