Environmental Analysis and Decision Making

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Environmental Analysis and Decision Making is geared to teach students rigorous methods that are needed by industrial and governmental organizations to deal with environmental issues. It is a cross-disciplinary effort incorporating courses from environmental science, earth science, statistics, chemistry, ecology and evolutionary biology, mechanical engineering, applied mathematics, chemical engineering, economics, computer science, and sociology. Graduates will be prepared with skills and knowledge valuable to environmental consulting firms, energy production companies, and government agencies. In addition to track courses, the students will take a management course, a policy and ethics course, and a seminar jointly with the students involved in the other Professional Master's Program tracks. 

The objectives of this interdisciplinary degree are:

  • To teach quantitative skills such as statistics, remote sensing, data analysis, and modeling
  • To teach laboratory and computer skills
  • To give students the ability to anticipate problems, not just solve them
     

Students can choose from three focus areas: Environmental Sustainability, Management and Policy, and Quantitative Decision Making.

Students pursuing the MSEADM degree must complete:

  • A minimum of 14 courses (39 credit hours) to satisfy degree requirements.
  • A 3-6 month internship.
  • A minimum of 30 credit hours at the 500-level or above.

CORE REQUIREMENTS

Students must complete a total of 7 courses (18 credit hours) as listed below to satisfy the MSEADM degree's Core Requirements

Required Science Core Courses

Students must complete a total of 3 courses (9 credit hours) as listed below.

  • CEVE 510 Principles of Environmental Engineering [ 3 credit hours ]
        or CEVE 501 Chemistry for Environmental Engineering and Science [ 3 credit hours ]
  • EBIO 570 Ecosystem Management and Conservation [ 3 credit hours ]  
  • STAT 685 Environmental Statistics and Decision Making [ 3 credit hours ] 

Required Cohort Courses 

Students must complete the following 4 courses (9 credit hours) which focuses on business and communication:

  • NSCI 501 Master’s Seminar [ 2 semesters required for a minimum of 2 credit hours ]  
  • NSCI 511 Science Policy and Ethics [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • NSCI 512 Professional Master’s Project [ 1 credit hour ] 
  • NSCI 610/ENGI 610 Management in Science and Engineering [ 3 credit hours ] 

THREE TO SIX MONTH INTERNSHIP
In addition to the core science courses, students are required to complete a three to six month internship. At the conclusion of the internship, students must present a summary of their internship project in both oral and written form as part of the professional master’s seminar. Part-time students who already work in their area of study may fulfill the internship requirements by working on an approved project with their current employer.

ELECTIVES

Students must complete at minimum of 7 courses (21 credit hours) as electives from the following three focus areas. To do this, students must complete:

  • At least 1 course (3 credit hours) must be completed from EBIO, CEVE, and STAT course offerings for a total of 3 courses (9 credit hours).
  • At least 1 course (3 credit hours) must be completed from the Management and Policy focus area.
  • A total of 3 additional courses (9 credit hours) from one focus area listed below.

Environmental Sustainability   

  • CEVE 501 Chemistry for Environmental Engineering and Science [ 3 credit hours ]
  • CEVE 502 Sustainable Design [ 3 credit hours ]
  • CEVE 507 Energy and the Environment [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • CEVE 508 Intro to Air Pollution Control [ 3 credit hours ]
  • CEVE 509 Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • CEVE 511 Atmospheric Processes [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • CEVE 512 Advanced Hydrology and Hydraulics [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • CEVE 520 Environmental Remediation Restoration [ 3 credit hours ]
  • CEVE 534 Fate and Transport of Contaminants in the Environment [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • CEVE 536 Environmental Biotechnology and Bioremediation [ 3 credit hours ]
  • CEVE 550 Environmental Organic Chemistry [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • EBIO 329 Animal Biology and Physiology [ 3 credit hours ]
  • EBIO 336 Plant Diversity [ 3 credit hours ]
  • EBIO 523 Conservation Biology [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • EBIO 524 Conservation Biology Lab [ 3 credit hours ]
  • EBIO 525 Ecology [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • EBIO 540 Global Biochemical Cycles [ 3 credit hours ]
  • EBIO 563 Current topics in Ecology [ 1 credit hour ] 
  • EBIO 566 Applied Phycology [ 3 credit hours ]
  • EBIO 568 Topics in Biological Diversity [ 1 credit hour ] 
  • EBIO 569 Core course in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • EBIO 579 Aquatic Ecology with Scuba [ 3 credit hours ]
  • EBIO 580 Sustainability Development and Reporting [ 3 credit hours ]
  • ESCI 618 Quantitative Hydrogeology [ 3 credit hours ]
  • ESCI 650 Remote Sensing [ 3 credit hours ]
  • ESCI 654 Geographic Information Science [ 3 credit hours ]
  • POST 411/GLHT 411 Sustainable Development [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • STAT 684/CEVE 684 Environmental Risk Assessment and Human Health [ 3 credit hours ]

Management and Policy   

  • CEVE 505/ENGI 505 Engineering Project Development and Management [ 3 credit hours ]  
  • CEVE 528/ENGI 528 Engineering Economics [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • CEVE 529/ENGI 529 Engineering Leadership and Ethics [ 3 credit hours ]
  • ESCI 617 Petroleum Industry Economics and Management [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • ECON 437/ENST 437 Energy Economics [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • ECON 480/ENST 480 Environmental Economics [ 3 credit hours ]    
  • MGMT 609 Managing Energy Transitions [ 1.5 credit hours ] 
  • MGMT 610 Fundamentals of the Energy Industry [ 1.5 credit hours ] 
  • MGMT 661 International Business Law [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • MGMT 670 Operations Strategy [ 1.5 credit hours ]
  • MGMT 676 Social Enterprise [ 1.5 credit hours ] 
  • MGMT 721 General Business Law [ 1.5 credit hours ]
  • POST 501 Energy Policy [ 3 credit hours ]

Quantitative Decision-Making   

  • CEVE 313/STAT 313 Uncertainty and Risk in Urban Infrastructures [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • CEVE 528/ENGI 528 Engineering Economics [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • ESCI 650 Remote Sensing [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • ESCI 654 Geographic Information Science [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • ECON 480/ENST 480 Environmental Economics [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • STAT 553 Biostatistics [ 3 credit hours ]
  • STAT 605* R for Data Science [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • STAT 606* SAS Statistical Programming [ 3 credit hours ]
  • STAT 615 Regression and Linear Models [ 3 credit hours ] 
  • STAT 684/CEVE 684 Environmental Risk Assessment and Human Health [ 3 credit hours ]

*Only one of these two courses may be counted toward the degree. 

  • Completed application (apply on-line)
  • Three personal letters of recommendation - recommenders can now submit their letters on-line
  • General GRE scores (use the code 6609 for Rice; do not worry about a department code)
  • Official transcripts from all universities attended
  • TOEFL scores (if required)
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