On April 16, 1998, An Educational Seminar on New Municipal Ground-Water Supply Issues was presented by IET and ELA personnel in north Houston concerning new ground-water-supply issues. Look for future announcements and details on the various IET training programs on this and associated WWW pages.

A four-week evening course is being designed to meet the needs of the legal profession in pursuing environmental litigation.

The course will cover technical topics of specific interest to the legal profession. Details of the new training program, Environmental Science & Engineering for Attorneys, will be announced soon.

Final planning is underway for selected topics. Further announcements will be made soon.

Continuing Education Units (CEUs): Approximately 18.0 CEUs are awarded to the graduate, subject to satisfactory completion of the regular course.

Hazwoper Certification: A closed-book one-hour examination is required for all students whether or not registered for Hazwoper 40-Hr. Certification. The answers to the exam questions are discussed in detail immediately following the examination. A minimum passing grade of 70 is required. Remedial options are available.

Superfund Field Trip: At least one field trip is taken during the course to selected Superfund sites in the Houston-Harris-Galveston County area on a Saturday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Field Demonstrations: Equipment demonstrations are presented throughout the course, ranging from environmental drilling, sampling and well construction, CPT, geophysical logging, monitoring well measurements and observing remediation systems.

Class Presentations: At the end of the third month of the regular course, topical technical papers are selected by the Principal Instructor and assigned to student-pairs for presentation to the class in a strictly monitored 20-minute period. The students are graded on their presentations.

Midterm: A take-home open-book examination encouraging individual research of literature distributed during the first half of the course.

Final: The final examination covers the entire course. It is a closed-book two-hour examination held on the last day of the course.

Grading:The student's final score is a weighted average of four course components: Midterm Examination (30%) + Presentation (20%) + Attendance (10%) + Final Examination (40%).


(Example shown below from the Spring Term, 1998)
Lectures: Tuesday & Thursday 7:00 am-10:00 pm
Saturday 8:00 am - 12:00 Noon

Introduction
Overview of Course
Course Purpose & Objectives
Course Assignments & Ranking

Regulatory Framework: Environmental Laws & Regulations
History of RCRA & CERCLA Programs
Definition of RCRA Regulations
Corrective Action Planning & Implementation
Hazardous Material Definitions & Management
Definition of CERCLA Programs

Health & Safety Regulations, Strategies & Planning
OSHA Regulations
DOT Regulations
Health & Safety Protocol
Hazwoper (OSHA 40-Hr.)
Regulations
Requirements
Field Demonstrations
Examination

Programmed Response to the Regulations
Site Assessment & Audits
Objectives & Purpose
Scoping Investigations
Techniques & Approaches
Liabilities & Dangers
Site Characterization
Environmental Chemistry
Inorganic Constituents
Organic Constituents
Sampling Protocol
Environmental Geology
Meteorology
Surface Water
Ground Water
Applied Hydrogeology
Principles
Flow-Net Analysis
Monitoring Well Construction
Drilling Methods & Demonstrations
Aquifer Data Collection & Analysis
Contaminant Transport
Ground-Water Modeling & Demos
Ground-Water Statistics
Applied Field Demonstrations
Air Quality Analysis & Control
Data Collection
Regional Analysis
Regulations
Risk Assessment & Evaluation
Definition of Receptors
Risk Analysis
Selection of Clean-up Alternatives
Conceptual Engineering
Definition of Possible Solutions
Critical Path Issues
EPA Technology Support Programs
Objectives & Purpose
Demonstration Projects
TNRCC Superfund Programs
Objectives & Purpose
Technology Support & Review
Best Developed Available Technology (BDAT)
Review & Analysis of Technologies
Cost-Based Analyses
Remediation Engineering
Standard Remediation Technology
Innovative Remediation Technology

Project Management Objectives
Approaches: Line vs. Matrix Management
Responsibilities
Scoping
Budgeting
Scheduling Staff Development: Technical & Managerial
Liabilities & Risk Control
Quality Control
Quality Assurance

Environmental Marketing
Methods & Objectives
Approaches & Philosophy

Environmental Recruiting
Present Industry Activity
State of the Environmental Business
Approach to Interviewing
Use of Networks
Personal Power

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