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.
Core in the area of Environmental Engineering Science with a focus on atmospheric chemistry and climate
We recommend taking 1.009 Climate Change in first-year fall
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Core in the area of Environmental Engineering Science with a focus on microbiology and disease
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.
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |