Master of Science in Environmental Engineering — Non-thesis Course Requirements | UH Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Students pursuing a masters of science without thesis are required to take 30 hours of organized courses. Full Time Students currently register for 12 credit hours of research and/or organized classes each long semester and 6 credit hours of research and/or organized classes in the summer semester. Part time students usually take 2 courses in each long semester and 1 course in the summer semester.

Course No.	Course Title
CIVE 6111	Graduate Seminar in Environmental Engineering must be taken twice by all non-thesis students. These 2 credits are not counted towards the 30 hour course load.

Four core courses are required in the Masters of Science in Environmental Engineering program.

Course No.	Course Title
CIVE 6361	Engineering Hydrology
CIVE 6377	Environmental Chemistry
CIVE 6378	Principles of Environmental Modeling
CIVE 6391	Environmental Engineering Microbiology

In addition to the required courses, students choose six electives of which four are required to come from the following list of courses. Non Engineers are expected to take as many as possible of these courses as electives.

Course No.	Course Title
CIVE 4333	Water and Wastewater Treatment. Non-civil engineers only
CIVE 5360	Urban-Regional Planning
CIVE 6322	Storm Water Management
CIVE 6331	Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow
CIVE 6362	Hydraulic Structures
CIVE 6363	Evaluation of Water Quality in Natural Waters
CIVE 6379	Stochastic Hydrology
CIVE 6381	Biological Processes for Wastewater Treatment
CIVE 6383	Advanced Planning and Design of Water Resource Systems
CIVE 6387	Physicochemical Treatment Processes
CIVE 6388	Solid and Hazardous Waste Treatment Processes
CIVE 6390	Municipal Drinking Water Treatment
CIVE 6392	Mass Transfer in Environmental Systems
CIVE 7332	Groundwater Contaminant Transport
CIVE 7335	Coastal Hydrodynamics
CIVE 7342	Engineering Geographic Information Systems
CIVE 7397	Hazardous Waste Management and Risk Assessment

Courses offered by other Departments within UH, as well as Rice and UH Clear Lake, are also acceptable. A list of some of these courses can be found here.