SUNY ESF
Advising

ERE students will meet with their Faculty Advisors at least twice per year to discuss their academic and professional preparation. Use your Faculty Advisor to discuss academics and plan for your career; you might troubleshoot problems, differentiate between the various engineering electives, technical electives, consider research opportunities, discuss an academic minor or club, review a resume, and plan for summer internships or jobs. Develop and use your own leadership and management skills to prepare for your academic advising sessions, as discussed below, and complete your ERE program curriculum.

Student Preparation for Academic Advising

Make sure you have completed the first 5 steps in this list before arriving at your academic advising meeting. After your advising meeting, proceed to succeed!

Review the ESF Registration Information to learn more about the course registration process. Confirm you understand the ESF Academic Policies as they relate to academic integrity, course enrollment, performance, withdrawal, religious holidays, etc.
Review the ESF Catalog for B.S. in ERE degree course requirements, and track your completion of those requirements with a current Curriculum Plan Sheet, located at MyESF.
Identify constraints on what courses you can take based on your obligations for Financial Aide and Accessory Instruction limits.
Browse and add courses to your shopping cart using MySlice.
Schedule an advising meeting to remove your registration hold, bringing a completed Registration Form and any needed petition forms to the meeting.
Use the advising meeting to cover course and career preparation issues. Leave the session with a plan to succeed and a signed registration form. Take that Registration Form to the Registrar to remove your registration hold and then complete the MySlice registration to officially enroll in the courses.
Succeed in your courses by using the Academic Success Center and peer tutoring, writing center, and math lab, and abiding by the ESF Student Handbook and Academic Integrity.

Specific Courses and Directed Electives

The curricular requirements contain specific courses (e.g., ERE 132 Intro to ERE, APM 205 Calculus I) and directed electives (Earth Science Elective, Ecology Elective, General Education, Engineering Elective, Technical Elective).

Course sequencing is presented by semester in the curriculum plan.
Course descriptions are available for ESF Courses and SYR Courses.

Engineering Electives

You need to take 3 Engineering Electives, which are defined by their focus on theory and application of scientific principles and quantitative skills to monitor, assess, or design in the environmental resources engineering profession. Some of these courses are only available to seniors, and may require special pre-requisites. To prepare, you take a design course your freshman year and take core engineering courses your sophomore and junior years.

A list of courses is provided in the ESF Catalog, ERE Table of Upper Division Electives.

Technical Electives

You need to take 2 Technical Electives, which are defined by their application of techniques, theory, and skills to advance competence in the professional practice. These courses build on the engineering curriculum. A list of courses is provided in the ESF Catalog, ERE Table of Upper Division Electives.

General Education (Gen Ed) Courses

All SUNY students are required to complete Gen Ed Requirements, and have competencies in critical thinking and information management. ESF offers the following Gen Ed courses.

For students who entered our ESF ERE program on or after fall 2015, 30 Gen Ed credits in 7 of 10 areas are required.

4 Gen Ed areas, and 12 credits, are obtained by taking required courses in our curriculum:

Basic Communication is fulfilled by EWP 190
Mathematics is fulfilled by APM 205
Natural Science is fulfilled by EFB 101/102
Humanities is fulfilled by EWP 290

9 more credits in the Gen Ed Natural Sciences and Mathematics areas are obtained by taking required courses in our curriculum:

PHY 211. General Physics I
APM 206. Calculus II
APM 307. Multivariate Calculus

The remaining 3 Gen Ed areas, and 9 credits, are obtained by taking 3 courses from at least 3 of these Gen Ed areas:

Social Sciences
American History
Western Civilization
Other World Civilizations
The Arts
Foreign Language

For students who entered our ESF ERE program before fall 2015, 27 Gen Ed credits in 7 of 10 areas were required.