Undergraduate Program in Environmental Engineering

The Objectives of the Environmental Engineering Program are:

• To provide students with fundamental knowledge in the physical and life sciences, mathematics, and engineering sciences.
• To provide all students with the professional tools and knowledge that will enable them to enter the work force in environmental consulting firms, industry, and government agencies or to continue with their education at the graduate or professional level.
• To develop the problem-solving and critical-thinking skills of students, and enable them to analyze and construct solutions to new and open-ended problems.
• To foster the students' passion for life-long learning and professional growth.
• To provide students with a thorough understanding of the multi-disciplinary issues that are pertinent to environmental engineering.
• To utilize hands-on and experience-based courses that provide students with experience in analyzing and solving real-world problems.
• To provide students with an appreciation and understanding of the complex legal, social, economic, and ethical issues related to environmental engineering.
• To graduate students who are proficient in written, oral, and technical communication.

Four-Year Program

The curriculum for the first year is common to all branches of engineering.  In order to enable a student to test his or her interest in Environmental Engineering, he or she takes designated courses from the Environmental Engineering course offerings in their sophomore year.  The junior and senior years allow for concentrated studies in the areas of water supply, air and water quality analysis, wastewater treatment, solid and hazardous waste management, environmental law, and risk assessment.  During the junior year, students work in small groups directly with a faculty advisor and one or more practicing engineers in a one-year, project-based course known as The Company.  This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to apply their technical knowledge to "real world" projects.  A representative four-year program is shown below.

Click on each year to see the classes which comprise our program:

Freshman Year    Sophmore Year    Junior Year    Senior Year