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Learn Basic Environmental Math, Part A
Course Objective: The objective of this course is for students to begin learning the basic environmental math skills necessary for everyday commonplace activities at water and wastewater treatment plants. It covers only part of the typically encountered environmental calculations and should be taken in conjunction with Part B in order to learn basic environmental math skills. |
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Contents: Virtual
lectures and hands-on activities are set up in a series of three assignments
to enable students to learn principles including (1) Calculations and
conversions; (2) Significant figures and rounding; and (3) Effects of
density on calculations. This course is
intended to be taken as the first part of two-part series, with
Part B covering concentrations, loadings, and averaging; determining
removal rates and treatment efficiencies; using
proportions and ratios; and logarithmic calculations.
Math is cool! And, you will be surprised how much you enjoy crunching numbers while taking this course. Students will be provided with step-by-step detailed explanations and actual math examples to help demonstrate the principles. And, students will execute a series of calculations to ensure their mastery of the basic environmental math skills. |
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| Learning on-line is fun due to our hands-on activities and virtual exercises. | Take this Course
and Complete the Hands-On Assignments, and YOU WILL LEARN! |
The Wonderful World of Widgets is fun, fun, fun! | Test included. Certificates provided. Courses can be taken for credit in many States, and applied for and pending in other States. | ||
| Course Limitations: This course does not cover all situations where environmental math will be required, but we're working on an advanced course covering other environmental math calculations while you are reading this. | |||||
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The Wastewater Clarifications series of courses is designed specifically for water and wastewater treatment plant professionals and many courses also cover some environmental math principles. The Wonderful World of Widgets has numerous calculations involved when applying environmental regulations. Check them both out at www.Environmental-Training.com |
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| Please
feel free to print out and use this course synopsis to
obtain approval within your company to take this course.
Register on-line at www.Environmental-Training.com. |
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| About the Author: This course was developed by an environmental professional with experience working directly for EPA and as a contractor supporting EPA, State Agencies, local governments, industry, and non-profit organizations. The primary author of this course has conducted over 100 environmental regulatory inspections on behalf of the EPA, and has supported EPA rulemaking activities and enforcement initiatives. | |||||