The UMass Environmental and Water Resources Engineering (EWRE) Research Group conducts research in a wide range of focus areas including: drinking water, wastewater, water resource systems, environmental chemistry and environmental biology. Research projects encompass laboratory, field and modeling activities undertaken by teams of faculty, graduate students, technicians, post-doctoral researchers and undergraduates. The M.S. program in Environmental Engineering is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD, 212002-4012, telephone: (410) 347-7700. Links to information on our research facilities, faculty, research areas, and research projects are provided below. Additional information about our Environmental Engineering degree programs, admission requirements, application procedures and courses is found within the EWRE Graduate Program Area pages of the main Civil and Environmental Engineering web pages.

Faculty
The EWRE research group is comprised of ten faculty members. Click a name below for an individual faculty member's EWRE (or CEE) Faculty page. For quick links to personal pages and course websites, see the Faculty section of this site.
 

Research Areas
The EWRE Program conducts research in the following main areas:

• Drinking Water
• Wastewater
• Surface & Groundwater Transport Processes & Management
• Environmental Microbiology
• Environmental Chemistry

Research Facilities
The EWRE Program has excellent facilities, including over 10,000 square feet of new (2004) research laboratories in the Engineering Laboratory II building. ...See the powerpoint slideshow

• Facilities Page
• List of Equipment
• EWRE Lab Rules & Protocols
• Lab Building Tour (slideshow)

Special Event

Friday, November 21 at 4:00 PM - Tony Fane, Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Director of the Singapore Membrane Technology Centre will be the speaker for the 2008 AEESP Distinguished Lecture at the University of Massachusetts.

A reception and poster session highlighting Environmental and Water Resources Engineering research at UMass, UConn, RPI, WPI, Yale and Smith College will be held at 3:00 prior to the lecture. This event is free and open to the public. More Information

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