CEE 549-Geoenvironmental Engineering

University	University of Michigan
Semester	Fall 2017
Course Type	Graduate
Assignments	8
Participating Students	15
Status	Archived

Assignments

Seismic Response and Stability Analysis of Landfills

Liu Chenghang

Mowar Sabyasachi

Seismic Response and Stability Analysis of Landfills

Our project is a literature review of scholarly papers and will attempt to cover select topics in the realm of earthquakes and landfills with a condensed discussion of the topic at hand. An attempt...

The Economic and Social Impacts of Brownfield Redevelopment

Goldie Gunawan

Sara Leon

The Economic and Social Impacts of Brownfield Redevelopment

At an alarming number of 450,000 in the United States (as estimated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)), brownfields have become an important part of urban redevelopment. Ou...

Techniques for Geoenvironmental Characterization of Contaminated Sites

Daiyue Jin

Michelle Basham

Techniques for Geoenvironmental Characterization of Contaminated Sites

Environmental contamination can occur from a number of sources due to historically bad practices and the growing needs of human civilization and industry. In the case of environmental contamination,...

Advantages and Limitations of Techniques Used to Quantify Methane Emissions From Municipal Solid Waste Landfills

Cassandra Champagne

Gabriel Draughon

Advantages and Limitations of Techniques Used to Quantify Methane Emissions From Municipal Solid Waste Landfills

In the United States, Subtitle D landfills are used to dispose of municipal solid waste (MSW). Solid waste is defined by the Environmental Protection Agency as “any garbage, refuse, sludge from a w...

Electrical Resistivity Surveying for Characterizing Contaminated Sites

William Greenwood

Tobias Buth

Electrical Resistivity Surveying for Characterizing Contaminated Sites

Electrical resistivity surveys involve inserting electrodes directly into the ground surface and transmitting an electrical current into the soil which acts as a resistive medium. Two sets of probes...

Landfill Leachate Treatment

Christina Kang

Xiaohang Ji

Landfill Leachate Treatment

The sanitary landfill method for disposal of solid waste is widely used due to its economic advantages in terms of exploitation and capital costs (Renou et al., 2008). In addition to the economic a...

End Uses of Landfills

Ryan Carpus

Phil Koerschner

End Uses of Landfills

Landfills pose a number of environmental and social issues while in operation which are regulated by USEPA, state governments, and local municipalities. However, the way the land is used after the l...

Deep Well Injections

Mitchell Goodin

Deep Well Injections

The intent of this report is to review deep well injection and what kind of geoenvironmental and environmental considerations this process has. Deep well injection became popular in the United Sta...