Education

The Water Initiative wishes to encourge interdisciplinary education in water engineering and the water sciences. This is being pursued through promotion of existing courses, development of new courses, and the promotion of the full range of water-related graduate programs here at USU and their faculty.

Interdisciplinary Water-related Courses

Selected courses that contribute to the Interdisciplinary Water Sciences.

Water-related Graduate Programs at USU

Academic departments in six colleges contribute to water research, education, and extension at Utah State. Each department grants its own degrees and has its own acceptance and graduation requirements.

Water-related Graduate Programs at USU

Water Faculty & Researchers

The faculty and researchers who advise and assist a student's graduate studies have a significant influence on those studies.  So identifying faculty and researchers who's area of interest coincides with the student's is an important aspect of building a student's individual program of study.

Faculty & Researchers at USU with water-related interests.

USU's Water Initiative Teaching Initiation Awards

To help interdisciplinary water education at Utah State University, the Water Initiative has sponsored the creation of additional courses through its Teaching Initiation Awards. These are financial awards to faculty for the development of inovative interdisciplinary water classes at USU. Two of these awards were given out in 2006 and one in 2008. The first new class to result from these awards was CEE 6930/WATS 6900 - Surface Water Quality Monitoring and was initially taught in Spring 2008 and is scheduled to be taught again in Spring 2009. Click for details about all of the Teaching Initiation Awards.  For information about the 2009 Call for Proposals, click here.

USU's Stream Restoration Short Courses

USU offers two Stream Restoration Short Courses for students and professionals.  These courses are available to take for credit.  Information about the courses can be found at www.cnr.usu.edu/streamrestoration/.