The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department offers MS and PhD graduate degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Environmental Engineering Science (EES). The CEE degree is designed for students who wish to earn a degree to continue the path towards a professional engineering registration. Students entering this degree program should have a BS degree in engineering or will generally need to take engineering prerequisite courses. Within the CEE degree, students complete specified requirements in one of three different emphasis areas: Environmental and Water Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, and Structural Engineering. Environmental Engineering and Science is the application of environmental processes in both natural and engineered systems. CEE faculty have expertise in water resource engineering, biosystems engineering, environmental chemistry, environmental microbiology, microbial genomics, wastewater treatment, water treatment, bioremediation, mining treatment processes and systems, remediation processes, biogeochemical reactions in soils, geobiology, membrane processes, humanitarian engineering, social aspects of engineering, and energy recovery from fluids. The EES degree does not require an undergraduate engineering degree, however, an undergraduate degree in science or engineering is preferable.