Environmental Engineering

The graduate of the Professional Program in Environmental Engineering, with a specialization in Environmental Management, will be able to manage and sustainably utilize the available natural resources in order to evaluate, design, and develop projects for entrepreneurship, improvement, and environmental management.

The graduate of the Professional Program in Environmental Engineering, with a specialization in Health and Environmental Remediation, will be able to evaluate and monitor the environmental component through research and the application of scientific and technological knowledge in environmental engineering, for the development and implementation of health and environmental remediation solutions and strategies

The expected outcomes for graduates of Environmental Engineering are as follows:

• Knowledge of Engineering: The ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, sciences, and engineering in solving problems in environmental engineering.
• Research: The ability to conduct studies on engineering problems, using knowledge based on research and its methods, which include conducting experiments, analyzing, interpreting, and synthesizing information to produce valid conclusions.
• Design and Development of Solutions: The ability to design innovative, ecological, and sustainable solutions for engineering problems and to design systems, components, or processes to meet desired needs within realistic constraints in the areas of public health and safety, cultural, social, economic, and environmental aspects, thereby mitigating and reducing negative impacts on the environment.
• Individual and Team Work: The ability to function effectively as an individual, as a member, or as a leader in various teams.
• Problem Analysis: The ability to identify, formulate, seek information, and analyze environmental engineering problems to reach reasoned conclusions using basic principles of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering sciences.
• Ethical-Anthropological: The ability to apply anthropological and ethical principles to commit to the responsibilities and norms of environmental engineering practice, in order to make efficient use of natural resources and seek the common good from a comprehensive perspective.
• Communication: The ability to communicate effectively through understanding and writing effective reports and design documentation, delivering effective presentations, and transmitting and receiving clear instructions.
• Environment and Sustainability: The ability to understand and evaluate the impact of solutions to complex engineering problems in a global, economic, environmental, and social context.
• Permanent Learning: The recognition of the need for lifelong learning and the ability to pursue it in the broadest context of technological changes.
• Engineering and Society: The ability to apply informed reasoning through contextual knowledge to evaluate social, health, safety, legal, and cultural issues and the consequent relevant responsibilities for the professional practice of environmental engineering.
• Use of Modern Tools: The ability to create, select, and use modern engineering techniques, skills, resources, and tools, including prediction and modeling, with an understanding of their limitations.
• Environmental Project Management: The ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of management principles in environmental engineering and economic decision-making, and their respective application, making responsible use of natural resources in both public and private sectors.

Considering the profile of the graduates of the Environmental Engineering study program, the profile of graduates for each of the specializations offered to students is specified in this manner, which the student will only be able to obtain as long as they complete all the courses of the chosen specialization, as previously indicated.

The new biology laboratory at the Universidad Católica San Pablo is equipped with cutting-edge equipment and instruments for the different studies and practices of biological analysis for courses such as Biology, Environmental Microbiology and Biological Treatment of Effluents, which are part of the training of the degree. This laboratory has a modern Biosafety Cabinet to meet the highest standards of quality and safety in this type of studies, as well as other digital equipment such as state-of-the-art microscopes. This laboratory will also be used to carry out research work and projects in the field of environmental engineering.

The university has a modern chemistry laboratory to carry out various studies related to the analysis and chemical study of the main components of the environment (soil, air and water chemistry); and other courses in the degree that require this specialized infrastructure, such as for the development of physical-chemical treatment of effluents, chemical analysis of materials and environmental monitoring of the main chemical pollutants. This laboratory is of utmost importance in this type of specialty, also for its potential in research in the field of environmental engineering.

This new laboratory will have the appropriate infrastructure to carry out practices in the analysis and treatment of the various solid wastes generated in industry and at the urban level; as well as for the development and study of the various treatment processes for polluting effluents that may be produced in industry. This laboratory is very important for the development of research projects in the field of Environmental Engineering.

The current physics laboratory at the university has the appropriate precision instruments and equipment to be able to develop practices in the measurement and analysis of the physical properties of materials for the various environmental studies that will be developed in the degree. This laboratory helps in the practical training of Environmental Engineering students, consolidating their learning during their studies in the degree.