Engineering and fabrication

What type of engineering works on helping the environment the most?

I'm a senior in college and want to be an engineer but I can't decide which one. I really want to do something that will help improve the environment. I know there is environmental engineering but from what I've read it's mostly dealing with the sewage system. Help is much appreciated, thank you. * I'm a senior in high school, not college, sorry about that. Big typo

Public Comments

1. be an environmental eng.

   i am a civil engineer i don't work as an environmental eng . but i briefly know how to treatment of gas ,sewage, solid when u have a project u can help to save ur environment so if u dont know which part of eng. since u choose i recommend civil eng.



2. Electrical Engineering, combined with a mechanical knowledge.


3. First of all, don't become an environmental engineer, unless you want to spend the majority of your time doing environmental permits. Become a civil engineer, and just focus the way you work on environmental preservation. The way we do things now is tons better than just a decade ago. I you get a job designing bridges over someone else, and you design the structure and its construction with the environment in mind whereas someone else might not have (such as, the other engineer might do the bare minimum, while you make it a point to focus on environmental concerns), then YOU are saving the environment.

   There is nothing wrong with the guys who work on sewage systems, they're protecting the environment too. Personally, that'd seem pretty boring to me (I'm a bridge engineer). Environmental engineers do other jobs as well, though. Mining operations need them, civil operations need them, manufacturing plants as well.

   How have you gotten to your senior year without choosing a field? The last 2 years of an engineering degree are specific to a field of engineering, are you currently in an engineering program? If not, prepare for at least 3 more years of college!