Environmental Engineering

Environmental engineering involves application of the physical sciences and engineering principles to solve problems that affect human health and the environment.  Traditional focal areas have included application and development of technologies to purify air, water, and wastewater, but the field also addresses solid and hazardous waste management, mitigation of climate change effects, and issues related to sustainability.

Curriculum

Core courses

Students are required to complete at least 15 credits from the following list:

CE 55000: Physico/Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering
CE 55401: Water Chemistry for EEE
CE 59700: Biological Wastewater Treatment
CE 59700: Design Principles and Practice of Water Systems
CE 59700: Plastics and Infrastructure in the Environment
CE 65000: Photochemical Reactors: Theory, Methods and Applications

Technical Electives

The balance of the required credits can be selected from the following technical electives:

Course Title	Credits
CE 50701: Geospatial Data Analytics	3
CE 50801: Geographic Information Systems	3
CE 59700: Data Science for Smart Cities	3
CE 59700: UAS-Based LiDAR Mapping	1
CE 59700: UAS-Based Photogrammetric Mapping	1
CE 59700: UAS-Based Mapping: Basic Principles	1
ME 50900: Intermediate Fluid Mechanics	3
ME 53900: Introduction to Scientific Machine Learning	3
ME 60800: Numerical Methods in Heat, Mass, and Momentum Transfer	3
ME 61100: Principles of Turbulence	3
ME 61400: Computational Fluid Dynamics	3
ECE 57000: Artificial Intelligence	3
ECE 69500: Communication for Engineering Leaders	1
MA 51100: Linear Algebra with Applications	3
MA 52700: Adv Math for Engineers and Physicists I	3
MA 52800: Adv Math for Engineers and Physicists II	3
STAT 51200: Applied Regression Analysis	3
STAT 51400: Design of Experiments	3
STAT 51700: Statistical Inference	3

Approved tech elective list (there is a list for the Sustainable Water theme at:
https://engineering.purdue.edu/CCE/Academics/Graduate/Online/sustainable-water