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 I (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)

** These courses cannot be double-counted as both an earth science and technical elective