52 courses with the subject ERE, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
One hour of lecture and discussion per week. Introduction to the Environmental Resources Engineering (ERE) Department and campus resources available to ensure academic success for ERE majors. Introduction to engineering science and design as a profession through assignments, presentations, and discussion. Fall.
Two hours of lecture and three hours of group instruction per week. An introduction to the engineering profession, including design, communication, ethical and professional behavior, teamwork and data analysis. Learning is reinforced through study, conduct and critique of design exercises related to environmental resources engineering. Spring.
Two hours of lecture and one hour of group instruction per week. Theory and practice of ecological engineering with strong focus on sustainability and design, monitoring, and construction of ecosystems and the built environment. Key concepts, empirical models, and case studies, including applications of water/wastewater treatment, air resources and solid waste management. Spring. Prerequisites: one semester of calculus, biology, and chemistry. ERE students only or by permission of instructor.
One hour of weekly discussion complemented by a mandatory intensive spring break field study in a tropical destination. The course emphasizes the practical applications of ecological engineering through the study of mangroves, coral reefs, and agroforestry systems. Topics include ecosystem dynamics, engineering design principles, and the role of these systems in mitigating environmental challenges. Spring. Prerequisite(s): Completion of at least one course in each of the following: calculus, biology, and chemistry. Note: Students cannot receive credit for both ERE 311 and ERE 511. Pre/co-requisites: 1 course in each of the following: calculus, biology, and chemistry.
Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Introduction to numerical and computing methods for engineers. Writing computer code to analyze and solve engineering problems using state-of- the-art software packages. Fall. Prerequisite: APM 485.
This course provides an introduction to fluid mechanics within the context of civil and environmental engineering. This includes hydrostatics, Bernoulli's Equation, control volume analysis, drag, dynamic similitude, pipe flow, and open channel flow with some brief coverage of hydraulic machines and flow in porous media. Fall. Prerequisite: APM206. Co-requisite: GNE271
Three hours of lecture and lab per week. Covers watershed hydrology and analysis of rainfall, evapotranspiration, infiltration, and runoff processes as well as hydraulic processes involved with pipe networks, open-channels with flow controls, and groundwater systems. Spring. SUNY ESF | 351 | Course Catalog
Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory and discussion per week. A qualitative and quantitative introduction to the fundamentals of acquiring, analyzing and utilizing remote sensing data. Introductory concepts and methods in digital image processing and photogrammetry. Spring. Prerequisite: ERE 371 Surveying for Engineers. Note: Credit will not be granted for both ERE 365 and ERE 565.
Focus Areas (6 Credits) (Choose two courses selected from any one of the following three focus areas): Construction and Infrastructure Engineering
Two hours of lecture and 3 hr of laboratory per week. Theories of river classification are presented and tested using field gathered data. Classified river form and suggested evolution sequences are used to discuss governing fluvial processes. Computational river hydraulics is used to estimate sediment transport, and a design sequence is employed to consider issues of channel stability and restoration. 612 students will perform the additional work of writing a 15 page research paper. Fall. Prerequisites: Physical or engineering hydrology Note: Credit will not be granted for both ERE 412 and ERE 612.
Three hours of lecture per week. Classical engineering economics: time value of money, nominal and effective interest, and present worth, annual worth, rate of return, and benefit-cost ratio comparison techniques. Identification and evaluation of alternative investment and borrowing decisions, including the role of inflation, depreciation, taxes and uncertainty. Investment theory including the potential risks and rewards associated with investments options. Simulation and optimization techniques to aid in management decisions. Spring.
Three hours of lecture per week plus two laboratory exercises and one field trip. Design principles and practice of unit operations and processes for water and wastewater treatment. Study of the engineering concepts and design procedures for water and wastewater treatment. Fall. Prerequisite(s): ERE275 Ecological Engineering; ERE 339 Fluid Mechanics Note: Credit will not be granted for both ERE 440 and ERE 640.
Three hours of lecture per week. An exploration of deterministic and stochastic hydrologic models, model development, and the use of computer programming to construct, calibrate, manipulate, and interpret hydrologic models. Theoretical and analytical approaches to describing hydrologic processes, including precipitation, evapotranspiration, infiltration, surface runoff, percolation, and groundwater discharge. Stochastic techniques include frequency, trend, and regression analyses. Spring. Prerequisite(s): Introductory computer programming, Probability and Statistics, one year of Calculus. Note: Credit will not be granted for both ERE 445 and ERE 645. SUNY ESF | 352 | Course Catalog
Mathematical models of environmental systems are presented and combined with optimization procedures, decision theory, uncertainty analysis, and engineering economics to develop integrated approaches to the planning, design, and sustainable management of complex environmental systems. Students will be exposed to a variety of optimization algorithms for a wide range of environmental applications. Fall. Prerequisite(s): APM206 Corequisite(s): APM395
Three hours of lecture and discussion. Introduction to solid and hazardous waste regulations. Analysis and design of solid and hazardous waste management systems, including generation, storage, transport, recycling, biological, physical, chemical and thermal treatment; energy recovery; land disposal; environmental protection systems and monitoring. Field trips. Fall. Pre- or Co-requisites: ERE 340 and ERE 440. Note: Credit will not be granted for both ERE 468 and ERE 568.
SUNY ESF | 223 | Course Catalog
Discussion of content and administration of the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam, a comprehensive review of FE-type problems, and a targeted review of specific topics on the FE Exam. Spring. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or consent of instructor.
Project management strategies for the engineering profession. Readings, exercises and discussion emphasizing professional responsibility and ethical practices; project management; technical communication and teamwork. Team-based scoping and planning of engineering design projects. Fall. Prerequisite: Senior status ERE students only.
Two hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory. A capstone course to integrate engineering coursework with the engineering design process to solve interdisciplinary environmental problems. Semester-long project provides experience in problem analysis, teamwork, project management, engineering ethics, and professional communication. Spring. Prerequisites: Senior standing in Environmental Resources Engineering, ERE 488.
Lectures, readings, problems and discussions. Topics in environmental or resource engineering as announced. Fall and/or Spring.
SUNY ESF | 353 | Course Catalog
Three hours of lecture and discussion per week. Source and fate of various emerging contaminants, their broad impacts on environment and human health, and modern techniques used to detect and quantify these contaminants. Treatment technologies for these contaminants and current state of regulations. Project activities beyond class meeting times. Fall. Prerequisites: Senior standing with college level chemistry (for non-ERE students) or ERE 480 (for ERE students)
One hour of weekly discussion complemented by a mandatory intensive spring break field study in a tropical destination. The course emphasizes the practical applications of ecological engineering through the study of mangroves, coral reefs, and agroforestry systems. Topics include ecosystem dynamics, engineering design principles, and the role of these systems in mitigating environmental challenges. Spring. Prerequisite(s): Completion of at least one course in each of the following: calculus, biology, and chemistry. Note: Students cannot receive credit for both ERE 311 and ERE 511. Pre/co-requisites: 1 course in each o the following: calculus, biology, chemistry.
Two hours of lecture, presentations and discussion per week. Introduction to technologies for recovery of bio-energy and nutrients from liquid wastes as well as the principles and applications of laboratory methods used in development and assessment of wastewater resource recovery processes. Presentation and discussion of experimental results for comprehensive analysis of anaerobic digesters. Spring. Prerequisites: One of ERE 480; FCH 510; and FCH515.
Three hours of laboratory exercises per week on average. Conduct experiments for comprehensive analysis of anaerobic digesters, including feedstock and digestate characterization, biogas monitoring, analysis of anaerobic digestion kinetics, and recovery of ammonia and phosphate in digestate. Student groups prepare for presentations in ERE 520 class. Spring. Co-requisites: ERE 520.
Three hours of lecture per week. One Saturday field trip. Techniques for urban stormwater and erosion control and analysis of associated water quality impacts. Review of applicable regulations and design standards. Students will engage in individual and team-oriented activities such as lecture, discussion, observation, computation, reading and writing. In addition, students are required to participate in a Saturday field trip where examples of stormwater management facilities will be reviewed. Students will, in small teams, generate a design for a stormwater management alternative at a local site. Fall. Prerequisite: ERE 340 or equivalent as determined by instructor.
SUNY ESF | 354 | Course Catalog
Three hours of lecture, discussion and experimentation per week. Development, use, and interpretation of mechanistic numerical models applied to ecological systems. Students will develop a model on a topic of their choice throughout the semester. Fall. Prerequisite: ERE 335 or equivalent coding class
Three hours of lecture per week. Covers watershed hydrology and analysis of rainfall, evapotranspiration, infiltration, and runoff processes as well as hydraulic processes involved with pipe networks, open-channels with flow controls, and groundwater systems. Problem sets, modeling exercises and a research project report are required. Spring. Prerequisites: Fluid Mechanics. Note: Credit will not be granted for both ERE 340 and ERE 540
Three hours of lecture per week for the first third of the semester. An introduction to spatial terminology and methods for determining and expressing position. Examination of accuracy and precision in the context of horizontal measurements. Issues with subsequent use of measurements for producing maps and performing analysis. Fall.
applications of Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) Remote Sensing and advanced Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) for environmental monitoring. Fundamental concepts of SAR imaging systems such as target and sensor parameters, geometric correction, and scattering mechanisms, and advanced topics of Polarimetric SAR such as polarization descriptor and scattering operators, speckle noise filtering, Polarimetric decomposition, PolSAR image supervised and unsupervised classification. Selected real-world applications of PolSAR data for land cover mapping (e.g. agriculture, forest, wetlands, and water bodies), sea and ocean surface, and sea ice detection and discrimination. Spring. Prerequisite: ERE 365 or equivalent.
Two hours of lecture and discussion, and three hours of lab per week. Introduction to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) with focus on data processing and photogrammetric analysis. Introduction to UAV systems including types and classification, regulatory issues, sensors and platforms. Data collection and processing including mission planning, photogrammetric triangulations and bundle adjustment, sensor positioning and orientation, 3D surface reconstruction and image matching, robotic mapping and ortho generation. Emerging UAV trends and technologies such as power and payload issues as well as outlook and societal, technological, regulatory, and market challenges. Spring. Prerequisite: Completion of an introductory geospatial course, ERE 365, ESF 300, or FOR 557, or equivalent. ERE 564 i-Tree Tools Practicum (3) SUNY ESF | 355 | Course Catalog
Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory and discussion per week. A qualitative and quantitative introduction to the fundamentals of acquiring, analyzing and utilizing remote sensing data. Introductory concepts and methods in digital image processing and photogrammetry. Spring. Prerequisite: ERE 371 Surveying for Engineers or permission of instructor. Note: Credit will not be granted for both ERE 365 and ERE 565.
Three hours of lecture per week for the last third of the semester. An introduction to the theory and practice of performing global positioning system (GPS) measurements. Comparison of accuracy potential for different GPS equipment and techniques. Exploration of error sources that reduce the accuracy of GPS measurements. Collection of GPS data. Fall.
Three hours of lecture and discussion. Introduction to solid and hazardous waste regulations. Analysis and design of solid and hazardous waste management systems, including generation, storage, transport, recycling, biological, physical, chemical and thermal treatment; energy recovery; land disposal; environmental protection systems and monitoring. Field trips. Fall.
Three hours of lecture/seminar/discussion per week. Design and analysis of ecological treatment systems for water quality improvement. Hands-on construction, operation and/or monitoring of engineered ecosystems through group project activities beyond class meeting times in on- campus labs and a greenhouse. Focusing on constructed wetlands, with minor topics selected by students. Prerequisite: ERE 275 Ecological Engineering or equivalent
Three hours of lecture per week. The fundamental physical, chemical, and biological principles of fate and transport of contaminants. Application of the fundamental principles to analyze complex contamination problems in surface waters, subsurface environment, atmosphere, and engineered environments. Graduate students will write a research paper on contemporary contamination issues. Prerequisite: Calculus, General Chemistry, and Introduction to Ecological/ Environmental Engineering, or equivalent. Note: Credit will not be granted for both ERE 480 and ERE 580.
Two hours of lecture and 3 hr of laboratory per week. Theories of river classification are presented and tested using field gathered data. Classified river form and suggested evolution sequences are used to discuss governing fluvial processes. Computational river hydraulics is SUNY ESF | 356 | Course Catalog
Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory and discussion per week. Laboratory techniques, public databases, and computational methods commonly used for probing dynamic microbial systems. Bioinformatics analysis of sequence data and computer programming in high performance computing environment. Team-based project activities beyond class meeting times. Spring. Prerequisite: Either microbiology/genetics or computer programming.
Three hours of lecture and discussion per week. Spatial statistics and modeling as applied to various data formats: single point data, continuous data and area data. First and second order effects, complete spatial randomness, tessellation, kernel, covariograms and variograms, kriging, distance measures, correlation/correlogram. Fall. Prerequisite(s): APM 391, ERE 335 or permission of instructor.
Three hours of lecture and discussion per week. Elements of digital image processing and analysis systems: Digital image representation, visual perception, sampling and quantization, pixel connectivity, Fourier transforms, image enhancement, filtering, image segmentation, edge detection, thresholding, representation schemes, descriptors, morphology, recognition and interpretation. Spring. Prerequisite(s): APM 391, ERE 335 or permission of instructor.
Three hours of lecture per week plus two laboratory exercises and one field trip. Design principles and practice of unit operations and processes for water and wastewater treatment. Study of the engineering concepts and design procedures for water and wastewater treatment. Fall. Prerequisite(s): General chemistry, microbiology, water quality, and fluid mechanics or hydraulics Note: Credit will not be granted for both ERE 440 and ERE 640.
Three hours of lecture per week. An exploration of deterministic and stochastic hydrologic models, model development, and the use of computer programming to construct, calibrate, manipulate, and interpret hydrologic models. Theoretical and analytical approaches to describing hydrologic processes, including precipitation, evapotranspiration, infiltration, surface runoff, percolation, and groundwater discharge. Stochastic techniques include frequency, trend, and regression analyses. Spring. Prerequisite(s): Introductory computer programming, Probability and Statistics, 1 year of Calculus. Note: Credit will not be granted for both ERE 445 and ERE 645.
Mathematical models of environmental systems are presented and combined with optimization procedures, decision theory, uncertainty analysis, and engineering economics to develop integrated approaches to the planning, design, and sustainable management of complex environmental systems. Students will evaluate and present a variety of optimization algorithms SUNY ESF | 357 | Course Catalog
An intensive, project-team design experience with analysis of real world, interdisciplinary problems and development of design solutions. Projects will address problem framing, stakeholder analysis, conceptual and detailed engineering design, options analysis, and life-cycle financial analysis culminating in written and oral reports supporting the selected project design. Utilization of sound project management skills including engineering ethical, political, health & safety, manufacturability and sustainability considerations, along with collaborative teamwork, and professional communication. Prerequisite: ERE 698 - Principles and Practices of Engineering Project Management.
One to three hours of discussion/seminar per week. Introduction to research facilities, opportunities, and responsibilities of graduate scholarship. Discussion of ERE research topics, including journal reading, proposal formulation, funding, and engineering tools. Use of scholarly resources including e-journals, web, proposal development, and presentations. Fall and Spring.
Independent research topics in Environmental Resources Engineering. Students shall report their activities to their instructor on a weekly basis for the duration of the course. Fall, Spring or Summer. Credit hours to be arranged.
Individual and/or small-group professional mentoring/advising with the ERE M.E. Program Director focusing on professional development, aligned with individual student academic/ professional goals. Students will develop an Individualized Study Plan (ISP) that will serve as a charter between the student and the Program Director specifying metrics and milestones to be achieved throughout the semester including creation of a Professional Development Plan.
A supervised, documented professional work experience in the Master of Professional Studies degree program. Students shall report their activities to their instructor on a weekly basis for the duration of the course. Fall, Spring or Summer. Prerequisite: Approval of proposed study plan by advisor, Department, and any sponsoring organization.
Research and independent study for the master's degree and thesis. Fall, Spring and Summer.
Research and independent study for the doctoral degree and dissertation. Fall, Spring and Summer. SUNY ESF | 358 | Course Catalog
Source: SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
