Curriculum
University requirements dictate 30 credit hours for the M.S. degree and 90 credit hours for the Ph.D. degree. ES&E students must take at least one course from the following:
M.S. Degree
University Requirements:
- A minimum of 30 credit hours is required including:
- A maximum of 10 credit hours of thesis
- A minimum of 18 credit hours of course and 2 hours of seminar
- A minimum of 20 credit hours earned at Clarkson
- New York State requires a minimum of 1 academic year of full-time study for master's degree beyond the baccalaureate.
- A maximum of 10 credit hours transfer credit (B grade or better)
- Official transcripts are needed before transfer credits will be awarded
- All work completed in five calendar years
- All work counted in 30 credit-hour minimum must be approved graduate coursework
(to conform with New York State standards).
Ph.D. Degree
University Requirements (complete details found in the Clarkson Catalog):
- 90 credit hours minimum (beyond the B.S.), corresponding to a minimum to three academic years of full-time study, a minimum of nine course credits must be obtained at Clarkson.
- A master's degree may be acceptable in lieu of a maximum of 30 credit hours of transfer credit. Official transcripts must be provided before transfer credit is awarded.
- A minimum of 24 credit hours of coursework
- A minimum of 6 credit hours of seminar
- All work to be completed within seven years after the candidacy procedure is completed.
- All students must complete the candidacy procedure within two years after admission to the Ph.D. program. A student may have two attempts to pass the candidacy procedure. If a student fails in the first attempt, he/she has two months to make a second attempt. A student who does not complete the candidacy procedure within the time allowed will be dropped from the graduate program.
- A dissertation must be submitted and defended orally before a committee of five faculty members with at least one member from outside the department of the Thesis Advisor.
- A student in the Ph.D. program who has not yet completed the candidacy procedure will be called a Ph.D. student. After the procedure has been completed, the student will be called a Ph.D. candidate.
Students must take at least one course from the following:
ES532 Risk Analysis
EC660 Environmental Economics
CE582 Environmental Systems Analysis
CE586 Introduction to Industrial Ecology
M.S. students must take a least two courses from at least one of the following course groups, and must take at least three courses in engineering.
Ph.D. students must take at least two courses from each of two of the following course groups for a total of at least 24 credit hours of coursework.
Biology and Ecology
BY501 Great Lakes Science Practum
BY518/IH18 Occupational Toxicology
BY520 Molecularbiology
By525 Biological Systems & Global Environmental Change
BY531/CE589 Limnolgy
CE620 Evolution
CE696 Directed Study in Environmental Biology
ES533 Human Exposure Analysis
Chemistry and Physics
CE576/CE577/CM576 Atmospheric Chemistry
CE580 Environmental Chemistry
CM509/CM509 Receptor Modeling in Environmental Chemistry
CM530 Colloids and Interfaces
CM532 Analysis in Dispersions and Other Colloids
CM552 Aerosol Chemistry
Control Technologies
CE579 Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes
CE581 Hazardous Waste Management Engineering
CE585 Environmental Implications in Manufacturing
CE681 Environmental Physico-Chemical Processes
CE682 Environmental Biological Processes
CE686 Environmental Engineering Design
ES534 Air Pollution Control
IH506 Industrial Hygiene Control Methods
IH581 Advanced Topic in Environmental and Occupational Health
Fluid Mechanics and Transport
CE514 Groundwater Flow
CE570 Advanced Hydrology
CE572 Shallow Water Hydrodynamics
CE573 Sediment Transport
CE574 Hydrodynamic Dispersion
CE575 Coastal Engineering
CE583 Modeling Natural Aquatic Systems
CE584 Chemodynamics
CE576 Hydraulic Engineering in Cold Regions
CE587 Contaminant Transport in Groundwater
ME537 Mechanics of Aerosols
ME538 Experimental Aerosol Mechanics and Instrumentation
ME637 Particle Transport and Deposition