Environmental and Water Resources Engineering

 

Overview

Environmental and Water Resources Engineers plan, design, and build the systems that provide a safe and sustainable environment.

Environmental engineers translate physical, chemical, and biological processes into systems to destroy toxic substances, remove pollutants from water, reduce non-hazardous solid waste volumes, eliminate contaminants from the air, and develop groundwater supplies. They resolve problems of providing safe drinking water, cleaning up sites contaminated with hazardous materials, cleaning and preventing air pollution, treating wastewater, and managing solid wastes.

Water resources engineers will deal with environmental issued concerning the quality and quantity of water. They work to reduce point and non-point sources of pollution, manage floods, to supply water for cities, industry and irrigation, to protect beaches, and to manage rivers and reservoirs. They are involved in the design, construction, and maintenance of hydroelectric power facilities, canals, dams, pipelines, pumping stations, locks, and port facilities.

At Mississippi State University we educate engineers who will solve today's environmental challenges and those of the future by applying sound scientific and engineering principles. We perform research to enhance our student's education and to advance the state of the art in engineering tools and knowledge.

Our environmental and water resources emphases are:

• Computational Environmental Hydraulics
• Computational Surface Water Quality Modeling
• Sedimentation Engineering
• Waterborne Transportation / Navigation Engineering

 

Environmental and Water Resources Engineering at MSU is in the Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering. Our offices and labs are in Walker Hall.