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Engineering Program
University of Idaho
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| What is Environmental Engineering?
Environmental
Engineering focuses on identifying and understanding environmental
problems and designing solutions for them. Major areas include
air pollution control, water and wastewater treatment,
bioremediation, hazardous waste management, and pollution
prevention. Environmental engineers have the technical and
scientific knowledge to identify, monitor, design, build, and
operate systems that protect the environment from damage and that
correct existing problems. Environmental engineers typically
work in consulting firms, industries, state and federal agencies,
universities, or waste treatment companies.
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| Graduate environmental engineering education builds upon traditional
engineering components, typically found in departments of Biological and
Agricultural, Chemical, and Civil Engineering. The breadth and multidisciplinary
nature of environmental problems require that environmental engineering
possess skills beyond those normally associated with a single
engineering field. Knowledge in geology, hydrology, soil
science, computers, microbiology, water chemistry, atmospheric
chemistry, and other disciplines provides breath to enhance technical
skills. Good communication skills are also essential. |
The University of Idaho College
of Engineering offers Environmental Engineering M.S. (thesis) and
M. Engr. (non-thesis) degrees at the Moscow and Idaho Falls campuses.
The interdisciplinary program combines
the resources of three departments to provide a solid design-based
environmental engineering curriculum:
Environmental engineering research
is actively supported both externally and by several interdisciplinary
centers on campus including the Idaho Water Resources Research
Institute,
Center
for Hazardous Waste Remediation Research, Environmental
Biotechnology Institute and the National
Center for Advanced Transportation Technology. The College
of Engineering collaborates with environmental engineering faculty
from Washington State University,
located just eight miles west of Moscow,
in research, cross-listed courses and seminars. The Idaho Falls program
is being coordinated with Idaho State University's masters degree program
in environmental engineering.
Financial assistance, in
the form of research and teaching assistantships with out-of-state tuition
waivers, is available depending on faculty research projects. All
successful applicants are automatically considered for
assistantships. The normal matriculation period is 18 to 21 months.
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