Location:

New Haven, United States

Program Type:

Full Degree

Degree Level:

Doctorate

Specialty:

Environmental Engineering

Program Overview

Program Description:

Environmental Engineering is an interdisciplinary concentration of Chemical Engineering. It includes the following fields of study: physical and chemical processes for water quality control, aquatic and environmental chemistry, transport and fate of chemical substances in the environment, colloidal and interfacial phenomena in aquatic systems, environmental engineering, microbiology, membrane separation processes, biological processes and bioremediation, aerosol science and technology, incineration of toxic wastes, industrial ecology, geochemistry and bio-geochemistry, adsorption and desorption of organic pollutants in soils and groundwater, geochemical cycles and the global environment, and chemical reactions at the mineral-water interface.