Green Engineering Minor Engineering Elective Courses

The engineering electives course list has recently been updated and approved for the Green Engineering Minor. Please contact the Green Engineering Program Director if you have questions or feel that a course not listed below should be added to this list.

Class Course Name Comments

Aerospace & Ocean Engineering:

AOE 4064/CEE 4364 Fluid Flows in Nature  
Biological Systems Engineering:
BSE 3305 - 3306 Land and Water Resources Engineering  
BSE 4304 Nonpoint Source Pollution Modelling & Management  
BSE 4324 Nonpoint Source Pollution  
BSE 4394 Water Supply & Sanitation in Developing Countries  
BSE 5134 Land Application of Wastes  
BSE 5244/CEE 5244 Advanced GIS in Hydrological Analysis  
BSE 5354 Nonpoint Source Pollution Modelling  
Chemical Engineering:
CHE 3134 Separation Processes  
CHE 3184 Chemical Reactor Analysis & Design  
Civil & Environmental Engineering:
CEE 3104 Introduction to Environmental Engineering Area 7 course
CEE 4104 Water and Wastewater Treatment Design  
CEE 4114 Fundamentals of Public Health Engineering  
CEE 4144

Air Resources Engineering

 
CEE 4164

Environmental Microbiology

 
CEE 4174

Solid and Hazardous Waste Management

 
CEE 4304

Hydrology

 
CEE 4354

Environmental Hydrology

 
CEE 4554 Natural Diaster Mitigation  
CEE 4594

Soil and Groundwater Pollution

 
CEE 4984

Pollution Control & Design for the Aquatic Environment

 
Electrical & Computer Engineering:
ECE 4304 Design in Power Engineering  
ECE 4364 Alternate Energy Systems Online course
ECE 5364

Electric Energy & Environmental Systems

Online course
Industrial Systems Engineering:
ISE 2204 Manufacturing Processes NOTE - only 2 credits  
ISE 4644 Occupational Safety and Hazard Control  
Materials Science & Engineering
MSE 2044 Fundamentals of Materials Engineering  
MSE 4055 Material Selection and Design  
Mechanical Engineering:
ME 4134 Thermal Environmental Systems  
ME 4154 Industrial Energy Management  
ME 4204 Internal Combustion Engines  
ME 4554 Advanced Technology for Motor Vehicles  
ME 4724 Engineering Acoustics  
ME 4984 SS: Hydrogen Energy Systems  
ME 4984 SS: Building Energy Systems  
ME 5214 Combustion  
ME 5254 Fuel Cell Systems  
ME 5734 Advanced Engineering Acoustics  
Mining & Minerals Engineering:
MINE 3544 Mineral Processing Laboratory  
MINE 3554 Resource Recovery  
MINE 4544 Mine Reclamation and Environmental Management  

 

Senior capstone design projects in all engineering departments are eligible as engineering electives if the project focuses on the environmental impacts of engineering. See program advisor for approval of specific projects.

 

 

Last Update: March 27, 2009

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