Course Requirements

Core Courses (10 credits)

All students are required to take three lecture courses from three of four options (one course per selected option):

1. Option 1:
   16:180:592 Sustainable Environmental Biotechnology (3), or
   16:375:510 Environmental Microbiology (3)
2. Option 2:
   16:375:517 Aquatic Chemistry (3), or
   16:375:540 Atmospheric Chemistry (3)
3. Option 3:
   16:375:523 Environmental Fate and Transport (3), or
   16:116:xxx Air Quality Modeling (3) (proposed new course)
4. Option 4:
   16:180:563 Advanced Hydrology (3), or
   16:180:569 Environmental Informatics (3), or
   16:180:586 Advanced Fluid Mechanics (3)

All students are required to take one seminar course:
16:116:611 or 612 Seminar in Environmental Engineering (1)
 

Research or Special Problems (2-6 credits)

1. 16:116:697/698 Special Problems in Environmental Engineering (Plan B) (1,1)
2. 16:116:701/702 Research in Environmental Engineering (Plan A) (3,3)

Electives (14-18 credits)

The remaining courses may be selected from the following:

Water Resources

1. 16:180:561 Advanced Water Supply and Sewerage (3)
2. 16:180:563 Advanced Hydrology (3)
3. 16:180:566 Sediment Transport (3)
4. 16:180:567 Analysis of Receiving Water Quality (3)
5. 16:180:574 Groundwater Engineering I (3)
6. 16:180:576 Groundwater Engineering II (3)
7. 16:180:586 Advanced Fluid Mechanics (3)
8. 16:180:590 Coastal Engineering (3)
9. 16:180:592 Green Infrastructure for Water Management (3)
10. 16:375:509 Groundwater Pollution (3)
11. 16:375:541 Environmental Models (3)

Environmental Unit Processes and Remediation

12. 16:180:562 Design of Water and Wastewater Treatment (3)
13. 16:180:565 Biogeochemical Engineering (3)
14. 16:180:593 QMRA & One Health Engineering (3)
15. 16:375:504 Water and Wastewater Treatment (3)
16. 16:375:506 Industrial Wastewater Treatment (3)
17. 16:375:510 Environmental Microbiology (3)
18. 16:375:522 Environmental Organic Chemistry (3)
19. 16:375:527 Physiochemical Process Dynamics in Environmental Systems (3)
20. 16:375:529 Biodegradation and Bioremediation (3)
21. 16:375:531 Biological Waste Treatment (3)

Air Quality

22. 16:107:544 Atmospheric Physics (3)
23. 16:180:560 Air Quality Management (3)
24. 16:375:524 Source Control of Atmospheric Pollution (3)
25. 16:375:536 Air Sampling and Analysis Techniques (Lab) (3)
26. 16:375:540 Atmospheric Chemistry (3)

Sustainable Environmental Systems

27. 16:107: 545 Physical Climatology (3)
28. 16:116:507 Environmental Systems Analysis (3)
29. 16:116:508 Instruments in Bioenvironmental Engineering (4)
30. 16:180:569 Environmental Informatics (3)
31. 16:375:530 Hazardous Waste Management (3)
32. 16:375:534 Environmental Sustainability: Life-Cycle Assessment Tools (3)
33. 16:375:626 Environmental Science and Engineering for Overburdened Communities (3)
34. 34:970:523 Environmental Law and Policy (3)

*Note: Graduate courses that are co-listed with undergraduate courses and have already been taken as undergraduate course will not count toward the graduate degree.

 

Additional Electives

A maximum of 12 credits from the following 400-level undergraduate courses may be taken for graduate credit as electives, provided that they have not already been taken to satisfy undergraduate degree requirements:

1. 11:117:413 Unit Processes in Bioenvironmental Engineering I (3)
2. 11:117:414 Unit Processes in Bioenvironmental Engineering II (1)
3. 11:117:423 Unit Processes in Bioenvironmental Engineering Lab I (3)
4. 11:117:424 Unit Processes in Bioenvironmental Engineering Lab II (1)
5. 11:117:462 Design of Solid Waste Treatment Systems (3)
6. 11:117:468 Hazardous Waste Treatment Engineering (3)
7. 11:670:453 Air Quality Modeling (3)