Spring 2027

Water Treatment Plant Design

Design of water treatment processes and plant facilities, including unit operations, groundwater treatment, cost estimates, CAD concepts, and site visits.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Ann-Perry Witmer

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=36 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.92 GPA, 92.1% A/AB (n=38 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=53 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Find regulatory requirements for water quality, operation, and design, and incorporate them as constraints when developing design solutions

  • Develop technically feasible alternative solutions, compare the alternative solutions, and recommend one of the solutions

  • Create plans and specifications that allow construction of a portion of the recommended solution

  • Implement measures to consider risk, reliability, and uncertainty in water treatment plant design

  • Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of drinking water treatment

  • Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of drinking water treatment

  • Manage a group of undergraduate students through the design process

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Professors

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 003Online Only0 / 150
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 400

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=36 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.92 GPA, 92.1% A/AB (n=38 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=53 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Unit operations in water treatment
  • Groundwater treatment
  • Preliminary cost estimates
  • Introduction of computer-aided design concept
  • Site visits to water treatment plants

Skills

  • Finding regulatory requirements for water quality, operation, and design, and incorporating them as constraints when developing design solutions
  • Developing technically feasible alternative solutions, comparing them, and recommending one solution
  • Creating plans and specifications that allow construction of a portion of the recommended solution
  • Implementing measures to consider risk, reliability, and uncertainty in water treatment plant design
  • Applying sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of drinking water treatment
  • Explaining the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenges of drinking water treatment
  • Managing a group of undergraduate students through the design process

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Where this course fits relative to

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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.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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CIVENGR 428 · Spring 2027

Water Treatment Plant Design

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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