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14.14Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering

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Environmental Engineer SOC 17-2081
Environmental engineers design the systems that keep water, air and land usable — drinking water and wastewater treatment, stormwater, air-pollution control, landfills and the clean-up of contaminated sites. ⚠ It is the engineering discipline most bound up with regulation: the calculation decides what is possible and the permit decides what is allowed.
Environmental Scientist and Specialist SOC 19-2041
Measuring and protecting water, air, soil and habitat, and making the case in front of a regulator. ⚠⚠⚠ Two things a Florida student should know before choosing the major. FIRST, environmental SCIENCE and environmental STUDIES are different degrees leading to different jobs, and the state's largest producer teaches the studies one. SECOND, Florida pays this occupation $21,390 below the national median — a far wider gap than architecture's $3,040 or interior design's $6,330 — so choosing the employer matters more here than almost anywhere else.
⚠⚠ Environmental Engineering — named as the adjacent destination with the licence. An environmental engineer can sit the FE, become a PE and seal designs; an environmental scientist cannot, whatever their experience. Seven Florida institutions award it against this family's sixteen, the mathematics load is far heavier, and the wage ceiling is much higher.

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