Undergraduate Students

We sat down with graduating fourth-year environmental engineering student Mia Lonergan to share about her CU Engineering experience! Mia has served as treasurer for the CU Boulder Society of Women Engineers (SWE) during the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years. What inspired you to pursue engineering or STEM in general? I...

Three University of Colorado Boulder Environmental Engineering graduate students have earned 2023 scholarships through the American Water Works Association (AWWA). Emma Wells (Advisors: Amy Javernick-Will and Karl Linden ) is recipient of the HDR One Water Institute Scholarship. Her work focuses on water quality and utility risk management. She says...

Name: Yu Hong (Lisa) Wang Hometown: Johannesburg, South Africa Program: Environmental Engineering "This department holds a warming place in my heart as I am greeted by smiling faces who genuinely care about each other." I was born in China, Qingdao, an attractive coastal city with influences from both Germany and...

Name: Sydney Litchfield Hometown: Chattanooga, TN Major: Environmental Engineering Year: Senior I grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee and did not start taking interest in engineering until I was in college. An inspiration behind becoming an engineer was watching my city go from one of the dirtiest places in the country...

My path to engineering was not straight and narrow. As a child growing up in Lexington Kentucky, I showed a talent for the arts and a natural curiosity for science. However, for a long time, the latter of my interests was pushed to the back.

Whitney Knoop – an undergraduate in the Environmental Engineering Program – spent her summer creating pasta-shaped 3D-printed plastic for use in water reclamation efforts.

The Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering Department and the Environmental Engineering Program hosted a live-streamed graduation ceremony on May 15, 2020. More than 350 graduating students, faculty, staff, family and friends attended the ceremony to celebrate your accomplishments.

Environmental Engineering graduating student Selena Hinojos honored Outstanding Undergraduate for Service by the College of Engineering and Applied Science.

Environmental engineering major Keani Willebrand has earned a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Apply today for a Cross Program Opportunity with the Chemical Safety and Environmental Stewardship Branch of the EPA.