Environmental Engineering Tracks

Help protect and extend the planet’s natural resources to improve the lives of people everywhere. Tracks in the Environment core explore innovative ways to keep our air clean, fresh water abundant, crops resilient to climate change, and lives safe, enhanced and extended. Combine scientific inquiry and engineering principles to unlock and leverage nature’s secrets to aid people at a global scale.

Atmosphere and Climate Track

Core in the area of Environmental Engineering Science with a focus on atmospheric chemistry and climate

General Department Requirements (GDR)
Core (CORE) Restricted Elective (RE)
Unrestricted Electives (UE)
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS)

We recommend taking 1.009 Climate Change in first-year fall

Sophomore

FALL	UNITS	REQ	SPRING	UNITS	REQ
1.010A Probability: Concepts and Applications	6	GDR	18.03 Differential Equations	12	GDR
1.000 Intro to Computer Programming and Numerical Methods for Engineering Applications	12	GDR	1.060 Fluid Mechanics	12	CORE
1.018 Fundamentals of Ecology HASS	12	CORE	1.107 Environmental Chemistry & Biology Lab	6	CORE
1.101 Intro to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design	12	GDR	Unrestricted elective	12	UE
HASS	12	HASS	12

Junior

FALL	UNITS	REQ	SPRING	UNITS	REQ
1.061A Transport Process in the Environment I	6	CORE	1.091 Traveling Research Environmental eXperience (TREX): Fieldwork (3, IAP)	3	CORE
1.070A Intro to Hydrology and Water Resources	6	CORE	1.080 Environmental Chemistry	12	RE
1.073 Introduction to Environmental Data Analysis	12	RE
1.106 Env. Fluid Transport Processes and Hydrology Lab	6	CORE	1.107 Environmental Chemistry Lab	6	CORE
Restricted Elective HASS	12 12	RE	Unrestrictive Elective HASS	12 12	UE

Senior

FALL	UNITS	REQ	SPRING	UNITS	REQ
1.013 Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design	6	GDR	1.013 Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design	6	GDR
Restricted Elective	12	RE	Restricted Elective	12	RE
Unrestricted Elective	12	UE	Unrestricted Elective	12	UE
			HASS	12
HASS	12

Microbiology and Disease Track

Core in the area of Environmental Engineering Science with a focus on microbiology and disease

General Department Requirements (GDR)
Core (CORE)
Restricted Elective (RE)
Unrestricted Electives (UE)
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS)

Students interested in this track are encouraged to take the Biology GIR in their first year. If the Biology GIR is not taken in the first year, students should work with their academic advisor to revise the sequencing of this track.

Sophomore

FALL	UNITS	REQ	SPRING	UNITS	REQ
1.000 Computer Programming for Engineering Applications	12	GDR	7.102 Introduction to Molecular Biology Techniques (IAP) 1.060 Fluid Mechanics	6 12	RE CORE
1.010 Probability and Causal Inference	12	GDR	1.073 Introduction to Environmental Data Analysis	6	GDR
1.018 Fundamentals of Ecology	12	CORE	1.081 Environmental Cancer Risks, Prevention and Therapy	12	RE
18.03 Differential Equations	12	GDR	6.0001 Introduction to Computer Science Programming in Python	6	RE
HASS	12	HASS	12

Junior

FALL	UNITS	REQ	SPRING	UNITS	REQ
1.061A Transport Process in the Environment I	6	CORE	1.091 Traveling Research Environmental eXperience (TREX): Fieldworks(3, IAP)	3	CORE
1.070A Introduction to Hydrology and Water Resources	6	CORE	1.063 Fluids and Disease 1.080 Environmental Chemistry	12 12	RE CORE
1.106 Environmental Transport Processes and Hydrology Lab	6	CORE	1.107 Environmental Chemistry & Biology Lab	6	CORE
Unrestricted Elective OR 5.12 Organic Chemistry	12	UE	Unrestricted Elective	12	RE
HASS	12	HASS	12	UE

Senior

FALL	UNITS	REQ	SPRING	UNITS	REQ
1.013 Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design (Capstone)	6	GDR	1.013 Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design (Capstone)	6	GDR
12.715 Environmental Bioinformatics	12	RE	1.088 Genomics and Evolution of Infectious Disease	12	RE
Unrestricted Elective OR 20.507 Introduction to Biological Chemistry	12	UE	1.089 Earth’s Microbiomes Unrestricted Elective	12 12	RE UE
Unrestricted Elective	12	UE
HASS	12	HASS	12