Environmental Health Physics

The mission of the Master of Science in Environmental Engineering and Science - Environmental Health Physics program is to provide a high-quality graduate education program to students with a solid base in engineering and science. The educational program is a combination of classroom instruction and research. Students graduating from this program will have the knowledge, skills, and ability to make significant contributions to the field of environmental health physics and will be sought by employers.

The educational objectives of the EHP are for its alumni to demonstrate following a few years after graduation:

1. • EHP alumni will advance in responsibility in their careers through addressing contemporary problems in environmental health physics
2. • EHP alumni will make significant professional contributions in independent research, project leadership or professional leadership

1. • an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and applied sciences
2. • an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data
3. • an ability to formulate or design a system, process, or program to meet desired needs
4. • an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams
5. • an ability to identify and solve applied science problems
6. • an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility
7. • an ability to communicate effectively
8. • the broad education necessary to understand the impact of solutions in a global and societal context
9. • a recognition of the need for and an ability to engage in lifelong learning
10. • a knowledge of contemporary issues
11. • an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern scientific and technical tools necessary for professional practice

Departmental Core Courses:

EES 8020 Environmental Engineering Principles
EES 8430 Environmental Engineering Chemistry

Required Courses in addition to the departmental core courses:

EES 6100 Environmental Radiation Protection
EES 6110 Ionizing Radiation Detection and Measurement
EES 8150 Radiobiology
EES 8800 Environmental Risk Assessment

Approved Elective Courses:

BIOE 6310 Medical Imaging
EES 6140 Radioecology
EES 6300 Air Pollution Engineering
EES 6850 Hazardous Waste Management
EES 8030 Physicochemical Operations I
EES 8120 Environmental Nuclear Engineering: Radioactive Waste Management
EES 8130 Environmental Radiation Protection Laboratory
EES 8160 Technical Nuclear Forensics
EES 8320 Air Pollution Meteorology
EES 8330 Air Pollution Control Systems
EES 8420 Actinide Chemistry
EES 8440 Environmental Engineering Chemistry Laboratory I
EES 8450 Environmental Engineering Chemistry II
EES 8550 Surface and Subsurface Transport
EXST 8010 Statistical Methods
EXST 8040 Sampling
ME 6200 Energy Sources and Their Utilization
MTHS 6340 Advanced Engineering Mathematics
MTHS 8050 Data Analysis

Other courses on appropriate subjects may be substituted upon approval of the student’s Advisory Committee.

Candidates must write a thesis based on original research and defend it in an oral examination. In special cases, a non-thesis option is available for students not on an assistantship; it requires 30 hours of coursework, a special project, and a comprehensive oral examination. For details on the non-thesis oral exam, consult the Departmental Student Survival Guide.

Any student with an engineering or science undergraduate degree who is accepted by the EE&S Department and the Graduate School may pursue the M.S. degree.

For admission to the M.S. program, an applicant should have a grade point ratio/average (GPR/GPA) of at least 3.0 out of 4.0. Scores on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) for students who were accepted into the program recently are shown in the table below.

Connie Herman, Savannah River National Laboratory
Bo Pham, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Dexter Robinson, Duke Energy
John Hackett, Jacobs
Derek Jokisch, Francis Marion University

Timothy A. Devol, Ph.D., CHP

Professor
Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Clemson University
342 Computer Court
Anderson, SC 29625-6510

864-656-1014 (phone)

EHP-L@clemson.edu