Engineering: Environmental Engineering

The Environmental Engineering option focuses on the design and management of systems that use or impact natural resources. Study in this program prepares engineers to work in natural resource conservation and environmental quality enhancement. Environmental Engineers are uniquely prepared to address issues related to surface water hydrology, groundwater hydrology, sediment transport, water quality, chemical rate and transport determination, waste management, reclamation of disturbed lands, site remediation and drainage. Applications include water quality studies of lakes, rivers and groundwater, system design and management, waste treatment, management of air quality inside buildings and outside, remediation of land damaged by construction, mining, or other activity.

Graduates in environmental engineering work with state and federal agencies, consulting firms and private companies on projects related to environmental engineering design, permitting, waste management, pollution abatement, bioremediation, and hydrology. They may also be employed by processing industries in quality control, waste management, and in projects related to other environmental issues.

Environmental Engineering Courses

Required course work includes the university requirements

  • BAE 142: Engineering for Living Systems (2 cr)
  • BAE 143: Engineering Problem Solving or CS 112: Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming (3 cr)
  • BAE 242: Agricultural Engineering Analysis and Design (2 cr)
  • BAE 355: Fundamentals of Hydrologic Engineering (3 cr)
  • BAE 441: Instrumentation and Measurements (3 cr)
  • BAE 462: Electric Power and Controls (3 cr)
  • BAE 478: Engineering Design I (2 cr)
  • BAE 479: Engineering Design II (2 cr)
  • BAE 491: Senior Seminar (1 cr)

  • Chem 111: Principles of Chemistry I (4 cr)
  • Chem 112: Principles of Chemistry II (5 cr)
  • Engl 102: College Writing and Rhetoric (3 cr)
  • Engr 105: Engineering Graphics (2 cr)
  • Engr 210: Engineering Statics (3 cr)
  • Engr 240: Introduction to Electrical Circuits (3 cr)
  • Engr 320: Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer (3 cr)
  • Engr 335: Engineering Fluid Mechanics (3 cr)
  • Engr 350: Engineering Mechanics of Material (3 cr)
  • Engr 360: Engineering Economy (3 cr)
  • Math 170: Analytic Geometry and Calculus I (4 cr)
  • Math 175: Analytic Geometry and Calculus II (4 cr)
  • Math 275: Analytic Geometry and Calculus III (3 cr)
  • Math 310: Ordinary Differential Equations (3 cr)
  • Phys 211: Engineering Physics I (4 cr)
  • Phys 212: Engineering Physics II (4 cr)
  • Soil 205: The Soil Ecosystem (3 cr)
  • Stat 301: Probability and Statistics (3 cr)
  • Communications Elective (2 cr)

    • And Option Requirements of:
  • BAE 432: Bioreactor Theory and Design for Waste Treatment (3 cr)
  • BAE 433: Bioremediation (3 cr)
  • BAE 452: Environmental Water Quality (3 cr)
  • BAE 461: Agricultural Processing and Environment (3 cr)
  • Biol 115: Cells and the Evolution of Life (4 cr)
  • Chem 277: Organic Chemistry I (3 cr)
  • Chem 278: Organic Chemistry I: Lab (1 cr)
  • CE 330: Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering (3 cr)
  • MMBB 250: General Microbiology (5 cr)
  • MMBB 380: Introductory Biochemistry (4 cr)
  • Electives approved by department to total 128 cr for the degree

A grade of C or better is required in each of the following courses before registration is permitted in upper-division engineering courses:  BAE 143, BAE 242, Chem 111, Engr 210, Math 275, and Phys 211.

Students are required to submit a course plan and a statement of how the humanities and social science course requirements complement the technical content of the curriculum and are consistent with the program and institution objectives.

Biological & Agricultural Engineering Program Options