Two years in Gainesville carrying the environmental engineering major almost in its entirety — the treatment, air, water and waste sequence, the supporting engineering science, and the capstone design requirement.
Water and wastewater treatment, air pollution and its control, solid and hazardous waste, solid waste management, water resources and hydraulic systems, and two environmental engineering laboratories. Around them the engineering science a specialization rests on: thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and hydraulics, engineering materials, and engineering graphics with computer-aided design — which is where the drafting work of the preceding years met the tool that replaced the board.
Three of the courses are graduate level, 5000 and 6000 series taken as an undergraduate: advanced engineering mechanics, a graduate environmental topic, and a graduate design elective. Ten credit hours of graduate work inside a bachelor’s degree.
The capstone sequence is the ABET design requirement — two required design courses plus six hours of design electives, the point at which a curriculum stops testing whether you can analyze something and starts asking whether you can specify one.
Why an environmental engineer spent thirty years in networks. The degree is not the career, and the record does not pretend otherwise. What carried over was not the subject matter but the method: mass balance and fate-and-transport are the habit of accounting for everything entering and leaving a system, which is the same habit that makes a traffic-engineered network or a substation telemetry path either work or fail in a way you can explain. Regulated environments, design that has to survive review, and the discipline of a capstone where the answer has to be buildable rather than correct — those transferred intact.
Coursework
- 21courses
- 68credit hours
- 4with laboratory
- 3at graduate level
- 1993–1995enrolled
Communication and statistics
| Code | Subject | Cr |
|---|---|---|
| ENC 3213 | Professional and technical writing — reports, specifications and correspondence for technical audiences | 4 |
| STA 3032 | Engineering statistics — probability distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, regression | 3 |
Engineering science
| Code | Subject | Cr |
|---|---|---|
| EML 3023 | Engineering graphics and computer-aided design — orthographic projection, dimensioning, CAD drafting | 4 |
| EML 3100 | Thermodynamics — the first and second laws, properties of pure substances, power and refrigeration cycles | 3 |
| EMA 3010C | Engineering materials with laboratory — structure and properties of metals, ceramics and polymers, failure mechanisms | 4 |
| CWR 3201 | Fluid mechanics and hydraulics — fluid statics, conservation equations, pipe flow, open channel flow, pumps | 4 |
| EGM 5420 | Advanced engineering mechanics, graduate level — continuum and applied mechanics | 4 |
Environmental engineering — core
| Code | Subject | Cr |
|---|---|---|
| ENV 3002 | Introduction to environmental engineering sciences — mass balances, contaminant fate and transport | 3 |
| ENV 3040 | Environmental engineering sciences, continuation — analytical foundations for treatment and quality work | 3 |
| EES 4102C | Environmental engineering laboratory — water and wastewater analysis, microbiological and chemical measurement | 2 |
| EES 4200 | Solid and hazardous waste — characterization, handling, disposal and site remediation | 2 |
| EES 4201 | Air pollution and its control — sources, dispersion, control technology and regulation | 3 |
| ENV 4330 | Water and wastewater treatment — unit operations and processes for potable and waste streams | 3 |
| ENV 4351 | Solid waste management — collection, processing, landfill design and resource recovery | 3 |
| ENV 4510C | Water resources and hydraulic systems with laboratory — distribution, pumping and measurement | 4 |
| ENV 4514C | Environmental engineering laboratory, advanced — treatment process measurement and evaluation | 4 |
| ENV 4601 | Environmental engineering analysis and design — applied design of environmental systems | 3 |
| ENV 5075 | Environmental engineering topic, graduate level | 3 |
Capstone design sequence
Group C of the audit: two required design courses plus six hours of design electives — the ABET design requirement.
| Code | Subject | Cr |
|---|---|---|
| ENV 4121 | Environmental engineering design — required design course | 3 |
| ENV 4561 | Environmental engineering design, second required course — project-based synthesis | 3 |
| ENV 6606 | Design elective, graduate level — advanced environmental process or systems design | 3 |
Where the hours went
| Area | Courses | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Communication and statistics | 2 | 7 |
| Engineering science | 5 | 19 |
| Environmental engineering — core | 11 | 33 |
| Capstone design sequence | 3 | 9 |
| Total itemized | 21 | 68 |
Credit accounting as the audit states it
These are the audit's own completion figures for the degree as a whole, and they are the authoritative ones. They do not match the itemized total above, and are not meant to: the table sums the hours printed against each course in the requirement groups, while the audit's earned total of 179 also counts hours accepted toward the degree but never applied to a named group. Where the two disagree, 179 is the figure of record.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Total hours required to graduate | 142 |
| Total hours earned, including current registration | 179 |
| Upper division hours earned since junior standing | 69 |
| Summer school requirement | 9 hours — satisfied |
| Residency: final 30 hours must be taken at Florida | Satisfied — 0 hours outstanding |
| Grade point deficit | None |
| Drops used | 1 of 2 permitted |
Compiled from the degree audit of 15 December 1995, signed by the department the same day with the notation that all requirements for graduation had been met. Grades and grade point averages are omitted deliberately; credit hours are shown because they measure load rather than performance. An audit records when a course was taken, not where, so what appears here is the coursework whose term codes fall inside the enrollment period above. Course descriptions are derived from Florida's Statewide Course Numbering System and the requirement each course satisfied — reliable as to subject, but not transcribed catalog titles. A dash in the credit column is a course the audit shows with no earned hours; it is listed rather than dropped.