C&EE 254A

Environmental Aquatic Inorganic Chemistry

Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Equilibrium and kinetic descriptions of chemical behavior of metals and inorganic ions in natural fresh/marine surface waters and in water treatment. Processes include acid-base chemistry and alkalinity (carbonate system), complexation, precipitation/dissolution, absorption oxidation/reduction, and photochemistry.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Fall 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: Chemistry 20B, Mathematics 31A, 31B, Physics 1A, 1B.

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Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

C&EE 254A

CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Change
- CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I
  - LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
  - MATH 3ACalculus for Life Sciences Students
  - MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

C&EE 254A

C&EE 255APhysical and Chemical Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment
- C&EE 255BBiological Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatmentanother path to it
- C&EE 261Colloidal Phenomena in Aquatic Systemsanother path to it
- C&EE 261AAdvanced Water Treatment Processes
C&EE 255BBiological Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment