Introduction to Environmental Engineering - Hardcover

Vesilind, P. Aarne; Morgan, Susan M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534378129 ISBN 13: 9780534378127

Publisher: CL Engineering, 2003

Synopsis

This text has two unifying themes: materials balances and environmental ethics. First, the book demonstrates that environmental problems need to be solved using a holistic approach instead of a fragmented, single-pollution or single-medium approach. By using the concepts of materials balances, reactions, and reactors, the authors integrate and unify the presentation of water supply, waste-water treatment, air pollution control, and solid and hazardous waste management. Second, since ethics plays an increasingly important part in the professional lives of engineers, the authors incorporate ethical decision making into the discussions and problems. In many of the problems, students are required not only to solve the technical part, but also to consider the ethical ramifications of solving the technical problems.

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About the Author

P. Arne Vesilind received his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Lehigh University and his Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of North Carolina. He spent a post-doctoral year with the Norwegian Institute for Water Research in Oslo and a year as a research engineer with Bird Machine Company. He joined the faculty at Duke University in 1970 where he served as chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In 1999, he was appointed to the R. L. Rooke Chair of the Historical and Societal Context of Engineering at Bucknell University. He served in this capacity until his retirement in 2006.

Edition details

• Publisher: CL Engineering
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0534378129
• ISBN 13: 9780534378127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 479