This course is organized with the following chapters: introduction of environmental engineering; chemistry; biology; materials and energy balances; ecosystems; risk perception, assessment and management; hydrology; water characteristics involving physical, chemical and biological aspects; water quality analysis including principles and methods involved in natural water quality process; physical and chemical modeling for water environmental processes involving chemical equilibrium, reaction kinetics, and reactor principles.

CILO-1: Identify the environmental issues in human’s survival and development, and describe the scientific reasons for the causes and potential engineering approaches to solve them. [POs: a,e, f and h] CILO-2: Apply techniques of analytic chemistry to analyze water qualities of specific natural waters. [POs: a,b,e] CILO-3: Utilize general knowledge of biology and the theory and application of environmental engineering in ecosystems. [POs: a,f,h] CILO-4: Describe the importance of material and energy balance in an system, master the relative calculative applications of mass balance. [POs: a,e] CILO-5: Realize the process of risk assessment and risk analysis process of human health which is affected by exposure of carcinogens. [POs: a,h]