Environmental engineering is basically the performance of using science with the purpose of caring for the environment.
Environmental Engineers assist recycling processes by devising and implementing theories that are a result of systematic assessment. Society constantly consumes resources and produces waste, with little consideration in regard to the effects these actions have on the environment. This is where environmental engineers interfere and generate techniques by means of which particular waste can be recycled and the damage done to the environment can be minimized.
Being an environmental engineer means that one would have to study everything related to pollution and the degree to which the environment is affected by certain activities humans perform. People working in the domain are accustomed to experimenting on a daily basis, so as to find the best methods of reducing and even ending environmental damage. While the public continues to be indifferent to the damage it provokes, environmental engineers struggle to keep the world a place fit for human habitation.
Environmental engineers are likely to grow in numbers in the coming years, given that industries have turned their attention toward reducing emissions of greenhouse gasses and waste. This indirectly works in helping the environment and in convincing the masses that it pays to be "green." Green energy is predicted to be a profitable business and as a consequence more and more corporations previously criticized for the damage they did to the environment get engaged in restructuring their objectives.
As overlooked as environmental engineers might have been in the recent years, matters are about to change, as more and...
Whether chemical, biological, or radioactive, the environment is currently suffering greatly from pollutants set free by irresponsible people who care more for their profits than they do for nature. Environmental engineers are virtually the ones who have to fight the effects pollutants have on the environment.
Works cited:
1. Cortese, Anthony D. "The Role of Engineers in Creating an Environmentally Sustainable Future." (Second Nature, 1998). http://www.secondnature.org/history/writings/speeches/role_engineers.htm (accessed July 28, 2010).
2. Degalan, Julie and Middlekauff, Bryon Middlekauff, Great Jobs for Environmental Studies Majors (Chicago: VGM Career Books, 2002).
3. Petulla, Joseph M. Environmental Protection in the United States: Industry, Agencies, Environmentalists (San Francisco: San Francisco Study Center, 1987).
Cortese, Anthony D. "The Role of Engineers in Creating an Environmentally Sustainable Future." (Second Nature, 1998). http://www.secondnature.org/history/writings/speeches/role_engineers.htm
(accessed July 28, 2010).
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Cortese, Anthony D. "The Role of Engineers in Creating an Environmentally Sustainable Future." (Second Nature, 1998). http://www.secondnature.org/history/writings/speeches/role_engineers.htm
(accessed July 28, 2010).
Joseph M. Petulla, Environmental Protection in the United States: Industry, Agencies, Environmentalists (San Francisco: San Francisco Study Center, 1987).
Julie Degalan, and Bryon Middlekauff, Great Jobs for Environmental Studies Majors (Chicago: VGM Career Books, 2002).
