Environmental Engineering
A Civil Engineering degree that empowers you to create a sustainable future for our environment.
Within the Civil Engineering department is the Environmental Engineering graduate program. This program teaches students and researchers how to solve environmental problems. We focus on innovative solutions for issues like water supply, waste treatment, preventing floods and droughts, and cleaning up pollution.
Our approach is practical, team-oriented, and focused on sustainable design.
Interdisciplinary Approach
The Environmental Engineering Graduate Program offers a unique interdisciplinary approach. It combines the knowledge of professors from different areas within UND's College of Engineering and Mines, and from other departments across campus.
This means students can choose from a variety of approved graduate courses in departments such as:
- Civil Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Geology, Energy Systems Engineering
- Geography
- Biology
- Earth System Science
- Aviation
Students can also invite professors from these departments to be part of their research advising team.
Graduate Program Objectives
The objectives of the Environmental Engineering program are to:
- Educate and train students to solve environmental problems arising from increasing population growth and sustainability challenges using an interdisciplinary approach
- Promote problem-solving via the manipulation of processes that may include a myriad of biological, chemical, ecological, hydrological, physical, economic and social processes
- Promote research for managing limited natural resources and ecosystems for generations to come
Faculty and Staff
Given its interdisciplinary design, the program benefits from the contributions of faculty representing a broad spectrum of academic disciplines across the campus. Comprehensive faculty information is available through each specific department's faculty listing.