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Graduate students will have opportunities to pursue exciting research on some of the most
serious environmental challenges facing us today including:
- Alternative approaches to leaching and contaminant release mechanisms
- Bioavailability and biological processes that affect contaminant fate and transport
- Environmental restoration of legacy nuclear and hazardous waste sites
- Environmental security and vulnerability analysis
- Long-term sustainable environmental protection
- Multi-scale and multi-media contaminant fate and transport in the subsurface
- Reliability and security of environmental protection systems
- Risk assessment and risk-informed decision making
Emphasis is placed on a solid grounding in fundamentals with a focus on reliability and risk management.
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are offered in:
Graduate courses offered in environmental engineering include:
- Air and Water Resources
- Environmental Assessments
- Environmental Characterization and Analysis
- Environmental Chemistry
- Physical, Chemical, and Biological Treatment Processes
- Radiological Aspects of Environmental Engineering
- Special Topics in Advanced Environmental Engineering
- Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Mass Transfer
Graduate courses offered in environmental science include:
- Aqueous Geochemistry
- Environmental Geology
- Geochemistry
- Global Change and Issues
- Hydrogeology
- Marine and Coastal Environments
- Methods in Environmental Geology
- Structural Geology and Rock Mechanics
Degree requirements can be found on the Graduate School website: Graduate
Catalog
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