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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 UNITSREQSPRING UNITSREQ
1.010A Probability: Concepts and Applications6GDR18.03 Differential Equations12GDR
1.000 Intro to Computer Programming and Numerical Methods for Engineering Applications12GDR1.060 Fluid Mechanics12CORE
1.018 Fundamentals of Ecology

HASS

12CORE1.107 Environmental Chemistry & Biology Lab6CORE
1.101 Intro to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design12GDRUnrestricted elective12UE
HASS12HASS12

Junior

FALL UNITSREQSPRING UNITSREQ
1.061A Transport Process in the Environment I6CORE1.091 Traveling Research Environmental eXperience (TREX): Fieldwork (3, IAP)3CORE
1.070A Intro to Hydrology and Water Resources6CORE1.080 Environmental Chemistry12RE
1.073 Introduction to Environmental Data Analysis12RE
1.106 Env. Fluid Transport Processes and Hydrology Lab6CORE1.107 Environmental Chemistry Lab6CORE
Restricted Elective

HASS

12 12REUnrestrictive Elective HASS12 12UE

Senior

FALL UNITSREQSPRING UNITSREQ
1.013 Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design6GDR1.013 Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design6GDR
Restricted Elective12RERestricted Elective12RE
Unrestricted Elective12UEUnrestricted Elective12UE
 HASS12
HASS12

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 UNITSREQSPRING UNITSREQ
1.000 Computer Programming for Engineering Applications12GDR7.102 Introduction to Molecular Biology Techniques (IAP)

1.060 Fluid Mechanics

6

12

RE

CORE

1.010 Probability and Causal Inference12GDR1.073 Introduction to Environmental Data Analysis6GDR
1.018 Fundamentals of Ecology12CORE1.081 Environmental Cancer Risks, Prevention and Therapy12RE
18.03 Differential Equations12GDR6.0001 Introduction to Computer Science Programming in Python6RE
HASS12HASS12

Junior

FALL UNITSREQSPRING UNITSREQ
1.061A Transport Process in the Environment I6CORE1.091 Traveling Research Environmental eXperience (TREX): Fieldworks(3, IAP)3CORE
1.070A Introduction to Hydrology and Water Resources6CORE1.063 Fluids and Disease

1.080 Environmental Chemistry

12 12RE CORE
1.106 Environmental Transport Processes and Hydrology Lab6CORE1.107 Environmental Chemistry & Biology Lab6CORE
Unrestricted Elective OR 5.12 Organic Chemistry12UEUnrestricted Elective12RE
HASS12HASS12UE

Senior

FALL UNITSREQSPRING UNITSREQ
1.013 Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design (Capstone)6GDR1.013 Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design (Capstone)6GDR
12.715 Environmental Bioinformatics12RE1.088 Genomics and Evolution of Infectious Disease12RE
Unrestricted Elective OR 20.507 Introduction to Biological Chemistry12UE1.089 Earth’s Microbiomes

Unrestricted Elective

12 12RE UE
Unrestricted Elective12UE
HASS12HASS12