DESCRIPTION

The Environmental Engineering Program is located at the Department of Civil & Enviromental Engineering, College of Engineering & Applied Sciences of Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida. The Program includes undergraduate and graduate accredited curricula and has faculty members fully dedicated to intense research and teaching in all prime areas of environmental engineering. The faculty has over 100 years of combined experience with educational backgrounds from best environmental engineering programs and universities in the USA: California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon U., U. of Delaware, U. of Illinois at Urban-Champaign, Vanderbilt U., and U. of Wisconsin at Madison. Areas of research specialty include water, air, and soil quality characterization, modeling, and control; water resources management (e.g., surface and ground water quality, watershed and ecosystem modeling); solid, hazardous, and radioactive waste management; pollution prevention; environmental management systems; and Latinamerican environmental policy. The Program has laboratories for the development and testing of environmental technologies that support priority needs of the governmental and private sectors. In-house analytical support is expanded via state-of-the-art instrumentation headquartered at the Drinking Water Research Center. This unique R&D Center, established by the Florida Legislature, is part of the College of Engineering & Applied Sciences and is strongly associated with the Environmental Engineering Program in both research, education and technical assistance to the national and international clients. Sponsors of faculty research include the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Defense, the US Department of Energy, the Center for Indoor Air Research, Everglades National Park, the California Air Resources Board, Dade County Department of Environmental Resource Management (DERM), Florida Power & Light, among other partners including the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

Faculty members serve on international, national, state, and local committees and advisory boards. Students enrolling in the academic programs represent one of the most diverse Latinamerican population profiles in the United States of America.

SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES

Undergraduate, posgraduate, and graduate educational programs in evironmental engineering with specialization in a number of areas including water resources and quality management. Research & Development initiatives with governmental and private sector partners. Technical assistance to academic, governmental, and private institutions and organizations in the hemisphere.

AREA OF CONCENTRATION

* Water resources management (e.g. quantity allocation, conveyance, treatment, supply, distribution, conservation). * Water quality engineering (e.g., protection strategies and integrated watershed modeling for rivers, lakes, estuaries, bays, harbors, and groundwaters). * Development of water quality indicators. * Water resources and quality model development. * Water policy issues in Latinamerica. * Point- and non-point source pollution. * Pollution prevention programs for watershed and ecosystem protection.

GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE OF ACTIVITES

Souhteast USA, Latinamerican & Caribbean Nations

TYPE OF ORGANIZATION

Research & development, educational