School of Engineering

Environmental Engineering

Título a obtener

Title to be obtained

Environmental Engineer
Resolución

Presential Modality

RPC-SO-27-No.526-2017
RPC-SO-15-No.309-2020
Duración

Duration

4 years

Cost, Grants and Registration

Description

Sustainable development generates environmental challenges related to the efficient use of resources and the polluting effect of industrial and domestic waste. The purpose of environmental engineering is to prevent, reduce and correct these impacts generated by human activities. This discipline is oriented to reconcile human activities with the environment, and to seek technical solutions to real problems in the environment. 

Reasons to study at UEES

1

Academic Background

The student will be trained with evidences that can be obtained with the use of instruments and methods of the technical branch and skills exercised for a better professional performance.

2

International Experience

Semester academic exchange options, academic missions organized from the professional subjects of the curriculum and transfer of credits to foreign universities.

3

Teaching and Educational Quality

Through the collaboration of teachers, you will have experience in technical assistance within projects for community development, research and entrepreneurship.

4

Pre-professional Experience

Hours of professional practice, which guarantee its execution in leading companies of industrial production and service in the country, in addition to facilities to carry out the practice abroad.

What professional skills will I acquire?

Ability to develop and conduct experiments, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions.

Assist in the technical management of projects for the solution of environmental problems, consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Promote innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives in the business environment.

Ability to apply design to produce solutions that satisfy needs, considering social, environmental and economic factors.

Design and implement processes of regulation, monitoring and control of environmental quality, complying with national and international standards of current regulations.

What soft skills will I develop?

Critical Thinking

Teamwork

Effective communication

Social responsibility

Entrepreneurship

Where/what am I going to work?

  • Environmental departments in provincial governments, production and service companies (public and private).
  • Independent environmental consultant.
  • Public programs at the level of international NGOs, central, regional and municipal governments.
  • In companies in the mining, agriculture, aquaculture, construction, energy, tourism, etc. industries.
  • Sanitation and maintenance companies.
  • Circular economy management operations: waste recovery, treatment and disposal.
  • Responsible for the Environmental Management System in companies (public and private).

Curricular experiences of the career

  1. Field trips to visit significant environmental projects under implementation.
  2. Internationalization of students and graduates through exchanges and academic missions.
  3. Students prepared to participate with excellent results in extracurricular environmental project competitions.
  4. We graduate engineers with professional certifications.

Curriculum

Receive more information

Eng. Harry Veintimilla

Director of the School of Environmental Sciences

«Education in environmental sciences must provide the means to solve the problems of man in coexistence with nature, in order to make his life more pleasant and peaceful».