Graduate Degree Programs
M.S., M.P.S. or Ph.D. Water Resources Engineering

Emphasis is placed on applying engineering techniques to reduce impacts on human and natural systems. Students pursue solutions to water resources problems, in recognition of environmental, economic, legal, social and managerial constraints. The department has computing facilities, field sites, and a fluids laboratory with a tilting sediment recirculating flume and river geomorphology table to support research activities. The program takes advantage of departmental expertise in GIS and remote sensing to address problems at a variety of scales. Analytic techniques typically blend a combination of statistics, numerical analyses, and computer science.

Program Requirements

Applicants to all ERE graduate programs of study are required to have a bachelor’s degree in science or engineering and are expected to have completed at least one 3-credit course in physics, one 3-credit course in statistics, and two 3-credit courses in calculus. Students admitted without the necessary background are required to take additional prerequisite courses required by the department.

Program prerequisite or co-requisite courses beyond the departmental requirement include at least one semester of study in fluid mechanics, computing methods, and engineering hydrology.

Program mastery courses include at least one course (3+ credit hours) in each of these areas of competence: 1) physical hydrology; 2) computational modeling; and 3) water quality.

Participating Faculty

• Douglas J. Daley; djdaley@esf.edu
  water resources, solid and hazardous waste management, ecological engineering, environmental restoration, phytoremediation, bioremediation, soil and water pollution, solid and hazardous waste management, environmental engineering
• Theodore A. Endreny; te@esf.edu
  water resources engineering, ecological engineering, stream restoration, urban watersheds, lesser-developed countries
• Charles N. Kroll; cnkroll@esf.edu
  stochastic and deterministic hydrology, environmental modeling, water resource systems engineering, ecological engineering, urban forestry, drought assessment, environmental systems engineering, stochastic and deterministic modeling, risk assessment, coupled human and natural systems
• Timothy H. Morin; thmorin@esf.edu
  ecosystem nutrient cycling, wetlands, biogeochemistry, carbon cycle, ecosystem greenhouse gas transport, eddy covariance/micrometeorology
• Stephen B. Shaw; sbshaw@esf.edu
  hydroclimatology, water resources engineering, ecohydrology in a changing climate, water resources, climate change, hydrology, systems modeling, stormwater management