Environmental engineers play an important part in managing the interface between us and the world in which we live. With the world’s population set to touch nine billion in 2050, obtaining enough clean water, air, land and food becomes more pressing. It is to environmental engineers that we turn for solutions. It is their activities that optimise the use of natural resources, develop renewable energy sources, maximise the use of materials and make our environment sustainable for generations to come.
| Degree Name | BEng | MEng | MRes | MPhil | PhD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Engineering | |||||
| Environmental Management |
The components of the Environmental Engineering degree schemes at Swansea have received the ‘Excellent’ teaching quality rating in the national Teaching Quality Assessment and derive strength and relevance from the active and wide-ranging environmental research being undertaken by the School. At Swansea we offer an innovative course which is based on the rational that environmental engineering is important for all human endeavor and not simply about construction within the environment. Graduates will have a degree that equips them to be 21st century engineers prepared to meet the environmental challenges of industry and society.
Whereas many environmental engineering schemes are based on Civil engineering, Swansea’s is one of a handful in the UK to take the Chemical and Biological Process route. Our schemes provide knowledge of physical, chemical and biological processes and encourage development of the analytical and creative skills necessary for economic and safe design, safe operation and management of environmental process facilities and products. This involves development and use of various assessment tools to compare environmental impacts and sustainability of our various domestic and industrial activities.
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Latest News
- In the national research assessment (RAE, Dec 2008) staff of the Chemical and Biological Process Engineering discipline as part of the Multidisciplinary Nanotechnology Centre came 5th in the UK (out of 56) within the General Engineering category. We chose to be assessed as part of General Engineering to reflect the interdisciplinary research that the discipline’s staff undertake. An approach that is recognised as essential for 21st century chemical and biochemical engineering. This is great news for the environmental engineering courses as we use our research to maintain our modern portfolio of lecture modules.
- Staff from Environmental Engineering and Geography have recently published their research within The Journal of Microscopy characterising the nanoscale properties of soil as part of the long term study of the retention of water within drought and water damaged soils
