Environmental engineering technical electives
Approved earth science and technical elective courses
Earth science elective options. Select one course from the following:
- ATMS 117 Meteorology (3 credits)
- ATMS 121/GEOG 121 Climate Change and Its Environmental Impact (4 credits)
- ATMS 411 Introduction to Atmospheric Physics (4 credits) **
- ATMS 412 Introduction to Air Pollution (4 credits) **
- GEOL 101 General Geology (4 credits)
- NRES 210 Environmental Pollution (3 credits)
- NRES 322 Soils (4 credits)
- NRES 422 Soil Physics (3 credits) **
Technical elective options. Select at least 6 credits from the following list:
At least 3 credits must be taken from the following list of courses:
- ATMS 411 Introduction to Atmospheric Physics (4 credits) **
- ATMS 412 Introduction to Air Pollution (4 credits) **
- BCH 400 Introductory Biochemistry (4 credits)
- BIOL 472 Limnology: Study of Inland Waters (3 credits)
- CEE 414 Water Resources Engineering II (3 credits)
- CEE 418 Principles of Water Quality Modeling (3 credits)
- CEE 428 Urban Engineering (3 credits)
- CEE 442 (or GE 442) Fundamentals of Geotechnical Engineering (3-4 credits)
- CEE 495 Special Topics in Environmental Engineering (3 credits, check with advisor)
- CHE 410 Renewable Energy Systems (3 credits)
- CHE 415 Particle Technology (3 credits)
- CHE 440 Chemical Reactor Design (3 credits)
- CHE 471 Process Engineering for Pollution Prevention and Waste Minimization (3 credits)
- CHE 475 Principles of Bioengineering (3 credits)
- CHEM 421 Physical Chemistry I OR CHEM 425 Biophysical Chemistry (3 credits)
- GE 484 Groundwater Hydrology (3 credits)
- GE 485 Waste Containment: Theory and Practice (3 credits)
- GEOG 405 GIS I: Geographic Information Systems and Science (4 credits)
- GEOG 407 GIS II: Geographic Information Systems and Science (4 credits)
- GEOL 416 Environmental Geochemistry (3 credits)
- NRES 422 Soil Physics (3 credits) **
- NRES 430 Analysis of Environmental Contaminants (3 credits)
- NRES 432 Advanced Environmental Toxicology (3 credits)
- NRES 433 Environmental Chemicals: Exposure, Transport and Fate (3 credits)
- NRES 482 Small Watershed Hydrology (4 credits)
- NRES 485 Special Topics in NRES (3 credits, check with advisor)
A maximum of 1 course may be applied from the following list of courses:
- CEE 372 Mechanics of Solids (3 credits)
- CEE 377 Construction Materials Engineering and Testing (4 credits)
- CEE 411 (or PSC 403E) Environmental Law (3 credits)
- CHE 311 (or ME 311) Engineering Thermodynamics (3 credits)
- ENGR 305 Introduction to Sustainability (3 credits)
- ENGR 461 High Tech Entrepreneurship (3 credits)
- ENGR 475 Leadership for Engineers (3 credits)
- GEOG 411 Remote Sensing: Principles and Applications (3 credits)
- GEOG 438 Western Water Resources and Management (3 credits)
- NRES 400 International Issues for Water Development (3 credits)
- NRES 440 Wetland Ecology and Management (4 credits)
- NRES 467 Regional & Global Issues in Natural Res. and Environ. Sci. (3 credits)
- PSC 403C Environmental Policy (3 credits)
- PSC 403G Land and Water Resource Policy (3 credits)
** These courses cannot be double-counted as both an earth science and technical elective