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
BY520 Microbiology
BY 525 Biological Systems &Global Environmental Change
BY 531/CE 589 Limnology
BY 620 Evolution
BY 659 Systems Biology
IH 518 Principles of Toxicology and Epidemiology
Chemistry and Physics
CE 576 Atmospheric Chemistry
CE 580 Environmental Chemistry
CM 509/CM509 Receptor Modeling in Environmental Chemistry
CM 530 Colloids and Interfaces
CM 532 Particle Size Analysis in Dispersions and Other Colloids
CM 552 Aerosol Chemistry
IH 505 Methods and Analysis
Control Technologies
CE 579 Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes
CE 581 Hazardous Waste Management Engineering
CE 681 Environmental Physico-Chemical Processes
CE 682 Environmental Biological Processes
CE 686 Environmental Engineering Design
ES 534 Air Pollution Control
IH 506 Industrial Hygiene Control Methods
IH 581 Advanced Topic in Environmental and Occupational Health
Fluid Mechanics and Transport
EV 535/CE 535 Groundwater Hydology and Geochemistry
CE 570 Advanced Hydrology
CE 572 Shallow Water Hydrodynamics
CE 573 Sediment Transport
CE 574 Hydrodynamic Dispersion
CE 583 Modeling Natural Aquatic Systems
CE 584 Chemodynamics
CE 576 Hydraulic Engineering in Cold Regions
CE 587 Contaminant Transport in Groundwater
ME 537 Fluids Mechanics of Aerosols Dispersions
ME 538 Experimental Aerosol Mechanics and Instrumentation
ME 637 Particle Transport and Deposition
ES 533 Human Exposure Analysis