Question about Civil and Environmental Engineering?

Question

I want to study Environmental Engineering in college, but I can't find any college that offers Environmental engineering separately. They all offer civil engineering, while environmental engineering is just a small part of it.

I have 0 interest in building structures, etc., so how can I study ONLY environmental engineering? Thanks.

Answer 1

you are probably not gonna find many programsthat seperate the two because they really do go hand in hand.

Check the University of Texas at Arlington. For some reason, I am having a recolection that they may have a program in Environmental Engineering that is under the Civil Engineering college but may be more specific.

ABET requires a certain type of curriculum for any engineer to go thru. Which means, as a civil engineer that only wans to do waste water, you still have to do transportation, land development and everything else to get your degree. It's just like med school. You don;t just go in and learn how to do brain surgery. You have to learn ALL the basics first.

Environemental goes hand in hand with civil in that a lot of projects that both do piggy back the other. For example. When a company wants to put in a sewage treatment facility, they consult, among many other types of engineers and architects, civil and environmental engineers. A cicil engineer would decide how the flow of sewage got to the facility and an environmental would decided how the sewage (aka 'grey water') would be handled once it's there.