Environmental and Water Resources Engineering

Doctoral students in environmental and water resources engineering pursue coursework and research in a wide variety of areas, which include:

• Air quality
• Water quality
• Water treatment
• Wastewater treatment
• Solid and hazardous waste
• Bioremediation
• Stormwater treatment
• Wetlands management
• Environmental Fluid Mechanics
• Water Resource Management
• Sediment and Nutrient Transport
• River Ecohydraulics
• Landscape Connectivity
• Hydrology
• Hydroclimatology

Students may start their graduate studies in the fall, spring or summer semester. A bachelor’s degree in a field of engineering is required for admission to the PhD degree program in environmental and water resources engineering.

Exceptionally well-qualified baccalaureate degree holders may be accepted directly into the fast-track PhD degree program without prior completion of a master’s degree. Students in the fast-track PhD program are not required to write a master’s thesis or complete the MS degree en route to the PhD.