Environmental Engineering BS/MS
Major: Environmental Engineering
Degree Awarded: Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering (BSENE) and Master of Science (MS)
Calendar Type: Quarter
Minimum Required Credits: 225.0
Co-op Options: Three Co-op (Five years)
Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code: 14.1401
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code: 17-2081
About the Program
The Environmental Engineering BS/MS program allows students to develop technical depth and breadth in their professional and related area, which enhances their professional productivity, whether in industry or as they proceed to the PhD. The undergraduate courses provide the necessary technical prerequisite understanding and skills for the graduate studies—a natural progression. Because the technical concepts of engineering are common, the MS in a related discipline is readily achieved.
Additional Information
For more information, visit the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering webpage.
Admission Requirements
Students must have a GPA of at least 3.2 and have taken coursework sufficient to demonstrate a readiness to take graduate coursework.
Degree Requirements
| General Education/Liberal Studies Requirements | ||
| CIVC 101 | Introduction to Civic Engagement | 1.0 |
| COOP 101 | Career Management and Professional Development * | 1.0 |
| ENGL 101 | Composition and Rhetoric I: Inquiry and Exploratory Research | 3.0 |
| or ENGL 111 | English Composition I | |
| ENGL 102 | Composition and Rhetoric II: Advanced Research and Evidence-Based Writing | 3.0 |
| or ENGL 112 | English Composition II | |
| ENGL 103 | Composition and Rhetoric III: Themes and Genres | 3.0 |
| or ENGL 113 | English Composition III | |
| PHIL 315 | Engineering Ethics | 3.0 |
| UNIV E101 | The Drexel Experience | 1.0 |
| General Education Requirements ** | 15.0 | |
| Engineering Core Courses | ||
| CAEE 361 | Statistical Analysis of Engineering Systems | 3.0 |
| CHEM 101 | General Chemistry I | 3.5 |
| CHEM 102 | General Chemistry II | 4.5 |
| ENGR 111 | Introduction to Engineering Design & Data Analysis | 3.0 |
| ENGR 113 | First-Year Engineering Design | 3.0 |
| ENGR 131 | Introductory Programming for Engineers | 3.0 |
| or ENGR 132 | Programming for Engineers | |
| ENGR 210 | Introduction to Thermodynamics | 3.0 |
| ENGR 220 | Fundamentals of Materials | 4.0 |
| ENGR 231 | Linear Engineering Systems | 3.0 |
| ENGR 232 | Dynamic Engineering Systems | 3.0 |
| MATH 121 | Calculus I | 4.0 |
| MATH 122 | Calculus II | 4.0 |
| MATH 200 | Multivariate Calculus | 4.0 |
| PHYS 101 | Fundamentals of Physics I | 4.0 |
| PHYS 102 | Fundamentals of Physics II | 4.0 |
| PHYS 201 | Fundamentals of Physics III | 4.0 |
| Environmental Engineering Requirements | ||
| BIO 220 | Essential Microbiology | 3.0 |
| CAEE 202 | Introduction to Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering | 3.0 |
| CAEE 203 | System Balances and Design in CAEE | 3.0 |
| CAEE 212 | Geologic Principles for Infrastructure & Environmental Engineering | 4.0 |
| CHE 211 | Material and Energy Balances I | 4.0 |
| CHEM 230 | Quantitative Analysis | 4.0 |
| CHEM 231 [WI] | Quantitative Analysis Laboratory | 2.0 |
| CHEM 241 | Organic Chemistry I | 4.0 |
| CHEM 242 | Organic Chemistry II | 4.0 |
| CIVE 240 [WI] | Engineering Economic Analysis | 3.0 |
| CIVE 320 | Introduction to Fluid Flow | 3.0 |
| CIVE 330 | Hydraulics | 4.0 |
| CIVE 430 | Hydrology | 3.0 |
| CIVE 431 | Hydrology-Ground Water | 3.0 |
| ENVE 300 | Introduction to Environmental Engineering | 3.0 |
| ENVE 302 | Environmental Transport and Kinetics | 3.0 |
| ENVE 410 | Solid and Hazardous Waste | 3.0 |
| ENVE 421 | Water and Waste Treatment II | 3.0 |
| ENVE 422 | Water and Waste Treatment Design | 3.0 |
| ENVE 435 | Groundwater Remediation | 3.0 |
| ENVE 460 | Fundamentals of Air Pollution Control | 3.0 |
| or ENVE 465 | Indoor Air Quality | |
| ENVE 485 | Professional Environmental Engineering Practice | 1.0 |
| ENVE 486 | Environmental Engineering Processes Laboratory I | 2.0 |
| ENVE 487 | Environmental Engineering Processes Laboratory II | 2.0 |
| ENVE 491 [WI] | Senior Project Design I | 3.0 |
| ENVE 492 [WI] | Senior Design Project II | 3.0 |
| ENVE 493 [WI] | Senior Design Project III | 3.0 |
| ENVS 230 | General Ecology | 3.0 |
| Technical Electives *** | 8.0 | |
| MASTERS DEGREE COURSES | ||
| ENVE 516 | Fundamentals of Environmental Biotechnology | 3.0 |
| ENVE 727 | Risk Assessment | 3.0 |
| ENVE 660 | Chemical Kinetics in Environmental Engineering | 3.0 |
| ENVS 501 | Chemistry of the Environment | 3.0 |
| Graduate Policy Course | 3.0 | |
| Sustainable Water Resource Engineering | ||
| Public Finance and Cost Benefit Analysis | ||
| Benefit-Cost Analysis for Infrastructure | ||
| Theory and Practice of Policy Analysis | ||
| Methods of Policy Analysis | ||
| Overview of Issues in Global Health | ||
| Graduate Electives 4 | 30.0 | |
| Total Credits | 225.0 | |
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Co-Op cycles may vary. Students are assigned a co-op cycle (fall/winter, spring/summer, summer-only) based on their co-op program (4-year, 5-year) and major.
COOP 101 registration is determined by the co-op cycle assigned and may be scheduled in a different term. Select students may be eligible to take COOP 001 in place of COOP 101.
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Technical Electives:
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Graduate Electives:
One Specialization Track:
- Environmental Treatment Proc: ENVE 546 ENVE 661, ENVE 662, ENVE 665
- Human Risks: ENVE 727, AE 550 or PBHL 641, PBHL 640
- Water Resources: CIVE 664 or ENVE 681, CIVE 565, CIVE 567, CIVE 564
- Environmental Modeling: ENVE 555 or ENVE 571, ENVE 750, ENVE 681, one advanced MATH course (MEM 591, CHE 502 or MATE 535)
- Air Quality: AE 550, PBHL 640, ENVE 560
One Cognate Sequence:
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a 4-course coherent sequence in addition to the specialization, either in environmental engineering, environmental science, or related STEM field. Advisor must approve of courses chosen.
Writing-Intensive Course Requirements
In order to graduate, all students must pass three writing-intensive courses after their freshman year. Two writing-intensive courses must be in a student's major. The third can be in any discipline. Students are advised to take one writing-intensive class each year, beginning with the sophomore year, and to avoid “clustering” these courses near the end of their matriculation. Transfer students need to meet with an academic advisor to review the number of writing-intensive courses required to graduate.
A "WI" next to a course in this catalog may indicate that this course can fulfill a writing-intensive requirement. For the most up-to-date list of writing-intensive courses being offered, students should check the Writing Intensive Course List at the University Writing Program. Students scheduling their courses can also conduct a search for courses with the attribute "WI" to bring up a list of all writing-intensive courses available that term.
Sample Plan of Study
| First Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| CHEM 101 | 3.5 | CHEM 102 | 4.5 | COOP 101 or 101* | 1.0 | VACATION | |
| ENGL 101 or 111 | 3.0 | CIVC 101 or COOP 101* | 1.0 | ENGL 103 | 3.0 | ||
| ENGR 111 | 3.0 | ENGL 102 or 112 | 3.0 | ENGR 113 | 3.0 | ||
| MATH 121 | 4.0 | ENGR 131 or 132 | 3.0 | MATH 200 | 4.0 | ||
| UNIV 101 | 1.0 | MATH 122 | 4.0 | PHYS 102 | 4.0 | ||
| PHYS 101 | 4.0 | ||||||
| 14.5 | 19.5 | 15 | 0 | ||||
| Second Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| CAEE 202 | 3.0 | CAEE 203 | 3.0 | COOP EXPERIENCE | COOP EXPERIENCE | ||
| CIVE 240 | 3.0 | ENGR 210 | 3.0 | ||||
| ENGR 220 | 4.0 | ENGR 232 | 3.0 | ||||
| ENGR 231 | 3.0 | ENVS 230 | 3.0 | ||||
| PHYS 201 | 4.0 | PHIL 315 | 3.0 | ||||
| (UG) General Education Requirement | 3.0 | ||||||
| 20 | 15 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Third Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| CAEE 212 | 4.0 | CHEM 241 | 4.0 | COOP EXPERIENCE | COOP EXPERIENCE | ||
| CAEE 361 | 3.0 | CIVE 330 | 4.0 | (GR) Graduate Elective | 3.0 | ||
| CHE 211 | 4.0 | CIVE 431 | 3.0 | ||||
| CIVE 320 | 3.0 | ENVE 302 | 3.0 | ||||
| ENVE 300 | 3.0 | ENVE 727 | 3.0 | ||||
| (GR) Graduate Elective | 3.0 | (GR) Graduate Policy Course | 3.0 | ||||
| 20 | 20 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| Fourth Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| CHEM 230 | 4.0 | ENVE 410 | 3.0 | COOP EXPERIENCE | COOP EXPERIENCE | ||
| CHEM 231 | 2.0 | (UG) General Education Requirements** | 9.0 | (GR) Graduate Elective | 3.0 | ||
| CHEM 242 | 4.0 | ENVE 660 | 3.0 | ||||
| CIVE 430 | 3.0 | (GR) Graduate Elective | 3.0 | ||||
| ENVE 516 | 3.0 | ||||||
| ENVS 501 | 3.0 | ||||||
| 19 | 18 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| Fifth Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | ||
| BIO 220 | 3.0 | ENVE 421 | 3.0 | ENVE 422 | 3.0 | ||
| ENVE 460 or 465 | 3.0 | ENVE 486 | 2.0 | ENVE 435 | 3.0 | ||
| ENVE 485 | 1.0 | ENVE 492 | 3.0 | ENVE 487 | 2.0 | ||
| ENVE 491 | 3.0 | (UG) Technical Elective | 4.0 | ENVE 493 | 3.0 | ||
| (UG) Technical Elective | 4.0 | (GR) Graduate Elective | 6.0 | (UG) General Education Requirement** | 3.0 | ||
| (GR) Graduate Elective | 6.0 | (GR) Graduate Electives | 6.0 | ||||
| 20 | 18 | 20 | |||||
| Total Credits 225 | |||||||
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Co-Op cycles may vary. Students are assigned a co-op cycle (fall/winter, spring/summer, summer-only) based on their co-op program (4-year, 5-year) and major.
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Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty
Abieyuwa Aghayere, PhD (University of Alberta). Professor. Structural design - concrete, steel and wood; structural failure analysis; retrofitting of existing structures; new structural systems and materials; engineering education.
Ivan Bartoli, PhD (University of California, San Diego). Associate Professor. Non-destructive evaluation and structural health monitoring; dynamic identification, stress wave propagation modeling.
Shannon Capps, PhD (Georgia Institute of Technology). Associate Professor. Atmospheric chemistry; data assimilation; advanced sensitivity analysis; inverse modeling.
S.C. Jonathan Cheng, PhD (West Virginia University). Associate Professor. Soil mechanics; geosynthetics; geotechnical engineering; probabilistic design; landfill containments; engineering education.
Yaghoob (Amir) Farnam, PhD (Purdue University). Associate Professor. Advanced and sustainable infrastructure materials; multifunctional, self-responsive and bioinspired construction materials; advanced multiscale manufacturing; characterization, and evaluation of construction materials; durability of cement-based materials.
Patricia Gallagher, PhD (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University). Professor. Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering; soil improvement; soil improvement; recycled materials in geotechnics.
Patrick Gurian, PhD (Carnegie-Mellon University). Professor. Risk analysis of environmental and infrastructure systems; novel adsorbent materials; environmental standard setting; Bayesian statistical modeling; community outreach and environmental health.
Charles N. Haas, PhD (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Program Head for Environmental Engineering; L. D. Betz Professor of Environmental Engineering. Water treatment; risk assessment; bioterrorism; environmental modeling and statistics; microbiology; environmental health.
Simi Hoque, PhD (University of California - Berkeley) Program Head for Architectural Engineering. Professor. Computational methods to reduce building energy and environmental impacts, urban metabolism, thermal comfort, climate resilience.
Y. Grace Hsuan, PhD (Imperial College). Professor. Durability of polymeric construction materials; advanced construction materials; and performance of geosynthetics.
Joseph B. Hughes, PhD (University of Iowa). Distinguished University Professor. Biological processes and applications of nanotechnology in environmental systems.
L. James Lo, PhD (University of Texas at Austin). Associate Professor. Architectural fluid mechanics; building automation and autonomy; implementation of natural and hybrid ventilation in buildings; airflow distribution in buildings; large-scale air movement in an urban built environment; building and urban informatics; data-enhanced sensing and control for optimal building operation and management; novel data gathering methods for building/urban problem solving; interdisciplinary research on occupant behaviors in the built environment.
Franco Montalto, PhD (Cornell University). Professor. Effects of built infrastructure on societal water needs, ecohydrologic patterns and processes, ecological restoration, green design, and water interventions.
Mira S. Olson, PhD (University of Virginia). Associate Professor. Peace engineering; source water quality protection and management; contaminant and bacterial fate and transport; community engagement.
Miguel A. Pando, PhD (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University). Associate Professor. Laboratory testing of geomaterials; geotechnical aspects of natural hazards; soil-structure-interaction; geotechnical engineering.
Matthew Reichenbach, PhD (University of Austin at Texas). Assistant Teaching Professor. Design and behavior of steel structures, bridge engineering, structural stability
Michael Ryan, PhD (Drexel University) Associate Department Head of Graduate Studies. Associate Teaching Professor. Microbial Source Tracking (MST); Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA); dynamic engineering systems modeling; molecular microbial biology; phylogenetics; metagenomics; bioinformatics; environmental statistics; engineering economics; microbiology; potable and wastewater quality; environmental management systems.
Christopher Sales, PhD (University of California, Berkeley). Associate Professor. Environmental microbiology and biotechnology; biodegradation of environmental contaminants; microbial processes for energy and resource recovery from waste; application of molecular biology, analytical chemistry and bioinformatic techniques to study environmental biological systems.
Robert Swan Teaching Professor. Geotechnical and geosynthetic engineering; soil/geosynthetic interaction and performance; laboratory and field geotechnical/geosynthetic testing.
Sharon Walker, PhD (Yale University) Dean, College of Engineering. Distinguished Professor. Water quality systems engineering
Michael Waring, PhD (University of Texas at Austin) Department Head, Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering. Associate Professor. Indoor air quality and building sustainability; indoor particulate matter fate and transport; indoor chemistry and particle formation; secondary impacts of control technologies and strategies.
Jin Wen, PhD (University of Iowa). Professor. Architectural engineering; Building Energy Efficiency; Intelligent Building; Net-zero Building; and Indoor Air Quality.
Aspasia Zerva, PhD (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Professor. Earthquake engineering; mechanics; seismology; structural reliability; system identification; advanced computational methods in structural analysis.
Emeritus Faculty
A. Emin Aktan, PhD (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Professor Emeritus. Health monitoring and management of large infrastructures with emphasis on health monitoring.
Eugenia Ellis, PhD, AIA (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University). Professor Emerita. Natural and electrical light sources and effects on biological rhythms and health outcomes; ecological strategies for smart, sustainable buildings of the nexus of health, energy, and technology.
Ahmad Hamid, PhD (McMaster University). Professor Emeritus. Engineered masonry; seismic behavior, design and retrofit of masonry structures; development of new materials and building systems.
Harry G. Harris, PhD (Cornell University). Professor Emeritus. Structural models; dynamics of structures, plates and shells; industrialized building construction.
Joseph P. Martin, PhD (Colorado State University). Professor Emeritus. Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering; hydrology; transportation; waste management.
James E. Mitchell, MArch (University of Pennsylvania). Professor Emeritus. Architectural engineering design; building systems; engineering education.
Joseph V. Mullin, PhD (Pennsylvania State University). Teaching Professor Emeritus. Structural engineering; failure analysis; experimental stress analysis; construction materials; marine structures.
