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Environmental Engineering Minor


Environmental Engineering Minor

The College of Engineering offers a Minor in Environmental Engineering to those undergraduate students whose academic history provides the prerequisites for the courses required by the minor. The Minor requires the completion of a minimum of 21 credits in course work which builds the foundation of an environmental engineering perspective. Some of the courses used in the Minor may also satisfy a requirement for the Major. Students are advised that the first professional degree in environmental engineering at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is the M.S. in Environmental Engineering which builds on the Minor.
Course Requirements
Choose One:
  • CHEM 230 Inorganic Chemistry
  • CHEM 310 Analytical Chemistry
  • CHEM 350 Organic Chemistry
Choose One:
  • MICR 210 General Microbiology
  • ENV ENGR 513 Environmental Microbiology
Choose Two:
  • CBE 201 Material and Energy Balances
  • BsE 221 Mass & Energy Systems in Biosystems
  • CE 381 Environmental Engineering I or CE380 Water and Waste Treatment
  • CE/BsE 416 Hydrology
  • CE 494 Water Resources Engineering II
Choose One:
  • GEOL 202 Earth as an Ecosystem
  • PHIL 245 Environmental Ethics
Choose One:
  • GEOL 485 Hydrogeology
  • CE 485 Principles of Hydrogeology
  • ESS 444 Transport Processes in Soils
Required:
  • CE 486 Air & Waste Management (Contact Dr. John Schwartz to make special arrangements concerning this course.)
 
Advising:
Students are asked to file their intent to complete the Minor with the office of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 223 Perkins Hall. The student's home department advisor will then be supplied with the information about the Minor requirements to assist with prerequisite sequencing. A copy will be filed with undergraduate records so the Minor, once completed, will be shown on the student's transcript.