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Hydrologic proccesses, precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, stream flow, hydrograph analysis, flood routing, urban hydrology, statistical concepts and stochastic hydrology, hydrologic design.

Principles of water chemistry: chemical equilibrium; acid-base reactions; oxidation- reduction reaction; colloidal system; chemical precipitation. Basic concepts from Water Microbiology: microbial growth; aquatic food chains; indicator organisms. Water and Wastewater analysis. Water quality standards. Fundamentals of process kinetics: reaction; catalysis, materials balance, biological kinetics.

Theory and application of biological treatment methods, microbiological fundamentals, process kinetics and reactor design, suspended and attached growth systems, aerobic and anaerobic processes, oxygen transfer, soil systems, sludge processing. Laboratory assignments and design projects for selected unit processes.

Reactor dynamics and mass transport processes; theory and design of treatment systems for phase and species transformation processes, particulate separation processes, and solute separation processes; laboratory assignments and design projects for selected unit processes.

Solid waste generation, handling, storage, collection, transfer and transport, processing techniques and ultimate disposal. Engineering systems for materials and energy recovery. Administration of solid waste systems.

Examination of alternative choices for the management of environmental problems. Ecological systems, natural processes, data analysis. Legal, economic and planning techniques. Decision making, measurements of benefits and costs, normative evaluation techniques, environmental risk analysis. Preparation of environmental impact statements. Lectures and seminars are presented by staff, visiting speakers and students and case studies are discussed.

Comprehensive overview of transport and fate of pollutants in natural surface waters. An introduction to modeling fundamentals along with in-depth descriptions of how a variety of pollutants move and react within a variety of water bodies. A coverage of advanced modeling topics such as protozoan pollution and sediment processes.

An upper division of graduate technical elective treating topics in Engineering mostly not covered in other courses, chosen at the discretion of the Graduate Program Committee.

Introduction to construction management concept, analytical techniques for bringing a project to completion within budget, on time and according to the specifications, including study of cost engineering and control, schedule and resource control, procurement and quality control.

Seminar dealing with the problems of working and communicating with individuals and groups.

A survey of classical and modern organization theory; concepts and functions of management, the behavior of the individual, the work group, and the organization, all linked to construction problems.

Introduction to cost estimating, cost budgeting, cost accounts, CPM cost loading, cost controlling, cost forecasting, and cost accounting of construction and engineering projects. The course also covers feasibility studies, level of influence, cost engineering, cost optimization, cash-flow analysis, cost-schedule compression, and life cycle costing.

Business and management aspects of construction: Kuwait industry profile, company organization, contracting methods, bonding and insurance, subcontracts, cash flow, and markup.

Procedures for deciding under uncertainty. Fundamentals of the expected-utility rule with personal subjective probabilities. Current applications of decision analysis. Analysis of problems using decision trees that include risk and time preference. Determination of the economic value of perfect and imperfect information on one or several variables in a decision problem.

Database management systems. Objective-oriented programming. Expert systems and artificial intelligence. Decision support systems.