Focus on practical skills and outcomes across sustainability, climate change and infrastructure when you study environmental engineering at Deakin. Gain a broad knowledge across the industry, with solutions-led technical skills to put you in high demand in this ever-changing field.

Want to design and create ground-breaking engineering ideas for a sustainable future?

Climate change is an increasing area of concern for many of the world’s industries, and when you study environmental engineering at Deakin, you’ll join a challenging, rewarding and diverse career path.

Deakin’s Bachelor of Environmental Engineering (Honours) emphasises the practical application of engineering and scientific principles to produce industry-ready environmental engineers prepared to tackle the major environmental challenges of our time.

Students gain a breadth of knowledge across the environmental engineering discipline and the technical skills to develop sustainable engineering solutions to current and future environmental problems, such as water security, waste and recycling, pollution and contamination, and public health.

This course equips students in a range of environmental engineering disciplines related to environmental health, water, air and soil quality, water resource management and waste management.

This is underpinned by the fundamentals of environmental engineering and the natural and physical sciences including geography, chemistry, mathematics, environmental science, ecology and hydrology.

By combining design-based learning with authentic engineering projects, students learn how to apply fundamental and technical knowledge to develop innovative solutions to real world environmental problems, while also promoting the ethical, social and cultural responsibilities of the modern engineer. 

This type of project-based learning further promotes growth of students’ communication, teamwork, project management and leadership skills, better equipping them for their future roles, whether they choose careers in industry, government, or the humanitarian sector.

Graduates will be in high demand in this rapidly evolving industry, addressing global issues like climate change and sustainability in roles such as:

• waterways manager
• green design professional
• engineering technologist
• design engineer
• stormwater engineer
• environmental health officer
• hazardous waste manager
• noise control monitor
• natural resource manager
• sustainability analyst
• sustainability consultant
• waste management coordinator
• water quality tester.