About the Department There are 11 full-time faculty with primary appointments in Environmental Engineering (ENVE), ~50 students in ENVE’s well-established graduate program of 50+ years, and more than 150 undergraduate students in our rapidly growing ABET-accredited undergraduate program that was inaugurated in 2012. Average environmental engineering research expenditures over the past 10 years at UC have exceeded $5 million/year. In addition to core ABET requirements, the program supports four senior elective tracks for undergraduates linked to our graduate research focus areas of Hydrosystems, Water Quality, Air Quality and Sustainability.