Environmental Engineering Degree
Students must also complete the Undergraduate Registration Requirement and the degree requirements of their home school.
Requirements (48 units)
Core Courses (26 units)1
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| 4 mathematics courses | |
| 4 units of basic science: | |
| General Physics and General Physics Laboratory 2 | |
| Fundamentals of Chemistry I and Fundamentals of Chemistry II and Fundamentals of Chemistry Laboratory I and Fundamentals of Chemistry Laboratory II | |
| General Chemistry I and General Chemistry II and General Chemistry Laboratory I and General Chemistry Laboratory II | |
| Advanced General Inorganic Chemistry and Advanced General Physical Chemistry and Advanced General Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory and Advanced General Physical Chemistry Laboratory | |
| 3 engineering foundations courses | |
| 3 design, communications, and innovation courses | |
| 7 social sciences/humanities courses | |
| 5 unrestricted electives | |
Major Program (22 units)
| Course | Title |
|---|---|
| 3 gateway courses | |
| CIV_ENV 201-0 | Cornerstone Design |
| CIV_ENV 202-0 | Biological and Ecological Principles |
| CIV_ENV 203-0 | Earth in the Anthropocene |
| 7 basic engineering courses | |
| BMD_ENG 250-0 | Thermodynamics |
| or CHEM_ENG 211-0 | Thermodynamics |
| CIV_ENV 304-0 | Civil and Environmental Engineering Systems Analysis |
| GEN_ENG 211-0 | Engineering Physics - Statics |
| GEN_ENG 212-0 | Engineering Physics - Dynamics |
| GEN_ENG 251-0 | Applied Ordinary Differential Equations |
| MAT_SCI 201-0 | Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering Principles |
| MECH_ENG 241-0 | Fluid Mechanics I |
| 8 environmental engineering core courses | |
| CHEM 215-1 | Organic Chemistry I |
| CIV_ENV 260-0 | Environmental Systems and Processes |
| CIV_ENV 361-1 | Environmental Microbiology |
| CIV_ENV 346-0 | Ecohydrology |
| CIV_ENV 364-0 | Sustainable Water Systems |
| CIV_ENV 365-0 | Environmental Laboratory |
| CIV_ENV 366-0 | Dynamics in Chemical Transport and Reaction |
| CIV_ENV 367-0 | Chemical Processes in Aquatic Systems |
| 2 capstone design courses (0.5 units each) | |
| CIV_ENV 382-1 & CIV_ENV 382-2 | Capstone Design I and Capstone Design II |
| 3 technical elective courses 3 | |
| 1 professional development course (0.34 units) 4 | |
| Cornerstone Design Lab | |
- 1
See general requirements for details.
- 2
PHYSICS 125-2 General Physics for ISP or PHYSICS 140-2 Fundamentals of Physics may be substituted for PHYSICS 135-2 General Physics. Associated lab are PHYSICS 126-2 Fundamentals of Physics Laboratory may be substituted for PHYSICS 136-2 General Physics Laboratory.
- 3
From an approved list (available in Undergraduate CIV_ENV Handbook), these 3 units must be 100% engineering topics. GEN_ENG 220-1 Analy/Comp Graph and GEN_ENG 220-2 Analy/Comp Graph II are the only courses with P/N grading approved for the major program.
- 4
0.34 units may count toward unrestricted electives.