Department of Environmental Resources and Forest Engineering

JAMES M. HASSETT, Chair
402 Baker Laboratory
315-470-6633; FAX 315-470-6958

• Department of Environmental Resources and Forest Engineering website
  

Participating Faculty:

DALEY (Water Resources, Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, Ecological Engineering, Environmental Restoration), ENDRENY (Environmental Engineering, Engineering Hydrology, Watershed Management), J.M. HASSETT, Chair (Environmental Engineering, Water Resources), KROLL (Stochastic and Deterministic Hydrology, Environmental and Water Resource Systems Engineering), MOUNTRAKIS  (Brownfield Studies, Geo-Spatial Information Systems, Mapping Sciences, Water Resources), QUACKENBUSH (Survey Engineering, Spatial Measurements, Geo-spatial Information Systems), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and their applications), TAO (Ecological Engineering), TULLY (Structures, Engineering Hydrology, Water Resources)

The Department of Environmental Resources and Forest Engi-neering performs teaching, research and public service activities to promote engineering practices to improve the lives of people within New York state and around the world. The department offers an accredited program in forest engineering. The program originated at ESF in 1971. With more than 700 graduates now in engineering practice, this unique program offers a breadth of engineering science and design coursework unparalleled in the United States. Required coursework in the humanities and social sciences ensures a well-balanced educational experience for graduates entering pro-fessional practice in engineering or those moving directly on to graduate school.

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Bachelor of Science in Forest Engineering

The objectives of the program are to prepare baccalaureate students who:

• will engage in professional engineering practice while employed by government agencies, industry and private consulting that specialize in public works and the inventory, management, design, use, restoration and protection of natural and cultural resources;
• are prepared to enter advanced academic studies involved with natural resources engineering, mapping sciences and water resources; and
• will continue to develop the knowledge and skills needed to adapt to changing technological, environmental and business conditions to the benefit of society, employer and self.

A broad base of study in the fundamentals of engineering enables graduates to enter professional practices that focus on civil works as well as use and protection of soil, water, air and other renewable and nonrenewable resources to ensure sustainable development.

Emphasis in this unique program is placed on applications in resource inventory and evaluation; site analysis and development; environmental monitoring and impact assessment; environmental systems design, evaluation and management; structures and transportation systems; pollution abatement and residuals management; and environmental site remediation.

The special importance of continual measurement and evaluation of the broad-scale parameters that affect the resource base provides unique opportunities for study to students aiming toward professional careers involving the conceptualization, design and maintenance of geographically referenced resource information systems.

Graduates of the program enjoy many benefits derived from their capstone-curriculum course in engineering planning and design. This project-oriented course serves to help the student integrate four years of education to solve complex design problems commonly encountered in professional practice.

Students with an interest in graduate study can plan their under-graduate studies along an individualized track to prepare them-selves for ESF’s master of science program in environmental and resource engineering. In this way, students who qualify will be admitted to a quality graduate program with minimal incon-venience or interruption in their studies.

In addition, qualified graduates in search of additional education find ready acceptance to engineering graduate schools throughout the country.

The forest engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission/Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (EAC/ABET).

Students having advanced placement credits are encouraged to work closely with their advisor in order to best prepare for various upper-division elective sequences in technology, science, design or management.

The undergraduate curriculum in forest engineering consists of two broad categories of courses. The general education component provides students with knowledge and skills that are useful and important for all educated persons. The second category, professional courses, provides students with direct preparation for a career.

Students may be admitted directly as first-year freshman students at ESF, or through a variety of transfer options. To enter the curriculum at the sophomore or junior level, a transferring student must have acceptable college credit in the designated coursework areas or suitable coursework substitutions. Regardless of which way students enter ESF, they must complete both the general and professional education requirements.

Undergraduate Program Requirements

Lower Division Required Courses (59-60 credits)

Courses                                                                                       Credits

APM	153	Computing Methods for Engineers and Physical Scientists	PE 1	3
APM	485	Differential Equations/Matrix Algebra	M	3
CLL	190	Writing and the Environment	G 2, NS 3	3
CLL	290	Writing, Humanities and the Environment	G	3
EFB	226	General Botany	G, NS	4
ELE	231	Electrical Engineering Fundamentals	PE,E	3
ERE	221	Engineering Mechanics: Statics	PE, E 4	3
ERE	222	Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics	PE, E	2
ERE	225	Engineering Graphics	PE	1
ERE	362	Mechanics of Materials 5	PE, E	3
FCH	150	General Chemistry I	NS	3
FCH	151	General Chemistry Laboratory I	NS	1
FCH	152	General Chemistry II	NS	3
FCH	153	General Chemistry Laboratory II	NS	1
FEG	132	Orientation Seminar: Forest Engineering 6	PE	1
FOR	207	Introduction to Economics	G	3
MAT	295	Calculus I	G, M 7	4
MAT	296	Calculus II	M	4
MAT	397	Calculus III	M	4
PHY	211	General Physics I	NS	3
PHY	221	General Physics Laboratory I	NS	1
PHY	212	General Physics II	NS	3
PHY	222	General Physics Laboratory II	NS	1

Electives (6 credits)

General Education Course	G	3
General Education Course	G	3

Upper Division Required Courses (55 credits)

APM	395	Probability and Statistics for Engineers	M	3
CIE	337	Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering	ED 8	4
EFB	336	Dendrology		3
ERE	351	Basic Engineering Thermodynamics	E	2
ERE	371	Surveying for Engineers	E	4
ERE	440	Water Pollution Engineering	ED	3
ESF	332	Seminar for New Transfer Students 9		0
FEG	300	Engineering Design	ED	1
FEG	340	Engineering Hydrology and Hydraulics	ED	4
FEG	350	Introduction to Remote Sensing for Engineers	E	2
FEG	363	Photogrammetry I	ED	3
FEG	410	Structures	ED	4
FEG	420	Harvest Systems Analysis		1
FEG	430	Engineering Decision Analysis	E	3
FEG	437	Transportation Systems	ED	3
FEG	454	Power Systems	ED	2
FEG	489	Forest Engineering Planning and Design	ED	3
FOR	321	Forest Ecology and Silviculture		3
FOR	360	Principles of Management		3
MAE	341	Fluid Mechanics	E	4

Electives (12 credits)

Elective in Engineering Design Sequence 10	ED	6
General Education Course	G	3
General Education Course	G	3

Total minimum credits for the degree                                                               132-133 credits

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Graduate Programs

Graduate studies and research are primarily concerned with environmental and resource-related problems. Students with a bachelor of science degree in engineering or in forestry, natural sciences, physics, or mathematics have the opportunity to design an individual program of graduate study. The Department of Environmental Resources and Forest Engineering participates in graduate education leading to the advanced certificate in advanced engineering tools, and the master of science, master of professional studies and doctor of philosophy degrees in environmental and resource engineering. See the Division of Engineering webpage for further information about graduate program options in environmental and resource engineering.

Support for graduate study and research in these areas is both internal and external. The internal support includes modern laboratory and instrumentation facilities in the engineering departments at both ESF and Syracuse University. Exceptional support exists for programs in environmental engineering measurements in the form of remote sensing and photogrammetric laboratories and the extensive properties owned by the college at which research may be conducted. Dedicated laboratories are also available for students working in water resources engineering, solid waste management and hazardous waste site remediation.

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   Professional engineering course
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   Meets the requirements for general education skills and knowledge area. A complete listing of ESF or Syracuse University courses that meet general education standards established by SUNY is listed on page 8 and on the Internet at www.esf.edu/GenEd.pdf
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   Natural science course
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   Engineering course
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   Students who transfer to ESF typically take this course as part of their upper-division requirements, having already completed a general education course at the lower division.
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   Required for students who enter as freshmen.
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   Math course
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   Engineering design course
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   Required for students who transfer to the upper division.
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    An upper-division engineering course that is part of an advisor-approved sequence that complements other engineering coursework and provides the equivalent of at least one credit hour of depth in the design and synthesis component of the program. Courses include: CIE 332 Structures II, CIE 338 Foundation Engineering, ERE 441 Air Pollution Engineering, FEG 448 Open Channel Hydraulics,  FEG 464 Photogrammetry II, ERE 445 Hydrologic Modeling, ERE 506 Hazardous Waste Management, ERE 511 GIS for Engineers,or Advanced Topics in Hydraulics