The Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences is a vibrant academic community with focus areas in environmental process engineering, hydrogeology, environmental health physics and radiochemistry, environmental chemistry, and sustainable systems. We have one of the nation’s largest environmental engineering and earth sciences programs which U.S. News and World Report ranks in the top 25 for programs of its kind in the country. The department offers undergraduate B.S. degrees in Geology with Environmental Geology and Hydrogeology emphasis areas. An option for a B.A. degree and Geology minor is also available. Students who complete our M.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees produce high-quality research and design within Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences.
FACULTY POSITION: Environmental Process Engineering
Dr. Leslie Grady and Dr. Bill Hiatt (Ph.D., EE&S) were selected to receive 2009 Rudolf Industrial Waste Management Medal from Water Environment Federation for their publications in the Water Environment Research journal:Hiatt, W. C. and Grady, C. P. L. Jr., "An updated process model for carbon oxidation, nitrification, and denitrification", Water Environment Research, 80, 2145-2156, 2008.
Hiatt, W. C. and Grady, C. P. L. Jr., "Application of the activated sludge model for nitrogen to elevated nitrogen conditions", Water Environment Research, 80, 2134-2144, 2008.
EEES faculty have received impressive research awards...[more]
Dr. Tom Overcamp was presented with the Outstanding Associate Editor Award, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (2009).
Dr. Glen Daigger, Senior Vice President of CH2M Hill, an international environmental consulting firm, and former department chair of our program from 1992-1995 was appointed President of IWA (International Water Association). His term will begin in August, 2010. He will be inducted at the Montreal Congress.
Geologist James W. Castle and ecotoxicologist John H. Rodgers have published findings that toxin-producing algae were a deadly factor in mass extinctions millions of years ago in their paper entitled "Hypothesis for the role of toxin-producing algae in Phanerozoic mass extinctions based on evidence from the geologic record and modern environments." The paper was published in the March 2009 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Geosciences, Vol 16, No. 1, pp 1-23. The research not only provides new insights into the past but also offers a caution about the future. The scientists say that current environmental conditions show significant similarity to times when previous mass extinctions occurred...[more]
Several EEES students received national recognition. Hari Shankar Peethambaram, a current EE&S graduate student was selected as a recipient of the Ivanhoe Foundation Fellowship. Jesse Addison, Darryl Jones, and Jia Hu attended the AWWA Annual Conference in San Diego in June. Jesse received the Best M.Sc. Thesis 2nd Place Award and Darryl received 2009 AWWA Lars Ph.D. Scholarship. Jia represented South Carolina at the Poster Session with her poster "Formation and Speciation of Halonitromethanes: the Effects of pH, Bromide and Nitrite," Jia was awarded 2nd Place for Fresh Ideas Award of the Poster Session.
DEFENSE OF THE TENACIOUS TIGER TROPHY. On October 31st, teams of faculty, students and alumni are invited to compete against each other in the Spinx Run Fest 5k and half-marathon in Greenville, SC...[more]