The following courses are regularly offered and are recommended as emphasis area or elective courses for the MS and PhD degrees.

This list is not exclusive; other courses may be applied to your degree as determined in consultation with your advisor. CU Boulder also has rich course offerings that may be applicable to your Environmental Engineering education outside of the EVEN program, including in Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Applied Mathematics, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemistry, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Environmental Studies, Geography, and Geological Sciences.

  • ATOC 5050 Atmospheric Dynamics
  • ATOC 5600 Clouds and Aerosols
  • CHEM 4531 Physical Chemistry 2
  • CHEM 4181 Instrumental Analysis
  • CHEM 5151 Atmospheric Chemistry
  • CHEM 5161 Analytical Spectroscopy
  • CHEM 5181 Mass Spectrometry & Chromatography
  • CVEN 5313 Environmental Fluid Mechanics
  • CVEN 5323 Applied Stream Ecology
  • CVEN 5333 Multiscale Hydrology
  • CVEN 5343 Transport/Dispersion of Surface Water
  • CVEN 5353 Groundwater Hydrology
  • CVEN 5383 Characterization and Control of Bioaerosols
  • CVEN 5404 Water Chemistry
  • CVEN 5423 Water Resources Engineering
  • CVEN 5424 Environmental Organic Chemistry
  • CVEN 5434 Environmental Engineering Design
  • CVEN 5454 Quantitative Methods
  • CVEN 5464 Environmental Engineering Processes
  • CVEN 5474 Hazardous Waste Management
  • CVEN 5484 Environmental Microbiology
  • CVEN 5524 Water Treatment
  • CVEN 5534 Wastewater Treatment
  • CVEN 5537 Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering
  • CVEN 5554 Fundamentals of Air Quality Management
  • CVEN 5564 Water Profession - Communication and Utility Finance
  • CVEN 5565 Life-Cycle Engineering of Civil Infrastructure Systems
  • CVEN 5574 Water Utility Management - Current Issues and Future Challenges
  • CVEN 5584 Water Profession - Utility Leadership and Management
  • CVEN 5834 Special Topics: Analytical Methods in Environmental Engineering
  • CVEN 5834 Special Topics: Water Reuse
  • CVEN 5834 Special Topics: Sustainable Bioenergy Systems
  • CVEN 5919 Sustainable Community Development I
  • CVEN 5929 Sustainable Community Development II
  • CVEN 5939 Sustainable Community Development III
  • CVEN 5969 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
  • CVEN 6383 Porous Flow & Transport
  • CVEN 6833 Special Topics: Advanced Data Analysis
  • MCEN 5020 Methods of Engineering Analysis
  • MCEN 5021 Fluid Mechanics
  • MCEN 5022 Classical Thermodynamics
  • MCEN 5032 Sustainable Energy
  • MCEN 5040 Methods of Engineering Analysis II
  • MCEN 5042 Heat Transfer
  • MCEN 5057 Environmental Modeling
  • MCEN 5131 Air Pollution Control
  • MCEN 5141 Indoor Air Pollution
  • MCEN 5151 Flow Visualization
  • MCEN 5161 Aerosols
  • MCEN 5228 Special Topics: Micro-Scale Heat Transfer
  • MCEN 5228 Special Topics: Environmental Law for Scientists and Engineers
  • MCEN 5228 Special Topics: Chemical Kinetics for the Thermal Sciences
  • MCEN 5228 Special Topics: Inverse Methods
  • MCEN 5032 Sustainable Energy
  • MCEN 5228 Special Topics: Air Quality Measurements
  • MCEN 5228 Special Topics: Numerical Methods
  • MCEN 7221 Turbulence (ASEN 5047, CVEN 5454)