
Environmental engineers can impact the world and our daily lives on both a local and global scale. They protect and preserve human health, wildlife and the environment by providing healthy water, air and land to sustain life at all levels. Through systems and structures that they have designed, constructed, and maintained, environmental engineering is essential in the delivery of clean water, removal of hazardous wastes and mediation of global warming. Faculty at Case School of Engineering are involved in research projects that relate to water supply and resources, environmental systems modeling, wastewater management, solid waste management, hazardous waste management and remediation, atmospheric systems and air pollution control, and environmental and occupational health.
Institutes, centers and labs related to Environmental Engineering
Faculty who conduct research in Environmental Engineering

Bridget Hegarty
Focusing on the microbiology of the built environment, my research program seeks to understand and then engineer microbiomes to preserve both human and environmental health.

Kurt Rhoads
Engineers environmental water, wastewater and energy processes using biotechnology

Huichun (Judy) Zhang
Examines fate and transformation of environmental contaminants in natural and engineered environments and develops advanced water/wastewater treatment technologies