Degrees Offered
The Earth and Environmental Engineering curriculum provides students the skills to analyze environmental processes, design systems, and solve engineering problems in preparation for future enterprises.
MOREThe undergraduate Earth and Environmental Engineering curriculum provides students with challenging courses, hands-on laboratory class experience, and collaborative design project work.
It’s now recognized throughout the world that continuing economic development must be accompanied by the intelligent use of the Earth’s resources. Moreover, the rapid pace of globalization has introduced a host of new environmental problems to be addressed in the 21st century, ranging from the search for reliable energy and water, to the impacts of global warming, to the worldwide transmission of disease through the environment.
Earth and environmental engineers can contribute much to these global efforts towards sustainable development by developing new technologies to tackle these large and complex problems. Furthermore, existing technologies that have been developed for resource (minerals, energy, water) utilization and environmental remediation can be applied to emerging challenges like resource recovery from used materials (i.e., recycling) and disease prevention.
The EEE undergraduate program encompasses these technologies and trains engineers who can provide leadership and innovation in the conscientious use of Earth’s resources. Potential employers include private companies and government agencies that deal directly with environmental problems, and also a diverse spectrum of industries that increasingly require environmental expertise, including energy supply, management consulting and financial services. Graduates are also well trained to continue with master's and doctoral studies not only in earth and environmental engineering and sciences, but also business, public policy, international studies, law, and medicine.
Undergraduate Program in Earth and Environmental Engineering
2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
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Sophomores | 12 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 6 |
Juniors | 13 | 10 | 21 | 10 | 18 | 13 |
Seniors | 17 | 11 | 10 | 20 | 11 | 19 |
TOTALS | 42 | 37 | 41 | 43 | 42 | 38 |
2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
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Graduates | 30 | 35 | 19 | 24 | 31 | 20 |
The BS Earth and Enviornmental Engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Environmental Engineering.
More information about admissions is available.
Professor Dan Steingart