Reply to Environmental engineering

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Environmental engineering "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid was interested in Environmental Engineering & her list included Pitt, Ohio State, Purdue, NC State, VT, WashU, and Duke. She turned down Duke for VT and has no regrets. She was Civil intended going in, as there wasnt an undergrad environmental engineering major at VT the time (there is now), but ended up in Biological Systems Engineering on the ecological engineering track (the latter is also a new major). She loves it. [/quote]

What year is she?  Any idea on job prospects?

To answer a PP,  I don't think my DD knows exactly what she wants to do within Env, just that she loves Env related topics and she loves math/science.  
Trying to understand Ecological Engineering and if that makes one more/less marketable but the topics may be closer to what DD likes.[/quote]

She'll be a senior next year. Had an NSF funded REU her first summer, a paid internship as a water/wastewater intern with a large engineering company last year, and has a broader civil oriented internship lined up for this summer, also with a large engineering firm. BSE is kind of a broad-ish major (the non-ecological track is with bioprocessing). I may not have explained well, but BSE is not a new major at VT, Ecological Engineering is. But she'll graduate as BSE. Not sure of job prospects yet, but students featured last year seemed to have jobs and grad school lined up. VT has a 4+1 Masters that appeals to a number of the BSEs and my kid may end up going that route. It's a small major for undergrads, like 50 per cohort, so it gives it a nice small feeling where they know their professors, classmates, the wonderful advisor, etc but with the resources of a large university.

Interestingly, Purdue's major (at least when we were looking) was Environmental and Ecological Engineering (combined). Very impressive place (had a private school vibe to it I thought), but from where we live it's 2 plane rides plus 75 min to the airport; that combined with cold midwestern winters gave VT the edge.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics