Environmental Engineering

A professional concentration in Environmental Engineering is available to all undergraduate students.

The professional concentration enables students to satisfy the accreditation requirements of their particular major while focusing their electives on pertinent courses for environmental engineering. Electives used to satisfy requirements of the concentration include a set of science and engineering courses that reflect the sub disciplines of Environmental Engineering as defined by the ABET, Inc. Students receive a Bachelor of Science degree in their major with a professional concentration in Environmental Engineering.

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Curriculum

Civil Engineering majors that are in the Environmental concentration are recommended to take ES 250 Electrical Science and ES 340 Thermodynamics rather than ES 223 Rigid Body Dynamics for their ES electives. In addition to the required courses, it is recommended that STAT 383 Applied Statistics I be taken as a mathematics elective course for this professional concentration. A minimum grade point average of 2.0 is required in the courses taken for the professional concentration. At least one-fourth of the credit hours required must be completed at Clarkson University, unless the Dean of the Coulter School of Engineering approves an exception.

Required Courses

  • CE 491 Senior Environmental Design (3 cr.) OR
    MP 401 Environmental Remediation Design (3 cr.) OR
    MP 444 EPA P3 Sustainable Design Competition (3 cr.)
    • Pre-Requisite: SR standing
  • CE 340 Introduction to Environmental Engineering(3 cr.) OR
    • Pre-Requisite: ES 330
  • CH 220 Chemical Engineering Principles II: Material Balance (3 cr.)
    • Pre-Requisite: CM 132 or CM 104, MA 132
  • BY 320 Microbiology (3 cr.) OR
    • Pre-Requisite: BY 214, CM 132 (waived for Env. Eng. students)
  • BY 240 River Ecology (3 cr.)
    • consent
  • BY 221 and BY 224 General Ecology (4 cr.)
    • consent
  • CM 241 Organic Chemistry (3 cr.) OR
    • Pre-Requisite: CM 104 or CM 132
  • CM 371 Physical Chemistry (3 cr.) OR
    • Pre-Requisite: CM 104 or CM 132
  • CH 210 Chemical Engineering Principles I (3 cr.)
    • Pre-Requisite: MA 132 and PY 131

Electives

Two of the following:

  • CE430 Water Resources Engineering II
    • Pre-Requisite: CE330
  • CE478 Solid Waste Management and Landfill Design
    • Pre-Requisite: JR or SR
  • CE479 Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes
    • Pre-Requisite: CE 340
  • CE480 Chemical Fate and Transport in the Environment
    • Pre-Requisite: CE 340
  • CE481/581 Hazardous Waste Management Engineering
    • Pre-Requisite: CE 340
  • CE 477/577 Atmospheric Chemistry
    • Pre-Requisite: CM 370, CM 371 or ES 340
  • CE 580 Environmental Chemistry
    • Pre-Requisite: Consent
  • CE 482/582 Environmental Systems Analysis and Design
    • Pre-Requisite: Consent
  • CE 486 Introduction to Industrial Ecology
    • Pre-Requisite: Consent
  • CE 583 Modeling Natural Aquatic Systems
    • Pre-Requisite: Consent
  • CE 584 Chemodynamics
    • Pre-Requisite: Consent
  • CE 587 Contaminant Transport in Groundwater
    • Pre-Requisite: Consent
  • CE 589 Aspects of Freshwater Ecosystems
    • Pre-Requisite: Consent
  • CH 434/ES434 Air Pollution Control
    • Pre-Requisite: ES330
  • ES 432/532 Risk Analysis
    • Pre-Requisite: Consent
  • ES 436 Global Climate Change: Science, Engineering & Policy
    • Pre-Requisite: Consent
  • ES 464 Corrosion Engineering
    • Pre-Requisite: CM 132
  • EHS 406 Industrial Hygiene Control Methods OR
    • Pre-Requisite: EHS 309, consent
  • EHS 416 Principles of Occupational Health
    • Pre-Requisite: EHS 309, consent
  • OR other course designated by CEE Department Chair

Total credits for concentration: 18