Undergraduate

Environment
Environmental engineers help conserve and extend the planet’s natural resources to improve the lives of people everywhere. The Environment core introduces students to principles in environmental sustainability, chemistry, physics, microbiology, fluid mechanics and hydrology. Students receive a deep understanding of environmental engineering fundamentals, coupled with hands-on research to engineer innovative ways to protect our air, sea, water, food security, and societies resilience to climate change. CEE students in the Environment core pursue careers in fields such as biotechnology and sustainability, clean energy, environmental consulting, water resources engineering, policy, Argi-tech and climate-tech startups.

1.018 Fundamentals of Ecology
1.060 Fluid Mechanics
1.061A Transport Processes in the Environment I
1.070A Introduction to Hydrology and Water Resources I
1.080 Environmental Chemistry
1.091 Traveling Research Environmental eXperience (TREX): Fieldwork
1.106 Environmental Fluid Transport Processes and Hydrology Laboratory
1.107 Environmental Chemistry and Biology Laboratory

Mechanics & Materials
Civil engineering is critically important as our communities’ strain to sustain limited natural resources, accommodate growth, and replace declining infrastructure. The Mechanics and Materials core focuses on creating innovative design built on strong fundamentals for the sustainability of existing structures, and for sustainable designs of new structures and materials. The Mechanics and Materials core ensures students learn the principles of mechanics necessary to understand how materials behave at scales from the nano to the macro. CEE students in the Mechanics and Materials core pursue careers in fields such as civil engineering, geomechanical engineering, structural engineering and design consulting.

• 1.035 Mechanics of Materials
• 1.036 Structural Mechanics and Design
• 1.050 Solid Mechanics
• 1.056 Introduction to Structural Design
• 1.060 Fluid Mechanics
• 1.104 Sensing and Intelligent Systems

Energy, Transportation, and Societal Systems
Systems engineers design, analyze, optimize, and implement solutions that improve the safety and efficiency of complex urban systems such as transportation, supply chains, energy, and other societal networks. The Systems core focuses on mathematical methods in network science, energy systems, optimization, control theory, machine learning, and data analytics to address the problems of growing demand and limited resources in today’s urban systems. CEE students in the Systems core pursue careers in fields such as systems engineering, supply chain and logistics, transportation engineering, autonomous robotics, data science and analytics, and environmental sustainability.

1.020 Engineering Sustainability: Analysis and Design
1.022 Introduction to Network Models
1.041 Transportation Systems Modeling
15.053 Optimization Methods in Business Analytics
1.102 Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design II
1.050 Solid Mechanics OR 1.060 Fluid Mechanics

Students are required to take at least 48 units of Restricted Electives selected from subjects offered within or outside CEE to form a coherent program of study under supervision by CEE faculty. For examples of suggested electives, please scroll down to see sample tracks.

Unrestricted Electives
Students are required to take at least 48 units of Unrestricted Electives. This requirement can be met by any combination of subjects of the student’s choosing.