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**Course Description**
This STEM aligned semester long Environmental Engineering course is a project-based learning (PBL) program that is rigorous, rich, and relevant. The Environmental Engineering program will focus on the importance of renewable energy, sustainable design, water-use conservation, efficient urban transit planning and ecological preservation. Some key skills the course facilitates include basics in engineering and architecture with the use of computer-aided design (CAD) software, methods in conservation of vital ecosystems and techniques designed to sustain the use of natural resources.

The main goal for modern environmental engineers is to maximize net gains of economic development while preserving the quality of natural resources, and the services it provides. The needs of society must be met without sacrificing the ability of future generations to satisfy their own needs. Thus, environmental engineering has three aspects: ecological sustainability, economic sustainability and social sustainability. Environmental engineering also investigates the importance of green spaces and wildlife, as these natural amenities have been proven to be an important piece of human well-being.

Environmental Engineering provides an opportunity for Loyola students to design a world where anthropogenic systems minimize their impact on the environment, in an effort to create places that persevere sustainably into the future. The key issues in environmental engineering and sustainable development include the protection of natural environments and the improvement of the quality of life for all mankind. The most important task ahead for local decision makers is to achieve sustainable ecological, economic and social societies. Loyola’s Environmental Engineering course provides an instrument in which students will create the landscape of the future, and jumpstart the green revolution for their generation and many that follow.

**Learning Goals**
Students will:
 * Apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering to real world problems.
 * Design projects as well as analyze and interpret data.
 * Design a complete system, a useful part, or process to meet desired needs within constraints. These constraints include, but are not limited to, factors that are economic, environmental, social, political, and ethical, health, safety, manufacturability, etc.
 * Communicate effectively through presentations, drawings, models and reports.
 * Understand the importance of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.
 * Use methods, skills, and modern engineering tools.
 * Have a fundamental understanding of engineering and applied physics competencies.