耶鲁大学环境工程课程强调解决环境问题的多学科方法，研究生可以跨部门寻求其教育和研究兴趣，并利用耶鲁其他部门和学校的资源。该计划的研究和教学重点是对环境工程和科学问题背后的基本化学，物理和生物过程的基本理解。研究专业领域包括：用于水质控制的物理和化学过程，水生和环境化学，运输和命运环境中化学物质的评估，评估良性替代化学物质和材料，环境工程微生物学，绿色工程和产品设计，环境纳米技术，废水回用的化学方面，用于脱盐和水回用的膜工艺，用于水和能源生产的生物工艺，气溶胶科学，技术，有毒废物的焚烧，工业生态，水和卫生设
The Environmental Engineering Program at Yale University emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach to solving environmental problems.Graduate students may pursue their educational and research interests across departmental lines and draw upon the resources of other departments and schools at Yale. Research and teaching in the program focus on fundamental understanding of the basic chemical, physical, and biological processes underlying environmental engineering and science problems.Areas of research specialization include: physical and chemical processes for water quality control, aquatic and environmental chemistry, transport and fate of chemical substances in the environment, assessing benign alternative chemicals and materials, environmental engineering microbiology, green engineering and product design, environmental nanotechnology, chemical aspects of wastewater reuse, membrane processes for desalination and water reuse, biological processes for water and energy production, aerosol science and technology, incineration of toxic wastes, industrial ecology, water and sanitation in developing countries, and links between public health, engineering, and sustainability.