Environmental Science and Engineering

Overview

Environmental Science and Engineering at Trinity College Dublin  will provide students with fundamental grounding in the natural sciences and engineering, and in the applied skills required to develop sustainable solutions for major societal and environmental challenges. The unique combination of engineering and natural sciences modules represents one of the first in Ireland and internationally. Strong emphasis is placed on students acquiring practical laboratory and field skills, as well as working in teams.

Trinity Undergraduate Natural Sciences Online Event

Friday, November 29th, at 1-2 PM

Career

Environmental engineers and applied environmental scientists who graduate from this new interdisciplinary programme will address some of the most challenging and important issues of our time in terms of sustainable development, particularly with respect to the protection of the environment. Graduates will have a strong grounding in environmental science in conjunction with applied engineering skills and problem solving approaches and will therefore be at the forefront of initiatives to solve the challenges of many of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Graduates from this programme will be highly skilled and employable in both industrial and governmental organisations both here in Ireland as well as overseas. Recent graduates from the Civil Engineering stream who have specialised in Environmental Engineering are working in R&D, civil engineering and environmental consultancies, environmental regulation, energy companies, mining companies as well as setting up new ventures.

Our environmental engineers and scientist graduates are also working in the design and development of environmental solutions with leading engineering consultancies such as Arup, RPS, ESB International, Shell and IBM. Such companies have a strong demand for high quality graduates at Masters (and Ph.D.) level due to the high technical level off their work. Environmental engineers and scientists also find employment in governmental regulatory organisations and other institutions such as local authorities, Environmental Protection Agency, Geological Survey Ireland, Teagsac as well in Humanitarian Non-Governmental Organisations (Concern, GOAL, Selfhelp Africa).