2024-2025 Catalog 
    
    Dec 04, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog

Engineering, Sustainable Environments Engineering Concentration, Major


The Engineering major provides graduates with a uniquely well-rounded education, designed to expose students to the complex socio-cultural and economic reasons for engineering problems and the effects of engineering solutions, so that they become professionals who value diverse perspectives and respect the full trajectory of an engineering issue from its origins to the teamwork necessary to produce solutions, to the communications and dissemination of information. Our students come from highly diverse backgrounds, and the program is designed to help them to realize the assets they come with, and use them to propose solutions which they could only arrive at by valuing their assets and those of others.

In the Sustainable Environments Engineering concentration of the major, students learn to design systems and solutions that improve the built and natural environment, and protect human and ecosystem health. The main focus is to ensure sustainable development at both local and global scales as measured by appropriate metrics, including social justice as a measure of effective design. This concentration encompasses a range of civil and environmental engineering elements, from protecting and improving access to natural resources, and sustainable optimization of building materials, to the components of urban and natural infrastructural systems - all of which can be designed to contribute to a sustainable environment

Program Educational Objectives & Student Outcomes


Please see the Engineering Major 

Major Requirements (78 units)


Degree Planner


First-Year


Fall Units
ENGR 020 - Intro to Prototyping      0
ENGR 100 - Becoming an Engineer   2
ENGR 110 - Project & Design I   4
MATH 109 - Calculus & Analytic Geom I  or other, by placement) (Prerequisite MATH 108 - Precalculus ) 4
CHEM 150 - Gen Chem 1 for Eng and Sci   4
Core such as PHIL 246 - Engineering Ethics /THRS 246 - Ethics: Engineering   4
Total Semester Units 18
Spring Units
ENGR 102 - Intro to Programming  or CS 110 - Intro to Computer Science I   4
MATH 110 - Calculus & Analytic Geom II   4
PHYS 150 - Physics for Engineers I   4
Core or Language Course 1 (if needed) 4
Total Semester Units 16

Junior Year


Fall Units
ENGR 244 - Intro/Construction Materials  or ENVS 380 - Environmental Engineering   4
MATH 360 - Probability & Statistics   4
Core 4
Core 4
Total Semester Units 16
Spring Units
ENGR 310 - Project & Design III   4
ENVS 381 - Water & Wastewater Treatment  or ENGR 348: Sustainable Urban Systems or ENGR 382 - Engineered Water Systems  4
Core 4
Core 4
Total Semester Units 16

Senior Year


Fall Units
ENGR 410 - Project & Design Capstone I    2
ENGR 244 - Intro/Construction Materials  or ENVS 380 - Environmental Engineering    4
Core 4
Core 4
Core 4
Total Semester Units 18
Spring Units
ENGR 411 - Project & Design Capstone II   4
ENVS 381 - Water & Wastewater Treatment  or ENGR 348: Sustainable Urban Systems or ENGR 382 - Engineered Water Systems   4
Core or General Elective (if needed) 4
Core or General Elective (if needed) 4
Total Semester Units 16

*This information is subject to change, the degree planner is a sample, and students should consult with the department for any updated information.