Information for Non-engineers

U.S. Students with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering-related disciplines (Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Geology, Geophysics, and so forth) can be admitted to the environmental engineering program after completion of the prerequisite classes below. Before they graduate, these students must also take six undergraduate engineering "leveling" courses to put them on par with engineering graduates and to help them pass the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination, the first step toward a Professional Engineering (PE) license. This option is not open to international students, who must possess an engineering degree upon admission to the Program. Upon graduation these students are viewed by the State of Texas Professional Engineering Board as having the equivalent of an Undergraduate Engineering Degree and can go through the licensure process to become professional engineers.

Students with B.S. degrees in non-engineering-related programs, e.g., technology, business, management, architecture, and the arts must complete an engineering degree before admission.

Prerequisites to Application

Leveling Courses

Admission Process

To apply for admission, a non-engineering student would follow the normal application process, supplying the additional proof that the courses considered to be prerequisites to application are completed.

Non-engineering students may also be admitted under a non-degree option to complete the prerequisite courses prior to formal admission to the environmental engineering graduate program, or conditionally to complete the leveling courses starting from the first semester of the degree plan.