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The Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering offers a Graduate Certificate Program in 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.

Plan Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours	Counts towards
Core Courses		9
Select three of the following courses:
µþ´¡·¡Ìý535	Precision Agriculture Technology
µþ´¡·¡Ìý536	GIS Applications in Precision Agriculture
µþ´¡·¡Ìý572	Irrigation and Drainage
µþ´¡·¡Ìý573	Introduction to Hydrologic and Water Quality Modeling
µþ´¡·¡Ìý574	DRAINMOD: Theory and Application
µþ´¡·¡Ìý575	Design of Structural Stormwater Best Management Practices
µþ´¡·¡Ìý576	Watershed Monitoring and Assessment
µþ´¡·¡Ìý578	Circular Approach to Manure Management
µþ´¡·¡Ìý577	Wetlands Design and Restoration
µþ´¡·¡Ìý580	Introduction to Land and Water Engineering
µþ´¡·¡Ìý581	Open Channel Hydraulics for Natural Systems
µþ´¡·¡Ìý582	Risk and Failure Assessment of Stream Restoration Structures
µþ´¡·¡Ìý583	Stream Corridor 3 Es: Ecohydraulics, Engineering and Ethics
µþ´¡·¡Ìý584	Introduction to Fluvial Geomorphology
µþ´¡·¡Ìý771	Theory Of Drainage--Saturated Flow
Elective Course		3
"Elective Course" will be determined in conjunction with the academic committee
Total Hours		12