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Minor in Environmental Engineering
Offered by: Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering and School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Administrative Contact: BE Undergraduate Major Coordinator, 207 Riley-Robb Hall, or CE Undergraduate Major Coordinator, 221 Hollister Hall
Eligibility
Students in all Majors except Environmental Engineering may 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.
Educational Objectives
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 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.
Requirements
At least six (6) courses (minimum of 18 credits), chosen as follows:
Students must select courses from the following group listings, with at least one (1) 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: Engineering in International Development
BEE 476: Solid Waste Engineering
CEE 444: Environmental Site and Remediation Engineering
BEE 651: Bioremediation: Engineering Organisms to Clean Up the Environment
CEE 653: Water Chemistry for Environmental Engineering
CEE 656: Physical/Chemical Processes
CEE 657: Biological Processes
CEE 658: Biodegradation and Biocatalysis
Group B. Environmental Systems
ENGRI 113: Sustainability Design for Appledore Island (May count only if taken before the third 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: Fluid Mechanics or M&AE 323: Introductory Fluid Mechanics may be substituted for CEE 331)
CEE 332: Hydraulic Engineering
BEE 371: Physical Hydrology for Ecosystems
BEE 471: Introduction to Groundwater
CEE 432: Hydrology
CEE 436: Case Studies in Environmental Fluid Mechanics
CEE 437: Experimental Methods in Fluid Dynamics
BEE 473: Watershed Engineering
BEE 474: Water and Landscape Engineering Applications
CEE 631: Computational Simulation of Flow and 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
Academic Standards
At least a grade of C– in each course in the Minor and a GPA ≥2.0 in all courses in the Minor.
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