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Overall Curriculum Outline

The combined curiculum outline represents a conceptual curriculum that includes a listing of materials developed under both the Practitioner and University Curriculum Projects and lays the ground work for further curriculum development in the future.

Topics that have been developed to date are marked with a plus sign (+):

  1. Fundamental principles
    • Constants, units and conversions +
    • Overview of wastewater characteristics +
    • Basic engineering principles +
    • Fundamental hydraulics +
    • Public and environmental health concepts
    • Flow calculations
  2. Planning
    • Land use
    • Environmental concerns
    • Risk assessment
    • Scale (individual lot, subdivision, watershed)
    • Distributed infrastructure
  3. System and materials management
    • Systems management
    • Materials management +
  4. Wastewater processes
    • Wastewater characteristics +
    • Chemical + (partial)
    • Biological + (partial)
    • Physical + (partial)
  5. Soil and site evaluation
    • Introduction to soils +
    • Soil morphology +
    • Soil treatment +
    • Water movement +
    • Soil interpretations +
    • Mapping
    • Site evaluation +
    • Hydrology
    • Performance predictive tools (modeling)
  6. On-site technology<
    • Overview +
    • Design + (partial)
    • Installation + (partial)
    • Monitoring and inspection + (partial)
    • Operation and maintenance + (partial)
  7. Troubleshooting and resolution
    • Tools
    • Processes
  8. Regulatory and permit issues
    • National code
    • State code
    • Local code
    • Processes involved in getting a permit
    • Process to evaluate a new technology.

 

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