Coursework

Undergraduate Courses

ENVE 3320 & 3320L Environmental Engineering - Urban Systems & Urban Systems Laboratory. Introduction to the urban system including built environment, storm water, water/air quality, pollutant fate/transport, public health, human behavior, environmental policy, economics, and conservation. Design elements and engineering standards of engineered infrastructure including water treatment, wastewater treatment, and solid waste management. Water analysis laboratory experiments will be conducted.

Graduate Courses

ENGR 8990 Sensemaking for the Built Environment. This course provides an understanding of social, ecological, and technological opportunities and constraints that affect sustainability and resilience of built environments, an exploration of complex adaptive systems and models/tools to navigate decision-making within such systems, and an opportunity for reflexivity to understand assumptions, biases, and mental models that impact decision-making of engineers and other disciplines.

ENVE 8450 Designing for Rapid Change: Food, Energy, Water, and Climate. This is primarily a readings-based course wherein students will work together to consider the grand challenges facing infrastructure systems, potential solutions available, and most importantly, determine where their skills and training fit into the bigger picture of their chosen profession.

ENGR 8990 Resilience Concepts, Methods, and Applications. In this course, students will apply a systems-thinking approach to understand contemporary challenges, learn about and deploy methods to measure, and assess resilience in diverse contexts across these systems (e.g., from infrastructure to supply chains) and across various disruptors (e.g., from climate change to social conflict). Practical applications will be emphasized through case studies and assignments.