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CE 370Introduction to Environmental Engineering

3 credits · Civil Engineering · Penn State

Nature and scope of environmental issues; air, water, land impacts; fundamentals and processes of pollution control. CE 370 Introduction to Environmental Engineering (3) The objectives of this course are to introduce science and engineering principles for dealing with natural and engineered environmental systems; to provide quantitative tools to solve environmental engineering problems dealing with water and wastewater treatment, air pollution control, and management of solid and hazardous wastes; and to identify alternative ways to deal with pollution and to minimize pollution.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

You need one from each line:

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

Suggested plans most often put it in Year 3 · Fall (3 programs).

Required in (4)

  • Civil Engineering, B.S. (Capital)
  • Civil Engineering, B.S. (Engineering)
  • Environmental Engineering, Minor
  • Environmental Systems Engineering, B.S.

One of the options in (1)

  • Watersheds and Water Resources, Minor
What it opens up

Courses that list CE 370 as a prerequisite (10)

  • BE 477 Land-Based Waste Disposal
  • CE 371 Water and Wastewater Treatment
  • CE 403 Energy Use, Climate Change, and Our Engineered Infrastructure
  • CE 472W Environmental Engineering Capstone Design
  • CE 473 Ecological Design of Regenerative Aquatic Systems
  • CE 475 Water Quality Chemistry
  • CE 476 Solid and Hazardous Wastes
  • CE 479 Environmental Microbiology for Engineers
  • ERM 447 Stream Restoration
  • ERM 448 Rural Road Ecology and Maintenance