Turn your passion for the environment into a rewarding career. Play a critical role in making the world a better place. Our environmental engineering program teaches you how to be a steward for our planet.
Develop technical and problem-solving skills. Identify and address environmental issues at the local, national, and global levels.
Environmental engineers are the earth's engineer. Apply your knowledge of chemistry, biology, math, and physics. Protect the environment as well as human health. Take part in sustainable solutions for an expanding global community.
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Tomorrow Needs Clean Environments
Consider this: more than one billion people lack access to safe drinking water. More than two billion are without adequate sanitation. According to the National Weather Service, each year air pollution costs the United States as much as $150 billion. Health care and lost economic productivity can be expensive.
Data from National Weather Service accessed April 2025.
As an environmental engineer, you will learn to treat and dispose of wastes. Help communities to access safe drinking water and maintain or improve air quality. Clean up contaminated land and water resources and help industry cut pollution.
Environmental engineers at Michigan Tech are ready for what tomorrow needs. Are you?
Engineering Enterprise Concentration
You can pursue an Enterprise concentration by taking part in Michigan Tech's award-winning Enterprise program. It's a great way to enhance your undergraduate degree. Enterprise is when students work in teams on real projects, with real clients, in an environment that's more like a business than a classroom. Choose from among 25 Enterprise teams on campus to invent products, provide services, and pioneer solutions. Tackle real-world design projects for industry sponsors or take part in a national competition (or both). This concentration can add courses in business and entrepreneurship.
Be Career-Ready
Graduate with a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering from Michigan Tech. You will be well prepared to transition to an entry-level job in industry. You could also become a high school teacher of science and math or go on to law school. Our degree provides excellent preparation for graduate school. An advanced degree is desirable for a career in academia.
Explore career opportunities for environmental engineers.
- Environmental and safety engineer
- Water resources engineer
- Design engineer
- Field coordinator
- Project engineer
- Air quality engineer
- Groundwater quality engineer
- Solid and hazardous waste manager
- Surface water quality engineer
- Water and wastewater processing engineer
My story: Kathryn Krieger, MTUengineerIn my first summer, I worked in [MDOT’s] materials and testing laboratory, doing gradations, concrete strength testing, and aggregate sampling. The next summer, I became a statewide soil erosion and sedimentation control inspector.
