Environmental Engineering Option
The Environmental Engineering program offers an opportunity to pursue a broad range of interests in the fields of environmental and water resources engineering. The course of study is designed to meet an individual student's interests and career goals. Programs consist of civil engineering courses in water and wastewater treatment, environmental chemistry, hydrology, hydraulics, air pollution control, environmental law and policy and may include courses from allied disciplines such as biological and health sciences, environmental studies, chemistry and work environment. The program of study consists of five core courses and elective courses. Undergraduate course prerequisites must be completed before beginning graduate course work.
Core Courses
14.561 Physical and Chemical Treatment Processes
14.562 Physical and Chemical Hydrogeology
14.567 Environmental Aquatic Chemistry
14.568 Environmental Fate and Transport
14.578 Biological Wastewater Treatment
Elective Courses
Individual student programs consist of a complement of elective courses usually taken from the following list:
14.527 Geotechnical Environmental Site Characterization
14.529 Engineering with Geosynthetics
14.570 Small and Alternative Waste Water Treatment
14.572 Marine and Coastal Processes
14.573 Solid Waste Engineering
14.574 Air Quality Modeling
14.575 Groundwater Modeling
14.576 GIS Applications in Civil & Environmental Engineering
14.577 Biological Principles in Environmental Engineering Systems
14.595 Hazardous Waste Site Remediation
18.501 Wetlands Ecology
18.502 Limnology
18.505 Glacial Geology
18.506 Regional Hydrogeology
18.510 Water Resources Management
18.523 Air Pollution Control
18.571 Air Pollution Phenomenology
18.581 Understanding the Massachusetts Contingency Plan
See the graduate catalog for more information and course descriptions.