Environmental Engineering

Environmental Engineering

Environmental Engineering is a wide-ranging branch of engineering concerned with the application of scientific and
engineering principles to protect, improve and/or remediate our natural environment from the adverse effects resulting
from both natural phenomena and human activities. It encompasses issues of public health as they pertain to water
treatment, surface water and groundwater remediation, energy conservation, and environmental sustainability.

Research Groups

Graduate research assistant Weiwu Chen (CivMin) counts microplastics using a microscope in the lab of Professor Elodie Passeport (CivMin, ChemE). (Photo: Shuyao Tan)
Graduate research assistant Weiwu Chen (CivMin) counts microplastics using a microscope in the lab of Professor Elodie Passeport (CivMin, ChemE). (Photo: Shuyao Tan)

Related Faculty

Susan Andrews

Professor

Drinking Water: Water quality and chemistry in water treatment processes

Robert Andrews

Professor

Drinking Water: Optimization in drinking water treatment processes/water quality in distribution systems

Mohammed Basheer

Assistant Professor

Water Resources and Hydrology: Hydropower planning and operations; water-energy-food nexus; coupled human-water systems.

Ron Hofmann

Professor

Drinking Water Treatment Optimization: Disinfection and oxidation technologies

Hamed Ibrahim

Assistant Professor

Hydrological modeling and improving our understanding of the physical relations between the lower atmosphere and the earth’s surface

Bryan Karney

Professor

Sustainable Infrastructure: Design, analysis, operation and optimization of various water resource and energy systems

Heather MacLean

Professor

Sustainable Infrastructure: Systems analysis and life-cycle assessment; development of techno-economic methods incorporating uncertainty

Brent Sleep

Professor

Groundwater: Remediation of soil and groundwater contamination; computational methods for modelling environmental processes

Shoshanna Saxe

Associate Professor

Sustainable Infrastructure: Construction resource use and embodied greenhouse gases; travel behaviours and transit infrastructure

Daniel Posen

Associate Professor

Sustainable Infrastructure: System-scale environmental sustainability analysis

Elodie Passeport

Status Only

Surface and Groundwater: Methods for removal of traditional and emerging organic and inorganic contaminants from the environment

David Meyer (né Taylor)

Assistant Professor

Hydraulics: Modelling of water distribution networks within global engineering context; examination/assessment of megacity infrastructure