Undergraduate Minors | Civil Engineering | Environmental Engineering

Electing another course as your major does not mean you cannot learn about civil and environmental engineering. From civil and environmental systems, civil engineering and environmental engineering science, the three minors offered by CEE will expand your horizons and your education.

The Minor in Civil and Environmental Systems

The Civil and Environmental Systems minor is unique because it combines principles and knowledge from across civil, environmental and systems engineering into a hyper-concentrated study focused on both the built and natural worlds.

The Minor in Civil and Environmental Systems consists of the following subjects:

1.020     Engineering Sustainability: Analysis and Design
1.022     Introduction to Network Models
1.041     Transportation Systems Modeling

15.053   Optimization Methods in Business Analytics
1.101     Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design I
1.104    Sensing and Intelligent Systems

The Minor in Civil Engineering

The Civil Engineering Minor offers subjects that reflect the wide extent of education that now encompasses the field, including solid and fluid mechanics, materials, and new labs.

The Minor in Civil Engineering consists of the following subjects:

1.035     Mechanics of Materials
1.036     Structural Mechanics and Design
1.050     Solid Mechanics

1.056 Introduction to Structural Design
1.060 Fluid Mechanics

1.101 Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design 1
1.104 Sensing and Intelligent Systems

The Minor in Environmental Engineering Science

The Environmental Engineering Science Minor makes the popular Traveling Research Environmental Experiences (TREX) fieldwork during the Independent Activities Period (IAP) a program requirement, because field research has proved essential to the CEE educational experience.

The Minor in Environmental Engineering Science consists of the following subjects:

1.018 Fundamentals of Ecology
1.060 Fluid Mechanics
1.061A Transport Processes in the Environment I
1.070AJ Introduction to Hydrology and Water Resources
1.080 Environmental Chemistry
1.091 Traveling Research Environmental eXperience (TREX): Fieldwork
1.106 Environmental Fluid Transport Processes and Hydrology Laboratory
1.107 Environmental Chemistry and Biology Laboratory

Major in 1, Minor in 6

CEE has developed a joint major + minor degree track that brings together the CEE major (General Engineering, Course 1-ENG) with a Computer Science minor (Course 6) to give students a leading edge.

Students can focus in one of three areas:

Smart Cities

A proliferation of data and networked systems are creating more efficient and sustainable alternatives for infrastructure and transportation systems. The smart cities joint major + minor degree track prepares students with the skills and understanding to be leaders and developers of the future.

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Systems Engineering

Design and manage large scale complex systems that can be applied to a number of domains, including supply chain and logistics; infrastructure sensing and control; and societal networks, among others. The systems engineering joint major + minor degree track prepares students with the modeling and decision-making principles required to develop and maintain successful systems.

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Environmental Modeling and Analytics

Understand and model both small and large-scale ecosystems and the environment using analytical and numerical analysis. The environmental modeling analytics joint major + minor degree track prepares students with skills needed to tackle environmental challenges and to engineer solutions to major problems.

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