Master of Science in Technology

• Course Description and Objectives: This course provides an in depth examination of federal, state, and local regulations involving hazardous materials and wastes. It includes an overview of legislative history and trends, industry's role in regulatory development, and the impact of environmental legislation. The course is taught by attorneys specializing in the practice of environmental law.
  Performance Objectives: Successful completion of this course will provide students with an understanding of: Environmental legal developments Clean water legislation Clean air legislation Hazardous waste legislation Hazard Communication Act Aquifer protection Toxic torts

• Course Description and Objectives: This course focuses on the toxic effects on human health from exposure to chemicals in the workplace or the environment. It introduces the student to the concepts of measuring toxic effects, dose-response relationships, exposure routes, the molecular basis for action, target organs, epidemiology, and risk assessment. Specific industrial, agricultural, and household chemicals are examined. Appropriate safety and health measures to reduce exposure are emphasized.
  Performance Objectives: Successful completion of this course will provide students with an understanding of: An understanding of dose-response relationships and population variations Routes of exposure and mechanisms for the adsorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of toxins An understanding of the adverse effects of toxins on major organ systems An understanding of the molecular basis for action of specific industrial and agricultural chemicals An overview of the use of risk assessment and epidemiology in determining regulatory levels Exposure to the primary literature and development of a case study focusing on the current state of knowledge about a specific industrial chemical or pesticide.

• Course Description and Objectives: This course applies principles from inorganic, organic and physical chemistry to the proper handling and disposal of hazardous chemicals. Topics to be covered include corrosives, oxidizers, flammables, explosives, acids and bases, heavy metals, solvents, polymers and decomposition products, and water reactive compounds. The toxicology of specific compounds and appropriate personal protective equipment will be discussed as will DOT and OSHA regulations pertaining to hazardous chemicals.
  Performance Objectives: Successful completion of this course will provide students with an understanding of: reactions and incompatibilities of hazardous chemicals appropriate procedures for handling, transportation, and disposal of hazardous substances procedures for protecting human health and the environment from hazardous chemicals.

• Course Description and Objectives: An overview of industrial health hazards, including methods of recognition, evaluation and control. Occupational health standards are presented in detail and toxicological responses to hazardous chemicals in the workplace and indoor air are discussed.
  Performance Objectives: Successful completion of this course will provide students with an understanding of: History and definitions in the field Review of chemistry, anatomy and physiology Industrial toxicology Regulations and standards Chemical hazards Sampling and monitoring Control measures Personal protective equipment Physical hazards, noise and temperature.

• Course Description and Objectives: This course provides an overview of the current legal requirements to control air emissions from both stationary and mobile sources. In addition the nature and toxicology of various air pollutants and the chemistry of smog formation are discussed. Control devices for categorical air pollutants, hazardous air pollutants, and indoor air pollutants are examined. Finally, strategies for reducing air emissions by use of technical, economic, and political means are considered.
  Performance Objectives: Successful completion of this course will provide students with an understanding of: Identification and sources of air pollutants History of air pollution legislation Clean Air Act and Amendments Acid rain Stratospheric ozone depletion Global warming Photochemical smog Industrial control technologies Indoor air pollution.

• Course Description and Objectives: This course examines the factors that govern the movement of dissolved and non-aqueous phase contaminants through saturated and vadose zones of soils and in groundwater. Conventional and innovative remediation technologies are discussed. Investigative techniques, regulatory requirements, monitoring, and risk assessment methodologies will be addressed.
  Performance Objectives: Successful completion of this course will provide students with an understanding of: an understanding of how such properties as solubility, volatility, mobility, and biotic and abiotic degradation vary with the nature of the contaminant an understanding of the chemical and physical nature of soils as they affects contaminant movement an understanding of basic groundwater hydrology and contaminant plume movement an understanding of conventional and innovative remediation techniques an understanding of techniques for soil and groundwater sampling and monitoring an understanding of regulatory issues affecting soils and groundwater.

ETM 598 Environmental Health

• This course will explore the reasons for longevity and discuss strategies for extending human life. Topics covered will include: environmental epidemiology; zoonotic and vector-borne diseases; food-borne and water-borne diseases; air pollution related diseases; and diseases associated with toxic metals, elements, pesticides and other chemicals; food protection; institutional health and safety; control of insect and rodents; swimming pool sanitation; healthy homes; pandemic influenza and health effects of climate change.