Fall 2005 Lecture notes and supplemental material

The objective of this class is to familiarize students with a variety of laboratory protocols for the analysis of water, wastewater, and soil used in environmental science and engineering.  Emphasis in this class will be on understanding the theory behind the techniques; to go beyond "cookbook" analysis.  In addition, the class will emphasize good laboratory practices (GLP) and quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) issues necessary for the validation of data quality used for design, regulation, and research.

Procedures covered will include physical, chemical, and microbiological analyses.  Laboratory reports will be based on research/design questions through the analysis of real samples.  Report formats will be patterned after technical reports issued by private sector, government, and academic contracts.  A basic understanding of chemical reactions (Chem112 or equivalent) is required for this class.
 

Taught by: Professor Karl Rockne Department of Civil and Materials Engineering University of Illinois-Chicago 3077 ERF HOMEPAGE LAB HOMEPAGE The material here requires UIC netid and password

Course syllabus Supplemental material Homework and solutions Laboratory data files

The class will have research teams in the laboratory, but each student will produce an individual laboratory report.

Syllabus  PDF File

Laboratory report guide  PDF File

Laboratory data:
 

Lab 1 Lab 2 Lab 3 Lab 4 Lab 5 Lab 6 Lab 7

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Date of latest revisions: 8/23/05