Environmental and Technological Hazards Engineering

Vision

The MS and PhD programs in Engineering Science will be a nationally recognized program attracting new students and new research funds to the College of Engineering and contributing high quality graduates capable of resolving the problems associated with environmental and technological hazards.

Mission

The program will provide:

  • Capabilities for research and education that either do not exist within core engineering departments or require the expertise of faculty that cross departmental or college lines
  • Opportunities for research and education in environmentally-related engineering for students from non-traditional backgrounds
  • Encouragement for the development of inter-departmental and inter-college initiatives in research and education in environmental and technological hazards
  • A mechanism for students to initiate graduate engineering studies outside of traditional departmental programs
  • A mechanism for students within traditional engineering departments to pursue a concentration in environmental and technological hazards engineering

Structure

A Concentration in Environmental and Technological Hazards Engineering can be pursued at either the MS or PhD level. It may be pursued as a concentration area with a Master of Engineering Science or PhD in Engineering Science program or as a concentration area in any of the core engineering disciplines. For Engineering Science students, the concentration requirements may be included in an approved program of study. For students of core engineering disciplines, the concentration requirements may be met through use of electives in their respective programs.

Environmental and Technological Hazards Engineering encompasses a broad range of topics. To ensure that a student develops depth within one or more of these topical areas, a Concentration in Environmental and Technological Hazards Engineering requires a combination of formal coursework within a particular topical area as well as additional coursework that may be drawn from a list of engineering courses approved for application to the Concentration. The list of courses within the currently available topical areas as well as the complete list of approved Environmental and Technological Hazards Engineering courses is attached. Students may also wish to pursue formal coursework in other colleges and departments that may supplement and support their concentration.

The minimum requirements for a MS Concentration in Environmental and Technological Hazards Engineering (ETHE) are as follows.

  • 6 hours of coursework in one approved ETHE topical area
  • 6 hours of coursework drawn from a general list of approved ETHE courses

The minimum requirements for a PhD Concentration in Environmental and Technological Hazards Engineering are as follows.

  • 9 hours of coursework in one approved ETHE topical area
  • 9 hours of coursework drawn from a general list of approved ETHE courses

In addition, thesis MS and PhD students in Engineering Science must have an approved program of study and pursue thesis topics in the area of Environmental and Technological Hazards to receive the Concentration.

Approved topical areas for the Concentrations in Environmental and Technological Hazards include the following.

Environmental Dynamics of Contaminants

BE 4383 - Natural Resource Engineering
BE 7304 - Advanced Natural Resource Engineering
ChE 4263 - Chemodynamics
CE 4250 - Groundwater
CE 7180 - Water quality simulation
CE 7265 - Advanced Subsurface Hydrology and Hydraulics
CE 7275 - Modeling for Management of Groundwater
EVEG 4105 - Water Quantity Management

Industrial Hazards and Pollution Control

BE 7361 - Biological Reactor Systems for Agricultural Waste Treatment
ChE 4253 - Industrial Pollution Control
CE 7100 - Theory and Operation of Wastewater Treatment Facilities
CE 7145 - Biofiltration for Recirculating Systems
IE 4462 - Safety Engineering
IE 4463 - Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene Engineering
IE 7460 - Equipment Failure Analysis and Prevention
IE 7463 - Industrial Hygiene Engineering
ME 4443 - Introduction to Combustion
ME 4643 - Thermal Environmental Engineering
PETE 4087 - Environmental Control in Petroleum Engineering

Natural Hazards Engineering

CE 4200 - Hydrology
CE 4320 - Coastal Engineering
CE 4445 - Hurricane Engineering
CE 4745 - Natural Hazards and the Built Environment
CE 7260 - Advanced Hydrology
CE 7270 - Hydrologic Systems
CE 7280 - Modeling for Physical Hydrology

Water Resources Engineering

BE 4361 - Irrigation Fundamentals and Management
BE 4383 - Natural Resource Engineering
BE 7304 - Advanced Natural Resource Engineering
CE 4200 - Hydrology
CE 4250 - Groundwater
CE 4260 - Design of Hydrologic Systems
CE 7112 - Water Quality Management
CE 7180 - Water Quality Simulation
CE 7260 - Advanced Hydrology
CE 7265 - Advanced Subsurface Hydrology and Hydraulics
CE 7270 - Hydrologic Systems
CE 7275 - Modeling for Management of Groundwater
CE 7280 - Modeling in Physical Hydrology
EVEG 4105 - Water Quantity Management
EVEG 4135 - Water Quality Analysis of Natural Systems

Wastewater Treatment

BE 7361 - Biological Reactor Systems for Agricultural Waste Treatment
CE 7100 - Theory and Operation of Wastewater Treatment Facilities
CE 7110 - Operation and Processes in Sanitary Engineering II
EVEG 4110 - Wastewater treatment
EVEG 4159 - Wetlands Treatment

Contact Us

William Moe, PhD, PE
3513B Patrick F. Taylor Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Phone: 225/578-9174
Facsimile: 225/578-8652
Email: moemwil@lsu.edu

 

 

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