EVEN Areas of Specialization (Option Courses)

Beginning in the spring semester of your third year, EVEN students begin a three course (nine (9) credit hours) sequence in environmental engineering. You will take one 3-credit “environmental engineering design” course from those in list A and two additional (6-credits) “environmental engineering upper-division technical elective” courses from list B (or a second from list A, no double counting).

  • List A - Environmental Engineering Option Courses - at least one course from this list (you can petition to add additional courses)
    • CVEN 3424 Water and Wastewater Treatment (3 credits, S; prerequisites: CVEN 3414.)
    • CVEN 3323 Hydraulic Engineering (3 credits, F; prerequisites: CVEN 3313 or MCEN 3021 or GEEN 3853 or AREN 2120 or CHEN 3200.)
    • MCEN 3032 Thermo 2 (3 credits, F/S; prerequisites: Thermo, Fluids and DiffEq / Linear Alg all min grade of C.)
  • List B Environmental Engineering Option Courses – upper division - at least two courses from this list (or a second from list A, no double counting). Students can petition to add additional courses.      

  Air Quality       Applied Ecology           Energy Conversion       Global Engineering     

  Solid & Hazardous Waste Management       Water Resources and Treatment  

You are encouraged to select courses that meet your career goals and interests.  This may include courses within a similar theme, or cross-cut a breadth of environmental engineering topics. As such, this list is organized under various specialization topics within environmental engineering.  Environmental engineering design courses from List A also fit under these various specialization topics.

It is critical that early in the curriculum you pay careful attention to pre-requisites for technical electives.  All courses that are numbered 5000 or above are graduate level courses and can only be taken with instructor permission; consult carefully with your advisor before selecting a graduate level course.  Graduate level courses are good options for double-counting for students admitted to the BAM program.