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Course 10-ENG: Bachelor of Science in Engineering with Concentration
Environment and Sustainability
This concentration will enable exploration into separation processes, membrane systems, atmospheric chemistry and other environmental challenges. A number of core chemical engineering principles are key to addressing these challenges. Topics that might be covered in the concentration include green or environmentally sustainable energy, water purification, water distribution and supply, and soil remediation. Additional areas of potential interest are the generation of sustainable materials, environmental health, and the use of biological mechanisms for the breakdown of pollutants. Some subjects offer the opportunity to gain context within the global economic and ecological environment. The classes listed below are suggested subjects, but students may propose any set of courses that fit the environmental concentration pending approval from their 10-ENG advisor.
Suggested Undergraduate Subjects
Students can choose 4 of the following subjects, or propose other subjects that are consistent with this concentration in consultation with his or her advisor.
Environment & Sustainability |
Course Name | Units | GIR | Prerequisites |
1.006 | Tools for Sustainable Design | 12 | ||
*1.018 | Ecology I: The Earth System | 12 | CI-M | None |
1.020 | Engineering Sustainability: Analysis and Design | 12 | Physics I (GIR); Coreq: 18.03 or permission of instructor | |
♦1.061 | Transport Processes in the Environment | 12 | 1.060; Coreq: 1.106, 1.070; or permission of instructor |
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♦1.070A/B | Introduction to Hydrology | 12 | 1.060 (equiv to 10.301); Coreq: 1.061, 1.106 | |
1.071 | Global Change Science | 12 | 18.03 | |
1.077 | Land, Water, Food, and Climate | 9 | ||
1.076 | Carbon Management | 12 | ||
*1.080 | Environmental Chemistry | 12 | Chem(GIR) | |
1.086 | Physics of Renewable Energy Systems & Computational Analysis | 12 | (Physics I (GIR), Physics II (GIR), and 18.03) or permission of instructor | |
1.091 | Traveling Research Environmental eXperience (TREX): Fieldwork | 3 | (IAP) Permission of instructor | |
*1.096J/10.496J | Design of Sustainable Polymer Systems | 12 | (IAP) (10.213 and 10.301) or permission of instructor | |
*1.106 | Environmental Fluid Transport Processes and Hydrology Laboratory | 6 | Half-LAB | None. Coreq: 1.061, 1.070 |
*1.107 | Environmental Chemistry and Biology Laboratory | 6 | Half-LAB | None. Coreq: 1.080 |
2.813 | Energy, Materials and Manufacturing | 12 | 2.008 or Permission of instructor | |
2.814 | Exploring Sustainability at Different Scales | 12 | ||
•3.080 | Strategic Materials Selection | 12 | (3.010 and 2.020) or permission of instructor |
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5.07 | Biological Chemistry I | 12 | REST | 5.12 |
7.05 | General Biochemistry | 12 | REST | 5.12, Biology (GIR), or permission of instructor |
10.291J | Intro to Sustainable Energy | 12 | Inst. Perm. (junior/senior only) | |
12.021 | Earth Science, Energy, and the Environment | 12 | Physics I (GIR), Calculus I (GIR), Chemistry (GIR) | |
12.301 | Climate Science | 12 | Chemistry (GIR), 18.03, or permission of instructor | |
12.306 | Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry | 12 | ||
12.307 | Weather and Climate Laboratory | 12 | LAB, CI-M | Calculus II (GIR), Physics I (GIR) |
*12.335 | Experimental Atmospheric Chemistry | 12 | LAB, CI-M | Chemistry (GIR) |
EC.715 | Water, Sanitation and Hygiene | 12 | D-Lab | |
EC.719 | Climate Change and Planetary Health | 12 | D-Lab |
* Also listed as Foundational Concept
Course X ICE-topic class
♦ Prerequisite covered by 10.302
• Prerequisite covered by 5.60
Approved Graduate Subject Alternatives
Environ. | Course Name | Units | GIR | Prerequisites |
1.831 | Environmental Organic Chemistry | 12 | 5.60, 18.03 | |
2.500 | Desalination and Water Purification | 12 | 2.006, 1.020, 10.302 (-part of ChE Core), or permission of instructor | |
10.579J | Applications in Technology in Energy and the Environment | 12 | Permission of instructor | |
10.817J | Atmospheric Chemistry | 12 | 5.60 | |
12.845J | Sustainability Science and Engineering Seminar | 12 | Permission of instructor | |
IDS.065J | Energy Systems for Climate Change Mitigation | 12 | Permission of instructor |