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Program requirements: Environmental Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, BSEnvE (Boston)

NUpath requirements: Interpreting Culture (IC), Understanding Societies and Institutions (SI), Engaging Differences and Diversity (DD), and Integrating Knowledge and Skills Through Experience (EX) are not explicitly satisfied by required engineering coursework. Successful completion of a cooperative education experience fulfills the EX requirement. Students are responsible for satisfying unfulfilled NUpath requirements with general elective coursework.  

Engineering Requirements 

Code Title Hours 
Required Engineering  
CIVE 2221 
and CIVE 2222 
Statics and Solid Mechanics 
and Recitation for CIVE 2221 
CIVE 2300 
and CIVE 2301 
Environmental Measurements in Natural and Engineered Systems 
and Lab for CIVE 2300 
CIVE 2331 Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics 
CIVE 2334 Environmental Engineering: Principles, Technology, and Sustainability 
CIVE 3435 Environmental Pollution: Fate and Transport 
CIVE 4534 
and CIVE 4535 
Water Treatment Systems Design 
and Lab for CIVE 4534 
CIVE 4765 Senior Design Project—Environmental 
Environmental Engineering Elective Courses  
Complete at least one of the following: 
CIVE 4540 Resource Recovery and Waste Treatment Technologies Abroad  
CIVE 4777 Climate Hazards and Resilient Cities Abroad  
CIVE 5100 Equity in Engineering  
CIVE 5150 Climate and Atmospheric Change  
CIVE 5250 Organic Pollutants in the Environment  
CIVE 5255 Tools and Techniques of Environmental Health  
CIVE 5260 Environmental Fluid Mechanics  
CIVE 5261 Dynamic Modeling for Environmental Investment and Policymaking  
CIVE 5271 Solid and Hazardous Waste Management  
CIVE 5275 Life Cycle Assessment of Materials, Products, and Infrastructure  
CIVE 5280 Remote Sensing of the Environment  
CIVE 5281 Coastal Dynamics and Design  
CIVE 5363 Climate Science, Engineering Adaptation, and Policy  
CIVE 5365 Climate Technologies for Decarbonization, Mitigation, and Adaptation  
CIVE 5366 Air Quality Engineering and Science  
CIVE 5368 Air Quality Management  
CIVE 5369 Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flows  
CIVE 5536 Hydrologic and Hydraulic Design  
CIVE 5670 Global Biogeochemistry  
CIVE 5699 Special Topics in Civil Engineering  
GE 3300 Energy Systems: Science, Technology, and Sustainability  
Supplemental Credit  
3 semester hours from the following counts toward the engineering requirement: 
CIVE 3430 Engineering Microbiology and Ecology  
or EEMB 3455 Ecosystems Ecology 
2 semester hours from the following counts toward the engineering requirement: 
GE 1501 Cornerstone of Engineering 1 1  
3 semester hours from the following counts toward the engineering requirement: 
GE 1502 Cornerstone of Engineering 2 1  

Artificial Intelligence Major Requirements 

Code Title Hours 
Fundamental Courses  
All students can take a self-assessment to attempt to place out of CS 2000 and CS 2001. Students who place out of CS 2000 and CS 2001 will instead substitute 4-5 semester hours of CS, CY, or DS coursework at the 3000 level or higher not otherwise required in the degree.  
CS 1800 Discrete Structures 
CS 2000 
and CS 2001 
Introduction to Program Design and Implementation 
and Lab for CS 2000 
CS 2100 
and CS 2101 
Program Design and Implementation 1 
and Lab for CS 2100 
DS 3500 Advanced Programming with Data 
CS 3200 Introduction to Databases 
Artificial Intelligence Requirements  
DS 3000 Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence 
DS 4200 Information Presentation and Visualization 
DS 4300 Large-Scale Information Storage and Retrieval 
DS 4400 Machine Learning 

Supporting Courses: Mathematics/Science 

Complete all mathematics/science courses with a minimum of 30 semester hours.2 

Code Title Hours 
Required Mathematics/Science  
CHEM 1151 
and CHEM 1153 
General Chemistry for Engineers 
and Recitation for CHEM 1151 
MATH 1341 Calculus 1 for Science and Engineering 
MATH 1342 Calculus 2 for Science and Engineering 
MATH 2321 Calculus 3 for Science and Engineering 
MATH 2341 Differential Equations and Linear Algebra for Engineering 
MATH 3081 Probability and Statistics 
PHYS 1151 
and PHYS 1152 
and PHYS 1153 
Physics for Engineering 1 
and Lab for PHYS 1151 
and Interactive Learning Seminar for PHYS 1151 
Science Elective (Earth)  
Complete one of the following: 
ENVR 1200 Dynamic Earth  
ENVR 2200 Earth’s Changing Cycles  
ENVR 3125 Global Oceanic Change  
ENVR 3200 Water Resources  
ENVR 3600 Oceanography  
Supplemental Credit  
1 semester hour from the following counts toward the mathematics/science requirement: 
CIVE 3430 Engineering Microbiology and Ecology  
or EEMB 3455 Ecosystems Ecology 
1 semester hour from the following counts toward the mathematics/science requirement: 
GE 1501 Cornerstone of Engineering 1 1  

Professional Development 

Code Title Hours 
Professional Development  
ENCP 2000 Introduction to Engineering Co-op Education 
ENCP 3000 Professional Issues in Engineering 
GE 1000 First-Year Seminar 
Additional Required Courses   
1 semester hour from the following counts toward the professional development requirement: 
GE 1501 Cornerstone of Engineering 1 1  
1 semester hour from the following counts toward the professional development requirement: 
GE 1502 Cornerstone of Engineering 2 1  

Writing Requirements 

Code Title Hours 
A grade of C or higher is required:  
ENGW 1111 First-Year Writing 
ENGW 3302 Advanced Writing in the Technical Professions 
or ENGW 3303 Advanced Writing in the Environmental Professions 
or ENGW 3315 Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines 

Integrative Course 

Code Title Hours 
This course is already required above and also fulfills the integrative requirement:  
CIVE 4765 Senior Design Project—Environmental  

General Electives 

Code Title Hours 
Complete 8 semester hours of academic, nonremedial courses not used toward other requirements

Engineering GPA Requirement 

Minimum 2.000 GPA required in major (CIVE) courses 

Program Requirement 

135 total semester hours required 

1 Students can substitute Engineering Design (GE 1110)and  Engineering Problem Solving and Computation (GE 1111) for Cornerstone of Engineering 1 (GE 1501) and Cornerstone of Engineering 2 (GE 1502). 

2 Mathematics/science requirement: General Chemistry for Engineers (CHEM 1151), Calculus 1 for Science and Engineering (MATH 1341), and Physics for Engineering 1 (PHYS 1151) require a grade of C– or higher.