UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS, MINORS, AND ASSOCIATED AREAS OF STUDY
HENRY SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Environmental Engineering concerns the development of strategies to control and minimize pollutant emissions, to treat waste, and to remediate polluted natural systems. Emphasis areas include air quality and combustion, water quality, and water resources engineering. Environmental Engineering involves designing environmental protection or remediation strategies for multiple resources—water, air, and soil, often with combinations of physical, chemical, and biological treatment methods in the context of a complex regulatory framework. The goal of the Environmental Engineering curriculum is to prepare graduates with a strong basic science background, particularly in chemistry and biology, and to provide students with a broad exposure to several environmental engineering science disciplines. Courses relating to transport processes, water quality control, air quality control, and process design are included in the core. Career opportunities in environmental engineering are diverse. Graduates generally find careers related to pollution control and the remediation of air, water, and soil environments. Graduates of the program will (1) be knowledgeable of the historical context, the state-of-the-art, and emerging issues in the field of environmental engineering and its role in contemporary society; (2) demonstrate critical reasoning and requisite quantitative skills to identify, formulate, and resolve environmental engineering problems, and to create designs that reflect legal, social, ecological, and economic sensitivities; (3) display a systems viewpoint, critical thinking, effective communication and interpersonal skills, a spirit of curiosity, and conduct reflecting a professional and ethical manner; (4) exhibit a commitment to lifelong learning and professional development in industry, government, and/or academia; (5) recognize the multidisciplinary nature of environmental engineering and the limitations of disciplinary perspectives in the context of environmental analysis, design, engineering, policy, and management. (Program educational objectives are those aspects of engineering that help shape the curriculum; achievement of these objectives is a shared responsibility between the student and UCI.) The curriculum includes a core of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology, as well as engineering mechanics and methods courses. Students may select from a variety of environmental engineering courses to fulfill the remaining portion of the program and to focus their environmental engineering training in one or more of the following areas: water supply and resources, waste water management, or atmospheric systems and air pollution control. Design experiences are integrated into environmental engineering courses, and seniors enroll in a capstone design course. - From the 2007-2008 UCI General Catalogue |
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