Air Quality Specialty

Increasing attention to the health effects of air pollutants and increasingly stringent regulations have resulted in a huge demand for engineers who understand air quality issues. Here we present curricula for students interested in air quality engineering that fall within existing rules for Master's degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Chemical Engineering (ChemE), Mechanical Engineering (ME) and Engineering and Public Policy (EPP).

For CEE, ChemE, and ME, the new Master's programs require completion of eight 12-unit courses. Four of these are air quality courses, while the remaining four are electives that students select to satisfy their specific department requirements. The pair of minicourses "Introduction to Sustainability Engineering" and "Environmental Management Tools and Methods" is counted as an air quality course because a major component will involve air quality issues, even though this sequence will also include some water quality and solid waste components. The pair of minicourses "Environmental Life Cycle Assessment and Green Design" and "Case Studies in Sustainability Engineering" is likewise counted as an air quality course for the same reason.

For EPP, the new Master's program requires completion of 108 units of courses. Note that the EPP M.S. program is not intended to be a stand-alone degree for entering graduate students seeking a terminal masters. Rather, it is designed as an additional intermediate degree for students pursuing a Ph.D. in EPP or a joint Ph.D. in EPP and another discipline. The Specialty in Air Quality Engineering can also be added for students in the EPP 5-year B.S.-M.S. program. Completion of the EPP M.S. degree by new graduate students requires four semesters of coursework and participation in the EPP Qualifying Exams.

Program Administrator:

Dr. Cliff Davidson

Professor

Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

119 Porter Hall

Phone: 412-268-2952

Email: cliff@cmu.edu

The programs for each department are listed below. CEE, ChemE, and ME have the same set of four required core air quality courses - only the electives vary. EPP requires three of the four core air quality courses. The core courses will also be recommended for Ph.D. students interested in air quality.

Chemical Engineering

96 units required: 4 Chemical Engineering Core Courses, 1 grad technical course, and 3 breadth/depth courses.

The four Chemical Engineering Core Courses must be chosen from the following list:

06-702 Kinetics
06-703 Advanced Fluid Dynamics
06-704 Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer
06-705 Thermodynamics
06-713 Math Techniques in Chem. Eng.
06-720 Advanced Process Systems Eng.

Units	Course Number	Course Name
12	12-751/19-751	Air Quality Engineering	Fall
6*	12-712	Sustainability	Fall
6*	12-713	Environment Management	Fall
12		Chemical Engineering Core Course	Fall
12		Chemical Engineering Core Course	Fall
24	*Choose two of following:*
	06-620	Global Atmospheric Chemistry	Spring
	12-714*	Life Cycle Assessment	Spring
	12-715*	Case Studies	Spring
	19-650	Climate and Energy	Spring
	24-425/19-740	Combustion and Air Pollution Control	Spring
12		Chemical Engineering Core Course	Spring
12		Chemical Engineering Core Course	Spring

*represents a mini course, of which each class is 7.5 weeks and should be taken consecutively during one semester

Civil & Environmental Engineering

96 units required: these must include at least 60 units of graduate level CEE courses. Max 12 units independent study.

Units	Course Number	Course Name
12	12-751/19-751	Air Quality Engineering	Fall
6	12-712	Sustainability	Fall
6	12-713	Environmental Management	Fall
12		Elective	Fall
12		Elective	Fall
24	*Choose two of following:*
	06-620	Global Atmospheric Chemistry	Spring
	12-714*	Life Cycle Assessment	Spring
	12-715*	Case Studies	Spring
	19-650	Climate and Energy	Spring
	24-425/19-740	Combustion and Air Pollution Control	Spring
12		Elective	Spring
12		Elective	Spring

*represents a mini course, of which each class is 7.5 weeks and should be taken consecutively during one semester

Recommendations for the four elective courses are:

12-704 Probability and Estimation
12-706 Civil Systems Investment, Planning, and Pricing
12-711 Project Management for Construction
12-720 Water Resources Chemistry
12-722 Wastewater Treatment Design and Practice
12-725 Physicochemical Processes and Organic Compounds in Aquatic Systems
12-726 Mathematical Modeling of Environmental Quality Systems
12-723 Biological Processes in Environmental Systems
12-740 CAE Tools
12-755 Finite Elements in Mechanics
12-792 Independent Study
06-703 Advanced Fluid Dynamics
06-704 Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer
06-705 Thermodynamics
06-713 Math Techniques in Chem. Eng.

Engineering and Public Policy

108 units required: 36 units EPP core courses, 48 units engineering/science/math courses, 12 units social analysis course, and 12 units in independent research

Units	Course Number	Course Name
	Core Courses	36 units minimum. Note that 24 of these must be 19-701 and 19-752
12	19-701	Theory and Practice of Policy Analysis	Fall (even years)
12	19-702	Quantitative Methods for Policy Analysis	Fall (odd years)
6	19-803	Survey Design and Analysis	Spring
6	19-704	Applied Data Analysis	Spring
6	19-705	Workshop on Applied Policy Analysis	Fall
12	19-752	EPP Project Management	Fall and Spring
	Eng/Sci/Math Courses	48 units minimum. Note 24 of these must be 12-704 and 19-751
12	06-620	Global Atmospheric Chemistry	Spring
12	12-704	Probability and Estimation Methods for Eng. Systems	Fall
6*	12-712	Sustainability	Fall
6*	12-713	Environmental Management	Fall
6*	12-714	Life Cycle Assessment	Spring
6*	12-715	Case Studies	Spring
12	12-751/19-751	Air Quality Engineering	Fall
12	19-650	Climate and Energy	Spring
12	24-425/19-740	Combustion and Air Pollution Control	Spring
	Social Analysis
12	90-908	Applied Microeconomics
	Research
12	19-750	Independent Research

*represents a mini course, of which each class is 7.5 weeks and should be taken consecutively during one semester

Mechanical Engineering

96 units required: these must include at least 60 units ME courses (400 level and above), 60 units graduate level courses, and 9 units upper level math. Max 12 units of directed reading.

Units	Course Number	Course Name
12	12-751/19-751	Air Quality Engineering	Fall
6*	12-712	Sustainability	Fall
6*	12-713	Environmental Management	Fall
12		Elective	Fall
12		Elective	Fall
24	Choose two of following:
	06-620	Global Atmospheric Chemistry	Spring
	12-714*	Life Cycle Assessment	Spring
	12-715*	Case Studies	Spring
	19-650	Climate and Energy	Spring
	24-425/19-740	Combustion and Air Pollution Control	Spring
12		Elective	Spring
12		Elective	Spring

*represents a mini course, of which each class is 7.5 weeks and should be taken consecutively during one semester

Recommendations for the four ME elective courses are:

24-711 Fluid Mechanics
24-721 Thermodynamics I
24-732 Convective Heat Transfer Spring
24-744 Combustion
24-424 Energy and the Environment
24-701 Mathematical Techniques in Mechanical Engineering I
24-703 Numerical Methods in Mechanical Engineering
24-423 Direct Energy Conversion
24-421 Internal Combustion Engines
24-425 Combustion & Air Pollution Control
24-712 Turbulent Flow
24-791 Directed Reading