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Sustainability Engineering, Graduate Certificate

2022-2023 Edition

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Society is facing increasingly complex and multidisciplinary challenges in balancing the relationship between the built environment and the earth system. The four-course certificate in sustainability engineering provides foundational knowledge that facilitates framing challenges and working on multidisciplinary topics to address sustainability challenges, including engineering perspectives, toolsets, and data methods

Complete all courses and requirements listed below unless otherwise indicated.

Requirements

Course List
Code Title Hours
Complete one of the following:4
CIVE 5150
Climate and Atmospheric Change
CIVE 5250
Organic Pollutants in the Environment
CIVE 5363
Climate Science, Engineering Adaptation, and Policy
Complete one of the following:4
CIVE 5699
Special Topics in Civil Engineering (Intro to Air Quality Engineering Science)
CIVE 7250
Environmental Chemistry
CIVE 7251
Environmental Biological Processes
Complete one of the following:4
CIVE 5275
Life Cycle Assessment of Materials, Products, and Infrastructure
CIVE 6566
Sustainable Urban Transportation: Netherlands
SBSY 5100
Sustainable Design and Technologies in Construction
Complete one of the following:4
CIVE 5373
Transportation Systems: Analysis and Planning
CIVE 5984
Research (4 SH)
CIVE 7100
Time Series and Geospatial Data Sciences
CIVE 7260
Hydrologic Modeling
CIVE 7261
Surface Water Quality Modeling
CIVE 7388
Special Topics in Civil Engineering (Random Data and Processing)

 Program Credit/GPA Requirements

16 total semester hours required
Minimum 3.000 GPA required

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