Environmental Engineering

A fundamental challenge for the engineering profession is development of a sustainable society and environmentally responsible industry and agriculture reflecting an integration of economic and environmental objectives. We are called upon to be trustees and managers of our nation’s resources, the air in our cities, and the use and water in our aquifers, streams, estuaries, and coastal areas. This minor encourages engineering students to learn about the scientific, engineering, and economic foundations of environmental engineering so that they are better able to address environmental management issues.

Students affiliated with all majors except Environmental Engineering are are eligible to participate in this minor. Students majoring in Biological Engineering or Civil Engineering are eligible if they are not following the Environmental Concentration offered by those majors. Eligible Civil Engineering students may not use courses to fulfill the minor requirement and simultaneously as a Major Approved Elective or as a Design Course.

Academic Standards: At least C- in each course in the minor. GPA 2.0 or better for all courses in the minor.

Requirements:At least six courses (18 credits), chosen from the following groups, with at least one course from each group:

Group A. Environmental Engineering Processes:

BEE/ENGRD 251 Engineering for a Sustainable Society
CEE 351 Environmental Quality Engineering
CEE 451 Microbiology for Environmental Engineering
CEE 452 Water Supply Engineering
CEE 453 Laboratory Research in Environmental Engineering
CEE 454 Sustainable Small-Scale Water Supplies
CEE 455 AguaClara: Sustainable Water Supply Project
CEE 492 Engineers for a Sustainable World
BEE 476 Solid Waste Engineering
BEE 478 Ecological Engineering
CEE 444 Environmental Site and Remediation
BEE 651 Bioremediation
CEE 653 Water Chemistry for Environmental Engineering
CEE 656 Physical/Chemical Processes
CEE 657 Biological Process
CEE 658 Microbial Biodegradation and Biocatalysis Lab

Group B. Environmental Systems:

ENGRI 113 Sustainability Design for Appledore Island (May count only if taken before the student’s junior year.)
BEE 475 Environmental Systems Analysis
CEE 597 Risk Analysis and Management
CEE 623 Environmental Quality Systems Engineering

Group C. Hydraulics, Hydrology, and Environmental Fluid Mechanics

CEE 331 Fluid Mechanics (CHEME 323 or M&AE 323 may be substituted for CEE 331)
CEE 332 Hydraulic Engineering
BEE 371 Hydrology and the Environment
CEE 432 Hydrology
CEE 436 Case Studies in Environmental Fluid Mechanics
CEE 437 Experimental Methods in Fluid Dynamics
BEE 473 Watershed Engineering
BEE 474 Drainage and Irrigation Systems
CEE 631 Computational Simulation of Transport in the Environment
CEE 633 Flow in Porous Media and Groundwater
CEE 655 Transport, Mixing, and Transformation in the Environment
BEE 671 Analysis of the Flow of Water and Chemicals in Soils
BEE 672 Drainage