Environmental Engineering

Overview

You will learn practices that create a healthier and longer lasting world, such as mitigation and clean-up strategies for drinking water and wastewater.

Courses are in chemistry, mathematics, statistics, environmental science, physics, geology, and biology. Our environmental engineering program's curriculum is similar to the civil engineering program.

The sustainability and environmental culture of the Pacific Northwest is part of the major. You will live and learn among the engineering systems we seek to improve. Many are within walking, biking, or transit distance to campus.

Career

Graduates of Environmental Engineering program from Portland State University are analytical and critical thinkers. They learn skills to create solutions to problems that are sustainable and innovative. Environmental engineers make fast and lasting impacts on our communities.

PSU environmental engineering graduates can:

• Design new stream channels and ecosystems to support improved fish and wildlife habitat.
• Predict the quantity of water available for human use.
• Improve the quality of surface water, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries, and groundwater systems.
• Design new methods to clean up human pollution caused by industrial activity.
• Develop methods to improve air quality after contamination by industrial and transportation sources.

Graduates of the program go on to pursue specialized or advanced degrees. They also earn their professional engineering licenses.