The School of Sustainability Engineering and Environmental Engineering (SEE) is a leader in sustainability engineering, including resource sustainability, circular economy, and decarbonization, with a dual focus on classic environmental engineering and industrial sustainability. SEE students and faculty address the management of industrial waste within water, soil, and air, while also identifying its origins to prevent environmental challenges before they start. In its mission to understand how all engineering activities affect and are affected by the environment, SEE serves the state, nation, and world with its education and research to address global environmental and ecological challenges.

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Purdue’s sustainability engineering faculty are pioneers in the field. SEE researchers have recently received national grants to advance life-cycle assessment methods, explore zero-waste sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing, and target Midwest seafood production and consumption. Since its founding, SEE affiliates have protected public health and safety, reduced environmental impact and improved company economic performance, educated industrial practitioners on how to develop more sustainable products and processes, trained over 550 graduates to be effective environmental stewards, and helped to shape national standards for circularity and disaster response.

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