The world is in dire need of well- trained professionals equipped to handle the plights of the last two millennia of human self-education. Hazardous chemicals, accumulating emissions, resource destruction, and other daily mishaps that occur from mis-engineered technologies and situations are piling up.

Even the corporate mainstream news outlets have these awful occurrences oozing from in between the lines of their stories. RPI must have some difficult times getting their hands on this information if it expects to drop its undergraduate bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering.

How do the leaders of this institution expect to be on the leading edge of the educational front if they abide this decision? The number of students in this program is remarkably low, but responding to a stimuli by cutting it off is what plants do when they get too much sun, not what top-notch, superbly educated innovators do.

We find the problem, assess the needs, and implement a solution. We don’t have enough environmental engineers enrolled in this program; the world needs EnvE’s and so the American-based educational institute of RPI needs to supply them; let’s spread the word about RPI’s strong and thorough environmental engineering program.

I hope that The Poly can be a useful tool in keeping alive a world necessity that RPI has the ability to fully supply. Thank you for your time.

Marc P. Santos

DSIS ’10