Course Instructed

16:180:562 Water and Wastewater Treatment

This course (syllabus) covers engineering processes commonly used for drinking water and wastewater treatment, as well as topics of emerging concern. Key topics include drinking water and wastewater quality criteria, water chemistry, integration of unit processes into full scale treatment facilities, reactor design, coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, disinfection, water softening, microbiology and biological wastewater treatment, oxidation-reduction processes in treatment, nutrient removal, and residual solids management. A design module is also included that demonstrate the use of process simulation software.


Water and Wastewater Treatment

16:180:611 Sustainable Design

Through this course (flyer; syllabus), students will develop an understanding of quantitative sustainable design (QSD) and how to navigate engineering decision-making. Students will learn methods and tools for economic (techno-economic analysis, TEA; life cycle costing, LCC) and environmental (life cycle assessment, LCA) sustainability assessments, and how to link these tools to engineering design decisions under uncertainty. Students will apply these tools to design their engineered systems of interest, with special attention to water and energy infrastructure, water quality processes, resource recovery, green chemistry, and bioenergy/bioproducts.


Quantitative Sustainable Design

Interactive Modules

I see tremendous potentials in leveraging the open-source platforms developed in my research to build interactive modules to be used in the classroom. My goal is to make these experiences accessible to everyone - regardless of individuals’ programing skills.

QSD Workshop in AEESP Research and Education Conference

During the 2022 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Research and Education Conference, we hosted a workshop on Quantitative Sustainable Design (QSD). In this workshop, we familiarize participants with a structured approach to sustainable design (QSD) and provide experience in leveraging QSD to generate insight in their domains of interest.

Workshop Materials

QSDsan Workshop in EES Symposium

We hosted an entry-level workshop of QSDsan during the 27th Environmental Engineering and Science Symposium at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In this workshop, attendees could interact with QSDsan through Binder without any local installation and prior knowledge on programming.

Workshop Materials Video Recording