University of Colorado - Boulder - Environmental Engineering Program

Degrees Offered: BS - Environmental engineers work on issues such as drinking water treatment, wastewater processing, solid and hazardous waste disposal, outdoor air pollution, indoor air pollution and transfer of infectious diseases, human health and ecological risk management, prevention of pollution through product or process design and renewable and sustainable energy sources. They find ways to clean up oil spills in oceans, deliver clean drinking water to developing communities, design more effective recycling systems and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from factories and vehicles.