Applied Environmental Data Sciences, Academic Certificate
Coastal communities face unprecedented environmental challenges such as frequent and intensified floods and droughts, uncertain availability of water resources, harmful algal blooms, and deteriorating water and air quality. These challenges become more complex due to ever-changing socio-environmental factors such as increasing demand caused by rapid population growth, industrial development, urbanization, and climate change. Finding convergent solutions to these issues demands well-coordinated teamwork and a new outlook toward student research and education across the engineering, sciences, and humanities disciplines along with active engagement of communities. Such challenges call for a user-friendly decision-making and visualization framework that couples timely hydrological, hydrogeological, topographical, climatic, physicochemical, land use/land cover, biological, and social-economic data. Upon completing this certificate, students and professionals will be able to
- Develop a data-driven mindset based on a comprehensive understanding of the latest data science tools to solve intensified environmental sustainability issues that are faced by communities.
- Apply these tools to facilitate the implementation of data-driven, science-based resources management, improve the understanding of the scale-dependent behavior of environmental systems, and provide sustainable solutions to the regional communities and ecosystems.
This certificate is open to graduate students and professionals. Students will receive the certificate upon completing all required coursework with a grade of B or better.
Admission Requirements:
A four-year degree in STEM and education fields, or students satisfying concurrent enrollment criteria of TAMUK graduate classes.
Required Coursework
To earn the certificate, students must complete the following four courses (12 credit hours) with a grade of B or better:
| Code | Title | Semester Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| EVEN 6349 | Grad Prof Skills Developmt Lab | 3 |
| EVEN 6347 | Data Science for Next Generation of Community Researchers | 3 |
| Select two courses from the following: | 6 | |
| Environmtl Sustain&Resilience | ||
| Environmental Data Analysis | ||
| Environmental System Modeling | ||
| Enviromental Informatics | ||
| Air Quality Modeling | ||
| Surface Water Quality Modeling | ||
| Groundwater Contamin Transport | ||
| Decision Sci for Environ Systm | ||
| Adv Topics in Bilingual Ed I | ||
| Adv Topics in Bilingual Ed II | ||
| Adv Eng Data Analysis & Opt | ||
| Fundamentals Sustainable Eng | ||
| Adv Engineering Project Mnmt | ||
| Data Analys in Social Research | ||
| Lifestyles and Career Devel | ||
| Sem in Social Organization | ||
| Advanced Research Methods | ||
| Sustainable Landuse Dec & Mgmt | ||
| North America Wetlands | ||
| Sustainability of Eviron Ecosy | ||
| Soil and Water Conservation | ||
| Databases & Data Warehousing | ||
| Exp. Data Analysis & Visual | ||
| Predictive Analytics | ||
| Leadership, Change & Innovat. | ||
| Crisis Communication & Manag. | ||
| Total Semester Credit Hours | 12 | |