Spring 2027 - 63890 - 345 - Advanced Topics in Policy

  

PA682GB, 64000, 3 credits, graduate

PA345, 63890, 3 credits, undergraduate

Mondays, 6 to 9 pm, Central Time (US)

This is a class that will is a continuation of the Fall Semester 2026 Policy Research project class. Students are involved in outreach to three federal governments (Mexico, Canada, and the USA),  three state governments

(Texas, Michigan and Iowa), cities and communities, private businesses in technology fields, and non-profit organizations in implementing environmental technologies to improve peoples’ lives. The class will enable students to work on any of five technologies:

 

Students will assist Mexico and the USA to address a common set of issues associated with the Treaty of 1944 regarding water flow and quality in the Lower Rio Grande/Rio Bravo.

Students will assist the Governments of Canada and the USA to enhance their joint management of 13 trans-boundary watersheds. 

Students in this component of the class will assist communities in three states (Iowa, Michigan and Texas) and Mexico to implement novel methods that use solar energy to power a process to collect and convert nitrates into saleable products to both prevent nitrate pollution and enable users to earn income from converting nitrates to useful products. 

Students in this component of the class will work on four topics related to development of novel methods to produce rare earths and enable the US to develop and improve procedures for supply chains to provide rare earth products: engineering processes;  supply chains; biological separation of rare earths; and rare earth trade. 

Students in this class component will work with the Governments of the USA and Mexico to improve monitoring and management of air quality along the borders of Texas and its four adjacent Mexican states.: Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, and Chihuahua.