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UB WILL OFFER DEGREE IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY
Published on July 12, 2000
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A new bachelor of science degree in environmental engineering will be offered at the University at Buffalo beginning this fall, UB officials announced Tuesday.
Recently approved by the state Education Department, the degree is believed to be the first of its kind at a public institution in New York, officials said. Alan J. Rabideau, an associate professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering at UB, is degree coordinator. Environmental engineers, he said, are able to apply engineering principles to the protection of human health and ecosystems -- and are sought by private consulting firms, industry and government agencies. A bachelor's degree in environmental engineering is also compatible with other careers or graduate degrees in law, medicine, management, engineering, computer science or other fields with an environmental component, Rabideau added. Students in the new program will be able to interact with UB's research centers -- including the Great Lakes Program, Center for Integrated Waste Management, National Center fo Geographic Information and Analysis, New York State Sea Grant, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research and the Center for Computational Research. They will have the additional advantage of proximity to the Great Lakes. Applications for the new program are being accepted on an ongoing basis. For more information, contact Rabideau at UB's civil, structural and environmental engineering department.<
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