Environmental Engineering

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Your program

In Environmental Engineering you learn to diagnose environmental problems caused by the growing demand for natural resources and human activities or settlements. You analyze the conditions and dynamics that occur in natural systems, in order to come up with answers that can ensure the conservation and restoration of degraded ecosystems. You use science and technology for the well-being of people and the environment. You acquire a solid formation in Engineering and Earth Sciences, as well as practical knowledge in biology, law, politics and economics, which will enable you to undertake projects with strategic planning in order to make an important contribution to environmental management.
If you're interested in nature, science and technology, this program is for you.

Graduate profile

When you graduate from Environmental Engineering, you can propose solutions for urban and rural problems, to achieve rational management of natural resources and to mitigate pollution, working in consulting firms, civil organizations or public service. You can serve as the liaison to form teams of diverse professionals to solve environmental problems. You identify and minimize risks to the health of people and ecosystems, with proposals for preventing and controlling environmental degradation, either running your own consulting firm or as part of a specialized company. You are capable of implementing systems for the efficient use of energy and renewable sources in any industry. You show other people how to reduce the damage caused by human actions through fact-based educational and public communication programs. You generate new knowledge in scientific research centers.

Projects of Professional Application (PAP)

The Projects of Professional Application are projects of entail with the society, proposed by the ITESO and chords to the study plan of your academic program, across which you collaborate with other students and can apply your knowledge or competitions partner - professional in a actual scene with external addressees to the university, already be communities or institutions, to raise solutions that improve the quality of life of others and reaffirm the social commitment of your profession.