MEE 6501, Advanced Air Quality Control

Course Description Explores an in-depth study of advanced air quality control science and management practices. Addresses health effects, environmental impacts, monitoring, modeling, and treatment.

1. Describe methods for monitoring air pollution. 2. Critique air pollutant modeling equations and/or software. 3. Assess health effects of air pollution. 4. Examine causes of indoor and outdoor air pollution. 5. Evaluate health risks of air pollution exposure. 6. Estimate the impact of air pollution on the environment. 7. Evaluate air pollution control technologies.

Credits Upon completion of this course, the students will earn three (3) hours of college credit.

1. Study Guide: Each unit contains a Study Guide that provides students with the learning outcomes, unit lesson, required reading assignments, and supplemental resources.

2. Learning Outcomes: Each unit contains Learning Outcomes that specify the measurable skills and knowledge students should gain upon completion of the unit.

3. Unit Lesson: Each unit contains a Unit Lesson, which discusses lesson material. 4. Reading Assignments: Each unit contains Reading Assignments from one or more chapters from the textbook

and/or outside resources. 5. Suggested Reading: A Suggested Reading is listed in Unit II. Students are encouraged to read the resource

listed if the opportunity arises, but they will not be tested on their knowledge of the Suggested Reading. 6. Discussion Boards: Discussion Boards are part of all CSU term courses. More information and specifications

can be found in the Student Resources link listed in the Course Menu bar. 7. Unit Assessments: This course contains four Unit Assessments, one to be completed at the end of Units I, III, V,

and VII. Assessments are composed of written-response questions. 8. Unit Assignments: Students are required to submit for grading Unit Assignments in Units II-VIII. Specific

information and instructions regarding these assignments are provided below. Grading rubrics are included with each assignment. Specific information about accessing these rubrics is provided below.

9. Ask the Professor: This communication forum provides you with an opportunity to ask your professor general or course content related questions.

10. Student Break Room: This communication forum allows for casual conversation with your classmates.

MEE 6501, Advanced Air Quality Control Course Syllabus

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Unit Assignments Unit II Mini Project Over the course of these remaining seven units, we will be developing a course project. We will do a single section of the course project in every unit, completing one section of the course project in each unit, and then adding the subsequent work in the following unit. This unit work will be in the form of mini projects, and in Unit VIII, you will submit the entire project. Throughout the course, your instructor will provide you with feedback on every unit you submit; therefore, it is important to implement the feedback you receive in the upcoming unit(s). You will be required to integrate an online resource in your final submission. The Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Reference Center is a good online database for this course project. Our course project will be to develop a document titled A Permit By Rule (PBR) Application for an Interior Surface Coating Facility that will serve as a simulation of our work as a contract environmental engineer to a small vehicle body shop located in the state of Texas. The Scenario: You have been contracted with a vehicle body repair shop named Texas Car Body Repairs, USA to engineer and write a state (Texas) air permit application for a carefully designed interior lining (painting) facility. According to Texas state laws and EPA laws, the facility must have an air permit before construction begins. Once the facility is completed, the construction air permit will then become the operational air permit for the facility. As a result, your client wants the air permit application to automatically align the interior surface coating facility into operational compliance with state and federal air quality laws. Consequently, it is extremely important for you to write the air permit application to meet the air permit criteria using the state guidance document and considering the equipment and chemicals already planned for the facility operations. Your client has presented you with the following specifications regarding the facility operations plan:

Interior Liner Coating Material