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VideoEngineering Sciences Major Modified with Environmental Sciences
Students interested in the Engineering Sciences major modified with Environmental Sciences should contact Professor Benoit Cushman-Roisin or Professor Lee Lynd.
Prerequisites
Modified majors are expected to have a basic understanding of calculus, physics, chemistry, and computer science. First-year students interested in the major should take the placement test in mathematics.
Unless otherwise prohibited, prerequisites may be taken under the Non-Recording Option.
Mathematics (3 courses)
- MATH 3: Introduction to Calculus
- MATH 8: Calculus of Functions of One and Several Variables
- MATH 13: Calculus of Vector-Valued Functions
Physics (2 courses)
- PHYS 13: Introductory Physics I
- PHYS 14: Introductory Physics II
Chemistry (choose 1 course)
- CHEM 5: General Chemistry
- CHEM 10: Honors First-Year General Chemistry
Computer Science (1 course)
- ENGS 20: Introduction to Scientific Computing (may not be taken under the Non-Recording Option)
Biology (1 course)
- BIOL 16: Ecology (BIOL 11 is not needed as a prerequisite to BIOL 16 if ENVS 2, ENGS 37 or ENGS 41 have been taken)
Required Courses
Engineering Core Courses (3 courses)
- ENGS 22: Systems
- ENGS 25: Introduction to Thermodynamics
- ENGS 37: Introduction to Environmental Engineering
Engineering Electives (choose 3 courses, of which at least 2 must be from the subgroup 41, 43, 44)
- ENGS 27: Discrete and Probabilistic Systems
- ENGS 34: Fluid Dynamics
- ENGS 35: Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering
- ENGS 36: Chemical Engineering
- ENGS 41: Sustainability and Natural Resource Management
- ENGS 43: Environmental Transport and Fate
- ENGS 44: Sustainable Design
- ENGS 52: Introduction to Operations Research
- ENGS 171: Industrial Ecology
- ENGS 172: Climate Change and Engineering
Environmental Sciences Courses (choose 4 courses, including at least 2 from a single department)
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Biology
- BIOL 21: Population Ecology OR BIOL 51: Advanced Population Ecology (but not both)
- BIOL 22: Methods in Ecology
- BIOL 25: Introductory Marine Biology and Ecology
- BIOL 53: Aquatic Ecology
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Chemistry
- CHEM 51: Organic Chemistry (permitted only as a prerequisite to CHEM 63)
- CHEM 63: Environmental Chemistry
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Earth Sciences
- EARS 16: Hydrology and Water Resources
- EARS 35: The Soil Resource
- EARS 65: Remote Sensing
- EARS 71: River Processes and Watershed Science
- EARS 66: Hydrogeology
- EARS 76: Contaminant Hydrogeology
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Environmental Studies
- ENVS 12: Energy and the Environment
- ENVS 20: Conservation of Biodiversity
- ENVS 25: Ecological Agriculture
- ENVS 53: Science for Sustainable Systems
- ENVS 55: Ecological Economics
Culminating Experience
Engineering Sciences majors complete a culminating experience, which is part of a course (either as one of the two electives or as an additional course). Normally taken during the senior year, the course is chosen from the following options:
- Thesis
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Design Project
- ENGS 89: Engineering Design Methodology and Project Initiation (taken as part of the two-course design sequence ENGS 89/90). May count toward both A.B. and B.E. degrees. (Prior to enrollment in ENGS 89, at least 6 engineering sciences courses must be completed: ENGS 21 plus 5 additional courses numbered 22 to 76.)
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Advanced Course
- ENGS 61: Intermediate Electrical Circuits
- ENGS 62: Microprocessors in Engineered Systems
- ENGS 63: Introduction to VLSI Systems
- ENGS 71: Structural Analysis
- ENGS 73: Materials Processing and Selection
- ENGS 75: Product Design
- ENGS 76: Machine Engineering
- ENGS 112: Modern Information Technologies
- ENGS 122: Semiconductor Theory and Devices
- ENGS 124: Optical Devices and Systems
- ENGS 125: Power Electronics and Electromechanical Energy Conversion
- ENGS 126: Analog Integrated Circuit Design
- ENGG 129: Instrumentation and Measurements
- ENGS 130: Mechanical Behavior of Materials
- ENGS 132: Thermodynamics and Kinetics in Condensed Phases
- ENGS 134: Nanotechnology
- ENGS 135: Thin Films and Microfabrication Technology
- ENGS 145: Modern Control Theory
- ENGS 146: Computer-Aided Mechanical Engineering Design
- ENGS 157: Chemical Process Design
- ENGS 158: Chemical Kinetics and Reactors
- ENGS 160: Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering
- ENGS 163: Protein Engineering
- ENGS 165: Biomaterials
- ENGS 169: Intermediate Biomedical Engineering
- ENGS 171: Industrial Ecology
- ENGS 172: Climate Change and Engineering
Transfer Credit
No more than two transfer courses may be used for credit in the major.
Academic Standing
Satisfactory completion of the major requires a grade point average of 2.0 in the courses suitable for satisfying the major.