Environmental Engineering, Ph.D.

Environmental Engineering, Ph.D.

Degree requirements for the Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering:
  • 63 credit hours including: 24 to 36 hours of classroom graduate- level courses, 6 credit hours of graduate seminar (EVEN 6102), and 21 to 33 hours of research (EVEN 6306). 
  • Students should successfully complete the Ph.D. Qualifying Exam. 
  • Students should successfully defend dissertation proposal and final dissertation. 
  • The required courses for the Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering will consist of the following courses:
Core Courses:18
EVEN 6354Environmental Regs & Policy3
EVEN 6319Chem Prin of Envir Eng Design3
EVEN 6102Grad Sem in Environmental Eng ^3
Choose at least two (2) courses from the following:6
Fundmnls Solid Hazardous Waste
Fundmnls Air Qual&Polutn Contr
Fundmnls of Environ Biotech
Physical-Chem Water Treatment
Choose at least one (1) environmental modeling or data course from the following:3
Environmental System Modeling
Environmental Data Analysis
Proposal / Dissertation Research24-36
Proposal/Dissertation Research
Other graduate-level elective coureses selected from the following:9-21
Internship in Environ Eng *
Air Quality Modeling
Surface Water Quality Modeling
Groundwater Contamin Transport
Environ Monitor and Measurmnts
Decision Sci for Environ Systm
Enviromental Informatics
Spec Top in Environmental Eng
TOTAL:63 Credits
Students can take up to two courses (6 credits) outside by department by consulting with your research/academic advisor. One additional course may be taken outside the department (3 credits) with approval of the departmental graduate committee.

^ Must take EVEN 6102 three (3) times.
* Ph.D. students receiving funding from any active research grant or project can take internship/Co-op using EVEN 6304 only once during their study after nine semesters enrolled in the program with the approval of their research advisor and the department chair.