Course Syllabus
Course:
ENVE 615 Environmental
Chemistry
Thursday
Instructor:
Dr. Michael Robinson, P.E.
205C Gullickson Hall (
robinsonm@marshall.edu phone 304.696.6049 fax 304.696.5454
Text:
Water Chemistry
References:
Aquatic Chemistry by Werner Stumm and James Morgan, Wiley Interscience
Aquatic Chemistry Concepts by James Pankow, Lewis Publishers
Environmental Organic
Chemistry by Renč Schwarzenbach et
al., Wiley Interscience
Course Description:
Fundamental principles of aquatic chemistry including chemical kinetics and
equilibrium, acid base reactions, oxidation reduction reactions, coordination
chemistry, and precipitation reactions.
Course Prerequisites:
Undergraduate degree in engineering or physical science.
Course Website:
A course website will be available at http://webpages.marshall.edu/~robinsonm.
Students will be notified when material is available on the website.
Grade Policy:
Class grade is based on two exams (mid-term and final), out-of-class
assignments, and in-class participation.
Grade is calculated using the following
percentages: Exams
– 70 % ( 35 %
each exam)
Out-of-class assignments – 25 %
In-class participation – 5 %
A:
90 or greater
B:
80 to 89 %
C:
70 to 79 %
D:
60 to 69 %
Class assignments, examinations, and participation:
Students must read all assigned material before class and be prepared to
participate in class discussions. Certain material assigned as required reading
may not be covered in the lecture. Students are encouraged to review the
current literature and bring relevant material to class for discussion.
Homework must be completed in a professional manner and
submitted within the assigned deadline (at the beginning of class). A 10 %
penalty will be subtracted from all homework submitted late. Homework will not
be accepted after solutions sets are posted. Late homework will accepted for
full credit only with prior approval of instructor and valid justification.
Students are encouraged to interact with each other to better understand the
homework problems, however, each student must submit their own work.
Homework problems may be solved using mathematical software
(MathCAD, MATLAB, Excel) but sufficient notation (comments and equations) must
be provided to permit evaluation of the work.
Exams will be a combination on in-class and take-home
questions. Students are to work completely independent of other students on
take-home exams. Exams missed due to a scheduled absence will be rescheduled.
Exams missed due to an unscheduled absence will be rescheduled at the option of
the instructor.
Attendance Policy:
Attendance is required and strongly recommended, as each student is responsible
for all material discussed in class. Please notify instructor in advance, if
possible, of any known class absences. Students are encouraged to bring
textbook to all classes as figures, diagrams and example problems in the text
will be referenced frequently during lectures.
Academic Dishonesty:
Issues of academic dishonesty will be handled as specified in the Graduate
Catalog.
Video link Procedures:
The lecture will originate from alternate sites every week.
If during the lecture the video link between the two campuses is lost the
lecture will be stopped for 20 minutes. If after 20 minutes the connection is
not reestablished I will continue the lecture and provide a videotape of the
lecture to the students at the remote site. Students at the remote site may
leave after the 20 minutes. If the connection is lost within the last 30
minutes of class I will end the class at that time.
Course Calendar/Schedule:
A course schedule will be developed after several weeks of class based on class
progress on the material covered to data..