The Engineering Environmental Institute (EEI) was created in the Spring of 2000 to help the College of Engineering (COE) coordinate its environmentally-related activities in research, education and outreach (EEI Mission). The EEI is a part of the Penn State Institutes of the Environment (PSIE), one of four different institutes created to identify and focus Penn State's activities in priority research areas: environment, materials, life sciences, and family values.