COURSES AVAILABLE IN FALL 2008 SEMESTER FOR THE

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DESIGNATED MINOR [last updated 4-14-08]


CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

The Fall 2008 courses listed below can be used to satisfy the requirements for the Environmental Engineering Minor, for the categories indicated.  These are the requirements for the Minor for students entering Carnegie Mellon University before 2008.

Course descriptions are available online from the Registrar's Office. In addition to the Carnegie Mellon environmental courses listed below, students can cross register for up to one course per semester at the University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, or Chatham College.

Students are reminded that if they are interested in obtaining the Environmental Engineering Minor, they must complete an official minor declaration form which is available from the CIT Dean's Office. The form must be signed by their departmental advisor for the minor (BME- R. Tilton; CEE-J.VanBriesen; ChE-N.Donahue; ECE-M.Ilic; EPP-M.Kieler and E.Rubin; ME-A.Robinson; MSE-P. Salvador and R.Heard).

 

A. Environmental Science Courses

03-121 Modern Biology

03-124 Modern Biology Laboratory

03-231 Biochemistry I

06-221 Thermodynamics; or

24-221 Thermodynamics I; or

27-215 Thermodynamics of Materials

06-426 Experimental Colloid and Surface Science

09-106 Modern Chemistry II; or

09-217 Organic Chemistry I

09-221 Introduction to Chemical Analysis

 

B. Environmental Engineering Courses

12-651 Air Quality Engineering

12-702 Fundamentals of Water Quality Engineering

19-622 Sustainability [6 units; must be combined with additional 3 units] co-listed as 12-712

19-623 Environmental Management [6 units; must be combined with additional 3 units] co-listed as 12-713

19-688 Special Topics: Innovation for Energy and the Environment

24-424 Energy and the Environment (also 19-424)

42-321 Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology

42-621 Biotechnology and Environmental Processes (also 06-621)

48-315 Environment I: Climate and Energy

 

 (Note 1: The 48-xxx courses may not be acceptable as technical electives by some CIT engineering departments. At most one of these courses can be used as a Type B course.)

(Note 2:  Course 12-251, Introduction to Environmental Engineering, can be counted toward completion of the Type B course requirements for non-CEE students only.)

(Note 3: At least three of the five Type A + Type B courses counted toward the Environmental Engineering Minor must be from outside the student's major department.)

 

C. Environmental Policy Courses

48-453 Urban Design

70-332 Business, Society and Ethics

73-359 Benefit-Cost Analysis

79-212 Disastrous Encounters:  Technology and the Environment in Global Historical Context

79-243 A History of American Urban Life

79-278 China’s Environment:  Past and Present

80-241 Ethical Judgments in Professional Life

80-242 Conflict and Dispute Resolution

80-243 Business Ethics

80-244 Environmental Management and Ethics

85-241 Social Psychology

85-442 Health Psychology

88-220 Policy Analysis I

88-302 Behavioral Decision Making

90-747 Cost-Benefit Analysis

90-758 Ethics and Public Policy in a Global Society

90-784 Geographic Information Systems

90-810 Population and Policy

99-231 Environmental and Early Warnings

99-333 Agriculture, Food and Environment

 (Note 4: Other humanities and social science courses with similar or related content may be substituted for these environmental policy courses with permission of the student's departmental advisor for the Environmental Engineering Minor and the Director.  A group of three Type C courses may be counted as fulfilling the H&SS depth sequence required of all CIT students.)