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C&EE 253 · CEE 253Mathematical Models for Water Quality Management

Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Development of mathematical models for simulating environmental engineering problems. Emphasis on numerical techniques to solve nonlinear partial differential equations and their application to environmental engineering problems.

Letter grading.

When it runs

  • Fall 2025
  • Fall 2026

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

Requisites

Official UCLA wording

Requisite: course 153.

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C&EE 153

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

C&EE 253

  • C&EE 153Introduction to Environmental Engineering Science
    • C&EE 107Environmental Fluid Mechanics
      • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables2 more beneath
      • MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications3 more beneath
    • MECH&AE 103Elementary Fluid Mechanics
      • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
      • PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields3 more beneath
      • MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applicationsanother path to it

1 direct requisite. Showing 8 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

C&EE 253

  • C&EE 251BContaminant Transport in Groundwater
    • C&EE 251ARainfall-Runoff Modeling

1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.