Be the change that you want to see in the world. —Mohandas Gandhi
Fast Facts
- Michigan Tech's S-STEM Scholarship —scholarships are awarded to MS, Peace Corps, and PhD students in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Michigan Tech's environmental engineering graduate program is ranked seventh in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. The department attracts more than $4.5 million in annual research expenditures.
- Michigan Tech's environmental engineering Peace Corps master's program is the only one in the nation
- The department maintains its own research vessel, the Agassiz, which allows researchers to take advantage of the largest freshwater laboratory in the world, Lake Superior.
- Michigan Tech scientists in Environmental Engineering are helping NASA optimize a new space station water system by making pee potable.
- Research funding $4.5 million per year: Engineering News Record ranked the C&EE department as one of the top ten (out of 250) in the U.S. based on the percentage of departmental income from research.
Graduate Programs in Environmental Engineering
Michigan Tech offers a full component of graduate programs in environmental engineering and environmental engineering science. Sustainability is integrated throughout the whole curriculum so that students naturally address it with every decision that they make.
Graduate students develop a deeper understanding of how engineered systems impact the natural environment. Research areas include air quality engineering atmospheric sciences drinking water and wastewater treatment environmental microbiology and chemistry groundwater and subsurface remediation hydrology and water resources international development surface water quality sustainability and pollution prevention. Research highlights include global and regional atmospheric impacts, photochemical formation of ozone in remote troposphere environmental organic chemistry and reductive dehalogenation surface water quality modeling, algal ecology fate and transport of chemicals in and to lakes and rivers biogeochemistry and chemistry of trace metals and wetlands biological processes, industrial ecology, and pollution prevention, physical and chemical treatment.