Middle East Technical University
Graduate Classes
Environmental Biotechnology (ENVE 532) This class teaches about advanced biological reactors, enzyme reactors, treatment with immobilized cells and enzymes, biodegradation of unusual compounds and tests for biodegradability, effect of metals on biological kinetics, biological recycling of mineral wastes and residues, thermophilic microorganisms, and their application to waste treatment.

Advanced Biological Treatment (ENVE 535) This class reviews biological treatment processes and the new advances in the field. Mechanism, kinetics, and microbiology of nutrient removing activated sludge is modelled via IAWQ taskgroup models for nutrient removing active sludge. Calibration techniques for the Task group models and hands-on practice with SSSP and ASIM computer models is the core of the individual term project for this course. Microbiology of bulking and population dynamics of activated sludge in sequencing batch, GAC and PAC activated sludge are some of the topics that have been covered in the course.

Undergraduate Classes
Environmental Toxicology (ENVE 491) This is a technical elective class. Topics of this class include cultural, economic, and policy context of environmental toxicology, major historical toxicological events, occurrence, exposure, modes of toxic action, target factors, biotransformation, dose-response and toxicity testing.

Students learn about Quantitative toxicology and quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR) and defense responses. Classes of toxicants and major examples are also reviewed in the class including mutagens, endocrine disruption.

Environmental Engineering Design-1 (ENVE 407) This is a project-based class required for graduation of the program. Concepts in engineering design, engineering ethics, principles of project management, environmental legal infrastructure, treatment plant processes, plant hydraulics and sludge handling, application of environmental engineering principles on open ended design problem software application in process selection and design are the topics of the class.

Environmental Engineering Design-2 (ENVE 408) This is a project-based class required for graduation of the program. It’s a continuation of ENVE 407. The topics include tender management, safety and economic considerations in engineering design, cost analysis and project evaluation, detailed design applicable to the problem, completion of a design project in teams with a final report and presentation.

Transport Processes in Environmental Engineering (ENVE 322)
This is a must course that explains reactive and nonreactive environmental processes. It includes the topics explaining mass transport processes in environmental media - air, water and soil, heat transport, mass transfer and transformation processes. The course includes development of governing equations for combinations of transport, transfer and transformation processes in environmental systems. Computational aspects of environmental mass and heat transport processes are also covered during the class.

Water Supply and Urban Drainage (ENVE 312) The class focuses on water and sewage management. The topics of the class include sources of water, population estimation, water demand/use and wastewater generation, water transmission, water distribution components, pumps and design of water distribution systems, components and characteristics of sewage, sewer appurtenances and special structures, design principles of sanitary, storm and combined sewers, hydraulics and design of sewers and stormwater management.

Florida University
General Chemistry (CHM 1045) The aim of this class is to give the students an enhanced level of understanding of moderately complex chemical phenomena. The lecture shall cover, in an interactive way, the use of chemical symbols, formulas and equations; the states of matter; electronic structure, chemical bonding, gas laws, and thermo-chemistry. In addition the class includes an analysis of the differences between precipitation, neutralization and oxidation-reduction reactions and the students will learn how to use the solubility rules for the prediction of precipitation reactions and the rules for the determination of oxidation states of elements present in a chemical compound.

General Chemistry Laboratory (CHM 1045L) Topics include the application to chemical analysis of stoichiometric calculations, determination of atomic spectra, qualitative and quantitative evaluation of chemical reactions (neutralization, redox and acid-base reactions), limiting reactant and molecular geometry. The course aims to teach students the basic skills and techniques of a general chemistry laboratory, as well as to bring the necessary elements to understand how to work under safe and quality assured working practices. The class uses either or on bench or online application tools for the experiments.

General Chemistry 2 (CHM 1046) This course is designed for higher chemistry education assuming that students did understand the concepts explained in Chemistry I. The course requires students to build up their learning cumulatively. The course will review chemical theories related to the chemical bonds, the concepts of intermolecular forces of liquids and solids, the properties of solutions, the kinetics of chemistry, the chemical equilibriums including acid-base and aqueous ionic equilibrium, free energy of thermodynamics, electrochemistry, radioactivity and nuclear chemistry.

General Chemistry 2 Laboratory (CHM 1046L) This course gives a chance to students to do more advanced experiments than covered in previous classes. Topics include chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, intermolecular forces, gas law, titration chemistry, spectrophotometry, cation and anion analysis, entropy and electrochemistry.

Chemistry for Liberal Studies (CHM 1020) This course presents an overview of modern chemistry with emphasis on basic concepts that could be applied to the general understanding of the process that govern our daily lives. Interactive workshops and daily-based examples are the basis of this course learning methodologies. Both methods aim to help the student learn how to think about matter from the perspectives of in-class analysis and discussions of actual societal topics.

Chemistry for Liberal Studies Laboratory (CHM 1020L) This class introduces basic tools in a chemical laboratory. Topics include quantitative observations, and analysis of the physical and chemical properties of matter as well as physical and chemical separation of mixtures. The course aims to teach how scientific information can be collected and validated via application of appropriate laboratory practices.

Technical University of Panama
Graduate classes:
Regression and Experimental Analysis
This is a class provided in the only ABET accredited master’s program of Mechanical Engineering. Topics include fundamentals of the techniques most frequently used in experimental sciences, regression and experimental design, regression and simple correlation, verifying assumptions, matrix notation, statistical tests, multivariate analysis, criteria for grouping data, hierarchical cluster analysis, ligation strategies, linear models with categorical variables, levels of a factor, test square means, global F test, posteriori criteria: t test or other, validation of model assumptions, variable transformation, utilization for orthogonal polynomials trend analysis when the level has quantitative factors and factorial experiments.

Instrumental Analysis This is a class provided in the only ABET accredited master’s program of Mechanical Engineering. The topics of this class include basics of metrology, statistical methods for analysis, analog electronics, elementary circuit analysis, signal modification by filters, operational amplifiers, digital electronics, sampling, Alias. DAC. ADC, spectrometry including UV/Visible spectrometry, luminescence spectrometry such as fluorescence and phosphorescence, infrared spectrometry, Raman spectrometry, mass spectrometry and X-ray spectrometry. The theory of molecular analytes, mass analyzers, and detectors are also a part of the class.

Georgia Institute of Technology (as guest lecturer)
Graduate classes:
Biotransformation of Xenobiotic Chemicals (CEE 6351) The course topics include biotransformation pathways and kinetics of anthropogenic recalcitrant compounds and biological, biochemical, and environmental factors affecting these transformations in natural and engineered systems.

Undergraduate classes:
Environmental Engineering Principles (CEE 2300)The course topics include introduction to chemical, biological, and physical processes in the environment. Discussion of the basic processes governing air, water, and land quality, and the behavior and impacts of contaminants associated with human and industrial activities.