SUMMER-ABROAD.UCDAVIS.EDU May 12, 2008 02:47 PM
Stefan Wuertz
Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis
swuertz@ucdavis.edu
Stefan Wuertz is a professor of environmental engineering and spent 4 years in Galway as an undergraduate student. His teaching and research interests range from wastewater treatment processes to public health issues. He is a German native and is married to an Irish woman.
This program is based in Galway, the cultural center of the west of Ireland, and provides students with a practical sense of the commonalities and differences between a very warm and arid region of the United States (California) and the mild but wetter climate found in Ireland. Students will study the scientific principles that can guide sustainable development of coastal regions and inland watersheds. The course is aimed at engineering students who wish to improve their understanding of how human activities affect the water cycle and acquire the scientific underpinnings to become proficient in environmental engineering practice. The class is also open to science majors with an interest in quantitative aspects of water quality management and public health. Students will analyze the causes of the large Cryptosporidiosis outbreak in 2007, which was traced to a breakdown in treatment of the public water supply.
