Environmental Engineering Option

Note: All options and minors are subject to changes made by the department hosting the option. The ECE department is not notified of all such changes and therefore you must read the Calendar description.

The Environmental-Engineering Option (as specified in the Undergraduate Calendar) requires that a student take seven courses.

The course BIOL 150 Organismal and Evolutionary Ecology may be taken as a List-2 Natural Science Elective (NSE).  You could talk to your Program Academic Advisor to determine if any other courses could count as either NSEs or non-ECE Technical Electives (TEs).

The Environmental Engineering Option requires the student to take at least three (3) and possibly six (6) extra courses over and above your expected course load.  Because this option requires extra courses, this requires that you will have to fit those additional courses into your workload either as:

  1. extra courses during an Academic Term over-and-above your full course load,
  2. courses taken through distance education or on campus during your Co-op Work Terms (usually only feasible for CSEs and NSEs—if you are taking an on-campus course during a Co-op Work Term during working hours, this must be approved by your employer),
  3. courses taken during an extra study term either in place of a Co-op Work Term (you must have five Co-op Work Terms to graduate) or after your 4B Academic Term (recall that taking three or more courses during any term is considered a full-time student, and you will be required to pay additional fees), or
  4. courses taken at other universities, requiring you to find equivalent courses and submitting a Letter of Permission prior to signing up for the course (this will usually be through distance education and is usually only feasible for CSEs and NSEs).

If you are a student has completed or nearly completed this option and would like to comment about scheduling your courses, work load, prerequisites you may have gotten waived, applications of the option, how it relates to the Electrical or Computer Engineering Program, etc., please contact the Webkeeper.