Environmental
health engineering is the control of factors in the living environment that in
some way affect the physical, mental and social health of human beings. For the
first time, a sanitation school was established in 1973 with the aim of
training trained environmental health personnel for 6 western provinces of the
country. In this educational center, students were admitted through regional
free exams from 6 central provinces, Lorestan, Hamedan, Ilam, Kurdistan and
Kermanshah, and at the same time they were employed by the former Ministry of
Health and after a one-year training course, they started working. From 1982
onwards, he alternately hired employees of the Ministry of Health who had previously
completed a three-month course in environmental health as an environmental
health assistant.
The first
environmental health associate course was established in the academic year of 1988-2009,
and among the holders of the degree of rehabilitation assistance, they entered
the paramedical and health school to complete the courses. In 1993, the
admission of students in the field of environmental health for associate degree
began freely. In 1995, the bachelor's degree program was approved and in the 1996-97
semesters, 15 students were admitted to the mentioned course. Also, with the
admission of 30 undergraduate students and 5 masters of environmental health
engineering in the semester of 2008-2009, the group continued its activities.
In 2016, the first doctoral student admission course was launched and approved,
and the first postdoctoral of the faculty in 2018 from the Department of
Environmental Health Engineering was graduated. Currently, the number of
undergraduate students in this group is 93 and the number of master students
studying in this group is 20. It should also be noted that since 2001, more
than 650 graduates have had environmental health engineering.