EENPHD - Environmental Engineering

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Please find detailed information and updates are located in our Student Handbook:

CHEMICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING GRADUATE STUDENT HANDBOOK:  https://chee.engineering.arizona.edu/sites/chee.engineering.arizona.edu/files/2023-24-CHEE-Grad-Student-Handbook-final.pdf

Minumum credits: 63-66 units (depending on requirements of the student's minor department)
Core coursework: Twelve (12) units of required courses:

• CHEE 500R—Water Chemistry for Engineers (3 units)

• CHEE 574—Environmental Transport Processes (3 units)

• CHEE 575—Water Treatment System Design (3 units)

• CHEE 576—Wastewater Treatment System Design (3 units)

Students who enter the PhD program having taken CHEE 474 Environmental Transport Processes or an equivalent course will take CHEE 505 Advanced Chemical Engineering Transport Phenomena instead. Students who enter the PhD program having taken CHEE 475 Water Treatment System Design (3 units) and CHEE 476 Wastewater Treatment System Design (3 units) or equivalent courses will take CHEE 514 Sustainable Water Supplies for Remote Communities (3 units) and CHEE 676 Advanced Water and Wastewater Tratment (3 units) instead.

Additionally, Environmental Engineering PhD students must complete:

• Twenty-one (21) units of elective courses in Environmental Engineering or related fields (excluding Minor)

• 9-12 units of minor courses (depending upon the requirements of the Minor department)

• 3+ units of seminar (CHEE 696A) - all students must enroll in the Graduate Seminar each semester they are in the program

• 18 units of Dissertation (CHEE 920)

• Oral Comprehensive Examination

• Dissertation defense

To meet Graduate College unit requirements, Environmental Engineering PhD students will take a minimum of twenty-one (21) units of electives, six (6) units of which must be from the following list:

• CHEE 514*—Sustainable Water Supplies for Remote Communities (4 units)

• CHEE 520—Chemical Reaction Engineering (3 units)

• CHEE 525—Emerging Issues in Water Quality (3 units)

• CHEE 542—Bioremediation on Inorganic Contaminants (2 units)

• CHEE/ATMO 569A—Air Pollution I: Gases (3 units)

• CHEE/ATMO 569B—Air Pollution II: Aerosols (3 units)

• CHEE 572—Interfacial Chemistry of Biomolecules in Environmental Systems (3 units)

• CHEE 578—Introduction to Hazardous Waste Management (3 units)

• CHEE 582—Analysis of Emerging Environmental Contaminants (3 units)

• CHEE 585—Water Reuse (3 units)

• CHEE 587—Topics in Transport Phenomena (3 units)

• CHEE 676*—Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment (3 units)

* Students who have taken CHEE 514 and CHEE 676 in lieu of other required courses will choose different elective courses.

The additional fifteen (15) units of electives may be taken from a combination of electives, research and independent study courses at the discretion of the student and the student's faculty advisor/mentor. Elective courses are determined at the discretion of the individual student and the student's faculty advisor/mentor, usually relevant to the student's research.

All CHEE graduate students are required to register and attend CHEE 696A, the CHEE Graduate Seminar (1 unit), each semester that they are in the program.

Students with less than a 3.75 GPA in CHEE 500R, CHEE 500A, CHEE 575, CHEE 576B and CHEE 574 must take a written Qualifying Exam the first time it is offered after they complete these core courses. Passage of the Qualifying Exam is required for continuance in the PhD program.

All PhD students must fulfill the requirements for a minor in a program approved by the candidate and their dissertation advisor/mentor. Minor requirements are administered and approved by the minor department. They typically consist of nine (9) to twelve (12) units of course work.