GRADUATE
TRAINING IN AIR POLLUTION
Peter A. Scheff, Ph.D., Project Director
The Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Division offers a federally
sponsored training program in air quality management. The purpose of this
training program is to assist state and local air pollution control agencies
in the acquisition of professional level skills needed for effective conduct
of air pollution abatement programs. This program is carried out by the use
of three types of training: conventional academic training, intensive short
course instruction, and special seminars and short courses on the USEPA’s
Distance Learning Network.
- Conventional Academic Training
The University of Illinois at Chicago
offers comprehensive instruction in air pollution control science and related
subjects as required for professional training of air pollution abatement
practitioners. The purpose of this training is to recruit and train students
in the field of air pollution control science who are pursuing work in
the state and local governmental sector as air pollution abatement practitioners.
Academic training is carried out within the Environmental and Occupational
Health Sciences program area (EOHS) in the School of Public Health. The
program offers academic tracks leading to the Master of Public Health (MPH)
and Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH) degrees.
- Intensive Short Course Instruction
The University of Illinois at Chicago
sponsors the delivery of short courses in coordination with the EPA’s
Education and Outreach Group of the Office of Air Quality Planning and
Standards. Faculty for the short courses are drawn from the Environmental
and Occupational Health Sciences program faculty and advanced graduate
students. The specific courses offered each year is based on regional and
national needs with special emphasis on laboratory and data analysis courses.
Recent short courses taught include Ambient Air Sampling, Control of Particulate
Pollutants, Control of Gaseous Pollutants, Air Quality Data Analysis, and
Source Sampling for Industrial Pollutants.
- Distance Learning Network Operation
The Air Pollution Distance Learning
Network (APDLN) is a digital, state-of-the-art educational satellite broadcasting
network of over 100 governmental and university broadcast affiliates located
across the United States. Air quality issues are the focus of seminars
and technical telecourses delivered to state and local government environmental
professionals as well as to those in the private sector, developing and
enhancing their knowledge of and skills in air pollution control and environmental
programs and policies
Website: http://www.uic.edu/sph/glakes/ce/airpollution/air_pollution_distance.htm |