Ewha Womans University Environmental Science and Engineering

Graduate Program

Undergraduate ProgramTable for Undergraduate Program
Course No. Course Title Explanation
G15256 Environmental Informatics Systematic management and applications of DB and GIS in relation to natural phenomena occurring in the water, air, and soil.
G15257 Numerical Methods in Environmental Science & Engineering Formulation and solution of environmental problems by applying analytical and numerical techniques; principles of data analysis; non-parametric statistics for environmental data; generation and solution of compartment model; system optimization techniques, etc.
G15259 Air Pollution Models To study mathematical principles of air quality models such as numerical schemes, emission inventory, and stability. Also to practice modeling of source-oriented models and receptor models including input data preparation and sensitivity analysis.
G15260 Surface Water Quality Models Development and application of mathematical models for water quality interactions in streams, lakes, estuary and harbor systems are studied in terms of their ability to simulate and predict the workings of environmental systems. Model calibration/ verification, waste load allocation analysis and case study are discussed.
G15262 Microbial Ecology Topics include ecology and evolution, population interactions, microbial communities and ecosystems, biogeochemical cycling, and biotechnological aspects of microbial ecology.
G15263 Soil Chemistry Minerals and organic parts, which comprise of soil, will be studied: the compositions, chemical characteristics, and so on. Minerals will include clays, while organic matters are humic acid, fulvic acid, and humin.
G15265 Advanced Water Supply Engineering Supply and Demand of water, distribution of water and collection of wastewater, water quality management and its analysis will be studied.
G15268 Advanced Environmental Chemistry Several aspects of chemical reactions in the aquatic environment are lectured inclusive of acid-base chemistry, coordination chemistry, precipitation and dissolution, and oxidation-reduction reactions with a special focus on the kinetic analysis and equilibrium calculation.
G15270 Advanced Water Treatment Technologies for advanced water treatment such as oxidation and membrane process are treated in detail for an improved treatment of polluting materials contained in drinking water.
G15272 Advanced Atmospheric Dynamics Topics include atmospheric fluid mechanics, governing laws and approximations, atmospheric waves, stability, quasi-geostrophic equations, barotropic and baroclinic atmosphere, and mesoscale and global circulations.
G15273 Advanced Landscape Ecology Land mosaics is composed of matrix, patch, and corridor. Landscape ecology is beneficial to understand water, air, soil and ecosystem for distribution and abundance of organisms and also applicable to land use planning and spatial management.
G15274 Advanced Atmospheric Sciences Atmosphere plays an important role in major cycles in the global environmental system by connecting with other subsystems, thus it is essential to have deep knowledges on the overall fields in atmospheric sciences for better understanding of the global change. This course aims at acquiring overall knowledges in the core fields of atmospheric sciences, such as general circulation, thermodynamics, atmospheric radiation, cloud/precipitation physics, synoptic meteorology, etc.). Especially knowledges on atmospheric sciences essentially required in majoring Environmental Science and Engineering will be provided through this course, aiming at better understanding of related subjects such as hydrology, air pollution, and global environment.
G15276 Computer Application in Water Quality Management The well known computer models such as WASP and QUAL2E are applied for water quality management. The application of GIS and database in water quality management are also introduced. Case study is discussed.
G15277 Nutrient Cycle Cyclings of nutrients such as carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur in ecosystems. Environmental issues related to nutrient cycle including organic pollutions, eutrophication of aquatic systems, and global climatic changes.
G15278 Advanced Air Pollution Management To study comprehensive approaches of air pollution management. Also each components of air pollution management such as air pollution monitoring and air quality modeling.
G15288 Advanced Hydrometeorology Topics include global water cycles, cloud and precipitation physics, convective dynamics and thermodynamics, convective storms, weather systems resulting in heavy precipitation and floods, and radar meteorology.
G15289 Recycling of Wastes Wastes Recycling Technology; There are many reusable resources are included in industrial and domestic wastes. In this course, several technologies for the extraction of valuable components from wastes are introduced in relation with their principles and applications.
G15290 Environmental Instrumental Analysis The quantitative analytical techniques and the structural analysis for environmental pollutants using instruments are lectured.
G15291 Environmental Data Assimilation Initial conditions are essentially required in predicting the future states of weather/climate/environment using numerical models - the accuracy of numerical prediction strongly depends on the accuracy of initial conditions, especially in nonlinear systems. Therefore, it is important to produce optimal initial conditions necessary for numerical models from various observational data - this is called data assimilation. In this course, basic mathematical and statistical backgrounds, required for data assimilation, will be provided along with various methods/technologies in data assimilation. In addition, opportunities for practical application of data assimilation will be given using a simple numerical model and artificial and/or real data.
G15292 Advanced Special Topics in Environmental Science and Engineering Ⅰ Special topics in environmental issues and pollution problems are lectured.
G15329 Aerosol Dynamics Dynamic processes of ambient aerosols (emission, transport, transformation, and removal) which affect atmospheric and global environment are taught and discussed.
G16030 Phenology for Climate Change The course is a method dealing with flowering time of plants and dispersal pattern of animals in accordance with climate change due to global warming. The course will use meteological data set in Korea and overseas to identify phenological event on a global scale
G16363 Environmental Engineering Practicum Study on the multi-disciplinary nature of Environmental Engineering including social, economical, and political aspects and the planning, data analysis, design and operation of water and wastewater treatment, solid waste disposal and hazardous waste management focusing on solving the real world problems.
G16670 Materials for Energy Conversion The objective of the course is to understand the physical characteristics of energy-converting materials and to cultivate capability to analyze related energy conversion technologies. Emphasis is placed on the computational methods for estimating relevant materials properties.
G17023 Biosensors The objective of the course is to learn the underlying engineering principles used to detect small molecules, DNA, proteins, and cells in the context of applications in environmental monitoring and diagnostic testing. Biosensor technologies including fluorescence, electrochemistry, optics, and MEMS will be taught.
G16260 Climate Change and Ecosystem This course deals with a variety of influences of climate change on ecosystem, based on the theoretical principle, the recent trend, and the future projection of climate change. The subjects include the changes in biodiversity, ocean and animal ecosystem, agriculture and plant ecosystem, human disease. The relevant industrial influences and adaptation policies will also be discussed.
G16208 Natural Resources Management The concept of Renewable Natural Resources (RNR) is changing according to climate change and increased human activities. RNR should be in a different approach for management due to the nature of differences in resources. This class will enhance the concept of RNR so that Environmental Ecological Engineers can be better prepared for resource management.
G16206 Advanced Energy Engineering The course provides fundamental knowledge on thermodynamics, which is essential to understand various technologies in the field of energy conversion, in order to to analyze each conversion technology both systematically and consistently in the context of environmental engineering.
G15295 Environmental Statistics Using graphs, regression analysis, and time series analysis, non-parametric statistical methods, along with the characteristics of environmental data, will be studied in this course.
G15303 Advanced Solid Waste Management Landfill, which is the last stage of solid waste treatment, will be mainly studied in this course. Design, Management, and post-treatment of landfill will be reviewed along with Korean and international examples.
G15305 Air Pollution Diffusion To learn basic meteorological processes in the planetary boundary layer to understand dispersion, transport, and diffusion of air pollutants such as stability, turbulence, and mixing layers.
G17040 Introduction to environmental modeling This course deals with various mathematical and applied mathematical methods used in environmental modeling and process analysis techniques will be studied.
G15270 Advanced Water Treatment Technologies for advanced water treatment such as oxidation and membrane process are treated in detail for an improved treatment of polluting materials contained in drinking water.
G15272 Advanced Atmospheric Dynamics Topics include atmospheric fluid mechanics, governing laws and approximations, atmospheric waves, stability, quasi-geostrophic equations, barotropic and baroclinic atmosphere, and mesoscale and global circulations.
G15273 Advanced Landscape Ecology Land mosaics is composed of matrix, patch, and corridor. Landscape ecology is beneficial to understand water, air, soil and ecosystem for distribution and abundance of organisms and also applicable to land use planning and spatial management.
G15274 Advanced Atmospheric Sciences Atmosphere plays an important role in major cycles in the global environmental system by connecting with other subsystems, thus it is essential to have deep knowledges on the overall fields in atmospheric sciences for better understanding of the global change. This course aims at acquiring overall knowledges in the core fields of atmospheric sciences, such as general circulation, thermodynamics, atmospheric radiation, cloud/precipitation physics, synoptic meteorology, etc.). Especially knowledges on atmospheric sciences essentially required in majoring Environmental Science and Engineering will be provided through this course, aiming at better understanding of related subjects such as hydrology, air pollution, and global environment.
G15276 Computer Application in Water Quality Management The well known computer models such as WASP and QUAL2E are applied for water quality management. The application of GIS and database in water quality management are also introduced. Case study is discussed.
G15277 Nutrient Cycle Cyclings of nutrients such as carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur in ecosystems. Environmental issues related to nutrient cycle including organic pollutions, eutrophication of aquatic systems, and global climatic changes.
G15278 Advanced Air Pollution Management To study comprehensive approaches of air pollution management. Also each components of air pollution management such as air pollution monitoring and air quality modeling.
G15288 Advanced Hydrometeorology Topics include global water cycles, cloud and precipitation physics, convective dynamics and thermodynamics, convective storms, weather systems resulting in heavy precipitation and floods, and radar meteorology.
G15289 Recycling of Wastes Wastes Recycling Technology; There are many reusable resources are included in industrial and domestic wastes. In this course, several technologies for the extraction of valuable components from wastes are introduced in relation with their principles and applications.
G15290 Environmental Instrumental Analysis The quantitative analytical techniques and the structural analysis for environmental pollutants using instruments are lectured.
G15291 Environmental Data Assimilation Initial conditions are essentially required in predicting the future states of weather/climate/environment using numerical models - the accuracy of numerical prediction strongly depends on the accuracy of initial conditions, especially in nonlinear systems. Therefore, it is important to produce optimal initial conditions necessary for numerical models from various observational data - this is called data assimilation. In this course, basic mathematical and statistical backgrounds, required for data assimilation, will be provided along with various methods/technologies in data assimilation. In addition, opportunities for practical application of data assimilation will be given using a simple numerical model and artificial and/or real data.
G15292 Advanced Special Topics in Environmental Science and Engineering Ⅰ Special topics in environmental issues and pollution problems are lectured.
G15329 Aerosol Dynamics Dynamic processes of ambient aerosols (emission, transport, transformation, and removal) which affect atmospheric and global environment are taught and discussed.
G16030 Phenology for Climate Change The course is a method dealing with flowering time of plants and dispersal pattern of animals in accordance with climate change due to global warming. The course will use meteological data set in Korea and overseas to identify phenological event on a global scale
G16363 Environmental Engineering Practicum Study on the multi-disciplinary nature of Environmental Engineering including social, economical, and political aspects and the planning, data analysis, design and operation of water and wastewater treatment, solid waste disposal and hazardous waste management focusing on solving the real world problems.
G16670 Materials for Energy Conversion The objective of the course is to understand the physical characteristics of energy-converting materials and to cultivate capability to analyze related energy conversion technologies. Emphasis is placed on the computational methods for estimating relevant materials properties.
G17023 Biosensors The objective of the course is to learn the underlying engineering principles used to detect small molecules, DNA, proteins, and cells in the context of applications in environmental monitoring and diagnostic testing. Biosensor technologies including fluorescence, electrochemistry, optics, and MEMS will be taught.
G16260 Climate Change and Ecosystem This course deals with a variety of influences of climate change on ecosystem, based on the theoretical principle, the recent trend, and the future projection of climate change. The subjects includes the changes in biodiversity, ocean and animal ecosystem, agriculture and plant ecosystem, human disease. The relevant industrial influences and adaptation policies will also be discussed.
G16208 Natural Resources Management The concept of Renewable Natural Resources (RNR) is changing according to climate change and increased human activities. RNR should be in a different approach for management due to the nature of differences in resources. This class will enhance the concept of RNR so that Environmental Ecological Engineers can be better prepared for resource management.
G16206 Advanced Energy Engineering The course provides fundamental knowledge on thermodynamics, which is essential to understand various technologies in the field of energy conversion, in order to to analyze each conversion technology both systematically and consistently in the context of environmental engineering.
G15295 Environmental Statistics Using graphs, regression analysis, and time series analysis, non-parametric statistical methods, along with the characteristics of environmental data, will be studied in this course.
G15303 Advanced Solid Waste Management Landfill, which is the last stage of solid waste treatment, will be mainly studied in this course. Design, Management, and post-treatment of landfill will be reviewed along with Korean and international examples.
G15305 Air Pollution Diffusion To learn basic meteorological processes in the planetary boundary layer to understand dispersion, transport, and diffusion of air pollutants such as stability, turbulence, and mixing layers.
G17040 Introduction to environmental modeling This course deals with various mathematical and applied mathematical methods used in environmental modeling and process analysis techniques will be studied.
G15306 Advanced Wastewater Treatment The origins, characteristics, and treatment technologies for industrial wastewater are lectured with case studies for the treatment of specific industrial wastewater.
G15308 Applied Surface Chemistry Colloid and Surface Chemistry; General aspects for the interphasal reactions occurring in aquatic environment are lectured based on physicochemical concepts. Especially, reactions relating to solid/liquid interaction such as colloid behavior, adsorption, coagulation, flotation, and electrochemical effect are treated preponderantly.
G15309 Strategic Environment Assessment Strategic Environment Assessment is being introduced as a correction for Environment Impact Assessment and Prior Environmental Review System(PERS). This system enables development plan more systematic and better organized.
G15310 Numerical Weather Prediction and Modeling The numerical weather prediction (NWP) is essential to improve the accuracy of meteorological and climatic forecasts. The NWP is a discipline to predict the future states of meteorological/climatic conditions by numerically solving a set of partial differential equations (PDEs) that governs the atmosphere, including the equations of continuity, momentum, energy, state, and moisture, after proper discretization − a numerical model to be used for the NWP can be made through modeling. This course is aimed not only at learning characteristics of PDEs, atmospheric governing equations, discretization processes, numerical stability, parameterizations of physical processes and various schemes to obtain numerical solutions, but also at experiencing basic use of atmospheric models and coding of simple numerical models.
G15311 Global Change The global environment is a complex system linked to interactions among subsystems including atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere. A small change in a subsystem may exert a great change in the global environment through nonlinear interaction with other subsystem(s). This course emphasizes mass and energy transfer among subsystems, including understanding of social, economic and ecological implications of global change. Relevant issues include impacts of global warming, stratospheric ozone depletion, deforestation, desertification and acid rain on the global change, and its associated change in global/regional change in the weather and climate patterns. In particular, synthetic discussions will be provided in terms of general atmospheric/oceanic circulation, physical climatology and cloud/precipitation physics for better understanding of energy and water cycles in the sun-earth-atmosphere system.
G15312 Environmental System Analysis For more efficient environment management, various mathematical tools such as linear programming, dynamic programming, simulation are studied.
G15313 Soil Microbiology This course covers the types and ecological characteristics of microorganisms which are responsible for the degradation of pollutants in soil and ground water.
G15316 Watershed Management Generation and discharge of non-point source pollution are discussed: hydrograph, pollutograph, loadograph from watershed; land use type, monitoring and modeling; integrated watershed management; TMDL etc.
G15318 Advanced Biological Treatment Topics include the principle of biological methods for the treatment and management of environmental pollutions, and environmental conservation. Case studies of biological treatment and bioremediation are also introduced.
G15320 Remediation of Contaminated Soils and Groundwater Various remediation techniques which have been used in the world will be studied. Basic theories and the applications of them will be reviewed with examples.
G15322 Wetland Ecology This course covers structure, functions and values of wetland ecosystems. Case studies on wetland restoration and management are included.
G15324 Remote Sensing Image Analysis This course covers fundamentals in atmospheric radiation and remote sensing, and analyses of weather images from remote sensing images such as satellite and radar.
G15325 Atmospheric Chemical Reactions To study chemical mechanisms of air pollutants in the gas and aqueous phase, especially, related to emissions, transport, and transformation of air pollutants.
G15326 Environmental Physical Chemistry The principles of physical chemistry and its application to environmental problems are lectures focusing on the thermodynamic laws, surface chemical phenomena, and phases interaction. Also, reaction kinetics and statistical thermodynamics are lectured in relation with environmental problems.
G15328 Advanced Special Topics in Environmental Science and EngineeringⅡ Special topics in environmental issues and pollution problems are lectured.
G16167 Climate and Environmental Physics This course provides a space-era understanding of the physical properties of the atmosphere, ocean and land surface, their planetary-scale history and evolution, the global energy balance and transfer, atmospheric and ocean general circulation, and new global measurement systems and sophisticated computer models, which make quantitative studies and predictions possible.
G16168 Ecosystem Conservation Biological Engineering Conservation of ecosystem and habitat restoration will be discussed with various techniques. Basic theory of restoration and computer-oriented knowledge will be taught so that students will learn more about the fundamental and advanced ecological theories and techniques.
G16261 Satellite Climate / Environmental Sciences This course deals with principle of satellite remote sensing of climate/environmental variables such as temperature, cloud, precipitation, aerosol, and vegetations. Radiative transfer theory will be studied. This course also reviews the application studies on climate/environmental science fields using recent earth observing satellite measurements.
G16544 Climate change and Green Biotechnology This course offers an interdisciplinary issues to environmental bioengineering, with a focus on a climate change. It covers the biological mitigation of greenhouse gases, bioenergy production, environmental bioremediation, green agricultural biotechnology to climate change.
G16545 The Global Carbon Cycle The course provides an overview of the global carbon cycle encompassing C dynamics in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; and explores climate and environmental changes induced by anthropogenic disturbances in the carbon cycle and their mitigation measures, focusing on recent research trends.
G16671 Environmental Management for Climate Change Mitigation This course provides an overview of scientific backgrounds and engineering options for climate change mitigation. A wide range of environmental management approaches to mitigating climate change will be explored, including alternative energies, ecosystem carbon sequestration, CCS (carbon capture and storage), and geo-engineering.
G16810 Case Study of Environmental Disasters This course deals with various cases of environmental disasters which have worldwide occurred since industrial revolution, along with the related environmental knowledges. Each cases include background, direct reason, process, result, and follow-up measures, etc.
G16811 Special Topics on Environmental Monitoring The course explains the principles and methodologies of environmental monitoring that aims to evaluate environmental quality and ecosystem integrity by observing the characteristics and function of various environmental systems including the atmosphere, water, soil, and biotic community. Special emphasis will be placed on novel monitoring methods as essential tools required for environmental researchers.
G16168 Ecosystem Conservation Biological Engineering Conservation of ecosystem and habitat restoration will be discussed with various techniques. Basic theory of restoration and computer-oriented knowledge will be taught so that students will learn more about the fundamental and advanced ecological theories and techniques.
G16261 Satellite Climate / Environmental Sciences This course deals with principle of satellite remote sensing of climate/environmental variables such as temperature, cloud, precipitation, aerosol, and vegetations. Radiative transfer theory will be studied. This course also reviews the application studies on climate/environmental science fields using recent earth observing satellite measurements.
G16544 Climate change and Green Biotechnology This course offers an interdisciplinary issues to environmental bioengineering, with a focus on a climate change. It covers the biological mitigation of greenhouse gases, bioenergy production, environmental bioremediation, green agricultural biotechnology to climate change.
G16545 The Global Carbon Cycle The course provides an overview of the global carbon cycle encompassing C dynamics in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; and explores climate and environmental changes induced by anthropogenic disturbances in the carbon cycle and their mitigation measures, focusing on recent research trends.
G16671 Environmental Management for Climate Change Mitigation This course provides an overview of scientific backgrounds and engineering options for climate change mitigation. A wide range of environmental management approaches to mitigating climate change will be explored, including alternative energies, ecosystem carbon sequestration, CCS (carbon capture and storage), and geo-engineering.
G16810 Case Study of Environmental Disasters This course deals with various cases of environmental disasters which have worldwide occurred since industrial revolution, along with the related environmental knowledges. Each cases include background, direct reason, process, result, and follow-up measures, etc.
G16811 Special Topics on Environmental Monitoring The course explains the principles and methodologies of environmental monitoring that aims to evaluate environmental quality and ecosystem integrity by observing the characteristics and function of various environmental systems including the atmosphere, water, soil, and biotic community. Special emphasis will be placed on novel monitoring methods as essential tools required for environmental researchers.
G16812 Biological Principles of Environmental Engineering This course covers theoretical aspects of biological process in environmental engineering. The objectives of the course are to obtain the fundamental knowledge of microbiology, biochemistry, microbial kinetics, bioenergetics, microbial ecology, and the mechanism of biodegradation in order to further apply them to practical application in environmental engineering practice.
G17214 Special Topics on Environmental Impact Assessment Environmental Impact Assessment becomes more important issues in environmental conservation because it can evaluate and provide ways to control various types of national development projects. Newly revised Act of EIA(2013) can emphasize ecosystem conservation such as biological species and natural resource assessment. New addition of EIA Assessor becomes the highest certification issued in the national level, thus course opening and student training should be most urgent and necessary
G17215 Environmental Nanotechnology The objective of this course is to introduce fundamental knowledge of a variety of nanotechnologies and their potential applications to environmental diagnosis and monitoring, cleanup and remediation, as well as environmental implications of nanomaterials.
G15327 Advanced Micrometeorology In the biogeochemical cycles, the exchange between the atmosphere and terrestrial vegetation is probably the component with the greatest temporal and spatial variability. Micrometeorology is aimed to understand the exchange processes of energy, mass and momentum between Earth's surface and the atmosphere, and studies the interaction between the biosphere and the atmosphere. Vegetation is dependent on the state of the atmosphere, and exerts an active control on weather and climate processes via evapotranspiration and carbon assimilation. In addition, biosphere-atmosphere exchange is heavily dependent on the characteristics of the vegetation. These surface conditions can vary at very small scales and thus influences interrelationships of atmospheric variables and particular surface types. In this course, theoretical understanding and mathematical description of transport processes of energy and mass in the soil-vegetation-atmosphere system are emphasized.