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Environmental Engineering
Environmental engineering is the planning, design,
construction, operation, and maintenance of constructed
facilities for the protection of human health and safety
and the preservation of wildlife and the environment. It
includes water supply and resources, environmental systems
modeling, environmental chemistry, wastewater management,
solid waste management, hazardous waste management
and remediation, atmospheric systems and air pollution
control, and environmental and occupational health. Typical
environmental engineering projects are large, one of a kind,
and important in the daily lives of a great many people.
Graduates of environmental engineering programs are found in
engineering and administrative posts in industry, construction,
research, government, and consulting firms.
Environmental engineers need to be versed in a number
of disciplines in order to cope with the various problems
in the practice of their profession. In the environmental
engineering curriculum at The Ohio State University,
students study: fundamental mathematics and science, on
which much of engineering is based; social sciences and
humanities, to broaden their perspectives and to prepare
them for professional interaction with people; a core of basic
environmental engineering subject areas, including courses
in biology and ecology, chemistry, hydraulics, air and water
treatment processes, risk assessment and management,
economics and planning, environmental modeling, and applied
mathematics.
Pursuing Environmental Engineering at Ohio State
Students interested in environmental engineering as a major
should have strong high school preparation in math, chemistry,
and physics as well as in written and verbal communication.
Students should have curiosity about how things work, the
ability to work on a team, an interest in helping people, and a
concern for the environment.
Students who come to Ohio State to study engineering that
have a minim