Four Departments Combine Expertise to Offer Flexible, Balanced Program, continued

In addition to the required curriculum, EVEN juniors and seniors may select four option courses from one of four tracks: Applied Ecology, Air Quality, Chemical Processing, or Water and Wastewater. Students may also elect a double major with Environmental Engineering and either Chemical or Civil Engineering, requiring one extra semester to complete both degrees.

To ensure that the Environmental Engineering program meets the needs of prospective employers, faculty are working closely with an eight-member external advisory board, which performs biennial program reviews. Chairwoman Jennifer Douglass, an alumnus of CU-Boulder's Chemical Engineering department, is an environmental engineer and manager of pollution prevention programs at Roche Colorado.

"The program's innovative use of coursework and research opportunities from a number of departments is developing flexible, well-balanced students," Douglass says. "Their experience with a variety of specialties, interests, and groups of people will be as valuable to the industries they will serve as their technical expertise. The University of Colorado's Environmental Engineering graduates will leave with a set of tools that will set them apart from other programs."

http://www.colorado.edu/engineering/EnvEng/