Description

The BS program in environmental and resource management provides critical scientific and management skills for graduates who work in industry or government to ensure the health of natural ecosystems and mitigate the environmental impact of our industrial world.

The curriculum combines a strong foundation in biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics, with a solid grounding in environmental law and policy. Students learn to apply environmental technologies to drinking water and wastewater treatment, management of hazardous and solid wastes, and control of industrial and mobile sources of air pollution. They study OSHA regulations on health and safety and strategies to protect workers in hazardous environments. International environmental issues and legal frameworks are included along with U.S. environmental laws.

Graduates with these skills are in high demand and can find work in industry, governmental management and regulatory agencies, or in policy-making organizations.

Graduates are firmly grounded in the scientific, technical and legal problems facing environmental managers in today's business climate. They are prepared to be environmental, health and safety professionals in industrial settings such as manufacturing, mining, oil and gas or environmental engineering consulting forms. They also assure compliance with OSHA and EPA requirements in laboratories at pharmaceutical companies, water treatment plants or academic labs. On the regulatory side, graduates work for agencies such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or state and county departments of environmental quality.