BS Environmental Engineering

Environmental engineering is a career path to protecting, restoring, managing, and enhancing the natural world around us and how we interact with it for today’s generation and tomorrow’s. Professionals in this field design, build, and operate systems and facilities to:

• Treat and distribute safe and reliable drinking water
• Recover materials, nutrients, and energy resources from wastewater and solid waste
• Protect and restore wetlands, streams, lakes, and groundwater
• Allocate water resources for urban, agricultural, and recreational use
• Protect and develop coastal shorelines and stream banks
• Manage stormwater and minimize flood risk
• Reduce, reuse, and recycle waste
• Minimize the creation of and provide treatment for industrial and agricultural waste and air emissions
• Protect us from the impacts of climate change, like rising sea levels and severe weather
• Slow down or reverse climate change by:
  • Using alternative energy sources, like solar, wind, geothermal, and biofuels
  • Recovering carbon and other greenhouse gases from industrial air emissions