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C&EE 153 · CEE 153Introduction to Environmental Engineering Science

Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Water, air, and soil pollution: sources, transformations, effects, and processes for removal of contaminants. Water quality, water and wastewater treatment, waste disposal, air pollution, global environmental problems.

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Recommended requisite: course 107 (or Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 103).

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  • C&EE 107
  • MECH&AE 103

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C&EE 153

  • C&EE 107Environmental Fluid Mechanics
    • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series1 more beneath
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables1 more beneath
    • MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
      • MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students1 more beneath
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
  • MECH&AE 103Elementary Fluid Mechanics
    • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
    • PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
      • PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics1 more beneath
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
      • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
    • MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applicationsanother path to it

2 direct requisites. Showing 16 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

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C&EE 153

  • C&EE 154Chemical Fate and Transport in Aquatic Environments
  • C&EE 155Unit Operations and Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment
    • C&EE 157BDesign of Water Treatment Plants
    • C&EE 157CDesign of Wastewater Treatment Plants
    • C&EE 190Professional Practice
      • C&EE 123Advanced Geotechnical Design
      • C&EE 144Structural Systems Design
      • C&EE 147Design and Construction of Tall Buildings
      • C&EE 152Hydraulic and Hydrologic Design
      • C&EE 157BDesign of Water Treatment Plantsanother path to it
      • C&EE 157CDesign of Wastewater Treatment Plantsanother path to it
    • C&EE 255APhysical and Chemical Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment
      • C&EE 255BBiological Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment1 more beyond
      • C&EE 261Colloidal Phenomena in Aquatic Systems
      • C&EE 261AAdvanced Water Treatment Processes
  • ENV HLT M166Environmental Microbiology
    • ENV HLT M166LEnvironmental Microbiology Laboratory
  • C&EE 156AEnvironmental Chemistry Laboratory
  • C&EE C159Green Infrastructure
  • C&EE C164Sustainable Waste Management
  • C&EE M166Environmental Microbiology
    • C&EE M166LEnvironmental Microbiology Laboratory
  • C&EE 253Mathematical Models for Water Quality Management
    • C&EE 251BContaminant Transport in Groundwater
      • C&EE 251ARainfall-Runoff Modeling
  • C&EE C259Green Infrastructure
  • C&EE 266Environmental Biotechnology

10 courses list this as a requisite. Showing 27 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

  • Fall 2025
  • Summer 2026
  • Fall 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.