Beginning the Program
Upon admission to the AEST program, students will complete the following actions:
- Meet with an academic advisor prior to the start of classes to plan coursework for the first semester of study. Academic advisors will be assigned by the admissions committee, and named in the acceptance letters sent to successful applicants;
- Select a Graduate Study Committee (GSC) consisting of three UAA faculty members, to be chaired by the student's academic advisor. The GSC must be selected during the first semester of study; and
- Prepare a Graduate Study Plan for approval by the student's GSC by the end of the first semester of study. It is during the development of the Graduate Study Plan that the students will decide whether to pursue the MS-AEST or the M-AEST degree option. The study plan will include core competency courses and technical electives designed to meet the student's professional or research interests. The approved study plan and any subsequent changes should be submitted to the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies of the SOE, a copy filed in the Department Office, and the original sent to the Office of Enrollment Services.
Course Requirements
Courses for the AEST program must be selected from the following list of approved courses. In order to ensure that the students achieve a balanced graduate education, at least one course must be completed with a grade of "B" or better in each of the core competency areas: Analysis, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, and Geology. The remaining technical elective credits can be selected from any of the approved courses listed below. A minimum of 21 credits must be drawn from approved 600-level courses.
Analysis
STAT A402 Scientific Sampling (3)
STAT A403 Regression Analysis (3)
STAT A404 Analysis of Variance (3)
STAT A405 Nonparametric Statistics (3)
STAT A407 Time Series Analysis (3)
STAT A408 Multivariate Analysis (3)
STAT A601 Stastical Methods (3)
STAT A620 Statistics for ESM (3)
Biology
BIOL A661 Advanced Molecular Biology (3)
BIOL A478 Biological Oceanography (4)
BIOL A648 Ecological Modeling (3)
BIOL A650 Advanced Microbial Ecology (3)
BIOL A668 Advanced Biogeochemistry (3)
BIOL A675 Advanced Arctic Tundra Ecosystems (3)
BIOL A685 Advanced Topics in Biology (1-5)
Chemistry
AEST A601 Aquatic Process Chemistry (3)
CHEM A450 Environmental Chemistry (3)
CHEM A634 Advanced Instrumental Methods (4)
CHEM A641 Advanced Biochemistry I (3)
CHEM A642 Advanced Biochemistry II (3)
CHEM A698 Individual Research (1-9)
Environmental Engineering
AEST A602 Water Quality Management (3)
AEST A603 Solid Waste Management (3)
AEST A604 Environmental Law, Regulations and Permitting (3)
AEST A608 Fundamentals of Air Pollution (3)
AEST A613 Remediation (3)
AEST A694 Environmental Law (3)
CE A441 Introduction to Environmental Engineering (3)
CE A600 Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering (3)
CE A662 Surface Water Dynamics (3)
CE A663 Ground Water Dynamics
CE A683 Arctic Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering (3)
CE A674 Waves, Tides, and Ocean Processes for
Engineers (3)
CE A677 Coastal Measurements and Analysis (3)
ENVE F652 Introduction to Toxicology (3) (UAF Online Course)*
ENVE F651 Risk Assessment (3) (UAF Online Course)
ESM A450 Economic Analysis and Operations (3)
ESM A601 Engineers and Organizations (3)
ESM A605 Engineering Economy (3)
PM A601 Project Management (3)
Geology
GEOL A455 Permafrost and Periglacial
Geomorphology (4)
GEOL A457 Soil Genesis and Classification (4)
GEOL A460 Environmental Geochemistry (3)
GEOL A481 Environmental Geophysics (3)
GEOL A690 Graduate Topics in Geology (1-4)
Thesis
AEST A699 Thesis (1-6)
Alternate courses may be used to meet the course requirement(s) on approval by the student's graduate committee.
*UAF courses will be considered as resident credit. It is the student's responsibility to check the UAF catalog for current course content and availability.
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