PSU’s graduate certificate in engineering geology provides practicing geologists an opportunity to upgrade their hydrogeology credentials and post-baccalaureate students an accessible way to obtain skills in hydrogeology while partially fulfilling requirements towards a professional master’s. The certificate is designed to accommodate professionals and students who are employed full or part-time.
Requirements
Choose one course from each of the following four sections:
Required
- G 543 Ground Water Geology
Choose One
- G 650 Research Methods I - Reading
- G 651 Research Methods II - Writing
- G 523 Statistics and Data Analysis in the Geosciences
Choose One
- G 524 Geographical Information Systems for the Natural Sciences
- G 525 Field GIS
- G 548 Chemical Hydrogeology
- G 561 Environmental Geology
- G 580 Basin Analysis
- G 581 Field Geology
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- CE 565/ESM 525 Watershed Hydrology
- CE 566/ESM 566 Environmental Data Analysis
- CE 568 Advanced Methods in Hydrologic System Analysis
- CE 571/CE 671 Subsurface Contaminant Transport
- CE 572 Environmental Fluid Mechanical Transport
- CE 573 Numerical Methods in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
- CE 576 Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- CE 578 Water Quality Modeling
- CE 579/ESM 579 Fate and Transport of Toxics in the Environment
- CE 580 Chemistry of Environmental Toxins
- CE 585 Environmental Cleanup and Restoration
- CE 586/Ch 586 Environmental Chemistry
- CE 587/Ch 587 Aquatic Chemistry
- CE 589 Introduction to Advanced Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- CE 590 Soil and Groundwater Restoration
- ESM 520 Ecological Toxicology
- ESM 527 Watershed Biogeochemistry
- ESM 535 Natural Resource Policy and Management
- ESM 552 Environmental Regulation and Non-regulatory Approaches
- ESM 563 Water Quality Policy & Management
- ESM 567 Multivariate Analysis of Environmental Data
- Geog 514 Hydrology
- Geog 580 Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
- Geog 594 GIS for Water Resources
Note: If G 524 or G 525 is taken toward this certificate then Geog 594 may not be taken from this list to count toward these 4 credits.
Total Credit Hours: 16
Courses must be completed within seven years of the award of the Graduate Certificate, and a cumulative GPA of 3.00 must be attained in all courses to be used for the Certificate. At least two thirds of the credits for the Graduate Certificate, or 15 credits, whichever is larger, are required to be taken at Portland State University.