Environmental
Engineering and Technology (EET)
This program supports
engineering research with the goal of reducing adverse effects of solid,
liquid, and gaseous discharges into land, fresh and ocean waters, and air
that result from human activity and impair the value of those resources in
the context of ecological tenets. This program also supports research on
innovative biological, chemical, and physical processes used alone or as
components of engineered systems to restore the usefulness of polluted land,
water, and air resources.
The program emphasizes
engineering principles underlying pollution avoidance as well as pollution
treatment and remediation. Improved sensors, innovative production processes,
waste reduction and recycling, and industrial ecology are important to this
program. Research may be directed toward improving the cost effectiveness
of pollution avoidance as well as developing fresh principles for pollution
avoidance technologies.
The program directors include Patrick
Brezonik , Cynthia Ekstein
and Thomas Waite.
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