Whereas          there are a significant number of engineering programs in the United States that now offer both a major and a minor in Environmental Engineering, and

Whereas           a minor in Environmental Engineering will enable the

University of Delaware to compete for students who desire training in this field and give University of Delaware students the opportunity to gain expertise in the principals and practice of environmental engineering while maintaining there primary focus in a related field, and

Whereas since the inception of the major, students from non-majors in related fields have taken as electives the upper-level environmental engineering courses that are being proposed for the minor in Environmental Engineering, be it therefore

Resolved           that a minor in Environmental Engineering be established.