A Career-Focused Option with an Internship Experience
The challenge of sustainable environmental quality requires innovative thinking, clear leadership and strong technical expertise.
Duke’s Master of Engineering in Environmental Engineering is highly-ranked. At Duke, you'll join a supportive campus community and receive comprehensive training you need to become a leader in protecting natural resources.
Scholarships
We offer significant support for competitive applicants—typical scholarships range from
$20,000-$30,000
Our program draws from Duke's Pratt School of Engineering and Nicholas School of the Environment—so you get the best of our renowned engineering and environmental research community.
Coursework draws on recent research by our world-class faculty, many of whom are involved in major federally-funded research centers such as the Superfund Research Center at Duke.
Specializations
- Environmental Data Science
- Environmental Engineering and Public Policy
- Environmental Health Engineering
- Hydrology & Environmental Fluid Dynamics
How to Apply
- For fall entry, visit the Duke Engineering MEng website
Degree Requirements
- Overview
Master of Engineering (MEng) students complete the Core Industry Preparatory Courses and Internship, Departmental Requirements, and choose specialization requirements of (4) four courses.
Summary
The curriculum, detailed below, includes:
- 30 course credits
- 1 Seminar
- Internship
Curriculum Overview
The Master of Engineering in Environmental Engineering is a 30-credit degree distributed as follows:
- Core Industry Preparation Courses (6 credits)
- Departmental Requirements (15 credits)
- Specialization Requirements (9 credits)
- Internship, Applied Research Experience or Project (0 credits)
Curriculum Notes
- Students are required to attend seminar programs specific to environmental engineering or their specialization
- Students may also pursue the MEng in Environmental Engineering without a specialization in which case 3 courses from an extended list of electives as well as courses listed in each of the specializations may be substituted
Core Industry Preparation Course Requirements
(6 credits)
- MENG 540: Management of High Tech Industries
- MENG 570: Business Fundamentals for Engineers
- Departmental Requirements
15 credits with at least 1 course each from 5 of the 6 following categories
Chemistry
- CEE 561: Environmental Aquatic Chemistry - Fall
- CEE 563: Chemical Fate of Organic Compounds - Fall
- CEE 565: Environmental Analytical Chemistry – alt. Fall
- CEE 666: Aquatic Geochemistry – Spring
- CEE 667: Chemical Transformations of Environmental Contaminants - Alt. Spring
Biosciences
- CEE 566: Environmental Microbiology - Fall
- CEE 661L: Environmental Molecular Biotechnology - Spring
- CEE 562: Biological Processes in Environmental Engineering - Spring
- CEE 690: Modeling of Environ., Chem., and Biol. Processes – Fall
Applied Mathematics, Statistics & Data Science
- CEE 501: Applied Mathematics for Engineers - occasional
- CEE 502: Engineering Data Analysis - occasional
- CEE 675: Introduction to the Physical Principles of Remote Sensing of the Environment – odd-year Fall
- CEE 690: Data Science and Machine Learning in Applied Science and Engineering – Fall
- CEE 690/628: Uncertainty Quantification - Spring
- CEE 690/590: Environmental Spatial Data Analysis – Fall
- CEE 690: Uncertainty and Risk in Engineering
- ENVIRON 764: Applied Differential Equations in Environmental Science
- STA 601(L): Bayesian and Modern Statistics
- STA 611: Introduction to Statistical Methods – Fall
Transport Processes & Modeling
- CEE 531: Finite Elements for Fluids
- CEE 560: Environmental Transport Phenomena – Fall
- CEE 581: Numerical Methods in Env Transport - Spring
- CEE 683: Groundwater Hydrology and Contaminant Transport – alt. Fall (even yrs)
- CEE 690: Modeling of Environ., Chem., and Biol. Processes – Fall
- CEE 690: Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Sediment Transport - Spring
Atmospheric & Hydrologic Processes
- ENVIRON 734L: Watershed Hydrology
CEE 575/690: Air Pollution Engineering - Spring
- CEE 5XX/690: Hydrology - Spring
- CEE 683: Groundwater and Vadose Zone Hydrology – even-year Fall
- CEE 684: Physical Hydrology and Hydrometeorology – alt. Fall
- CEE 690: Turbulence I – Fall
- CEE 581: Numerical Methods in Env Transport – Spring
- ENVIRON 603 & 604: Air Quality: Management & Human Health Effects - Fall
Engineered Systems
- CEE 564: Physical Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering - Spring
- CEE 562: Biological Processes in Environmental Engineering - Spring
- CEE 575/690: Air Pollution Engineering - Spring
- Specializations
Nine (9) credits satisfied with at least three (3) courses from a specialization area.
Environmental Data Science
- CEE 675: Intro to Physical Principles of Remote Sensing of Environ.– odd Fall
- CEE 690. Risk and Resilience in Engineering – odd Fall & odd Spring
- CEE 690: Data Science and Machine Learning in Applied Science and Engineering – Fall
- CEE 690: Environmental Cheminformatics – alt. Fall
- CEE 690: Introduction to Deep Learning – Fall
- CEE 690: Environmental Spatial Data Analysis - Fall
- CEE 690: Model-Based Data Science – odd Fall
- CEE 761: Hydrologic Data Analysis
- MATH 561: Scientific Computing - Fall
- STA 601(L): Bayesian and Modern Statistics
- STA 611: Introduction to Statistical Methods – Fall
- ENVIRON 559: Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems and Geospatial Analysis - Fall
Environmental Engineering & Public Policy
- ENVIRON 502: Climate Change and the Law
- ENVIRON 520: Resource and Environmental Economics
- ENVIRON 531: Economic Valuation of the Environment
- ENVIRON 552: Climate and Society - Fall
- ENVIRON 563: Cost-Benefit Analysis for Health and Environmental Policy - Fall
- ENVIRON 577: Environmental Politics
- ENVIRON 603: Air Quality Management (1.5 credits) - Fall
- ENVIRON 604: Air Quality: Human Health Effects (1.5 credits) - Fall
- ENVIRON 638: Environmental Life Cycle Analysis and Decision
- ENVIRON 640: Climate Change Economics and Policy
- ENVIRON 711: Energy and Environment
- ENVIRON 740: Water Resources Planning and Management
- ENVIRON 741: Water Resources Finance
- PUBPOL 577: Environmental Policy
- PUBPOL 811: Microeconomics: Policy Applications
- PUBPOL 813: Quantitative Evaluation Methods
- ENERGY 727: Energy Law
Environmental Health Engineering
- CEE 560: Environmental Transport Phenomena – Fall
- CEE 561: Environmental Aquatic Chemistry – Fall
- CEE 562: Biological Processes in Environmental Engineering
- CEE 563: Chemical Fate of Organic Compounds – Fall
- CEE 564: Physical Chemical processes in Environmental Engineering
- CEE 565: Environmental Analytical Chemistry – alt. Spring
- CEE 566: Environmental Microbiology – Fall
- CEE 575/690: Air Pollution Engineering
- CEE 661L: Environmental Molecular Biotechnology – Spring
- CEE 666: Aquatic Geochemistry – Spring
- CEE 667: Chemical Transformations of Environmental Contaminants – alt. Spring
- CEE 679: Environmental Engineering Project Management
- CEE 5XX/690: Hydrology - Spring
- CEE 690: Modeling of Environ., Chem., and Biol. Processes – Fall
- CEE 690. Risk and Resilience in Engineering – odd Fall & odd Spring
- CEE 690: Data Science and Machine Learning in Applied Science and Engineering – Fall
- CEE 690: Environmental Cheminformatics – alt. Fall
- CEE 690: Environmental Spatial Data Analysis - Fall
- ENVIRON 603: Air Quality: Management (1.5 credits) - Fall
- ENVIRON 604: Air Quality: Human Health Effects (1.5 credits) - Fall
Hydrology & Environmental Fluid Dynamics
- CEE 531: Finite Elements for Fluids
- CEE 560: Environmental Transport Phenomena - Fall
- CEE 581: Numerical Methods in Env Transport –Spring
- CEE 675: Introduction to the Physical Principles of Remote Sensing of the Environment – odd Fall
- CEE 683: Groundwater Hydrology and Contaminant Transport - Fall
- CEE 684: Physical Hydrology and Hydrometeorology – alt. Fall
- CEE 688: Turbulence I – Fall
- CEE 642: Environmental Geomechanics
- ME 536: Compressible Fluid Flow
- ME 631: Intermediate Fluid Mechanics
- ME 632/CEE690: Advanced Fluid Mechanics
- ME 639: Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
- CEE 690: Advanced Turbulence Theories
- CEE690: Hydrology
- CEE 690: Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Sediment Transport - Spring
- CEE 690: Data Science and Machine Learning in Applied Science and Engineering – Fall
- CEE 690/628: Uncertainty Quantification
- CEE 690: Environmental Spatial Data Analysis – Fall
- ENVIRON 734L: Watershed Hydrology
- Degree Without Specialization
Nine (9) credits satisfied by any non-redundant three (3) courses from any of the above lists, including departmental requirements- or electives approved by the Director of Master's Studies.
- Internship, Project or Equivalent Requirements
(0 credits)
- MENG 550: Internship or Applied Research Project
- MENG 551: Internship/Project Assessment