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Program information
Learn how science and engineering combine to preserve our natural environment. The Environmental Engineering degree at 糖心logo入口will teach you how to address the issues surrounding waste treatment, reuse, and recycling, as well as how to mitigate air and water pollution using innovative design and engineering practices.
Program overview
- Campus
- Vancouver
- Program length
- 4 years
- Honours This option has additional requirements compared to those required in a Major specialization. Students must maintain high academic standing and may have to write a graduating thesis.
- No
- Co-op Co-op is an optional program where students alternate between academic terms and paid work terms. It’s an opportunity to gain relevant job experience while completing your degree.
- Yes
- Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science (Engineering)
- Degree
- Bachelor of Applied Science (Engineering)
What you'll learn
Environmental Engineering teaches you to tackle engineering problems to maintain and improve ecosystem health. You鈥檒l learn how to address the issues surrounding waste treatment, reuse, and recycling, as well as how to mitigate air and water pollution and clean up contaminated sites.
As you explore how to better the environment, you鈥檒l discover how to fix problems at the small scale 鈥� such as site-specific concerns and regional regulations 鈥� and the global scale, including modelling the future environmental impacts that will inform government policy. The program will help you understand policy development and implementation, engineering design, construction and deconstruction, and more.
The Environmental Engineering program combines classroom interactions with team-based projects and hands-on learning in laboratories. During your senior years of study, you鈥檒l partner with communities on critical projects to expand your learning experiences. You鈥檒l also take design courses each year to help you apply your knowledge and prepare you to become a professional environmental engineer.
Experiential learning
During your degree, you’ll gain valuable fieldwork experiences by working together with local municipalities. You will also have the chance to learn more about UBC鈥檚 world-class sustainable infrastructure, and use the campus as a living lab. There is also the option to take a co-op placement where you can gain paid, full-time experience in a variety of work settings and begin building a professional network before graduation.
Program advantages
As an Environmental Engineering student you will learn how to work closely with corporations, law-makers, and others to improve environmental sustainability. You’ll prepare for a career that is in demand by government agencies, manufacturing plants, agriculture, and resource industries across the world and have the opportunity to take classes in UBC’s Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Civil Engineering, which are among the top-ranked schools internationally
Courses
There are hundreds of courses you can take within Environmental Engineering. Here are a few you might like.
Analysis and simulation, laboratory data acquisition and processing, measurement interfaces, engineering tools, computer systems organization, programming languages.
Environmental engineering issues and projects; application of scientific and engineering principles to addressing these; soil, water and air pollution, and remediation.
Laboratory experiments to illustrate key concepts and measurement techniques in environmental engineering as used by engineers.
Environmental contamination, regulatory requirements, site investigation, migration of contaminants, containment systems, site remediation technologies, design considerations related to soil-contaminant interactions, hydrogeology, geochemistry and types of contaminants. Design and performance case histories.
Outcomes
After completing this program, you鈥檒l be ready for a career in industries including:
- Environmental engineering in all levels of government, NGOs, consulting, or extractive and manufacturing industries 鈥� both locally and internationally
- Sustainability planning and design
- Environmental policy formulation
- Designing facilities, management systems, and information systems
- Performing impact assessments (including regulatory, sustainability, environmental, social, and risk)
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Program requirements
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English-language requirements
English is the language of instruction at UBC. All prospective students must demonstrate English-language competency prior to admission. There are numerous ways to meet the聽English Language Admission Standard.
General admission requirements
IB Diploma Programme
- Completed IB Diploma, including at least three Higher Level courses.
IB Certificate Courses
- IB Certificate courses (Standard and Higher Level) may be used in an admissions average if you are graduating from a recognized high school curriculum that can be used as your basis of admission.
- IB Math Applications and Interpretations SL, or IB Math Studies, do not satisfy the math requirement for admission to UBC’s science-based programs, the Faculty of Management, the 糖心logo入口Sauder School of Business, or the Vancouver School of Economics.
Degree-specific requirements: Applied Science (Engineering)
- IB Math Analysis and Approaches SL or HL, or IB Math Applications and Interpretations HL. (IB Math Applications and Interpretations SL, or IB Math Studies, are not acceptable.)
- IB Chemistry聽
- IB Physics聽
- Academically strong candidates missing either IB Chemistry or IB Physics may be evaluated on a case-by-case basis
Related courses
The following subject categories are particularly relevant for this degree. Consider taking courses in these areas in your junior year and senior year.
- Language Arts
- Mathematics and Computation
- Sciences
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Want to learn more?
Visit the Faculty of Applied Science (Engineering) website to learn more about Environmental Engineering.
Get a post-graduate work permit for up to three years if you are a full-time 糖心logo入口international student graduating from a bachelor’s degree program and meet all .
Want to learn more?
Visit the Faculty of Applied Science (Engineering) website to learn more about Environmental Engineering.