Environmental Engineering (BS)
This program was founded by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences to provide students with a quantitative preparation for professional careers or continued higher education regarding the assessment and remediation of human impact on our environment. It is a unique program that prepares students to look at all aspects of water and environmental problems from a range of perspectives including the Earth system, water movement (hydrology, fluid flow), environmental chemistry, geochemistry, and reactive transport. The Environmental Engineering degree program will prepare students to understand the necessary foundational chemistry, fluid flow and mixing mechanics, all within the context of the Earth system.
The environmental engineering program combines classroom, laboratory and field studies. Students are encouraged to participate in a semester study abroad, such as the Australia program (during the fall semester, junior year), which provides additional opportunity for field-based studies. All students are encouraged to conduct independent research under faculty supervision during their junior and senior years. The environmental engineering program will culminate with major design experience in the senior year. Student teams will work closely with industry professionals and faculty who act as consultants on a real-world design projects to facilitate the student’s understanding of the design process.
The professional aspects of civil and environmental engineering are emphasized and promoted by the activities of a student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, in which all students of the department are eligible and encouraged to participate. In addition, a junior class field trip examines major infrastructure projects and environmental systems including tall buildings, bridges, stadiums, transportation systems, navigations systems, flood protection works, clean water supply, and wastewater systems. The field trip is offered in both the fall and spring.
Environmental Engineering students will be ready to work as environmental engineers remediating the environment on local and global scales with opportunities available in engineering consulting firms, government agencies, national laboratories, and industries requiring monitoring and advancement of remediation technologies. Additionally, the environmental engineering degree will prepare students for graduate study in Environmental Engineering programs.
Further details about the environmental engineering program may be found on the Web at ceees.nd.edu.
The following courses are applicable to students entering the College in 2025.
| First Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| First Semester | Hours | |
| WR 13100 | Writing and Rhetoric | 3 |
| MATH 10550 | Calculus I | 4 |
| CHEM 10171 & CHEM 11171 |
Introduction to Chemical Principles and Introduction to Chemical Principles Laboratory |
4 |
| EG 10117 | Engineering Design | 3 |
| FYS 10101 | Moreau First-Year Seminar | 1 |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| University Seminar | 3 | |
| MATH 10560 | Calculus II | 4 |
| PHYS 10310 | Engineering Physics I: Mechanics | 4 |
| EG 10118 | Engineering Computing | 3 |
| First Year Technical Elective | 3 | |
| Hours | 17 | |
| Sophomore Year | ||
| First Semester | ||
| CE 20110 & CE 21110 |
Planet Earth and Planet Earth Laboratory |
4 |
| CE 30300 | Introduction to Environmental Engineering | 3 |
| MATH 20550 | Calculus III | 3.5 |
| CE 20150 | Statics | 3 |
| Core Curriculum course 1 | 3 | |
| Hours | 16.5 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| CE 20300 | Global Change, Water and Energy | 3 |
| CE 20320 | Environmental Aquatic Chemistry | 3 |
| MATH 20580 | Introduction to Linear Algebra and Differential Equations | 3.5 |
| ACMS 30440 | Probability and Statistics | 3 |
| Core Curriculum course 1 | 3 | |
| Hours | 15.5 | |
| Junior Year | ||
| First Semester | ||
| CE 30125 | Computational Methods | 3 |
| Environmental Earth Science elective | 3 | |
| Environmental Mineralogy or Geomorphology for Engineers and Scientists or Sedimentology and Stratigraphy or Sedimentology and Stratigraphy or Dynamic Earth and Natural Disasters or Petrology/Earth Materials Lab |
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| CE 30460 | Fluid Mechanics | 3 |
| CE 40350 | Environmental Microbiology | 3 |
| CE 30339 | Laboratory and Field Methods for Environmental Engineering | 3 |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| CE 30320 | Physical-Chemical Water Treatment Processes | 3 |
| CE 30455 | Environmental Hydrology | 3 |
| CE 40450 | Hydraulics | 3 |
| Core Curriculum course 1 | 3 | |
| CE 40341 | Biological Process Design | 3 |
| CE 30338 | Design Tools for Environmental Engineers | 1 |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Senior Year | ||
| First Semester | ||
| CE 40300 | Geochemistry | 3 |
| CE 40460 | Groundwater Hydrology | 3 |
| CE 40701 | Principles of Practice | 1 |
| Core Curriculum course 1 | 3 | |
| Core Curriculum course 1 | 3 | |
| EG Elective | 3 | |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| CE 40420 | Air Quality and Reactive Transport | 3 |
| CE 40702 | Senior Design | 3 |
| EG Elective 2 | 3 | |
| CEEES Elective | 3 | |
| Core Curriculum course 1 | 3 | |
| Moreau Senior Capstone | 1 | |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Total Hours | 127 | |
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See “University Core Curriculum” on the first page of the College of Engineering section.
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All electives are defined in the Academic Guide for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, available on the department web site.
Certain graduate courses are open to advanced undergraduates with permission of the department chair.