The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers a minor in Environmental Engineering to allow engineering undergraduate students to benefit from CSU’s abundance of environmental experts. The minor is designed to broaden the academic background of undergraduate engineering students seeking a career in environmental fields, and to provide fundamentals required to pursue a graduate degree in environmental engineering or related fields.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion, students will be able to:
- Identify current environmental issues and controversies in various mediums (water, air, soil, etc.).
- Apply science and engineering principles to address environmental problems, including non-point source pollution. Design appropriate units for water supply, water and wastewater treatment, solid waste management, air pollution, and noise pollution control using conventional and unconventional methods.
- Converse with their peers in the Environmental Engineering field using technical language and terminology.
Effective Spring 2024
Students must satisfactorily complete the total credits required for the minor. Minors and interdisciplinary minors require 12 or more upper-division (300- to 400-level) credits.
Additional coursework may be required due to prerequisites.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| Select 9 credits from the following: | 9 | |
| Ecological Engineering | ||
| Fundamentals of Environmental Engr 1 | ||
| Nonpoint Source Pollution | ||
| Air Quality Engineering | ||
| Elective Courses | ||
| Select 12 credits from the following, of which at least 3 credits must be upper-division: | 12 | |
| Introduction to Weather and Climate | ||
| Introduction to Weather and Climate Lab | ||
| Principles of Biochemistry | ||
| Stream Biology and Ecology | ||
| Stream Biology and Ecology Laboratory | ||
| Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry | ||
| Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry Laboratory | ||
| Modern Organic Chemistry I | ||
| Organic Chemistry I | ||
| Ecological Engineering 2 | ||
| Environmental River Mechanics | ||
| Groundwater Engineering | ||
| Wastewater Treatment Facility Design | ||
| Nonpoint Source Pollution 2 | ||
| Air Quality Engineering 2 | ||
| Environmental Geotechnics | ||
| Environmental Organic Chemistry | ||
| Environ Engr at the Water-Energy-Health Nexus | ||
| Aqueous Chemistry | ||
| Advanced Biological Wastewater Processing | ||
| Physical Chemical Water Treatment Processes | ||
| Statistics for Environmental Monitoring | ||
| Environmental Toxicology | ||
| Attributes of Living Systems (GT-SC1) | ||
| Ecology | ||
| Building Energy Systems | ||
| General Microbiology | ||
| Microbial Ecology | ||
| Environmental Ethics | ||
| Program Total Credits: | 21 | |
- 1
Students in the Civil Engineering major cannot use CIVE 438 for credit in the minor.
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May be allowed if not taken as a required course.