The Sask Pork Chair in environmental engineering for the pork industry was established at the Department of Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan with the finacial support of SaskPork and the Prairie Swine Centre in 2000. Six different responsibilities and two major objectives were identified for that research position, the most important being the establishment and pursuit of a comprehensive research program focsued on manure management engineering. One of the main goals of the Chair position is to develop and validate a system engineering approach for issues and problems related to manure management engineering because of the increasing number of parameters that need to be considered in the selection of manure management systems. Another issue with the Chair is currently actively involved is the development and implementation of a National Standardized Environmental Management for the Canadian pork industry.