Environmental and Water Resources Engineering

• Water Quality Engineering
• Air Quality Engineering
• Fate and Transport of Contaminants in the Environment
• Solid and Hazardous Waste Management and Engineering
• Surface Water Hydrology and Hydraulics
• Groundwater Hydrology
• Sustainable Design and Ecological Engineering
• Environmental Biotechnology and Nanotechnology

A long-standing theme of the EWRE Program is environmental and water resource issues pertinent to urbanizing coastal environments. Increasing pressure on Florida’s fragile water resources and coastal ecosystems necessitates an integrated approach to hydrology, hydraulics and environmental engineering. The need to provide water of sufficient quantity and quality to meet the demands of growing populations creates challenges in the fields of alternative water supplies, aquifer storage recovery, water reuse and desalination. To this end, students have the opportunity to receive interdisciplinary training and develop expertise in urban and coastal hydrology, hydraulics, water quality, air quality and environmental process engineering relevant to basic and applied research on the built and natural environments. Principles of sustainability and advances in information technology (e.g., geographic information systems, remote sensing, and on-line sensors), biotechnology (e.g., molecular biology, microbial ecology, bioreactors) and nanotechnology (fabrication of nanoparticles, nanotechniques) are incorporated into the program. The EWRE programs maintains strong collaboration with other USF programs including public health, chemical engineering, biology, geology, marine science and environmental science and policy.

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