Description:
This program offers a wide variety of courses which a student can take up which cover technical, economic and environmental aspects of a product or process. Courses like energy engineering, energy economics will be core for the students.
Courses on environmental impact like pollution control, sustainable systems, resource economics and production economics will form one part of the course while technical courses such as nuclear sciences and engineering, industrial heat transfer operations and combustion processes along with courses from other departments like geophysics and electric power systems will have to be studied in order to achieve the holistic perspective of any operation.
The multi-disciplinary courses will surely add an edge to your knowledge compared to a general Masters.
The course structure for a Masters in Environmental engineering is similar with a major thrust on course like environmental microbiology, water and wastewater treatment and water quality chemistry.
Pre-Requisites:
The student must be very keen on doing economics and allied courses since they constitute a good amount of the course. Moreover, an overview of energy engineering at the undergraduate level like an introductory course will be very helpful.
Prospects:
A student graduating from this course is likely to get placed easily in any oil and gas or energy sector company like Shell, Schlumberger or Exxon. There are lot of opportunities in other industries for those keen on taking up the environmental line of study. Research work in the field of alternate energy and power sources, energy optimization is fast moving and in a nascent stage as well.