Environmental Engineering

Overview: This graduate emphasis covers responsible stewardship of environmental resources, energy, and materials. Students in this specialization can design a graduate program to match their individual goals and interests, including traditional study areas such as hazardous chemicals handling and safety and pollution prevention, or applied interdisciplinary research areas related to integrated natural resource management and policy.

Examples of current student research include managing indoor pollution sources (e.g., chlorinated solvents), pollution prevention and water reuse at UDOT maintenance facilities, and optimizing green infrastructure implementation to maximize water quality improvements.

Core Courses

Fall

  • CEE 6610 Environmental Quality Analysis
  • CEE 6630 Process Dynamics
  • CEE 6650 Biological Processes in Environmental Engineering
  • CEE 6800 CEE Seminar

Spring

  • CEE 6640 Physical and Chemical Environmental Process Engineering
  • CEE 6660 Environmental and Hydrologic Data Analysis
  • CEE 6670 Environmental Process Laboratory
  • CEE 6800 CEE Seminar

Electives

Fall

  • CEE 6110 Hydroinformatics
  • CEE 6400 Physical Hydrology
  • CEE 6430 Groundwater Engineering
  • CEE 6655 Green Infrastructure
  • CEE 6740 Surface Water Quality Modeling
  • CEE 6930 Advanced Hydrology through CUAHSI Virtual University

Spring

  • CEE 5750 Air Quality Measurements
  • CEE 6190 GIS for Civil Engineers
  • CEE 5490/6490 Integrated River Basin/Watershed Planning and Management
  • CEE 6640 Physical/Chemical Process Engineering
  • APEC 5560 Natural Resource and Environmental Economics

• Additional courses in CEE, Environment and Society, Climate Science, Sociology, Public Health, or other programs as approved by your Graduate Committee

Note that with approval from the graduate committee, required courses can be waived if the student has successfully completed an equivalent course at Utah State University or elsewhere.