Environmental engineering combines scientific and engineering principles to improve and maintain the environment in order to protect human health, natural resources, and natural environments.

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CU Boulder’s Environmental Engineering Program equips you to contribute to world-leading research that helps protect human health, welfare and the environment. As a graduate student in the program, ...

Suggested Citation: "Bioassays: A Critique of Effluent Bioassays." National Academy of Engineering. 1999. Measures of Environmental Performance and Ecosystem Condition. Washington, DC: The National ...

University of Nebraska–Lincoln's S. Kathleen Lyons is providing a new framework—Earth system engineering—for examining how organisms, including humans, have fundamentally altered ecosystems on a ...

Bill Peralta stands wearing an air respirator inside a building site. His job often requires him to analyze site history, perform sampling at sites, and prepare site management plans. (Courtesy of ...

Environmental Engineers Are the Architects of a Healthy Planet! Nature is complex. Add humans and technology and you have a dynamic ecosystem that needs environmental engineers. With climate change ...

Life-cycle analysis (LCA) has become one of the most actively considered techniques for the study and analysis of strategies to meet environmental challenges. The strengths of LCAs derive from their ...