Advantages of Becoming an
Environmental Engineer
Top 10 Reasons
to Become an Environmental Engineer
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You want to make a difference in providing a quality of life to the local and global community.
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You want to be innovative, creative, and develop cost effective solutions to environmental problems.
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You want to help maintain a healthy environment for the future.
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You can choose where you want to work and live.
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You are interested in new challenges and in solving problems.
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You think of alternative solutions that are less harmful to the environment.
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You want to incorporate prosperity, people, and planet in your engineering solutions.
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You want to be challenged to think "off the planet" rather than just "outside the box."
According the the AAEE (American Academy of Environmental Engineers): Environmental engineering training offers students opportunities to work in any aspect of environmental protection. The major areas include air pollution control, industrial hygiene, radiation protection hazardous waste management, storm water management, solid waste disposal, public health, and land management. And, within each of these categories are many sub-specialties.
Montana Tech provides strong engineering, hands-on education. Students help to evaluate and solve problems in the real world. After graduation students will have the knowledge to solve local, regional, national, and global environmental issues. Issues range from air pollution to water pollution to water systems supply and design to hazardous waste engineering to land reclamation to global warming to sustainable development of natural resources (oil, gas, minerals).
Demand
The demand for environmental engineers is high and is expected to stay that way for some time. According to a March 21, 2005 article in Fortune Magazine, titled "Hot Careers for the Next Ten Years," environmental engineering is a top career choice for the future. The article states that "the greatest increase in demand by far will be for folks who know how to clean up spaceship earth. That's because an increasingly health-conscious public is eager to find environmental engineers who can prevent problems rather than simply control those that already exist." In addition, CareerBuilder.com (February 2006) lists environmental engineering on the Top Ten List of the nation’s “fastest-growing, highest-paying jobs.”
According to the U.S. Labor Department, environmental engineers will be in demand well into the next decade. Presented below is an excerpt from the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook:
Environmental engineers should have favorable job opportunities. Employment of environmental engineers is expected to increase much faster than the average for all occupations through 2014. More environmental engineers will be needed to comply with environmental regulations and to develop methods of cleaning up existing hazards. A shift in emphasis toward preventing problems rather than controlling those that already exist, as well as increasing public health concerns, also will spur demand of environmental engineers.
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