The Evolution of Environmental Engineering as a Professional Discipline

摘要

As environmental engineering has evolved as a discipline over the past several decades, its members find themselves increasingly fragmented into disconnected interest groups. The predecessor sanitary engineering discipline focused primarily on water and wastewater treatment, water distribution systems, and wastewater collection systems. Through the 1960s, the primary organizations representing sanitary engineering were the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation (now the Water Environment Federation).