C&EE 254A · CEE 254AEnvironmental Aquatic Inorganic Chemistry
Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
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.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: Chemistry 20B, Mathematics 31A, 31B, Physics 1A, 1B.
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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
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
- MATH 1Precalculus
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
5 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 31 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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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 261AAdvanced Water Treatment Processes
- C&EE 255BBiological Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment
- C&EE 261BAdvanced Biological Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment
- C&EE 258AMembrane Separations in Aquatic Systems
- C&EE 261Colloidal Phenomena in Aquatic Systems
- C&EE 266Environmental Biotechnology
- C&EE 267Environmental Applications of Geochemical Modeling
6 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 10 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.