Bachelor of Science (Research) • Major

Earth & Environmental Science

Basic Structure

The Earth & Environmental Science major offers an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Earth's systems. The curriculum covers topics ranging from climate science and environmental chemistry to geochemistry and ecological systems, preparing students to address critical environmental challenges. All students are required to complete a minimum of 131 credits to qualify for the Bachelor of Science (Research) degree.

Basic Course (Sem 1-3)	Engineering (Sem 2-3)	Humanities (Sem 1-6)	Major and Project	Minor (Optional)	Electives (Assortment Courses)	Total
40	6	9	51	15	10 - 25	131
				25*		131

NOTE:

*Students not opting for a minor should fulfil 25 credits of assortment courses.
To be eligible for a minor, a student should fulfil 15 credits from the minor pool.
Excess credit(s) from any pool will be counted towards assortment credits.

Semester-wise Course Requirements

To view the common shared curriculum (Semesters 1-3), please click here.

Course Code	Course Name	Instructor	Credits
		Sreenivasan Ramaswami	2:1
		Attreyee Ghosh, Pawan Bharadwaj, Binod Sreenivasan	3:0
		K. Sajeev	2:1
	Humanities **/	-	8:11
Reduced Load			15-17
Enhanced Load			15-21

Note:

Humanities:

A. Humanities courses cannot be dropped in both semesters IV and V.

B. Students must complete 9 credits in humanities pool by the end of six semester.

Recommended Course Load

Semester	Criteria	Credits
I	Student needs to register for a fixed number of credits	18
II	No CGPA and TGPA requirements	Min.: 17 and Max.: 21
III	No CGPA and TGPA requirements	Min.: 17 and Max.: 21
IV	CGPA < 8.0	Min.: 15 and Max.: 17
IV	CGPA ≥ 8.0	Min.: 15 and Max.: 21
V to VIII	CGPA < 8.0 or Preceding term TGPA < 8.0	Min.: 16 and Max.: 18
V to VIII	CGPA ≥ 8.0 or Preceding term TGPA ≥ 8.0	Min.: 16 and Max.: 21

Suggested Core Electives:

In addition to below listed electives, courses offered by the EES programme i.e; Centre for Earth Sciences (CEaS), Centre for Sustainable Technologies (CST), Civil Engineering (CiE), Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS), and Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research (ICWaR) (Selected courses).

* Please discuss course selection with EES coordinators.

Course Code	Title	Credits	Instructors
AS 202	Geophysical Fluid Dynamics	3:0	-
AS 203	Atmospheric Thermodynamics	3:0	-
AS 204	Atmospheric Radiation and Climate	3:0	-
AS 205	Ocean Dynamics	2:1	-
AS 207	Introduction to Atmospheric Dynamics	3:0	-
AS 208	Satellite Meteorology	3:0	-
AS 209	Mathematical Methods in Climate Science	3:0	-
AS 210	Numerical methods in atmospheric modeling	3:0	-
AS 211	Observational Techniques	2:1	-
AS 214	Atmospheric Boundary Layer	3:0	-
AS 216	Introduction to climate system	3:0	-
AS 302	Climate Modeling	3:0	-
AS 307	Chemistry and Physics of Atmosphere and Climate	3:0	-
AS 308	Ocean Modeling	2:1	-
AS 310	The Science of Climate Change	3:0	-
AS 311	Topics in Tropical Convection	3:0	-
AS 313	Non-Linear Model in Climate Sciences	3:0	-
CE 201	Basic Geo-mechanics	3:0	-
CE 202	Foundation Engineering	3:0	-
CE 203	Surface Water Hydrology	3:0	-
CE 204	Solid Mechanics	3:0	-
CE 205	Finite Element Method	3:0	-
CE 206	Ground Improvement and Geosynthetics	3:0	-
CE 206	Earth and Earth Retaining Structures	3:0	-
CE 206N	Earth and Earth Retaining Structures	3:0	-
CE 207	Geo-environmental Engineering	3:0	-
CE 207	Geo-environmental Engineering	2:0	-
CE 207N	Geo-environmental Engineering	3:0	-
CE 208	Ground Improvement and Geosynthetics	3:0	-
CE 209	Mechanics of Structural Concrete	3:0	-
CE 210	Structural Dynamics	3:0	-
CE 211	Mathematics for Engineers	3:0	-
CE 212	Design of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems	3:0	-
CE 212	Computational Fluid Dynamics in Water Resources Engineering	3:0	-
CE 212N	Computational Fluid Dynamics in Water Resources Engineering	3:0	-
CE 213	Systems Techniques in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering	3:0	-
CE 213	Experimental Methods in Environmental Engineering	0:1	-
CE 213N	Systems Techniques in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering	3:0	-
CE 214	Ground Water Hydrology	3:0	-
CE 215	Stochastic Hydrology	3:0	-
CE 216	An Introduction to Finite Elements in Solid Mechanics	3:0	-
CE 216	Finite Element Structural Analysis	3:0	-
CE 217	Linear Structural Dynamics	3:0	-
CE 217	Structural Dynamics	3:0	-
CE 218	Fire structural engineering	3:0	-
CE 218	Optimization Methods	3:0	-
CE 219	Non-linear Structural Mechanics	3:0	-
CE 219	SOIL DYNAMICS	3:0	-
CE 219	Stability of Structures	3:0	-
CE 220	Design of Substructures	3:0	-
CE 221	Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering	3:0	-
CE 222	Fundamentals of Soil Behaviour	3:0	-
CE 222N	Fundamentals of Soil Behaviour	2:1	-
CE 224	Behaviour and Testing of Unsaturated Soils	2:1	-
CE 225	Engineering Rock Mechanics	3:0	-
CE 226	Open-channel Flow	3:0	-
CE 227	Engineering Seismology	3:0	-
CE 228	Continuum Plasticity	3:0	-
CE 229	Non-Destructive Evaluation Methods for Concrete Structures	3:0	-
CE 230	Pavement Engineering	3:0	-
CE 231	Design of Substructures	3:0	-
CE 231	Soil Stabilization by Admixtures	3:0	-
CE 231	Forensic Geotechnical Engineering	3:0	-
CE 231	Soil Stabilization by Admixtures	2:0	-
CE 231N	Micro-characterization of Clay Soils	0:1	-
CE 232	Fundamentals of Soil behaviour	2:0	-
CE 232	Soil Stabilization by Admixtures	2:0	-
CE 232	Geotechnical Engineering and Rehabilitation of Dams	3:0	-
CE 233	Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering	3:0	-
CE 234	Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering	3:0	-
CE 234	Nonlinear Analysis in Earthquake Engineering	3:0	-
CE 234	Soil Dynamics	2:0	-
CE 234	Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering	2:0	-
CE 235	Optimization Methods	3:0	-
CE 236	Fracture Mechanics	3:0	-
CE 237	Soil Dynamics	3:0	-
CE 237	Rock Mechanics	2:0	-
CE 237	Soil Dynamics	2:0	-
CE 238	Structural Masonry	3:0	-
CE 238	Computational Geotechnics	3:0	-
CE 239	Stochastic Structural Dynamics	3:0	-
CE 239	Computational Geotechnics	3:0	-
CE 239N	Stochastic Structural Dynamics	3:0	-
CE 240	Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis	3:0	-
CE 241	Advanced Structural Dynamics	3:0	-
CE 241	Introduction to the Theory of Plasticity	2:0	-
CE 241	Reliability in Geotechnical Systems	3:0	-
CE 241	Introduction to the Theory of Plasticity	3:0	-
CE 242	Probabilistic Methods in Civil Engineering	3:0	-
CE 242	Fire structural engineering	3:0	-
CE 243	Bridge Engineering	3:0	-
CE 244	Monte Carlo simulations in structural mechanics	3:0	-
CE 245	Design of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems	3:0	-
CE 245N	Design of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems	3:0	-
CE 246	Urban Hydrology	3:0	-
CE 247	Remote Sensing and GIS for Water Resources Engineering	3:0	-
CE 247N	Remote Sensing and GIS for Water Resources & Environmental Engineering	3:0	-
CE 248	Regionalization in Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering	3:0	-
CE 248N	Regionalization in Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering	3:0	-
CE 249	Water Quality Modeling	3:0	-
CE 251	Computational Methods in Water Resources Engineering	3:0	-
CE 252	Ground Water Engineering	3:0	-
CE 253	Computational Methods in Water Resources Engineering	3:0	-
CE 253	Soft Computing in Water Resources & Environmental Engineering	3:0	-
CE 253	Water Quality Modelling	3:0	-
CE 254	Advanced Fracture Mechanics	3:0	-
CE 255	Urban Hydrology	3:0	-
CE 256	Stochastic Hydrology	3:0	-
CE 257	Advanced Hydrology	3:0	-
CE 258	Remote Sensing and GIS for Water Resources & Environmental Engineering	3:0	-
CE 259	Regionalization in Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering	3:0	-
CE 261	Urban Transportation Systems Planning	3:0	-
CE 261	Traffic Engineering	3:0	-
CE 262	Public Transportation Systems Planning	3:0	-
CE 262	Geoinformatic in Transport Engineering	3:0	-
CE 263	Modelling Transport and Traffic	3:0	-
CE 264	Traffic Engineering	3:0	-
CE 265	Geo-informatics in Transportation Engineering	3:0	-
CE 266	Pavement Engineering	3:0	-
CE 267	Transportation Statistics and Micro-simulation	3:0	-
CE 268	Discrete Choice Modelling Methods for Transportation Planning	3:0	-
CE 269	Traffic Engineering	3:0	-
CE 270	Travel Demand Modeling	3:0	-
CE 271	Discrete Choice Modeling Methods for Transportation Planning	3:0	-
CE 272	Traffic Network Equilibrium	3:0	-
CE 272	Continuum Damage Mechanics	2:0	-
CE 273	Markov Decision Processes	3:0	-
CE 273	Fracture Mechanics of Concrete Structures	3:0	-
CE 274	Sustainable Urban Transportation Planning	3:0	-
CE 274	Seismic Analysis and Design of Structures	3:0	-
CE 275	Nonlinear FEM in Structural Engineering	3:0	-
CE 275	Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis	2:0	-
CE 276	Structural Masonry	3:0	-
CE 277	Remote Sensing in Ecohydrology	3:0	-
CE 278	Optimization Methods	3:0	-
CE 279	Computational Geotechnics	3:0	-
CE 281	Multiscale Fracture of Quasi-Brittle Materials	3:0	-
CE 282	Advanced Concrete Design (Plain, Reinforced and Prestressed)	3:0	-
CE 283	Random vibrations and structural reliability	3:0	-
CE 287	Stochastic Structural Dynamics	3:0	-
CE 288	Elements of Wavelet Theory and Application to Structural Dynamics	3:0	-
CE 288	Elements of Wavelet Theory and Application to Structural Dynamics	2:0	-
CE 289	Engineering Seismology	3:0	-
CE 290	Structural System Identification	3:0	-
CE 291	Uncertainty modelling and analysis	3:0	-
CE 291	Computation in Structural Mechanics	3:0	-
CE 292	FEM for structural dynamic and stability analyses	3:0	-
CE 293	Bridge Engineering	3:0	-
CE 294	Monte Carlo Simulations in Structural Mechanics	3:0	-
CE 296	Random Vibrations and Structural Reliability	3:0	-
CE 297	Problems in the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity	3:0	-
CE 298	Parallel computing in mechanics problems	3:0	-
CE 299	Project	0:22	-
CH 201	Engineering Mathematics	3:0	-
CH 202	Numerical Methods	3:0	-
CH 203	Transport Processes	3:0	-
CH 204	Thermodynamics	3:0	-
CH 205	Chemical Reaction Engineering	3:0	-
CH 206	Seminar Course	1:0	-
CH 207	Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering II	0:2	-
CH 207	Applied statistics and design of experiments	1:0	-
CH 234	Rheology of Complex Fluids and Particulate Materials	3:0	-
CH 235	Modeling in Chemical Engineering	3:0	-
CH 236	Statistical Thermodynamics	3:0	-
CH 242	Special Topics in Theoretical Biology	3:0	-
CH 243	Mechanics of Particle suspensions	3:0	-
CH 245	Interfacial and Colloidal Phenomena	3:0	-
CH 248	Molecular Systems Biology	3:0	-
CH 249	Structural and Functional DNA Nanotechnology	3:0	-
CH 299	Dissertation Project	0:32	-
ES 201	Introduction to Earth System Science	2:1	-
ES 201	Introduction to Earth System	3:0	-
ES 202	Biogeochemistry	3:0	-
ES 203	Introduction to Petrology	3:0	-
ES 204	Origin and Evolution of the Earth	3:0	-
ES 205	Mathematics for Geophysicists	3:0	-
ES 206	Topics in Geophysics	3:0	-
ES 207	Earth Science Laboratory	0:3	-
ES 208	Applied Petrology and Geochemistry	3:0	-
ES 208	Mantle Convection	3:0	-
ES 209	Geochemistry or Understanding Natural Materials: A Geochemical Approach	3:0	-
ES 209	Biogeochemistry	3:0	-
ES 210	Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry	3:0	-
ES 210	Tectonics and Crustal Evolution	3:0	-
ES 211	Origin and Evolution of the Earth	3:0	-
ES 211	Economic minerals and tectonic processes	2:1	-
ES 211	Applied Petrology	3:0	-
ES 212	Fluid dynamics of planetary interiors	3:0	-
ES 212	Lithosphere Dynamics	3:0	-
ES 213	Isotope Geochemistry	3:0	-
ES 214	Mathematics for Geophysics	3:0	-
ES 214	Topics in stratigraphy and geochronology	3:0	-
ES 215	Introduction to Chemical Oceanography	3:0	-
ES 216	Advanced Chemical Oceanography	3:0	-
ES 217	Earth System Processes and Interactions	3:0	-
ES 218	Introduction to Seismology	3:0	-
ES 220	Introduction to satellite Geodesy	3:0	-
ES 221	Dynamics of Planetary Interiors	3:0	-
ES 222	Data Analysis for Earth System Science	3:0	-
ES 225	Scientific writing and presentation	1:0	-
ES 299	Dissertation Project	0:25	-
ES 401	Natural Hazards and Their Mitigation	3:0	-
ST 203	Design, Technology and Sustainability	3:0	-
ST 206	Environmental and Natural Resources Management	2:1	-
ST 210	Principles and Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing	3:1	-
ST 213	Turbo Machine in Renewable Energy	3:0	-
ST 214	Mathematical Analysis of Experimental Data	3:0	-
ST 216	Physics in Experiments with Classical Statistics	3:0	-
ST 218	Sustainable Wastewater Management	3:0	-
ST 220	Principles of Remote Sensing	3:0	-
ST 226	Sustainable Water Management	3:0	-
UES 306	Surface and Ground Water Quality	3:0	-
UES 309	Waste water treatment	3:0	-
WR 204	Aqueous Geochemistry	3:0	-

Continuing Master's Degree

Students have the option to continue for the Master of Science (MS) degree after completing four years of the Bachelor of Science (BS).

View 5th Year Requirements

Project Requirement

20 credits from the Project / Dissertation with the Masters’ thesis advisor.

Coursework Requirement (12 Credits)

Students must complete Any 4 courses (12 credits) from the participating Departments/Centres:

Civil Engineering (CiE)

Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS)

Centre for Earth Sciences (CEaS)

Centre for Sustainable Technologies (CST)

Note: Equivalent courses as per the students’ handbook may also be taken after a discussion with the EES coordinators.