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The interdisciplinary environmental engineering degree at WPI provides the flexibility to customize your education to match your interests and career objectives through an ideal combination of civil and chemical engineering courses.
Program Benefits Overview
Whether you're passionate about sustainability, ensuring water safety, developing industrial waste treatment processes, minimizing chemical hazards, or restoring polluted areas, the Environmental Engineering BS curriculum's comprehensive coverage equips you with the foundational knowledge to carve your unique career path in this high-demand discipline.
While pursuing your environmental engineering undergraduate degree, you'll collaborate extensively with innovative faculty from environmental, civil, chemical, and mechanical engineering departments. Through courses including Water Treatment, Hydraulics, Hazardous and Industrial Waste Management, Kinetics and Reactor Design, Soil Mechanics, and Land Use Development and Controls, you'll discover how to create meaningful impact for future generations by safeguarding public health and conserving environmental resources.