Environmental Technology

Combine your love for the environment with your love for technology in the Environmental Technology program. As an environmental technologist, you evaluate air, water, ground water and soil quality through sampling, monitoring, analysis, data collection and report writing within the environmental field. In the second year, you specialize in courses that develop the knowledge and skills necessary to operate laboratory, field and monitoring equipment and to apply scientific techniques in the assessment of land, water and air quality. The program includes one practical field placement of four weeks in the last term of studies to provide an opportunity to relate your studies to an environmental setting.

• High School Diploma or Adult High School Diploma or GED Diploma of High School Equivalency
• Geometry and Applications in Mathematics 112 and Functions and Relations 112
• One (1) additional science from the following:
• • Biology 112 or 122 (Recommended)
  • Chemistry 112 or 122 (Recommended)
  • Physics 112 or 122

With evolving environmental legislation and the industry’s expanding focus on environmental issues, employment opportunities in this field are growing, particularly within the private sector. You may find employment with industry, the environmental consulting sector, federal or provincial governments, or other agencies or organizations involved with environmental issues.

2212 - Geological and Mineral Technologists and Technicians
2231 - Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians

• Environmental Remediation and Restoration
• Water Quality: Surface, Subsurface and Drinking
• Air Quality: Indoor and Outdoor
• Ecological Systems
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Environmental Management Systems
• Geographic Orientation, including the use of GIS & GPS equipment
• Field Skills including Wilderness Survival
• Project Management
• Mathematics
• Sciences
• Verbal and Written Communication
• Computer Applications

To achieve success in the Environmental Technology program, you should have a strong background in mathematics, science, and written communication. Applicants with a strong science background, especially in chemistry and biology, usually do well with the Environmental Technology curriculum. A considerable amount of training is in field work, so you should enjoy working outdoors. Many universities give credit for courses completed in this program; however, assessment is normally completed on an individual basis.

Environmental Technology is accredited as follows:

Environmental Technology has developed articulation arrangements with other institutions as follows:

Environmental Technology graduates may have an opportunity to aquire the following external certifications upon meeting the external agencies certification requirements and paying any required fees to the external agency: