Climate Science and Engineering, MS (Boston)

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Official catalog page for this program

Core Requirements

From the catalog

Complete 20 semester hours from the core requirements listed below (any core course not used to meet this core course requirement can be taken as a restricted elective):

• Choose 20 semester hours from:
  • CHME 5692 — Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage
  • One of:
    • CIVE 5150 — Climate and Atmospheric Change
    • ENVR 5150 — Climate and Atmospheric Change
  • CIVE 5275 — Life Cycle Assessment of Materials, Products, and Infrastructure
  • CIVE 5281 — Coastal Dynamics and Design
  • CIVE 5363 — Climate Science, Engineering Adaptation, and Policy
  • CIVE 5365 — Climate Technologies for Decarbonization, Mitigation, and Adaptation
  • CIVE 5366 — Air Quality Engineering and Science
  • One of:
    • CIVE 5670 — Global Biogeochemistry
    • ENVR 5670 — Global Biogeochemistry
  • CIVE 7110 — Critical Infrastructure Resilience
  • CIVE 7281 — Coastal and Nearshore Hydrodynamics
  • ENVR 5350 — Sustainable Energy and Climate Solutions
  • ENVR 5600 — Coastal Processes, Adaptation, and Resilience
  • ENVR 5800 — Climate Adaptation and Nature-Based Solutions

Coursework Option

12 semester hours.

From the catalog

Complete 12 semester hours from the restricted electives course list below.

Report Option

From the catalog

Complete 8 semester hours from the restricted electives course list below.

• One of:
  • CIVE 7945 — Master’s Project
  • EEMB 8984 — Research

Thesis Option

From the catalog

Complete CIVE 7945 and CIVE 7990 for 8 semester hours or complete EEMB 8984 twice for 8 semester hours:

Complete 4 semester hours from the restricted electives course list below.

In addition to completing the thesis course, College of Engineering students must successfully complete the thesis submission process, including securing committee and Graduate School of Engineering signatures and submission of an electronic copy of their MS thesis to ProQuest.

• Choose 8 semester hours from:
  • All of:
    • CIVE 7945 — Master’s Project
    • CIVE 7990 — Thesis
  • EEMB 8984 — Research

Restricted Electives

• One of:
  • CIVE 5280 — Remote Sensing of the Environment
  • CIVE 7100 — Time Series and Geospatial Data Sciences
  • CIVE 7282 — Coastal and Hydraulic Modeling
  • CIVE 7392 — Special Topics in Environmental Engineering
  • EECE 5670 — Sustainable Energy: Materials, Conversion, Storage, and Usage
  • ENSY 5000 — Fundamentals of Energy System Integration
  • ENSY 5100 — Hydropower
  • ENSY 5200 — Energy Storage Systems
  • ENSY 5500 — Smart Grid
  • ENSY 5585 — Wind Energy Systems
  • ENVR 5210 — Environmental Planning
  • ENVR 5220 — Ecosystem-Based Management
  • ENVR 5563 — Advanced Spatial Analysis
  • INTL 5100 — Climate and Development
  • LPSC 7312 — Cities, Sustainability, and Climate Change
  • MATL 6270 — Principles, Devices, and Materials for Energy Storage and Energy Harvesting
  • ME 5685 — Solar Thermal Engineering
  • PPUA 5238 — Climate Change and Global Urbanization
  • PPUA 5264 — Energy Democracy and Climate Justice: Technology, Policy, and Social Change
  • PPUA 5268 — International Environmental Policy
  • SBSY 5100 — Sustainable Design and Technologies in Construction
  • SBSY 5200 — Sustainable Engineering Systems for Buildings

Optional Co-op Experience

From the catalog

Complete the following (students must complete ENCP 6100 to qualify for co-op experience):

• ENCP 6100 — Introduction to Cooperative Education
• One of:
  • ENCP 6964 — Co-op Work Experience
  • ENCP 6954 — Co-op Work Experience - Half-Time
  • ENCP 6955 — Co-op Work Experience Abroad - Half-Time
  • ENCP 6965 — Co-op Work Experience Abroad

GPA requirements

• 32 total semester hours required (33 with optional co-op) Minimum 3.000 GPA required

Substitutions

Possible equivalents for this program — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:

• CIVE 5150 ↔ ENVR 5150 (tier B)
• CIVE 5670 ↔ ENVR 5670 (tier B)

What the tiers mean

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under climate-science-and-engineering-ms-boston, and the official page is the authority.