需要环境工程师的技能来帮助保护地球上的脆弱资源，并促进我们的生活方式和经济的可持续性。环境工程师采用物理，化学和生物过程设计系统，以销毁有毒物质，从水中去除污染物，管理无害固体废物，消除空气中的污染物并开发饮用水供应。在这一领域，要求工程师设计处理设施，以生产市政，农业，商业和工业用途的清洁水，以及清洁由这些社会阶层创造的水。它们从地下水和土壤中清除有害物质，防止空气污染，对接收水进行建模和保护，并管理固体废物。
The skills of environmental engineers are required to help protect the fragile resources of our planet and promote the sustainability of our lifestyles and our economies. Environmental engineers apply physical, chemical, and biological processes to design systems to destroy toxic substances, remove pollutants from water, manage non-hazardous solid waste, eliminate contaminants from the air, and develop drinking water supplies. In this field, engineers are called upon to design treatment facilities to produce clean water of municipal, agricultural, commercial and industrial use as well as clean the water created by these segments of society. They remove hazardous materials from groundwater and soil, prevent air pollution, model and protect receiving waters, and manage solid wastes.