Environmental engineers create innovative solutions for sustainable development. You will acquire skills, knowledge and experience in ecology and biodiversity; material and energy balances; thermodynamics; materials properties and recycling; hydrology; environmental risk and impact assessment; management systems; energy and the environment; and sustainability and the law.

A career as an environmental engineer is broad and far-reaching. Organisations employing environmental engineers include the following: 1) Engineering consulting firms 2) Private agencies that supply drinking water and treat wastewater 3) Companies that treat and dispose of hazardous waste 4) Organisations helping to account for carbon and implementing low carbon solutions 5) Government agencies regulating environmental issues 6) Universities that teach and conduct sustainability research 7) International agencies that aid developing nations.