The College of Engineering offers a wide variety of academic and research opportunities through the Departments of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Significant collaboration occurs with faculty from departments in areas such as microbiology, chemistry, hydrogeology, industrial engineering, economics, law, biochemistry, agronomy, environmental soil and water science, and limnology and aquatic biology. Undergraduate engineering students may emphasize environmental engineering, ecosystems analysis, and related topics through appropriate selection of electives.
Graduate students can work with professors on research topics in any participating department.
The objective of the graduate program is to prepare students for careers in facility and environmental systems design, environmental systems management, environmental control process development, water quality management, water resources management, water pollution control, prevention of non-point source pollution, air pollution control, solid and hazardous waste management, or pollution prevention and waste minimization in industrial systems. The programs are designed for students having backgrounds in science or engineering, but they allow sufficient flexibility for non-engineers to include study in specific areas of interest in environmental engineering and ecosystem analysis. The Environmental Engineering and Ecosystems Analysis area of emphasis is ideally suited for a cross-disciplinary program because environmental concerns bridge all disciplines of engineering and science. Consequently, both the faculty and facilities discussed below are associated with several different engineering departments and departments from other colleges on campus. Two are designed for supporting undergraduate and graduate courses and include individual stations for student experiments and demonstrations.