Design and Analysis of Environmental
Systems: Watershed Assessment and
Restoration (Certificate)
Dr.
John Classen, Coordinator
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
NCSU Box 7625
Phone: 919.515.6800
Fax: 919.515.7760
Email: gradcert-bae@ncsu.edu
The Department of Biological and Agricultural
Engineering offers a Graduate Certificate Program in Design and Analysis of
Environmental Systems: Watershed
Assessment and Restoration.
Objectives
-
Provide a focus and formal program for students from many disciplines to
pursue training in the technical and engineering aspects of designing and
analyzing environmental systems with an emphasis on the watershed-scale.
- Provide
students the opportunity to develop a solid foundation in engineering
systems targeted at environmental issues, particularly related to non-point
sources and their impact on water quality at the watershed-scale.
- Provide
practicing engineers and other professionals a source of graduate level
engineering education in the environmental field.
Admission
Requirements:
Applicants must have successfully completed an accredited undergraduate
engineering program with a GPA of 3.0 (based on a 4.0 scale), or with an overall
undergraduate GPA of at least 2.8 coupled with a 3.0 or higher in the
undergraduate major, or be currently enrolled in a graduate engineering program.
Applicants with a four-year undergraduate science degree who have successfully
completed (with a C or better) calculus, differential equations, physics and
chemistry will also be considered. A program that includes fluid mechanics
or hydraulics is highly recommended. Environmental professionals who do
not meet the above criteria may also qualify if appropriate experience can be
demonstrated.
Program
Requirements:
A minimum of 12 hours of coursework selected from the list below. One
course can be selected from outside of BAE (up to 2 credit hours), but at least
9 credit hours must be BAE courses.
At least 9 hours from the following:
BAE
502 Instrumentation for Hydrologic Applications
BAE 535 Precision Agriculture Technology
BAE 573 Hydrologic and Water Quality Modeling
BAE 575 Design of Structural Stormwater Best Management Practices
BAE 576 Watershed Monitoring and Assessment
BAE
577 Introduction to the Total Maximum Daily Load Program
BAE 578 Agricultural Waste Management
BAE 579 Stream Channel Assessment and Restoration
BAE 581 Special Problems: Open Channel Hydraulics for Natural Systems
BAE 583 Ecohydraulics and River Corridor Function
BAE
771 Theory of Drainage – Saturated Flow
BAE 774 Theory of Drainage – Unsaturated Flow
Up
to 3 credit hours can be selected from the following:
CE 580 Flow in Open Channels
CE 584 Hydraulics of Groundwater
CE 586 Engineering Hydrology
CE 775 Modeling and Analysis of Environmental Systems
CE 776 Advanced Water Management Systems
CE 784 Ground Water Contaminant Transport
CE 785 Urban Stormwater Management
SSC 511 Soil Physics
SSC 562 Environmental Applications of Soils
SSC 570 Wetland Soils
Other
Information:
BAE 570 (Soil Water Movement) is a general prerequisite for the program,
however students who complete SSC 511 (Soil Physics) or an equivalent course
with a C or better, will be considered to have met the prerequisite.