Also called: Stormwater Engineer, Low-Impact Development Engineer
Designs rain gardens, green roofs and porous pavement that soak up stormwater and stop floods.
You model how a downpour flows across a neighborhood, design a series of rain gardens and underground tanks, and visit sites to check that plants and soils were installed right. Your projects also add parks and trees to neighborhoods.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in environmental or civil engineering.
Ways in: 4-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering.
Growing about average (about 4% over 10 years). Environmental engineers overall.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. Design software and AI speed stormwater calculations; site design, community input and construction oversight stay human.
Classes: Environmental science, Earth science, Art or design, Algebra II.
Official data: O*NET occupation 17-2081.
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