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Today’s Outline

Today’s Outline. Announcements Silent Spring discussion next reading, Our Stolen Future A Brief History of Environmental Engineering. Announcements. Writing 1 revision due today your revised file OWL comments file Writing 2 due next week “ Silent Spring book review”

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Today’s Outline

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  1. Today’s Outline • Announcements • Silent Spring discussion • next reading, Our Stolen Future • A Brief History ofEnvironmental Engineering

  2. Announcements • Writing 1 revision due today • your revised file • OWL comments file • Writing 2 due next week • “Silent Spring book review” • submit first draft before class next week • Lastname Writing 2.doc • ideas…

  3. Writing Assignment 2 • Silent Spring “book review” • Evaluate Rachel Carson’s writing style. Illustrate the writing style in two or three passages from the book. • Did Silent Spring change attitudes? Check the EPA’s pesticides web page and assess changes in the government’s attitude toward pesticides. • Examine the labels of some household pesticides and report on their hazards (using the EPA web site for information). • Rachel Carson makes the case that many pesticides are persistent and widespread – what does that mean for farms seeking the “organic” label? • You just read Silent Spring in 1962 – write a letter to your congressional representative to insist that something be done about the pesticides problem.

  4. Next Reading • Our Stolen Future • Theo Colburn • Dianne Dumanoski • John Peterson Myers

  5. Environmental Engineering • early 1800s • 18 private waterworks in the U.S. in 1800 • New York City and Croton Reservoir • Colonel De Witt Clinton, Jr., and John B. Jervis

  6. Environmental Engineering • 1823 • Boston and combined sewers • storm • sanitary • Ellis S. Chesbrough, Chief Engineer, Boston Water Works

  7. Environmental Engineering • 1823 • Boston and combined sewers • storm • sanitary • Ellis S. Chesbrough, Chief Engineer, Boston Water Works

  8. Environmental Engineering • 1850s – public health • John Snow and Cholera in London • disease linked to water supply

  9. Environmental Engineering

  10. Environmental Engineering • 1873 • Prof. William Ripley Nichols and Ellen Swallow Richards • MIT, “Sanitary Chemistry Laboratory” • analysis of Massachusetts’ public water supplies Her thesis – Colorado!

  11. Environmental Engineering • late 1800s – civil engineers • water infrastructure • supply and sewers

  12. Environmental Engineering • late 1800s • Rudolph Hering • Philadelphia, DC, 150 other cities • “Dean of Sanitary Engineering”

  13. Environmental Engineering • early 1900s • water treatment, wastewater treatment • Allen Hazen, Chicago, Boston • “Clean Water and How to Get It,” 1907

  14. Environmental Engineering • 1940s – mechanical engineers • air quality • smog in Los Angeles

  15. Environmental Engineering • 1950s – sanitary engineering education • integrating science and engineering in water and wastewater treatment • MS degree (Manhattan College)

  16. Environmental Engineering • 1960s – environmental engineers • American Academy of Sanitary Engineers  Environmental Engineers • AAEE

  17. Environmental Engineering • 1970s – environmental engineers • Earth Day, April 22, 1970 • contaminant fate/transport in water and air • first BS degrees (e.g., University of Florida)

  18. Environmental Engineering • 1980, 1990s – greater breadth • establishment of separate field of engineering • emphasis on multidisciplinary background

  19. Environmental Engineering • 2002 – widely recognized • included in Fundamentals of Engineering exam

  20. Environmental Engineering • University of Colorado • 1970s: Civil  Civil, Environmental, and Architectural • 1990s: Chemical: environmental option • 1990s: Mechanical: environmental option • 1998: separate Environmental Engineering B.S. degree • 2002 – accredited by ABET

  21. Environmental Engineering

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