What is Environmental Engineering?

After 6 years of uni.. i am still inspired by this definition of Enviro Eng :P

Environmental Engineering is a rapidly growing, multi-disciplinary branch of engineering, concerned with devising, implementing and managing solutions to protect and restore the environment, within an overall framework of sustainable development.

Environmental problems exist in many countries and industries and Environmental Engineers often work as part of a larger multi-disciplinary team to find solutions to a wide range of environmental problems.


Environmental Engineering at Melbourne - The Modern Program

The modern revised environmental engineering course has an increased emphasis on multi-disciplinary problem solving using integrated design case studies with increased interactions with other departments such as Chemical Engineering. The objective of the degree program is to equip graduates with a broader and deeper suite of knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable them to more effectively function in the highly challenging environmental engineering environment of the coming decades.

The Environmental Engineering course at The University of Melbourne focuses on land and water management and environmental assessment.

Students will learn various technical and generic skills through the course. Technical skills include:

- fundamental understanding of the atmosphere-land-water processes;
- computer modelling of atmosphere-land-water processes;
- ability to critically analyse and model the interactions between natural systems and the built environment;
- ability to synthesise and design new methods to achieve environmentally friendly solutions to old problems; and
- ability to apply field and laboratory techniques to assess and monitor the environmental system.

Generic skills include:

- ability to work in a team to find solutions to environmental problems;
- ability to converse with other professionals (other engineers, biologists, ecologists, environmental scientists, resource managements, lawyers, politicians) to make decisions on environmentally sustainable development;
- ability to manage and lead teams (of engineers and other professionals).

We believe that our graduates are more capable, more aware, more experienced, leave more motivated, with a curiosity of the world, with ideas that help define the future, attitudes that mark them as leaders - and more importantly, make a difference in the world.

hm.. does that sound like me???? i dunno :P