Environmental Programs
Our relationship to the environment poses many and often complex problems. Solving these problems may require knowledge of science, technology, engineering, law, social policy, philosophy, history, literature, and the arts. In addition to enabling students to become effective scientists and engineers, programs offered at WPI can prepare students to pursue interests and careers in environmental journalism, environmental law, the EPA or other government programs, international contexts of development and conservation, environmental education, and professional environmental activism.
Students should review these programs as listed below, and talk with their academic advisors and the respective program coordinators, to help make a good choice of environmental major at WPI. In every program, the WPI project requirements, both in the major field and the IQP, will provide unusually strong support for defining specific career directions. Students are also urged to make use of the “Global Perspective Program” to carry out one project abroad, and thus attain a sense of environmental studies at a global, cross-cultural level.
For information, please contact Prof. Lance Schachterle, les@wpi.edu or 508-831-5514.
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