Syllabus |
||
| Instructors: | Prof. Joe Ryan office: Engineering Center OT 517 phone: 303 492 0772 email: joseph.ryan@colorado.edu web: http://www.colorado.edu/ceae/environmental/ryan/ office hours: to be announced |
 |
| Dr. David Stiller office: Engineering Center OT 543 phone: 303 492 5736 email: david.stiller@colorado.edu office hours: to be announced |
||
| Locations and Times | lectures:
Monday, 3:00 - 5:30 pm location: Duane Physics G131 |
|
| Course Description | This three-credit course will
introduce students to the historical, technical, legal, political, and
social problems associated with the remediation of abandoned hard rock
mines in the West. Multidisciplinary student teams will design
remediation solutions with an emphasis on community responsibility and
participation.
To form the multidisciplinary teams, upper level undergraduate and graduate students will be recruited from a wide variety of programs for the course -- Fine Arts, Environmental Design, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Studies, History, Political Science and Policy, Economics and the Business School, the Center of the American West. The instructors, along with guest lecturers, will use the first two-thirds of the class to provide students with the necessary background to deal with abandoned mine and acid mine drainage problems in lectures and field trips (to be scheduled). Course topics are listed in the Schedule. The last third of the class will focus on the design of remediation plans for an abandoned mine in Colorado. At the end of the class, the student designs will be critiqued by local experts in abandoned mine remediation during a final presentation.
|
|
| Prerequisites |
The only prerequisite for this course is an
interest in solving one of the American West's major water quality
problems. We will be actively recruiting students from a wide variety
of backgrounds; therefore, there is no single set of prerequisite courses.
|
|
| Course Texts | Kemp P.
and Griffiths J., 1999. Quaking Houses -- Art, Science and the
Community: A Collaborative Approach to Water Pollution. Jon Carpenter
Publishers, Charlbury, England.
Stiller D.M., 2000. Wounding the West: Montana, Mining, and the Environment. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska. Younger P.L., Banwart S.A., and Hedin R.S., 2002. Mine Water: Hydrology, Pollution, and Remediation. Kluwer Academic Publishers, London. [See the course text ordering page for ordering information.]
|
|
| Recommended Texts |
See the list of Readings
for the course. |
|
| Assignments
|
The assignments are reports and presentations on
Site Characterization, Design Alternatives, and Final Design for an
abandoned mine site. The assignments are done by teams. Details are provided on the Design Project Reports
and Presentations page.
|
|
| Grading |
|
10% 10% 10% 20% 10% 20% 20% |
| Reports
will be submitted, graded and reviewed by the instructors, returned for
revisions, re-submitted in final form, and re-graded by the
instructors. The preliminary grade will count for 25% and the final
grade for 75% for each report. Reports must be submitted
electronically -- the final forms of the reports will be posted on student
team web sites. All team members will receive the same report
grades. Reports account for a total of 60% of the final grade.
Presentations will be made before the class, instructors, and guest critiquers. Presentations must be prepared in presentation software (e.g., Microsoft PowerPoint©) and submitted by email to the instructor before the class. Any or all team members may give the presentation; all team members must participate in at least one of the presentations. All team members will receive the same presentation grades. Presentations account for a total of 30% of the final grade. Team Performance Assessments will be done by voting shares of a project bonus among team members. Voting will be done anonymously and average bonus shares will be calculated by the instructors. Overall bonuses will earn individual students some fraction of the Team Performance Assessment grade. The optimal result is that all team members vote each other an equal share.
|
||
| Communication | Course materials will be will be posted on this web site.
We'll also use the web page for general
notices. We'll use e-mail for time-sensitive notices concerning the
class. A course email list has been created for the semester (amr03@lists.colorado.edu). |
|
| Academic Honesty |
Violations of academic honesty will be dealt with according to University Honor Code policy. For this class, the most important element of the Honor Code is the rule prohibiting plagiarism. Please examine the following guidelines to avoid committing plagiarism:
|
|
