Program Description Maintaining, nurturing and protecting the environment is a global priority. As a result, understanding the environment and providing innovative solutions using new and emerging technologies has never been more important. Take the first step toward an in-demand, respected and vital career helping the planet with Fanshawe's Environmental Technology program.
Over three years and 12 to 16 months of paid co-op placement, you will study and gain experience in a program that provides foundational knowledge of air, water and waste management issues. The curriculum includes bacteriology, analytical chemistry, air pollution meteorology, water quality management, industrial hygiene and hydrogeology. This program emphasizes measurement and analysis techniques as well as legislation for air, water and waste.
The theoretical knowledge and hands-on application using state-of-the-art instrumentation, combined with real work experience, will give you a competitive edge upon graduation. Rewarding careers as Environmental Technologists await in municipal, provincial and federal government regulatory agencies, wastewater treatment facilities, petrochemical industries, environmental consultants, pollution measurement control, equipment manufacturers, technical sales and public/private research enterprises.
