Florida Institute of Technology
High Tech with a Human Touch
Marine and Environmental Systems
Environmental Resource Management
What is Environmental Resource Management?
Environmental Resource Management has become an area of national and international significance. Resource managers, typically in the public and private developmental sectors, face increasingly complex technical problems that can cut across several of the more traditional educational disciplines. In addition to the fundamentals of biological and chemical environmental processes, managers must be knowledgeable in local and global cause and effect relationships of human activities in the development and utilization of environmental resources. Resource managers must also understand the legal and regulatory aspects of resource management. Recognizing these multidisciplinary needs, the master's degree program in Environmental Resource is a option in the Environmental Sciences Program at Florida Tech and includes both university course work and an internship with a regulatory agency or private company involved in environmental resource management. Graduates are well prepared to effectively interact with engineers, scientists, managers, and politicians.
Where will you use Environmental Resource Management?
Opportunities exist for Environmental Resource managers in the private, educational, corporate, and governmental sectors. Some career areas to consider are: Environmental Chemistry, Offshore Oil Recovery, Biofouling, Remote Sensing, Environmental Protection, Global Climate Monitoring, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, or Natural Habitat Restoration.
Why Environmental Resource Management at Florida Tech?
Nationally ranked academic programs and outstanding faculty await the marine science student, including "hands-on" experience that starts in the first semester. Our major facilities include:
- R/V Delphinus, a 60' coastal research vessel where you will gain "at sea" training.
- Evinrude Marine Center, where numerous small craft are moored for studies of the nearby Indian River Lagoon and its tributaries.
- Vero Beach Marine Laboratory, our experimental beachfront aquaculture station.
- Aquaculture Lab and Field Facility, a five-acre teaching and research facility with ponds, tanks, indoor hatchery and laboratories.
- Indian River Lagoon Research Platform a shallow-water wooden tower where research into biofouling, marine meteorology, tides and currents, and environmental change are conducted.
- Laboratories throughout the university for studies in biology, chemistry, computers, geology, marine instrumentation, mathematics, meteorology and physics, including our new wave channel.
Our Graduate Program:
The Master of Science in Environmental Resource Management requires 30 approved credits beyond the bachelors degree. The undergraduate major should be in science or engineering, or sufficient course work in the physical and life sciences to readily understand the fundamental biological, chemical and physical relationships important in environmental resource management. Students with deficiencies in their undergraduate preparation (up to 12 credits) may take deficiencies and courses for graduate credit concurrently.
The Curriculum includes at least 24 credits in approved courses and an internship, and six credits of selected elective topics as specified in a master's program plan developed in conjunction with the student's advisor.
| Fall Semester | ||
|---|---|---|
| BIO 5030 | Conservation Biology | 3 credits |
| ENS 5001 | Global Environmental Problems and Solutions | 3 credits |
| ENS 5700 | Introduction to Water Resources | 3 credits |
| ENS 5000 | Environmental Seminar | 0 credits |
| Elective | 3 credits | |
| Spring Semester | ||
| ENS 5004 | Aquatic Environmental Toxicology | 3 credits |
| ENS 5701 | Environmental Regulation and Impact Assessment | 3 credits |
| ENS 5000 | Environmental Seminar | 0 credits |
| OCN 5803 | Legal Environmental Relationships | 3 credits |
| Elective | 3 credits | |
| Summer Semester | ||
| Internship | 6 credits | |
| Elective Courses | ||
| CVE 4000 | Engineering Economy and Planning | 3 credits |
| CVE 5040 | Urban Planning | 3 credits |
| EDS 5430 | Issue Investigation and Evaluation | 3 credits |
| ENS 5006 | Mathematical Models of Environmental Systems | 3 credits |
| ENS 5008 | International Conventions - Protection of the Ocean | 3 credits |
| ENS 5010 | Environmental Optics and Remote Sensing | 3 credits |
| ENS 5101 | Introduction to Air Pollution | 3 credits |
| ENS 5105 | Atmospheric Pollution Lab | 3 credits |
| ENS 5206 | Aquatic Chemistry | 3 credits |
| ENS 5600 | Radiation and Environmental Protection | 3 credits |
| ENS 5803 | Ecology of Aquatic Systems | 4 credits |
| ENS 5805 | Wastewater Biology | 3 credits |
| OCN 5210 | Marine and Environmental Chemistry | 3 credits |
Look at our catalog for more information about this program.