COURSES AVAILABLE IN FALL 2008 SEMESTER FOR THE

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AND SUSTAINABILITY 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 and Sustainability Minor, for the categories indicated.  These are the requirements for the Minor for students entering Carnegie Mellon University in 2008 or later.

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 and Sustainability 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).

 

A1. Core Courses in Sustainability

19-622 (co listed as 12-712) Sustainability

19-623 (co listed as 12-713) Environmental Management

 

A2. Core Courses in Environmental Engineering

12-651 Air Quality Engineering

12-702 Fundamentals of Water Quality Engineering

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

 

B. Technical Electives in Environmental Engineering and Sustainability

03-121 Modern Biology 

09-106 Modern Chemistry II

12-651 Air Quality Engineering

12-702 Fundamentals of Water Quality Engineering

24-424 Energy and the Environment

19-622 Sustainability (6 units; must be combined with additional 3 units; also listed as 12-712)

19-623 Industrial Ecology (6 units; must be combined with additional 3 units; also listed as 12-713)

27-421 Processing Design (6 units; must be combined with three additional units)

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

48-315 Environment I: Climate and Energy

 

C. Policy Electives

73-359 Benefit-Cost Analysis

76-319 Environmental Rhetoric

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

            Context

80-242 Conflict and Dispute Resolution

80-244 Environmental Management and Ethics

88-220 Policy Analysis I

88-222 Policy Analysis III

88-223 Decision Analysis and Decision Support Systems

90-747 Cost-Benefit Analysis

90-758 Ethics and Public Policy in a Global Society

 

 

NOTES:

  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 and one as a Type C course.)
  2. Course 12-351 Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering can be counted toward completion of the environmental engineering and sustainability course requirements for non-CEE students only.
  3. Courses cannot be double-counted for lists A and B. 
  4. Courses used to fulfill the basic science requirement for CIT cannot be double counted for list B requirements.  Courses required within a student’s CIT major can be double counted for list B requirements.
  5. Students may take up to two list B courses in their home department. One list B course must be from outside their home department.  EPP double majors should NOT consider EPP their home department.
  6. Other humanities and social science courses with similar or related content may be substituted for Type C courses with permission of the student’s departmental advisor and the Director.
  7. A group of three environmental policy coureses MAY be counted as fulfilling the H&SS depth requirement required of all CIT students.
  8. A list of relevant courses for Type B and C in each semester is provided at the Environmental Engineering and Sustainabiliy Minor web site: