Academics and Research
Research
Green Roof Project
On April 11, UT Arlington installed its first Green Roof, which included roofing systems, irrigation, plant materials and about 30,000 pounds of soil. If you’re interested in more information, contact co-chair of UT Arlington’s Green Roof Committee Amanda Popken.
Connect with UT Arlington Expertise
Many individual faculty members conduct environmentally-related research. Find them in UT Arlington’s unique one-stop experts site. Search Experts >
Center for Renewable Energy Science and Technology
CREST coordinates research, development, and technology transfer in the area of renewable energy at The University of Texas at Arlington. More >
Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center (TMAC)
Located at the Automation & Robotics Research Institute of UT Arlington, TMAC collaborates with manufacturers to improve their competitiveness and sustainability by identifying opportunities and implementing appropriate solutions in processes, operations, global competitiveness, and workforce development. More >
The Ecology Group
The Ecology Group highlights research and related activities by ecologists in the Biology Department.
Zero Waste Network
The Zero Waste Network, a part of UT Arlington’s Center for Environmental Excellence in the Division for Enterprise Development, collaborates with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop cost-effective methods to conserve natural resources.
Courses and Programs
ARCH 3331. SUSTAINABILITY (3-0) An overview of sustainable design integrated with natural resource conservation. Prerequisite: junior standing in Architecture or consent of department.
CIRP5333 – PROJECT PLANNING (0-9)
Skills, practical experience, problem-solving methods and techniques in mapping, design, planning and research projects. Studio and seminar for field studies in the practical application of city and regional planning. This course is designed to provide experience working under contract with a “real world” client. It should be taken in the second half of the student’s program of study; exceptions may be made for those with unique backgrounds. May be repeated as topic changes.
CIRP 5333 – Carbon Footprint Analysis
Dr. Jeff Howard
CIRP5341 – ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS: LAWS AND PLANNING (3-0) Federal, state, and local environmental regulations which have effect on the practice of city and regional planning. Specific articles, laws, and directives contrasted and compared to local city design and development controls. Subjects include CERCLA, RCRA, SARA, TSCA, OSH Act, among others.
CIRP5342 – ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (3-0) Focuses on the physical environmental dimensions of urbanization including such factors as pollution, waste disposal, and land use; stresses the role of economic, social, and political institutions as these affect environmental quality of the city. Offered as CIRP 5342 and URPA 5317; credit will be granted only once.
CIRP5343 – FOUNDATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (3-0)
Explores how environmental controversy is rooted in conflict between a number of schools of environmental policy thought with divergent perspectives on issues such as how to define progress, how to balance the needs of economy and ecosystem, how to cope with environmental complexity, and what role science should play in environment affairs. Also offered as URPA 5365; credit will be granted only once.
CIRP5347. URBAN PROBLEMS (3-0) Specific urban problems examined in depth, traced to their historical origins to see how they or similar problems have been dealt with in other times and places. Students will then propose possible solutions to the problems in their contemporary form. Offered as CIRP 5347 and URPA 5319.
- CIRP 5347. Chemical contamination of communities
Dr. Jeff Howard
CIRP5350. ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING (3 – 0) Overview of environmental planning issues and problems, including basic ecological principles; development and effects of the chemical industry; policies on international issues; environmental justice and ethics; environmental economics, including externalities and public goods; sustainable development; overviews of planning for air quality, water quality, solid waste, pollution prevention, habitat conservation, etc.; and plan implementation, including enforcement, regulation and funding.
CIRP5351. TECHNIQUES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT (3 – 0) Analysis of impact assessment documents from a variety of projects; study of federal laws and regulations governing the process; state impact assessment laws and regulations; and procedures used in other nations. Students will prepare an environmental assessment for a real-world project. Overviews of environmental site assessment, MIS documents, and environmental auditing will also be given.
CIRP5353. ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (3 – 0) This seminar examines the role of environmental law within the political-institutional framework of the American system. Emphasis is on the legal-judicial aspects of environmental regulation. Analyzes the decision of U.S. courts as these affect and interpret environmental laws and regulations for their legality and constitutionality.
URPA 5317. ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (See CIRP 5342)
URPA 5365. FOUNDATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (See CIRP 5343)
CIRP5305. LAND USE, MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (3 – 0)
Assesses land use, management and development and considers new directions. Relates comprehensive planning, environmental management, and land use.
BIOL 3347. ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY (3-0) Examines major environmental problems that affect biological systems with an emphasis on problem solving. Prerequisite: BIOL 1441, 1442, 2343, 3315 or permission of instructor.
BIOL 4354. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH (3-0) Basics of the broad range of health considerations at the core of environmental projects and regulation. The course will provide the knowledge required for students to successfully complete the Texas Registered Sanitarian Examination or the Environmental Health Association’s Registered Environmental Health Specialist Examination. Prerequisite: BIOL 1441, 1442; CHEM 1301, 1302; PHYS 1441 or permission of the environmental biology option advisor.
ANTH 3369. MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (3-0) Medical systems studied cross-culturally to understand how environmental, biological, social, and cultural factors affect disease and health. The cultural dynamics of traditional practitioners and rituals within the health care system. Methods of articulating modern medicine with traditional medicine are discussed.
ANTH 3325. ETHNOGRAPHY OF SOUTH AMERICA (3-0) The indigenous groups of South America, with emphasis on the Aymara and Quechua of the Andes. Topics include culture change, environmental destruction, and preservation of cultural heritage.
ENGL 1301. EXPOSITORY WRITING AND THE ENVIRONMENT The goal of the course—in addition to developing critical reading, writing, and thinking skills—is to challenge students’ conceptions of the environment, encourage them to consider how they are always interacting with the environment, and the importance of these interactions in a world faced with depleting resources that require increasing programs that promote sustainability.
Justin Lerberg, College of Liberal Arts
ENGL 2303. TOPICS IN LITERATURE (3-0) May include topics in film and literature, women in literature, short story, and autobiography. May be repeated for credit when content changes.
ENGL 2303. LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT This courses will discuss the relation between literature and environment, investigating the many representations of environment, nature, and animals, in literature, film, theory, and popular culture texts.
ENGL 3300. SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE (3-0) May include topics on Utopian literature, the American short story, Southwestern American literature, and modern British fiction. May be repeated for credit when content changes.
ENGL 3300 – Nature and Environment in American Literature
Dr. Stacy Alaimo, College of Liberal Arts
ENGL 3347. TOPICS IN MULTICULTURAL LITERATURES (3-0) Either an intensive focus within one tradition or a comparison between two or more traditions. Topics may include Asian-American literature, the American Indian novel, the Harlem Renaissance, Jewish-American literature, Mexican-American and American Indian literatures, classic American Renaissance literature and African American literature.
ENGL 3347. POWER AND PLACE
Dr. Stacy Alaimo, College of Liberal Arts
ENGL 4336. SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3-0) Important themes, movements, regions, genres, or cross-cultural relationships. May be repeated for credit when course content changes.
ENGL 4336. NATURE IN FILM AND THEORY
Dr. Stacy Alaimo, College of Liberal Arts
ENGL 6339. TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (3 – 0)
Themes or issues not bound by particular historical periods, for example, women writers, canon formation, American Indian literature, African-American literature, utopian literature, cultural studies. May be repeated when content changes.
- English 6339. ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE AND THEORY
- English 6339. NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN FILM AND THEORY
- English 6339. TELLING MATTER: Writing Bodies, Nature, and Science
- English 6339. THE POSTHUMAN: Human/Animal/Environment
- English 6339. NATURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
GEOG 3355. ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (see HIST 3355)
GEOL 2411. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES (3-1) Global environmental challenges confronting humanity such as pollution, depletion of natural resources, ecosystem deterioration, food production and population growth. Prerequisite: GEOL 1425.
HIST 3355. ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (3-0) People and the natural environment from the colonial period to the present. Ecological change, conservation movements, and artistic and literary interpretations of landscape and nature. Also listed as GEOG 3355; credit will be granted only once.
HIST 5304. COLLOQUIUM IN REGIONAL /TOPICAL U.S. HISTORY (3-0) An examination of the historical literature and issues pertaining to a region or a major topic in the history of the U.S. The specific literature and issues examined will vary with the instructor.
HIST 5304. ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY This course will explore the young field of environmental history, as it is practiced in and applied to the United States. The class will consider theoretical and conceptual matters as well as what environmental history has to offer “traditional” history.
Dr. Christopher Morris, College of Liberal Arts
ECON 4302. ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS (3-0) Economic forces that influence the quality of the environment; economic theory and environmental management; regulatory requirements for economic impact analysis; international issues including trade and implications for Third World economies. Prerequisite: ECON 2306.
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
CE 3334. PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (3-0) Physical, chemical, and biological unit operations and processes in an air, water, and land environment. Prerequisite: CHEM 1442; CE 3305 or consent of instructor.
CE 4350. AIR POLLUTION (3-0) An introduction to the air pollution field which encompasses a wide range of topics, including: atmosphere and ideal gas law; pollutant types, sources, effects; Clean Air Act; gas flow measurement; air pollutant measurement; air pollution meteorology and dispersion modeling; air pollution control. Prerequisite: CE 3334.
CE 4356. DESIGN OF MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS (3-0) Sources of water supply, water demand, treatment processes, and combinations. Design of intake, raw water pumps, design of treatment facilities, and distribution system. Prerequisite: CE 3334.
CE 4357. DESIGN OF MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS (3-0) Characteristics of municipal wastewater, design of sanitary and storm sewers, pumping stations, and wastewater treatment processes. Process train and treatment plant layout, hydraulic profile, instrumentation and controls, and upgrading of secondary treatment plants. Prerequisite: CE 3334.
CE5316. WATER SUPPLY AND TREATMENT PLANT DESIGN (3 – 0) Theory and design of community water supply systems. Design of treatment facilities, equipment selection and distribution network, and cost estimates. Credit not granted for both CE 4356 and 5316. Prerequisite: CE 3131 and 3334, or consent of instructor.
CE5317. WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT DESIGN (3 – 0) Effluent quality standards, and theory and design of wastewater treatment plants. Design and layout of wastewater treatment systems using manufacturers’ catalogs, and cost estimates. Credit not granted for both CE 4357 and 5317. Prerequisite: CE 3131 and 3334, or consent of instructor.
CE5318. PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL PROCESSES I (3 – 0) Principles of unit process modeling using reactor and kinetic theory, and theory and design of mixing, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, gas transfer, adsorption, ion exchange, and disinfection. Prerequisite: CE 3131 and 3334, or consent of instructor.
CE5319. PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL PROCESSES II (3 – 0) Principles of water chemistry applied to the theory and design of unit processes including coagulation, precipitation, corrosion, oxidation-reduction, and membrane processes. Prerequisite: CE 3131 and 3334, or consent of instructor.
CE5320. SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT (3 – 0) Technical aspects of current practices and new developments in the management of solid waste facilities. Theory and design of solid waste collection, transfer, disposal and recovery, and reuse systems. Prerequisite: CE 3131 and 3334, or consent of instructor.
CE5321. ENGINEERING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS (3 – 0) Fundamental principles of engineering science applicable to the comprehension and design of engineered environmental systems. Includes water and air quality indices; kinetic and reactor theory; mass and energy balances; fluid system theory; and applications of physical, chemical and biological processes in the design of engineered environmental systems. May not be used to satisfy any of the requirements for a graduate degree in Civil Engineering. Prerequisite: PHYS 1441, CHEM 1442, MATH 2425.
CE5322. AIR POLLUTION CHEMISTRY AND METEOROLOGY (3 – 0) Designed to give students an understanding of how pollutants react and travel in the atmosphere. Topics include: chemistry of ground-level ozone formation, ozone layer depletion, acid deposition, fine particle formation, and climate change; meteorological variables impacting pollutant concentrations in the atmosphere, such as atmospheric stability, turbulence, and wind speed. Prerequisite: CE 5328.
CE5323. AIR QUALITY MODELING (3 – 0) Mathematical models for predicting air pollutant transport and transformation in the atmosphere, to evaluate health impacts and potential control strategies. The course covers four types of air quality models: box models, photochemical grid models, Gaussian dispersion models (major emphasis), and receptor models. Prerequisite: CE 5328.
CE5324. TRANSPORTATION AND AIR QUALITY (3 – 0) Generation of pollutants in gasoline and diesel engines. Emission estimation via measurement and modeling (MOBILE 6). Prediction of pollutant concentrations near roadways. Vehicle emission control using alternative engine design, alternate fuels, add-on technology. Travel demand management and transportation control measures for emission reduction.
CE5325. BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES (3 – 0) Biological processes used in water quality control. Includes principles from microbiology and biochemistry applied to suspended and attached growth systems. Prerequisite: CE 5318.
CE5327. AIR POLLUTION CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN (3 – 0) Design of air pollution control systems for stationary sources, including incinerators, adsorption systems, absorption systems, biofilters, cyclones, electrostatic precipitators, fabric filters, and wet scrubbers. Prerequisite: CE 5328.
CE5328. FUNDAMENTALS OF AIR POLLUTION (3 – 0) An introduction to the air pollution field including: atmosphere and ideal gas law; pollutant types, sources, effects; Clean Air Act; air pollution measurement; overviews of air pollution meteorology, dispersion modeling, air pollution control, and mobile sources; international air pollution; and indoor air quality. Credit not granted for both CE 5328 and 4350. Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in CE 3334 or CE 5321 or consent of instructor.
CE5329. ENVIRONMENTAL RISK BASED CORRECTIVE ACTION (3 – 0) Process for the assessment and response to contamination; integrating risk and exposure practices to ensure protection of human health and environment. Includes characterization, EPA tier approach, general aspects of toxicology, dose exposure, pathways, receptors, migration and risk assessment. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
CE5355. ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING (3 – 0) Overview of environmental law and regulations and permit development critical to design and construction, such as Stormwater Pollution Prevention and Planning, Environmental Impact (Statements, Assessments and Exclusion), Nationwide Permits, USA COE Permits and related screening models. Credit not granted for both CE 5355 and 4333. Prerequisite: CE 3334 and 4331 or consent of instructor.
CE6323. HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT (3 – 0) Sources, chemistry, monitoring, and classifications of hazardous wastes. Discussion of environmental hazards, legal aspects, transportation, detoxification, storage, and disposal and incineration. Prerequisite: CE 5325, or consent of instructor.
CE6324. INDUSTRIAL AND HAZARDOUS WASTES (3 – 0) Industrial classification and profile, waste characterization, industrial waste survey and sewer plan, sampling and data analysis, hazardous and priority chemicals and their impact, waste minimization, pretreatment regulations, specialized physical, chemical, and biological waste treatment processes, specific industries and applicable waste treatment process train, combined industrial and municipal waste treatment. Prerequisite: CE 5325 or consent of instructor.
CE6329. ADVANCED ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING CONTROL PROCESSES (2 – 3) Standard laboratory techniques for unit operations and processes in environmental engineering. Advanced environmental engineering theories and practices, research topics, and methods. Prerequisite: CE 5325 or consent of instructor.
