BS Environmental Engineering

Environmental engineers provide the knowledge, leadership, and guidance needed to improve the quality and ensure the sustainability of our natural world — from the water we drink, to the air we breathe, to the soil that produces our life-sustaining vegetation. Environmental engineers play a major — and increasingly proactive — role in prevention and control of pollution of all kinds and in efforts to deal with global warming.

Environmental engineers develop and implement technologies to solve problems like meeting clean water supply needs and protecting public health, addressing the air pollution issues of acid rain and global warming, and reducing pollution while maintaining and improving the quality of life we enjoy.

The mission of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, formally stated, is to educate talented and motivated people to become successful professionals through quality undergraduate, graduate and professional continuing education programs that place a high priority on student access and interaction with faculty. This mission statement establishes the educational framework for the environmental engineering degree program at Clarkson, and the curriculum objectives given below provide more detail about the program.