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Bachelor of Applied Science and Bachelor of Software Engineering Specific Degree Requirements

Faculty Options

Option in Environmental Engineering

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:

  1. Environmental Issues and Management: take two from the following. May count towards Complementary Studies Elective (CSE) requirements (check with CSE lists and your program requirements).

    Course
    Title
    ENVE 391 Environment: Regulations and Legal Issues
    ERS 215 Environmental and Sustainability Assessment I
    ERS 270 Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture
    ERS 315 Environmental and Sustainability Assessment II
    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
  2. Environmental Chemistry and Biology: take at least 1

    Course
    Title
    BIOL 150 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
    HLTH 420 Health, Environment, and Planning
  3. Environmental and Energy Processes: take at least 2

    Course Title
    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
  4. Transport, Modelling, and Decision Analysis: take at least 1

    Course
    Title
    CIVE 240 Engineering and Sustainable Development
    EARTH 456 Numerical Methods in Hydrogeology 
    EARTH 458 Physical Hydrogeology
    ENVE 320 Environmental Resource Management
    ENVE 573 Contaminant Transport
    ME 571 Air Pollution
    MSCI 452 Decision Making Under Uncertainty
    SYDE 332 Societal and Environmental Systems
    SYDE 433 Conflict Resolution

    Plus one additional course from list B, C, or D above, to total seven courses.

 


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