The viability and ultimate long-term sustainability of the natural resources and ecosystems of planet Earth have become issues of increasing national and international priority. The professional activities of all engineers and scientists impact the availability and quality of these resources and ecosystems, and, in the sense of life-cycle reality, are in turn impacted by the availability, the quality, and the state of well-being of these resources and ecosystems. The College of Engineering offers several environmentally focused degree programs and endeavors in all of its undergraduate and graduate degree programs to weave a strong thread of environmental awareness, responsibility, and functional knowledge.

The Environmental Sciences and Engineering (ENSCEN) Division serves all environmentally related programs in the College of Engineering. At the graduate level it is associated most closely with the ConsEnSus Program, which is described (pg 237 of the bulletin), but it also serves as an aggregation and categorization of courses in the College, and in other units of the University that have been approved for incorporation in graduate degree programs in Environmental Engineering, such as that offered by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. At the undergraduate level, ENSCEN serves the same functions with respect to identifying and categorizing courses across the University that can be used to satisfy departmental requirements or electives in areas of environmental sciences, engineering, policy, or law.

The courses listed in the ENSCEN Division are subdivided into three major categories with respect to programmatic content in order to facilitate reader orientation. These categories are: A. Environmental Science and Technology; B. Environmental Assessment Management and Policy; and C. Environmental Law and Regulations. Certain degree or concentration programs in the College, such as the ConsEnSus Program, specify required distributions of credit hours among these three programmatic categories of courses. Courses described elsewhere in this Bulletin are listed only by title, number, credit hours, and terms offered. More complete descriptions of those courses are given in the sections of the Bulletin for cross-listed departments. Full descriptions are provided in the ENSCEN list for courses not described elsewhere in this Bulletin (e.g., courses offered in other schools and colleges).

Facilities

Facilities and Laboratories associated with specific programs in which enrolled and courses elected.

Accreditation

Accrues to relevant Departmental MSE/MS/PhD Program