Program Description

The Graduate Industrial Hygiene (GIH) program was designed to provide DOD career professionals with relevant graduate education in the principles of industrial hygiene. This program was developed considering guidelines established by ABET and subject areas from the Certified Industrial Hygienist exam from the American Board of Industrial Hygiene. In addition, the GIH program was developed in coordination with the Environmental Engineering and Science (GES) degree program. Both programs were motivated by a request from the AF Bioenvironmental Engineering (BE) career field. The curriculum includes department core course offerings in statistics, risk analysis, and sustainable design. The program curriculum includes course offerings in industrial hygiene anticipation/recognition/evaluation/control, radiation protection, environmental transport, epidemiology, physiology, and toxicology.

Program Educational Objectives

1. Our graduates have achieved positions of leadership as occupational/environmental health consultants, instructors, or similar positions of responsibility.
2. Our graduates have applied their education to address difficult technical problems for the Air Force, sister service, civilian, or foreign industrial and community environments.
3. Our graduates have attained voluntary professional board certification as Certified Industrial Hygienists.

Student Outcomes Upon Graduation:

1. The student shall be able to anticipate and recognize agents, factors, and stressors.
2. The student shall be able to evaluate agents, factors, and stressors for hazard potential.
3. The student shall be able to control hazards presented by agents, factors, and stressors.

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