Education
Courses aimed at developing graduates with specific skills in environmental systems or environmental technology are becoming more common and fall into broads classes:
- Mechanical engineering that designs machines and mechanical systems for the environmental used such as water treatment facility, pumping stations, garbage segregation plants and other mechanical facilities.
- Environmental engineering or environmental systems courses oriented towards a civil engineering approach in which structures and the landscape are constructed to blend with or protect the environment;
- Environmental chemistry, sustainable chemistry or environmental chemical engineering courses oriented towards understanding the effects (good and bad) of chemicals in the environment. Focus on mining processes, pollutants and commonly also cover biochemical processes;
- Environmental technology courses oriented towards producing electronic or electrical graduates capable of developing devices and artifacts able to monitor, measure, model and control environmental impact, including monitoring and managing energy generation from renewable sources.
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