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, all while working with the various water-related graduate programs.

Interdisciplinary Water-related Courses

Selected courses that contribute to the Interdisciplinary Water Sciences.

USU Water Initiative Teaching Awards

To pursue the goal of fostering interdisciplinary education in the Water Sciences at Utah State University, the Water Initiative has sponsored the creation of the following interdisciplinary classes through its Teaching Initiation Awards:

2006 Water Initiative Teaching Initiation Awards

Investigators	Title
Beth Neilson, Nancy Mesner	Interdisciplinary Surface Water Quality Modeling Course
Ryan Dupont, Bill Doucette	Problem-Based Learning Course in Site and Risk Characterization

Water-related Graduate Programs at USU

• Civil and Environmental Engineering/Utah Water Research Lab's Water Program
• Watershed Sciences' Graduate Program
• Irrigation Engineering's Graduate Program
• Geology's Graduate Program
• Civil and Environmental Engineering/Utah Water Research Lab's Environmental Engineering Program
• Horticulture's Graduate Program
• Graduate Program in Sociology
• Climate's Graduate Program