Department of Environment and Energy Engineering

The main objectives of environment and energy engineering are controlled use and preservation of environment and developing new renewable energy. Environment and energy engineering applies engineering and scientific principles to protect human health and to maintain and improve eco-systems. Our graduates are trained to design, build, operate, and manage organizations and facilities that protect people and the environment by developing new renewable energy. Environment and energy engineering is generally treated as an independent engineering discipline by the engineering profession. We live amid intricate interactions and complex problems created between living beings and their environments, or by variabilities of nature itself. These problems can have disastrous consequences of enormous magnitude and are very difficult to resolve. Environmental researchers investigate these interactions to guard each being from the harmful effects of others

• 1992. 03: Establishment of Department of Environmental Engineering
• 1999. 03: Reorganization of Departments of Civil, Earth, and Environmental Engineering
• 2002. 03: Reorganization of Departments of Civil, Geosystems, and Environmental Engineering
• 2009. 03: Reorganization of Department of Environmental Engineering
• 2013. 03: Reorganization of Department of Environment and Energy Engineering

Careers

Graduates are currently playing active roles in central and local government organizations (e.g., Ministry of Environment), some public corporations (Korea Water Resources Corporation, Korea Environment Corporation, Korea Electric Power Corporation) and research institutes (e.g., National Institute of Environmental Research, Korea Institute of Energy Research). Graduates also have careers in business corporations dealing with environmental impact assessment, air pollution control facilities, wastewater treatment, hazardous wastes treatment, environmental remediation, new renewable energy, and waste recycling facilities. They are usually in charge of the environment and safety of their company. Some graduates go on to graduate school to further specialize in their discipline of environment or energy engineering.

Contact Information

• Phone : +82-62-530-1860
• Homepage : http://eee.jnu.ac.kr