Areas of Emphasis
Air Quality Engineering (AQE)
Air Quality Engineering prepares students for solving diverse
air pollution problems; the program at Berkeley places particular
emphasis on indoor and urban environments. Faculty areas of expertise
include characterization and control of air pollution sources such
as cigarettes and gasoline and diesel engines, measurements and
modeling of pollutant dynamics, and interactions between indoor
and outdoor environments. Berkeley is home to a Center for Atmospheric
Sciences, which provides insight into the natural environment with
which our buildings, transportation, and energy systems interact.
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Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology (FMH)
Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology focuses on the study of the
physical processes which govern the movement of air and water in
the natural environment, and the associated transport of contaminants,
energy, and other scalars. An integrated approach is taken for studies
of the coastal ocean and estuaries, the atmospheric boundary layer,
surface and subsurface water flow, land-atmosphere interactions, the
management of water resource systems, climate change and variability,
contaminant transport in the environment, and the interaction of
these and other topics. We encourage students to seek opportunities to apply their
work to other areas of interest
to the individual. Some examples include environmental quality and ecology, air pollution, climate dynamics, contaminant fate and transport,
geomorphology and sediment transport, ecosystem dynamics, and public
health. See the environmental fluid mechanics group page for some further research descriptions.
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Water Quality Engineering (WQE)
Assuring the quality of water required for human use and environmental
protection is an important role for environmental engineers. Increasingly
stringent quality criteria for drinking water, wastewater discharges,
and groundwater require engineers and scientists to understand an
array of approaches for removing contaminants from water. In addition,
environmental engineers must be able to predict the fate of contaminants
in multimedia environments in order to assess the effects of pollution
on humans and ecosystems. Water quality engineering involves the
application of environmental chemistry, microbiology and physics
together with modeling and process engineering. Applications to
both engineered and natural systems are covered from a theoretical
as well as a practical perspective and students are encouraged to
follow a well-rounded program of study.
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