RICHARD GODFREY LUTHY, Ph.D., P.E., D.E.E.

Teaching Interests

Professor Luthy teaches courses on environmental engineering and water quality.   A graduate course on movement and fate of organic compounds [CEE 270] sets up a 'big picture' view of how to assess the behavior of organic contaminants in natural and engineered water systems.  The course asks how we might prevent problems resulting from compounds like chlorinated solvents, pesticides, and methyl tertiary-butyl ether through better understanding of the relationship between compound properties and environmental fate.  Another graduate course [CEE 271A] examines the physical and chemical treatment processes employed in water quality engineering with a focus on drinking water quality.  This course explores how water treatment process alternatives are changing in response to new perceptions of water quality and public health, and describes basic methods for designing physical/chemical treatment processes and assessing their performance.

Recent syllabi for these two courses are available at Stanford Syllabus:

http://syllabus.stanford.edu

CEE Civil and Environmental Engineering, CEE 270, Fall 2007

            Movement and Fate of Organic Contaminants in Water

CEE Civil and Environmental Engineering, CEE 271A, Winter 2007

            Physical and Chemical Treatment Processes