Environmental Engineering

Environmental engineering is concerned with the design of systems policies and processes to protect human animal and plant populations from the effects of adverse environmental factors including toxic chemicals and wastes pathogenic bacteria and global warming and to design systems that enable a more sustainable society Environmental engineers design systems processes and policies to minimize the effect of human activities on the physical and living environment so that we can all live more healthy and sustainable lives Environmental engineers work to meet human needs for resources in ways to minimize impact on the ecosystem and adverse effects on health This field builds on other branches of engineering especially civil chemical and mechanical engineering It also builds on information from many of the sciences such as chemistry physics hydrology geology atmospheric science and several specializations of biology ecology microbiology and biochemistry Students who elect to study environmental engineering will become familiar with many of these areas because maintaining and improving the environment requires that problems be evaluated and solutions found using a multidisciplinary approach

Duration: 13

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