Spring 2027

Air Pollution Effects, Measurement and Control

Covers man-caused atmospheric pollution effects, health/economic/aesthetic impacts, measurement techniques for pollutant concentrations, sources/control methods, and government roles in air quality regulation.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Michael Olson

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.44 GPA, 73.1% A/AB (n=26 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.52 GPA, 82.9% A/AB (n=41 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.26 GPA, 68.4% A/AB (n=38 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the roles of engineers and scientists in managing air quality

  • Classify the breadth of air pollution problems into the following scales: indoor residential air quality, indoor industrial air quality, urban air pollution, regional air pollution, and global climate change

  • Describe the sources, transformations, fates, and impacts of key priority air pollutants at the scales noted above

  • Derive and use mass balance and reactor model calculations to estimate concentrations, and to identify fates and sources of air pollution at the scales noted above

  • Estimate transport and thermodynamic properties related to the formation, destruction, and removal of air pollutants

  • Explain the key technologies and processes used to prevent air pollution formation, transform air pollutants and remove air pollutants

  • Develop a basic design to mitigate an air pollution problem

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Senior standing and declared in Biomed, Biological Sys, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, Geological, Industrial, Mechanical or Nuclear Egr, Mat Sci & Egr, Egr Physics, Egr Mechanics, grad/prof standing or member of Egr Guest Students

  • Senior standing and declared in Biomed, Biological Sys, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, Geological, Industrial, Mechanical or Nuclear Egr, Mat Sci & Egr, Egr Physics, Egr Mechanics, grad/prof standing or member of Egr Guest Students
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  • Senior standing and declared in Biomed, Biological Sys, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, Geological, Industrial, Mechanical or Nuclear Egr, Mat Sci & Egr, Egr Physics, Egr Mechanics, grad/prof standing or member of Egr Guest Students

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.44 GPA, 73.1% A/AB (n=26 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.52 GPA, 82.9% A/AB (n=41 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.26 GPA, 68.4% A/AB (n=38 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

MICHAEL OLSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Online Only0 / 600

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.44 GPA, 73.1% A/AB (n=26 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.52 GPA, 82.9% A/AB (n=41 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.26 GPA, 68.4% A/AB (n=38 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Man-caused pollution influence on atmosphere globally and locally
  • Human health, economic, and aesthetic effects of air pollution
  • Measurement of pollutant concentrations and local/regional air quality
  • Air pollution sources and control methods
  • Local, state, and federal government roles in air pollution control
  • Air pollution scales: indoor residential/industrial, urban, regional, global climate

Skills

  • Describing roles of engineers and scientists in managing air quality
  • Classifying air pollution problems by scale from indoor to global
  • Describing sources, transformations, fates, and impacts of priority air pollutants
  • Deriving and using mass balance and reactor models for concentration estimation
  • Estimating transport and thermodynamic properties of air pollutants
  • Explaining technologies for preventing, transforming, and removing air pollutants
  • Developing basic designs to mitigate air pollution problems

Grades

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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CIVENGR 423 · Spring 2027

Air Pollution Effects, Measurement and Control

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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