Engineering What Is Environmental Engineering?

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Environmental engineering focuses on applying scientific and engineering principles to enhance environmental quality, ensuring safe air, water, and land for humans and other organisms while addressing pollution. It is often associated with civil engineering departments, leading to numerous job opportunities in the field. Current trends indicate a growing number of PhD research opportunities with scholarships available in environmental engineering, reflecting a strong emphasis on sustainability and environmental issues in contemporary policy, particularly under leadership advocating for green initiatives.
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What does Environmental Engineering entail exactly?!
 
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Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the environment (air, water, and/or land resources), to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_engineering

Often environmental engineering is in the same department as civil engineering.
 
A lot of job opportunities! Check out:

http://www.jobs.ac.uk

I was looking to see what sort of PhD research opportunities were being offered, with scholarship, these days, and there's an awful lot of environmental engineering opportunities being offered... David Cameron is very green and very pro-cuts, guess that equates to 'you better do environmental engineering' if you want to do anything...
 
Thanks for the links and info! :)
 

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