Questions about EE, Meteorology and Nuclear

[php111]

Hi,

 

I kind of understand what Environmental Engineering is but not really.

 

Besides being a weather man, what does a meteorology do? What is and what does Air Quality Meteorologists do?

 

What does a Nuclear Engineering do?

 

I understand they use Math in their own way so out of them 3 degrees what has the most Math?

 

I also understand that Penn State has and many of campuses through PA. It's hard to get into main campus I hear.

 

Possibly in 6 months or less (just a guess) might move to Philadelphia, PA. So what is Penn State good for them 3 majors I listed? If a college is out of PA it can NOT at all be about 3 hours or more. If anything possibly like 1 or 1:30 roughly. If I did chose Penn State for Nuclear Engineering, does that college offer a concertration of fusion? I think that is all my questions.

[CaptainPanic]

Meteorologists make models that are used to predict the weather. Once the models are working, they become a weather man. I think the most work is in making/improving those models. The math they use (I think it's mostly data processing and statistics, but I may be wrong) is used to include as many parameters as possible.

 

Air Quality Meteorologists are doing more specific work on the (you must have guessed it already) air quality. This means they make models and try to predict where pollution is going to go... Pollution includes, among other things, fine dust ("particulate matter") and sulphur / nitrogen oxides (SOx, NOx). These are not very healthy, so it is nice to know what's going on in the atmosphere. These guys are the ones that give off smog-alarms.

 

I think the two (meteorologists and air quality meteorologists) work at the same companies... I'd like such a job actually. Must be cool to see some weather front coming and to be able to say: "Told you so... :D"

 

Nuclear Engineers probably work with nuclear material. Designing/operating nuclear facilities. No idea really how much math is in that. It's not my field at all. And I don't know anything about Penn State. I live on the other side of the Atlantic