Sustainability Engineering, MSE or MS

Location(s): Online

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About the Program

The Sustainability Engineering degree provides students with the opportunity to engage in a wide range of interdisciplinary topics focused on integrating sustainability into engineering practices, challenges, and solutions. The need for expertise in sustainability engineering, with skills in energy transition, manufacturing, supply chain, modernized mobility, resiliency, adaptation and workforce development prove the need for a sustainability engineering degree that will provide students the opportunity to engage in a wide range of interdisciplinary topics focused on integrating sustainability into engineering practices, challenges and solutions.

Program Requirements

30 Credits Required

Coursework (30 credits)

Core Courses (6 credits)

EEE 53000 - Life Cycle Assessment: Principles And Applications Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 59700 - Civil and Construction Engineering Projects Credit Hours: 0.00 to 18.00 Title: Global Sustainable Engineering - Credit Hours: 3.00 or
EEE 59500 - Environmental And Ecological Engineering Projects Credit Hours: 0.00 to 6.00 Title: Global Sustainable Engineering - Credit Hours: 3.00

Environmental Selective (3 credits)

EEE 55201 - Environmental Biotechnology Credit Hours: 3.00 or
EEE 57000 - Solid And Hazardous Waste Management Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 55000 - Physico-Chemical Processes In Environmental Engineering I Credit Hours: 3.00 or
EEE 55000 - Physico-Chemical Processes In Environmental Engineering I Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 55400 - Water Chemistry For Environmental And Ecological Engineering Credit Hours: 3.00 or
EEE 55401 - Water Chemistry For Environmental And Ecological Engineering Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 51500 - Building Energy Audits Credit Hours: 3.00 or
ME 59700 - Advanced Mechanical Engineering Projects I Credit Hours: 0.00 to 6.00 Title: Building Energy Audits - Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 59700 - Civil and Construction Engineering Projects Credit Hours: 0.00 to 18.00 Title: Indoor Air Quality - Credits: 3.00 or
EEE 59500 - Environmental And Ecological Engineering Projects Credit Hours: 0.00 to 6.00 Title: Indoor Air Quality - Credits: 3.00

Technical Selectives (9 credits)

BME 50100 - Multivariate Analyses In Biostatistics Credit Hours: 3.00
BME 56300 - Quality Systems For Regulatory Compliance Credit Hours: 3.00
BME 56400 - Ethical Engineering Of Medical Technologies Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 50700 - Geospatial Data Analytics Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 50800 - Geographic Information Systems Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 54300 - Coastal Engineering Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 54400 - Subsurface Hydrology Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 54900 - Computational Watershed Hydrology Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 55000 - Physico-Chemical Processes In Environmental Engineering I Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 55400 - Water Chemistry For Environmental And Ecological Engineering Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 56400 - Data Science For Smart Cities Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 56601 - Network Models For Connected And Autonomous Vehicles Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 56900 - Smart Logistics Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 59700 - Civil and Construction Engineering Projects Credit Hours: 0.00 to 18.00
Titles:
- Biological Wastewater Treatment - Credit Hours: 3.00
- Design of Urban Water Infrastructure - Credit Hours: 3.00
- Design Principles and Practices of Drinking Water Systems - Credit Hours: 3.00
- Plastics in Infrastructure and the Environment - Credit Hours: 3.00
CCE 65000 - Photochemical Reactors: Theory, Methods, And Applications Of Ultraviolet Radiation Credit Hours: 3.00
ECE 50836 - Introduction To Data Mining Credit Hours: 3.00
ECE 51216 - Digital Systems Design Automation Credit Hours: 3.00
IE 53000 - Quality Control Credit Hours: 3.00
IE 53300 - Industrial Applications Of Statistics Credit Hours: 3.00
IE 54500 - Engineering Economic Analysis Credit Hours: 3.00
IE 54600 - Economic Decisions In Engineering Credit Hours: 3.00
IE 57000 - Manufacturing Process Engineering Credit Hours: 3.00
IE 59000 - Topics In Industrial Engineering Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00 Title: Design Lean Six Sigma Black Belt - Credit Hours: 3.00
MSE 53000 - Materials Processing In Manufacturing Credit Hours: 3.00
MSE 53500 - Lean Manufacturing Of Materials Credit Hours: 3.00
MSE 56800 - Additive Manufacturing Of Materials Credit Hours: 3.00
ABE 59100 - Special Topics Credit Hours: 0.00 to 4.00 Title: Polymeric Biomaterials - Credit Hours: 3.00 or
BME 59500 - Selected Topics In Biomedical Engineering Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00
Title:
- Polymeric Biomaterials - Credit Hours: 3.00
- Entrepreneurship in BME - Credit Hours: 3.00
ECE 51018 - Hybrid Electric Vehicles Credit Hours: 3.00 or
ME 59700 - Advanced Mechanical Engineering Projects I Credit Hours: 0.00 to 6.00
Title:
- Hybrid Electric Vehicles - Credit Hours: 3.00
- Intro to Electronics Packaging and Heterogeneous Integration (alternative to ECE 59500: Intro to Electronics Packaging and Heterogeneous Integration)
ECE 59500 - Selected Topics In Electrical Engineering Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00
Titles:
- Semiconductor Fundamentals - Credit Hours: 3.00
- Intro to Electronics Packaging and Heterogeneous Integration - Credit Hours: 3.00 (alternative to ME 59700: Intro to Electronics Packaging and Heterogeneous Integration)

Professional and Applied Electives (12 credits)

Students should take courses available in the Purdue Online catalog that provide additional training, expertise and practice in areas that are important to skill and professional development but that are not specific to one technical area. For example: project management, product development, technical writing, leadership development etc.

Program Learning Outcomes

Students will:

Demonstrate the ability to apply principles and methodologies from multiple engineering disciplines to analyze, design, and implement innovative and sustainable solutions to complex engineering problems, drawing upon knowledge and scholarship to conduct original research or creative endeavors.
Effectively communicate in an appropriate and understandable manner when interacting with the non-technical public as well as the technical community.
Integrate the principles of sustainability into analysis and design. Constraints imposed by the long-term sustainability of our natural and social systems must be a critical factor in the design and selection of engineered systems.
Recognize that all of nature has intrinsic value and that responsible stewardship and preventing the destruction of the natural environment is part of their professional responsibility.

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