Civil Engineering - Water and Environment Undergraduate Minor
Civil Engineering - Water and Environment Undergraduate Minor
The Minor in Civil Engineering -Water and Environment is available to students pursuing any undergraduate major in the School of Science and Engineering or in other Tulane colleges. In particular, students majoring in another engineering discipline may find the RCSE minor attractive as an additional skill set for the job market. Students with a major in the physical or environmental sciences might have already covered the pre- or co-requisites for the RCSE minor, making it a relatively easy addition to their expertise while matriculating at Tulane. Students majoring in the environmental sciences (e.g., EEB or EES) could strengthen their undergraduate training in water-related topics. Outside of SSE, any student interested in a career linked to environmental planning, climate change adaptations, the resilience of human and natural systems, and water utilization could benefit from this training. This umbrella includes fields as diverse as law, business, public health, and social sciences. We foresee particular links for students in the (1) Environmental Studies major (School of Liberal Arts), where strengthening their science and engineering background in the water sector would be advantageous in many career tracks, and (2) in the School of Architecture and Built Environment, where a program in landscape architecture and water resources has been developed.
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Curriculum Requirements
The minor requires 18 credit hours drawn from six courses: Statics, a fluid mechanics course (Fluid Mechanics, Biofluid Mechanics, or Transport I: Fluids, depending on the student's math/science background), Hydraulics, Hydrology, Intro to River Science & Engineering, and Introduction to Coastal Science and Engineering. Students must maintain a 2.00 GPA in all minor courses, and no courses may double-count toward a second minor.
FAQs
This minor is open to students in any SSE or Tulane major and gives them applied training in hydraulics, hydrology, and river and coastal engineering — skills directly relevant to careers in environmental planning, climate adaptation, and water resource management. It's a particularly strong addition for engineering majors looking to broaden their job-market skill set, and for students in environmental sciences, environmental studies, or landscape architecture who want to deepen their technical grounding in the water sector.
If you are ready to declare a major inCivil Engineering, please fill out this form, and submit it to the Department of River-Coastal Engineering. The form will be signed and returned to you, and you can send it along to NTC Advising. Please note that it is your responsibility to send this form to your NTC advisor.
If your major advisor does not reach out, you may want to contact them to introduce yourself or to set up a meeting.
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Undergraduate Major, Minor, and All Other Administrative Matters
Ehab Meselhe | Department Chair
629 Lindy Boggs Center for Energy and Biotechnology
Email: emeselhe@tulane.edu
Fiscal Matters
Michelle Boudreaux Smith| Department Administrator
632 Lindy Boggs Center for Energy and Biotechnology
Email: msmith77@tulane.edu
Phone: (504) 247-1541