Master Program in Water and Environmental Engineering

The Water Studies Institute offers two Master’s programs: the Master’s in Water and Environmental Engineering which admits students with engineering backgrounds in fields specified below; and the Master’s in Water and Environmental Sciences which admits students with natural sciences or agricultural backgrounds.

Water and Environmental Engineering (Students with engineering backgrounds are accepted in this program): The program includes courses in environmental resource management, environmental impact assessment, planning systems for drinking water and wastewater treatment and design, water supply, design of infrastructure for sewerage systems, reuse of treated wastewater and sludge. In addition to that, it comprises the different environmental elements that include air, water and soil pollution, and adapting methods for limiting pollution, and designing suitable treatment techniques by the use of computerized programs, and conducting biological and chemical laboratory experiments. Legal, economic, and environmental issues are the main fundamentals in this specialty.

Admission Requirements
· Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.

· Applicants for the Water and Environmental Engineering program must have a bachelor’s degree in civil, chemical, or mechanical engineering. Applicants for the Water and Environmental Sciences program must have a bachelor’s degree in natural sciences (such as chemistry, biology, earth and environment) or agriculture, geography, or any other directly related specialty as deemed suitable by the Institute Council.

· It is preferable that the student has practical experience in the field of engineering or water and environment science.

· The Institute Council may decide to conduct personal interviews with applicants in certain cases, and may specify remedial courses if needed.

Program requirements
The programs offer students two alternative specialties according to their background as indicated above. All students must complete 36 credit hours, including 6 hours for the thesis ( WEEN630 ) or 6 hours in two seminars ( WEEN830 and WEEN831 ). Students may take up to 6 credit hours of bachelor’s level courses towards the satisfaction of the elective requirements, with the agreement of the Institute Council. Students should not have taken the bachelor’s level courses while undergraduates.

Student are required to complete 36 credit hours composed of the following: 21 credit hours from the compulsory group of core courses, 9 credit hours from the group of elective courses, and 6 credit hours representing a research thesis or two research seminars.

Compulsory Courses (21 credit hours)

WEEN631 Urban Drainage and Sewerage Systems

WEEN635 Wastewater Treatments and Wastewater Reuse

WEEN638 Solid Waste

WEEN639 Environmental Impact Assessment

WESC730 Bioremediation

WESC735 Water and Environment Pollution

WEEN734 Integrated Land and Water Management

Elective Courses: (9 credit hours from the following list)

WEEN630 Political Economy for Environmental Planners

WEEN632 Water Distribution

WEEN634 Environmental Processes

WEEN636 Hydrology

WESC637 Environmental information Technology

WEEN718 Scientific Research Methods

WESC722 Statistical Methods in Water and Environmental Sciences.

WEEN731 Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment

WEEN732 Urban Planning and Environmental Management

WEEN738 Special Topics

* Students must submit an application to the Institute Council to select one of the following two tracks after the completion of at least 12 credit hours out of the requirements of the program:

Track A ( Thesis ): WEEN860 , Thesis

Track B (Non-thesis): two seminars, WEEN830 Research Seminar 1 and WEEN831 Research Seminar 2.

The decision of the Institute Council depends upon the student’s qualifications and the capacity of the program staff to supervise theses. Changing from one track to another requires a decision from the Institute Council.