Fancy riding around in a helicopter while saving the planet?
Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the environment. These engineers work towards providing healthy water, fresh air and land which is habitable for humans and other organisms.
Examples of projects environmental engineers tackle include waste treatment, site remediation (or ‘fixing’) and pollution control. Because it’s such a wide field, most environmental engineers specialise in one field like air pollution, water pollution and landfill design.
If you’re keen, you need an array of skills which you’ll learn if you study environmental engineering, civil engineering, technical safety, chemical engineering, geology or environmental science.
Oh, and remember: Only study this if you love the big outdoors and traveling because there’ll be a lot of it!
- These institutions offer Environmental Engineering courses:
- Heard of duckweed? It’s a pollution cleaning, climate-change-fighting super food…
- Read about the 13 year-old inventor fighting air pollution in Australia?
- Visit the Green museum which showcases environmental artworks
