In the ever-changing environment, the knowledge and skills you can learn in the environmental engineering program starts the path to create a more sustainable world for tomorrow. Let's learn how!
Request Info Schedule a Visit Apply NowEnvironmental Engineering is a fast-growing discipline covering all major spheres of the natural environment and human society. As an environmental engineer, you'll use the principles of engineering, soil science, biology and chemistry to develop solutions to environmental problems. This four-year degree program prepares you for a career in engineering firms, government (local, state, and federal), academia, research and development and nonprofit organizations.
Our partnership with WVU Health Sciences enables us to consider environmental health risks and public health in designing engineering solutions. With a strong emphasis on sustainable development, our program addresses relevant social, environmental, and economic conditions. You'll have active learning opportunities in a region facing environmental challenges that only environmental engineers can tackle.
Learn how to protect water supply, manage flooding, apply natural and ecological principles to design, and address needs of water resources infrastructure.
ROI/Employment: This specialized type of training will prepare graduates for success in water resources careers in federal agencies (e.g., USDA, USGS, Army Corps), state agencies (e.g., WVDOT, WVDEP), consulting, and research.
Learn current and emerging issues related to drinking water, wastewater, and hazardous wastes, treatment methods, and regulations that drive the treatment design and practices.
ROI/Employment: This specialized type of training will prepare graduates for success in careers with engineering firms, industries, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, municipalities, and research.
In this course module, you will learn about the various air pollution issues as well as principles of physics, chemistry, and math to characterize, define and solve the air pollution problems. The course module also covers climate change science, impacts, adaptation and mitigation strategies, and carbon capture and storage technologies.
ROI/Employment: This specialized type of training will prepare graduates to pursue career opportunities with engineering firms, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, municipalities and research.
You will understand how human activities affect the health of natural and engineering systems and to design and implement approaches for protecting the health of human populations relying on these environmental systems for air, water, and energy and food production.
ROI/Employment: This specialized type of training will prepare graduates for success in specific environmental health engineering careers, such as design and operation of water and wastewater treatment facilities to improve environmental and public health, regulation and oversight of water and waste treatment or air emissions with respect to mitigating risks to human health, and research and development activities for environmental applications.
As an environmental engineering major, you will focus on developing engineering skills, understanding the principles of sustainability, and applying those skills and principles to problems related to air and water quality, treatment of anthropogenic waste streams, management of water resources, and environmental health. The program will prepare you to be the next-generation environmental engineers who are:
This four-year degree-program prepares you for a variety of careers in the federal and state agencies, consulting and engineering firms, non-profit organizations, municipalities, research or treatment facilities.
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Request Info Apply Now Schedule a VisitFor more information about the environmental engineering program,
contact Lian-Shin Lin by email
Lance.Lin@mail.wvu.edu or by phone
304-293-9935.