With 6 faculty and 60 undergraduates currently in the program, the student-faculty ratio is 10:1, guaranteeing significant student-faculty interaction.

Our students actively participate in Delaware's undergraduate research program, which integrates research and discovery learning into our program. Two-thirds of the class of 2000 have worked as research assistants on an environmental engineering project during their four years at Delaware.

Although the undergraduate environmental engineering program is relatively new at Delaware, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has a long history and outstanding reputation for teaching and conducting research in environmental engineering at the graduate level. For example, Professor Huang recently received the 1999 Gordon Maskew Fair Medal from the Water Environment Federation for "outstanding efforts to train future engineers."

All of the students in the first graduating class in 1999 who sought employment found jobs in environmental engineering or related fields by June 1999.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists "water supply and sanitation services" as one of the ten industries with the fastest employment growth between 1996 and 2006. Water supply engineering is one of the subfields within environmental engineering, and Delaware faculty work actively in this field.