Engineering Sustainable Futures

Top 5 reasons to be an engineer:

Improve the world
Great pay and job security
Work with talented people
Many career options, even beyond engineering
Plan and do cool stuff

The Department of Environmental Resources Engineering (ERE) is proud of many things: great students, great alumni, great faculty and staff, great courses, great research, and great service! All together, we are improving the world.

Learn more about our EAC/ABET accredited ERE B.S. undergraduate program, and our graduate program option areas.

Explore some environmental resources engineering careers with Bureau of Labor Statistics and Discover Engineering.

Browse webpages for our faculty, graduate students, and clubs to learn more about our courses, research, and service.

A Leading Program

Our departmental mission is to engage in teaching, research, and service to advance environmental resources engineering practices and meet the needs of the world. Faculty strengths are in ecological engineering, geospatial engineering, water resources engineering, and the broader field of environmental resources engineering. Teaching includes innovative class, lab, and field exercises in foundational and advanced engineering topics, where our flexible curriculum allows students to focus on traditional or novel engineering practices. Students receive a well-balanced education, including courses that consider the social, economic, and environmental impacts of engineering practice, fundamental engineering and environmental engineering courses, and specialized courses that capture the breadth of their field of study. The ERE department is internationally recognized for coupling research and service, and many ERE courses address community needs. The ERE department provides unparalleled mentoring to train students in engineering science and design so they can join our alumni as leaders in professional practice and research.

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Sustain our Excellence We need gifts from $1 to infinity. Each donation adds to the total and pays for ERE's highest needs - student oriented research and training.

We invite you to explore our web site, contact us via ere@esf.edu, or come visit us to learn more about our program. We are developing engineering skills today for a better world tomorrow. Are you up to the challenge?