UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING GRADUATE PROGRAM

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    Envirotoxicology
    Air Quality / Combustion
    Urban Systems
    Post-Mining Legacies
    Water Treatment &
        Recycling
    Groundwater Remediation
 
 

 

Core Courses
Technical Electives

Required Core Course (All EEGP Students)

  • XXXX 6555 Env. Eng. Seminar two semesters in first year (0.5 credit per semester) (cross-listed as CVEEN 6555, CHFEN 6557, GEO 6555, MET E 6555, MG EN 6555)
Health/Risk Core (Select one course) 
  • FPMD 6700 Environmental Health Problems (2)
  • FPMD 6750 Occupational Safety and Health (2)
  • FPMD 6752 Introduction to Industrial Toxicology (2)
  • FPMD 6756 Hazardous Substances (3)
Law, Policy and Communications Core (Select one course) 

Environmental Law Area

  • URBPL 5360 Environmental Planning Law and Policy (3)
Interdisciplinary Communications & Policy Area
  • POL S 6322 Environmental Policy (3)
  • XXXX xxxx System Dynamics and Environmental Policy (3) [cross-listed as CVEEN 6660, GEO 6340, GEOG 6370, POL S 6323, URBPL 5370]
  • URBPL/GEOG 5350 Public Lands and Environmental Policy (3) 
  • COMM 6000-1 [Fall '02] Environmental Conflict (3)
  • COMM 6000-2 [Fall '02] Negotiation Theory and Practice (3)
  • COMM 6000-1 [Spring '03] Studies in Communication (3)
  • COMM 6150 Dialogue, Culture and Conflict Resolution (3)
  • COMM 6360 Environmental Communication (3)
  • ECON 6250 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (3)


Environmental Chemistry Core Course (Select one course)

  • CVEEN 6610 Water Chemistry and Laboratory Analysis (3)
  • GEO      5370 Environmental Organic Geochemistry (3)
  • CVEEN 6620 Equilibrium Processes in Aquatic Systems (3)
Environmental Engineering Processes Core  (Select two courses with the intent of obtaining breadth across all three process areas; physical, biological, chemical) 
  • CHFEN 6103/CVEEN 6603* Biochemical Engineering (3)
  • CHFEN 6305 Air Pollution Control Engineering (3)
  • CVEEN 6650 Biological Treatment (3)
  • CVEEN 7620 Physical and Chemical Treatment Processes for Water Quality Control (3) 
  • GEO 6390 Subsurface Remediation and Hazardous Waste Management (3)
*  Note that CHFEN 6104/CVEEN6604 Biochemical Engineering Laboratory (1) 
 is a co-requisite for CHFEN 6103/CVEEN 6603

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Technical Electives 
With the help of your graduate supervisory committee, select a suite of courses from the following list of technical electives.  Note that this list is not exhaustive, other courses may be substituted with approval by both your graduate supervisory committee and the Chair of the EEGP Executive Committee. 

Ecological and Bioprocess Engineering

  • BIOEN 5030  From Biology to Engineering (2)
  • CVEEN 6630  Ecological Systems and Engineering (3)
  • CVEEN 7610 Advanced Bioprocess Systems (3)


Energy Systems

  • CHFEN 6303 Environmental Aspects of Fossil Fuels (3)
  • CVEEN 6700 Nuclear Engineering II with Lab (4)
  • ME EN  6800 Energy Conversion (3)


Environmental Chemistry

  • CVEEN 6610 Water Chemistry and Laboratory Analysis (3)
  • GEO      5370 Environmental Organic Geochemistry (3)
  • CVEEN 6620 Equilibrium Processes in Aquatic Systems (3)
  • METEO 6840  Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry (3)
Environmental Engineering Processes
  • CHFEN 6103/CVEEN 6603 Biochemical Engineering (3)
  • CHFEN 6305 Air Pollution Control Engineering (3)
  • CVEEN 6650 Biological Treatment (3)
  • CVEEN 7620 Physical and Chemical Treatment Processes for Water Quality Control (3) 
  • GEO 6390 Subsurface Remediation and Hazardous Waste Management (3)
Instrumentation and Measurement
  • CHFEN 6503 Instrumental Analysis of Process Products (3)
  • CVEEN 6640 Environmental Laboratory Analysis (3)
  • PHYCS 5760  Physical Measurement and Sensor Systems (4)
Metallurgical Engineering
  • MET E 6700 Hydrometallurgy (3)
  • MET E 6680 Mineral Processing II (3) 
  • MET E 7910 Materials Recycling (3) [Selected Topic in Metallurgy]


Mining Engineering

  • MG EN 5080 Mine Permitting and Reclamation (2)
  • MG EN 5150 Mechanics of Materials (3)
  • MG EN 5270 Landslides and Slope Stability (2)


Transport Processes & Pollution

Surface Water

  •   CVEEN 6410 Water Resources Engineering (3)
  •   CVEEN 6420 Open Channel Flow (3)
  •   CVEEN 6470 Surface Water Quality Prediction and Assessment (3)
  •   CVEEN 6680 Environmental Flow and Transport (3)
 Groundwater 
  • GEO      6350 Groundwater (3)
  • GEO      6380  Solute Transport (3)
  • GEO      6920 Introduction to Groundwater Modeling (1)
Atmospheric
  • METEO5110  Dynamic Meteorology I (3)
  • METEO5210  Physical Meteorology (3)
 Various
  • CHFEN 6603 Multicomponent Mass Transfer (3)
  • GEO     6360 Fluid Dynamics of Earth Materials (3)
  • MET E  6350 Transport Phenomena (2)


Various Environmental Engineering Topics

  • CVEEN 7650 Modeling Environmental Systems (3)
  • CHFEN 6153 Fundamentals of Combustion (3)


Waste Disposal Engineering

  • CVEEN 6320 Waste Containment Systems (3)
  • CVEEN 6600 Solid and Hazardous Waste Engineering (3)
Water and Wastewater Treatment
  • CVEEN 7680 Design of Municipal Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems (3)
  • CVEEN 7690 Design of Industrial Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems (3)
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