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Biological Engineering Solutions
Published in Arthur T. Johnson, Biology for Engineers, 2019
Environmental engineering is concerned with such areas as waste water management, air pollution control, recycling, waste disposal, radiation protection, industrial hygiene, environmental sustainability, public health, environmental engineering law, and the environmental impact of proposed construction projects. Environmental engineering may or may not be dependent on a thorough study of biological systems and their implications. Ecological engineering integrates ecology and engineering, using engineering tools to design, monitor, and construct whole ecosystems (Mitsch and Jorgensen, 1989; Mitsch, 1996). Ecological engineering definitely needs an appreciation for biological systems and their interactions.
Ethical Responsibilities of Environmental Engineers
Published in Donald L. Wise, Debra J. Trantolo, Remediation of Hazardous Waste Contaminated Soils, 2018
Engineering is a profession that is, in the final analysis, a moral undertaking. Engineers and their works touch all of us; their profession determines and shapes the physical infrastructure of our civilization. In turn, the physical form of our surroundings tends to influence and determine the shape and direction of our lives for the long term. No engineer can escape the need to adopt a moral perspective. Every significant environmental engineering decision is a moral decision, since this type of engineering has both direct and indirect effects on human healthy, the environment, and nonhuman species, as well as on future generations.
Introduction
Published in Kalliat T. Valsaraj, Elizabeth M. Melvin, Principles of Environmental Thermodynamics and Kinetics, 2018
Kalliat T. Valsaraj, Elizabeth M. Melvin
“Environmental engineering” is the study of the fate, transport, and effects of chemicals in the natural and engineered environments and includes the formulation of options for treatment, mitigation, and prevention of pollution in both natural and engineered systems.
Opportunities for the development of professional skills for undergraduate civil and environmental engineers
Published in European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Mike Murray, Stella Pytharouli, John Douglas
We concur with Stump, Husman, and Corby (2014, 370) that an ‘examination of students’ beliefs about themselves, or self-theories, may provide important insight into their behaviour’. Indeed Dalrymple et al. 2021 (17) found a ‘growing recognition of the validity of such self-report measures’ in their review of employability literature. They concluded that this perhaps further reflects ‘the increasing valorising of students’ views and agency in quantifying outcomes and assessing the worth of the employability interventions they have experienced’. The research findings will be used to inform the department’s annual evaluation of our two undergraduate programmes. The four programmes are (1) BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering; (2) MEng Civil Engineering; (3) BEng (Hons) Civil & Environmental Engineering; and (4) MEng Civil & Environmental Engineering. In Scotland, the MEng programmes are of five-year duration. In the later years of study, the Civil & Environmental Engineering programme places greater emphasis on the main aspects of environmental engineering, such as water and waste treatment and contaminated land remediation.
Examining Privilege in Engineering Socialization Through the Stories of Newcomer Engineers
Published in Engineering Studies, 2021
Participants were recruited through national and regional civil engineering listservs, social media postings, and emails sent out by engineering faculty members. Twelve participants self-identified as women and six participants self-identified as men. Eleven self-identified as white, three as Hispanic or Latina/o, three as a combination of white and another race or ethnicity, and one as Black. The Black participant was originally from a different country, and the rest were from the United States. They worked in six different states at seventeen different companies and attended nine different universities for their undergraduate degrees. Seventeen had undergraduate degrees in civil engineering and one in environmental engineering. Four had completed or were pursuing master’s degrees at four different universities. All participants worked in civil engineering positions in civil engineering companies.37 At the time of the interviews, the majority of participants had been in their jobs for approximately one year, and a smaller number (approximately 1/3) had been in their jobs for between 1.5 and 2 years.
Development trajectory of an integrated framework for the mitigation of future flood risk: results from the FloodLand project
Published in Transportation Letters, 2018
Ismaïl Saadi, Martin Bruwier, Ahmed Mustafa, Yann Peltier, Pierre Archambeau, Sébastien Erpicum, Philippe Orban, Alain Dassargues, Benjamin Dewals, Michel Pirotton, Jacques Teller, Mario Cools
This paper contributes to the state-of-the-art by presenting the development trajectory of an integrated multidisciplinary framework that is capable of making long-term projections (time horizon 2030 and 2100) with the objective of mitigating future flood risk by proposing alternative land-use scenarios. It bridges numerous different fields, including urban planning, transport engineering, hydrology, geology, environmental engineering, and economics. The study area for this development is the river basin of the Ourthe in Belgium (displayed in Figure 1). However, note that, for the development of different submodules of the framework, a larger geographical scope is envisaged. This is particularly the case for sub-models that assess effects surpassing the boundaries of the study area, such as the estimation of reduced business activities in the occurrence of river floods.