Environmental Engineering and Sustainability

Irrational use of resources, widespread waste disposal, air, water, soil pollution, and deforestation are some of the environmental problems caused by human activities. Production companies and organizations are obliged to take actions to protect the environment. An environmental engineer is responsible for their implementation. 

The Environmental Engineering in Mineral Resource Sector program teaches not just ecology, but geoecology so that students understand in detail how natural mechanisms are arranged and connected. Students are immersed in environmental protection sphere: they study air and water purification options, waste management, industrial environmental control, monitoring, and design. 

What are the training and internship like? 

During the first and second years, students study basic subjects and acquire basic knowledge of ecology, mineralogy and geology. Subsequent courses teach specialized subjects necessary for the future profession.

Learning is not limited to classroom lectures. Our students:

Explore Tomsk and its surroundings with geologists - Lagerniy Sad, Babiy Gorge behind the Polytechnic stadium, Stepanovka quarry, Tom River near the Communal Bridge, Khromovsky Gorge.

Make reports and interactive maps 

Visit the companies offices and get acquainted with the work of environmental engineers. 

Travel along many routes as part of a month-long summer expedition in Khakassia at TPU's testing ground. 

Each student will have the opportunity to complete an internship at companies in Moscow, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, the Republic of Buryatia, Bashkortostan and Khakassia, Tomsk, Seversk, as well as Tomsk, Kemerovo, Sverdlovsk Region and the Krasnodar Krai.

Equipment

Practical assignments are delivered using the latest equipment in the laboratories and research and education centers of the School Earth Sciences and Engineering.

These instruments and facilities help students:

Study the material and chemical composition of natural environment components (mercury analyzer, gamma spectrometers, X-ray diffractometer, scanning electron microscope, optical microscopes); 

Determine chemical, microbiological, gas composition and toxicity of natural water, sources of centralized and non-centralized domestic and drinking water supply, as well as flooding of oil reservoirs, soils, bottom sediments, products of secondary mineral formation;

Conduct instrumental neutron activation analysis (IRT-T nuclear reactor). 

Alumni

• Alexey Anatolyevich Kumarkov - Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of Kamchatka Region, Class of 2003

• Egor Sergeevich Yakovlev - Head of the Department of State Environmental Supervision of Tomsk Oblast, Siberian Interregional Department of Rosprirodnadzor, Class of 2014

• Elena Alexandrovna Zhukova - Director of the Environmental Information Design Center LLC (Tomsk), Class of 2002

• Anastasia Alexandrovna Slepushkina - Head of Department, LLC Production Safety and Ecology (Tomsk), Class of 2014

• Tatiana Sergeevna Bolshunova - Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Chief Engineer of JSC TomskNIPIneft, Class of 2003

• Alena Andreevna Klimova - Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Environmental Protection Engineer of Tomsk LPUMG of Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk LLC, class of 2015

• Anna Valeryevna Talovskaya  - Doctor of Geological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Geology Department, TPU School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, class of 2005

• Alexandra Belyanovskaya - Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, PhD, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Biology, Tyumen State University, class of 2016

Strategic Partners

Employment opportunities

After graduating from the Bachelor's program Environmental Engineering in the Mineral Resources Sector graduates can continue their studies in the Master's program or find a job in the following companies: Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk, Tomskneftekhim, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Tomsk region, Tomskneft, Siberian Chemical Combine, Southern Kuzbass; Sorsk Mining and Processing Plant, Central Research Geological Exploration Institute of Nonferrous and Noble Metals.