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
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Susan Andrews
ProfessorDrinking Water: Water quality and chemistry in water treatment processes
Robert Andrews
ProfessorDrinking Water: Optimization in drinking water treatment processes/water quality in distribution systems
Mohammed Basheer
Assistant ProfessorWater Resources and Hydrology: Hydropower planning and operations; water-energy-food nexus; coupled human-water systems.
Ron Hofmann
ProfessorDrinking Water Treatment Optimization: Disinfection and oxidation technologies
Hamed Ibrahim
Assistant ProfessorHydrological modeling and improving our understanding of the physical relations between the lower atmosphere and the earth’s surface
Bryan Karney
ProfessorSustainable Infrastructure: Design, analysis, operation and optimization of various water resource and energy systems
Heather MacLean
ProfessorSustainable Infrastructure: Systems analysis and life-cycle assessment; development of techno-economic methods incorporating uncertainty
Brent Sleep
ProfessorGroundwater: Remediation of soil and groundwater contamination; computational methods for modelling environmental processes
Shoshanna Saxe
Associate ProfessorSustainable Infrastructure: Construction resource use and embodied greenhouse gases; travel behaviours and transit infrastructure
Daniel Posen
Associate ProfessorSustainable Infrastructure: System-scale environmental sustainability analysis
Elodie Passeport
Status OnlySurface and Groundwater: Methods for removal of traditional and emerging organic and inorganic contaminants from the environment
David Meyer (né Taylor)
Assistant ProfessorHydraulics: Modelling of water distribution networks within global engineering context; examination/assessment of megacity infrastructure