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Environmental engineers protect public health and the natural environment. WPI's environmental engineering program provides a foundation in mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology, engineering science, and design principles. Advanced course work covers water quality and resources, air and land environmental systems, and environmental management.

At WPI, you will achieve a fundamental understanding of the interrelationships between human activities and their surroundingenvironment. Through course work, extensive laboratory experience, and projects, the program encompasses the humanistic and social aspects of engineering decisions, public health management, and environmental preservation.

WPI's Environmental Engineering Program offers students the chance to explore the human, economic, legal, and political issues surrounding environmental engineering problems. From water and wastewater treatment design to air emission modeling, brownfield redevelopment to watershed assessment and protection, the project-enriched curriculum at WPI gives you problem solving experiences in collaboration with government agencies, industrial and municipal sponsors, and research programs.

The goal of the EVE program at WPI is for students to have a solid understanding of the basic principles of environmental engineering, and to demonstrate that knowledge in the areas of water, land and air systems, and environmental health.

Graduating students will

• be prepared for the technical, professional and ethical aspects of environmental engineering.
• be prepared for future changes in environmental engineering.
• understand appropriate scientific concepts, and have an ability to apply them to environmental engineering.
• have an ability to perform engineering design, which includes the multidisciplinary aspects of the engineering design process, the need for collaboration and communication skills, and the importance of cost and time management.
• have the ability to collect, analyze and interpret experimental data.
• understand options for careers and further education, and the educational preparation necessary to pursue those options.
• have the broad education envisioned by the WPI Plan, and described by the Goal and Mission of WPI.
• Have an understanding of the environmental engineering profession in a societal and global context.

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