This Option is for students who wish to pursue their education with an emphasis on environmental concerns, assessment of the environmental impact of new or existing products or processes, methods for solving problems resulting from pollution in the air, in the water, or in the earth, and on the management of energy and resources in order to minimize pollution in the environment. This is a Faculty option, but it will be of special interest to students in Chemical, Civil, Mechanical, and Systems Design Engineering, and includes course material related to all these disciplines. The Environmental Engineering Option is NOT available to Environmental Engineering students.
The Option consists of a set of seven courses chosen from four Theme Areas, as described below. Substitution of equivalent courses, if applicable, requires the approval of the Option Co-ordinator.
The courses are:
A. Environmental Issues and Management: take two from the following. May count towards CSE requirements (check with CSE lists and your program requirements).
| ENVE 391 |
Environment: Regulations and Legal Issues |
| ERS 241 |
Introduction to Environmental Assessment |
| ERS 270 |
Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture |
| ERS 305 |
Ecosystem Perspectives and Analyses |
| ERS 339 |
Biophysical and Socioeconomic Impact Assessment |
| ERS 370 |
Corporate Sustainability: Issues and Prospects |
| ERS 371 |
An Ecosystem Approach to Environment and Health |
| ERS 372 |
First Nations and the Environment |
| ERS 404 |
Global Environmental Governance |
| ERS 407 |
Climate Change and Society |
B. Environmental Chemistry and Biology: take at least 1
| BIOL 250 |
Organismal and Evolutionary Ecology or ENVS 200 Field Ecology |
| BIOL 354 |
Environmental Toxicology 1 |
| BIOL 383 |
Tropical Ecosystems |
| EARTH 221 |
Geochemistry 1 |
| ENVE 275 |
Environmental Chemistry |
| ENVE 276 |
Environmental Biology and Biotechnology |
| ERS 381 |
Restoration Ecology |
| HLTH 420 |
Health, Environment, and Planning |
C. Environmental and Energy Processes: take at least 2
| BIOL 453 |
Wetlands |
| CHE 571 |
Industrial Ecology |
| CHE 572 |
Air Pollution Control |
| CHE 574 |
Industrial Wastewater Pollution Control |
| ENVE 375 |
Water Quality Engineering (or CIVE 375) |
| ENVE 472 |
Wastewater Treatment (or CIVE 572) |
| ENVE 577 |
Engineering for Solid Waste Management |
| ME 452 |
Energy Transfer in Buildings |
| ME 459 |
Energy Conversion |
D. Transport, Modelling, and Decision Analysis: take at least 1
| CIVE 240 |
Engineering and Sustainable Development |
| EARTH 456 |
Groundwater Modelling |
| EARTH 458 |
Physical Hydrogeology |
| ENVE 320 |
Environmental Resource Management |
| ENVE 573 |
Contaminant Transport |
| ME 571 |
Air Pollution |
| MSCI 452 |
Decision Making Under Uncertainty |
| SYDE 533 |
Conflict Analysis |
| SYDE 534 |
Remote Sensing Systems |
Plus one additional course from list B, C, or D above, to total seven courses.