Environmental engineers use engineering principles and their knowledge of biology, soil science, and chemistry to solve environmental problems.
Environmental engineers use the principles of engineering, soil science, biology, and chemistry to develop solutions to environmental problems.
Caplow,
an environmental engineer uses the barge, which cost $ 250,000 to build, to show city kids how vegetables grow and to promote making New York more self - sufficient.
Not exact matches
Chiwewe became a student again to fast - track his
environmental studies, then aimed to figure out a way to
use his unique experience in software
engineering and artificial intelligence to help build a solution.
Friedman hopes that market principles can save
environmental diversity, that the global network will be
used to organize
environmental defense, and that technology will reduce the volume of materials needed for the economy and
engineer new genetic forms.
New York
uses personal service contracts for numerous areas and Cuomo's cuts will affect technology,
engineering, health care, accounting, research, and
environmental studies.
The state
uses PSCs in areas including research and analysis, data processing, computer programming,
engineering,
environmental assessment, health and mental health services, and accounting.
Funds will also be
used to increase reliability between Albany and New York City, by modernizing signals and advance necessary
engineering and
environmental work for the future replacement of the Livingston Avenue Bridge over the Hudson River between Rensselaer and Albany.
Just last month, Department of
Environmental Protection electrical
engineer Magdy Youssef was forced to resign after he
used a city - issued vehicle to run personal errands and commute home 19 times over four months in 2016.
The idea here is, we can design something very flexible so that you can change it
using external controls,» said Wang, an assistant professor of civil and
environmental engineering.
Schmitz, an Iowa State graduate student of civil, construction and
environmental engineering, and Sri Sritharan, Iowa State's Wilson
Engineering Professor and leader of the's College of
Engineering's Wind Energy Initiative, were trying to answer some basic questions about
using concrete panels and columns to build wind turbine towers
using prefabricated, easily transportable components.
Chemical
engineer Inés Reyero Zaragoza proposed the substitution of methanol by ethanol for the production of biodiesel and the
use of a heterogeneous catalyst, which will «result in a reduction of costs and in the
environmental impact associated with the production of this biofuel.»
«Due to global warming, oil exploration in the Arctic has become feasible along with the shipment of oil through the Northwest Passage, the water body between Canada and the Arctic that
used to be frozen throughout the year, but has now become open for navigation in the summer,» noted Boufadel, a professor of civil and
environmental engineering who specializes in the impact of oil spills on coastal regions and, more generally, on oil behavior in diverse environments.
«We had been studying the area of land that would be available to grow crops for energy and we were curious to discover the most efficient
use of these crops,» explains
environmental engineer Elliott Campbell of the University of California, Merced, who led the study.
The findings could also lead to new applications in
environmental monitoring
using genetically
engineered microbes to issue warning signals in the presence of pollutants or toxins, and could unlock new fundamental insights into metabolic pathways.
The new findings, based on detailed computer simulations
using the best available global circulation models, are described this week in the journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT professor of
environmental engineering Elfatih Eltahir, MIT Research Scientist Eun Soon Im, and Professor Jeremy Pal at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Study co-author David Rosenberg, an associate professor of civil and
environmental engineering at USU, says if refuge managers implement the model's recommendations, they could nearly double the area of productive wetland habitat
using existing resources.
Pourhashem worked with
environmental engineering graduate student Quazi Rasool and postdoc Rui Zhang, Rice Earth scientist Caroline Masiello, energy economist Ken Medlock and
environmental scientist Daniel Cohan to show that urban dwellers in the American Midwest and Southwest would gain the greatest benefits in air quality and health from greater
use of biochar.
Rice researchers in Earth science, economics and
environmental engineering have determined that widespread
use of biochar in agriculture could reduce health care costs, especially for those who live in urban areas close to farmland.
Through iGEM, interdisciplinary teams of supervised students or community lab members throughout the world
engineer genetic systems,
using standardized biological parts, to tackle a broad variety of global synthetic biology challenges, from producing sustainable chemicals to detecting
environmental contaminants.
Life - cycle
engineering, of which Frangopol is a recognized pioneer, is an approach to assess the
environmental impacts in conjunction with economic impacts that includes a structure's life cycle from its production to its
use and its end.
In fact, cadmium telluride solar cells are currently the most ecofriendly devices, even though they
use a toxic heavy metal, primarily because they require the least energy — typically provided by burning fossil fuels — to manufacture, says
environmental engineer Vasilis Fthenakis, senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory's National Photovoltaic Environment Research Center in Upton, N.Y., and Columbia University.
«If you
used just anaerobic digestion, you would wait weeks to turn the food waste into energy,» said Posmanik, who works in both the laboratories of co-authors Jeff Tester, professor of chemical and biochemical
engineering, and Lars Angenent, professor of biological and
environmental engineering.
Wei - Xian Zhang, an
environmental engineer at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, has decontaminated a 1,000 - square - foot plot at a pharmaceutical plant in North Carolina
using just $ 1,000 in raw materials.
«Our analysis provides a framework for understanding how such policies would benefit China's water
use in the future,» said study co-author Denise Mauzerall, professor of
environmental engineering and international affairs.
«It is estimated that the average household in the North Dakota Bakken region
uses about 80 to 160 gallons of water a day,» said Corrie Clark, an
environmental systems engineer in Argonne's Environmental Science Division and co-author of a new study published in Environmental Science
environmental systems
engineer in Argonne's
Environmental Science Division and co-author of a new study published in Environmental Science
Environmental Science Division and co-author of a new study published in
Environmental Science
Environmental Science & Technology.
«From an
environmental point of view, any
use of natural gas is preferable to flaring,» notes chemical
engineer James Miller of Sandia National Laboratories.
A Columbia
Engineering team led by Pierre Gentine, professor of earth and
environmental engineering, and Adam Sobel, professor of applied physics and applied mathematics and of earth and
environmental sciences, has developed a new approach, opposite to climate models, to correct climate model inaccuracies
using a high - resolution atmospheric model that more precisely resolves clouds and convection (precipitation) and parameterizes the feedback between convection and atmospheric circulation.
Analogous to integrated circuits that underlie myriad electronic products,
engineered gene circuits can be
used to generate defined dynamics, rewire endogenous networks, sense
environmental stimuli, and produce valuable biomolecules.
With assistance from the Missouri Department of Transportation, Praveen Edara, associate professor of civil and
environmental engineering in the MU College of
Engineering, tested the
use of variable advisory speed limit (VASL) systems and the effect they may have on lessening congestion and reducing rear - end and lane - changing accidents on a fairly dangerous stretch of I - 270, a major four - lane highway in St. Louis.
«The battery will run until the reaction
uses up the ammonia needed for complex formation in the electrolyte near the anode or depletes the copper ions in the electrolyte near the cathode,» said Fang Zhang, postdoctoral fellow in
environmental engineering.
Their results could be
used by
engineers to design concrete structures that incorporate varying amounts of recycled concrete aggregates that have less
environmental impact than concrete structures made with natural aggregates.
That's the conclusion of a new study by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Joannes Westerink, chair of the department of civil and
environmental engineering and earth sciences and co-developer of the authoritative computer model for storm surge
used by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the state of Louisiana to determine water levels due to hurricane surge and to design levee heights and alignments.
«The sensing skin could be
used for a wide range of structures, but the impetus for the work was to help ensure the integrity of critical infrastructure such as nuclear waste storage facilities,» says Dr. Mohammad Pour - Ghaz, an assistant professor of civil, construction and
environmental engineering at NC State and co-author of a paper describing the work.
Engineers and scientists at NMSU, ASU, Georgia Tech and the University of California, Davis are collaborating to develop methods to
use or mimic biological processes for
engineering the ground in ways that reduce construction costs while mitigating natural hazards and
environmental degradation.
Like the ʻōhiʻa tree, the American chestnut tree suffered from an invasive fungal blight, causing its virtual extinction, But researchers at the State University of New York's College of
Environmental Science and Forestry have
engineered the chestnut to combat the fungus
using a single wheat gene.
Daveu, a chic Parisian who came to fashion by way of politics (her last gig was working for the French Ministry of Ecology), oversees a team of around 50 other industry transplants:
engineers, scientists, and renewable energy experts
using their knowledge to dramatically reduce the
environmental impact of what we wear.
«Virtual worlds could be created where students are mentored by
engineers, architects, construction specialists,
environmental and social scientists, and policy makers... It is envisioned that augmented reality technology [could] be
used by educators to overlay actual classrooms with individual and collaborative learning activities...»
GreenSTEM is an engaging project - based model that
uses science, technology,
engineering, and math (STEM) content and practices to investigate local
environmental problems, and design and implement solutions.
Environmental and Sustainability Education: Schools emphasize interdisciplinary learning about the relationships between environmental, energy, and human systems; use the environment and sustainability to develop students» knowledge and skills in science, technology, engineering, and math; and develop students» civic - engagement knowledge and skills, providing students with opportunities to apply these skills to address sustainability and environmental issues in their
Environmental and Sustainability Education: Schools emphasize interdisciplinary learning about the relationships between
environmental, energy, and human systems; use the environment and sustainability to develop students» knowledge and skills in science, technology, engineering, and math; and develop students» civic - engagement knowledge and skills, providing students with opportunities to apply these skills to address sustainability and environmental issues in their
environmental, energy, and human systems;
use the environment and sustainability to develop students» knowledge and skills in science, technology,
engineering, and math; and develop students» civic - engagement knowledge and skills, providing students with opportunities to apply these skills to address sustainability and
environmental issues in their
environmental issues in their communities.
It should emit a suitably rorty sound — in his role in charge of Kia and Hyundai's performance models, Biermann is directly working with powertrain
engineers, and places great importance on a car's aural appeal — though this will likely be achieved
using sound generators, due to the
environmental and social implications of the more traditional loud exhausts.
The
engineers were uncompromising when it came to safety, comfort,
environmental compatibility and suitability for everyday
use.
The highest standards for minimizing
environmental impact and
engineering designs were
used to make this the most sophisticated and highest quality Marina in the hurricane free region of Panama.
At that time, Karina Tipton CE ’99 was a Senior
Engineer with Brown and Caldwell, providing proactive solutions to
environmental problems
using sustainable practices.
Using traditional Song Dynasty landscape painting techniques, with mineral - based inks and watercolors on handmade paper, his paintings and scrolls often explore the effects of
environmental engineering and the resulting social upheaval, as well as the repercussions of natural disasters: from the U.S. government's ineffectual response to Hurricane Katrina to the Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River.
David Dickins, an
engineer from San Diego who has spent 30 years studying how to clean up oil spills in icy waters, said that while the ice impeded the
use of tools like booms that hold a slick in place, the ice also naturally contained the oil, giving response teams more time to act before
environmental damage occurred.
While the
use of cost benefit analysis in civil
engineering and other reasonably quantifiable technical decision making processes goes back to at least the 1930s, the most serious abuse of cost - benefit analysis, at least in U.S.
environmental policy making, began with Ronald Reagan.
As someone who has training in both
engineering and
environmental science — I expect that there are a practically infinite number of fudge factors that can be
used to constrain the size of the phase space.
Models
used to design an
engineered system have different requirements and challenges from predictive models
used in
environmental regulation and resource management.
Use of these standards will enable producers to report the «
environmental footprint» (Environmental Product Declaration / EPD) of different concrete mixes and enable architects and engineers to specify low imp
environmental footprint» (
Environmental Product Declaration / EPD) of different concrete mixes and enable architects and engineers to specify low imp
Environmental Product Declaration / EPD) of different concrete mixes and enable architects and
engineers to specify low impact concrete.