CVE 543 - Environmental Microbiology

Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
This course covers the basic science of environmental microbiology relevant to civil engineering. Topics covered include basic microbiological concepts, classification of organisms, chemical composition of life (carbohydrates, nucleic acids, proteins, and lipids), cell biology, bacterial growth, archeae, eukarya, fungi, algae, protozoa, viruses, detection, enumeration and identification, infectious disease transmission, biodegradation.