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Program Details
Environmental engineers ensure that we have clean water to drink, clean air to breathe, clean soils to grow our crops, and clean energy to sustain our growth.
The Faculty of Engineering and Design’s Environmental Engineering program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering teaches students how to design innovative treatment technologies that help to minimize our environmental footprint, prevent pollution, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, ensure drinking water safety, and achieve environmental sustainability.
The Environmental Engineering program is fully accredited by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board, allowing graduates to meet the educational requirements for registering as a professional engineer.
Work Experience
A Co-op option is available. Co-op is the opportunity to get a head start on a career. Co-op work terms allow for the development of key employability skills, exploration of career options and graduation with tangible, workplace experience. The program also has a first-year internship opportunity.
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Career Outcomes
Explore your passions, refine new skills and discover the career that’s right for you.
The skills learned through the study of environmental engineering are highly transferable and will prepare you for a wide range of careers.
Sample Careers
- Air Quality Control
- Conservation
- Design and Improve Treatment Systems for Water
- Environmental Sustainability
- Improve Outdoor and Indoor Air Quality
- Prevent Flooding and Protect Against Drought
- Provide Clean Energy Alternatives to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Resource Management
- Restore Disturbed Ecosystems
- Waste Management
- Wastewater and Solid Waste
Sample Courses
CHEM 1001 - General Chemistry I
Topics include atomic structure, periodic trends, structure and bonding, gas laws, intermolecular forces, equilibrium, acids and bases, and buffers. Examples relate to health, energy, materials, and the environment.
ENVE 2001 - Process Analysis for Environmental Engineering
Material and energy balances for reacting and non-reacting systems. Applications in mining, metallurgy, pulp and paper, power generation, energy utilization. Emissions to the environment per unit product or service generated. Introduction to life cycle analysis, comparative products and processes.
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