The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers two separate degree programs: Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering. Both programs are similar in many respects, but each offers its own unique strengths. UWindsor offered the first environmental engineering degree program in Canada. After your first-year studies, you will specialize in subjects such as air pollution, water pollution control, chemical reaction engineering, environmental microbiology, waste management, and assessing the sustainability and environmental performance of engineering projects and systems. These will serve as a broad base to further develop and apply your environmental expertise to a wide variety of environmental situations that may face industry and the community.

Career Tracks Environmental engineers are employed in many different capacities, ranging from overseeing water treatment operations, to develop design solutions to remediate pollution, to monitoring environmental operations of large scale operations, such as manufacturing. They may be employed in consulting firms, municipalities or government agencies, or within industry sectors as environmental specialists. State-of-the-art manufacturing and production Business Government Systems design/operation/building/maintenance Consulting Transportation Pollution control and prevention Advanced computing and communications Medicine and medical technology Bio-based engineering Research and development Structural design Failure analysis