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The Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences is a vibrant academic community with focus areas in environmental process engineering, biosystems 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 Environmental Engineering and Biosystems Engineering as well as an undergraduate B.S. degree in Geology with Environmental Geology and Hydrogeology emphasis areas. Students who complete our M.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees produce high-quality research and design within Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences and Biosystems Engineering.  An option for a B.A. degree in Geology and minors in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science and Policy and Geology are also available.  Our Department also offers a number of 5-year BS/MS options.

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NEW FACULTY POSITION!

A new faculty position is available in Environmental Sustainability...read ad


ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE!

Our Department now offers an Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Degree.  It is the only program degree of its type in South Carolina.   Watch the video! Video Camera  Environmental Engineering has been continuously reported as one of the best jobs with great pay and growth prospects in many recent news articles: Money Magazine, IEEE-USA Today's Engineer, The Consumerist, US Department of Labor, and Csemag.com

US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT GRADUATE PROGRAM RANKINGS for 2011 were announced. The EEES Environmental Engineering graduate program was ranked 17th among public universities. Ninety-five environmental engineering graduate programs around the country were ranked. Environmental Engineering is the highest ranked graduate engineering program at Clemson.

EEES WELCOMES TWO NEW FACULTY!
Dr.  Lindsay Shuller-Nickles received her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2010.  Her research and teaching interests are in the fields of environmental mineralogy, actinide chemistry, geochemistry, and computational materials science. She integrates computational and experimental techniques to evaluate the stability of nuclear materials and waste streams throughout the nuclear fuel cycle – from fuels to waste forms. For example, one initiative focuses on understanding the immobilization of radionuclides in the environment via sorption onto mineral surfaces, incorporation into rock-forming or uranyl minerals, or precipitation as solid phases.

Dr. Minory Nammouz received her Curriculum and Instruction with emphasis on science education in 2005 from Clemson University.  Her research and teaching interests are to study how students learn science, develop methods to improve students' learning, and develop physical science courses for elementary education majors.

SELECTED EEES STUDENT ACTIVITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Christina Anderson and Catherine Ruprecht led a group of Clemson engineering students to Liberia, West Africa to implement sustainable engineering projects which the students had worked on in their Creative Inquiry class.

David Hisz won an Outstanding Student Paper award for his presentation at the 2010 Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco, California.

Salmatta Ibrahim received an award from the Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund administered by the United Nations World Bank.

Lee Hering worked with ESG Operations at the Warner Robins Water and Wastewater Plants in Warner Robins, GA this summer.  As an intern, he worked closely with several engineering in the early stages of a multi-million dollar upgrade to the plants.

Peng Luo received a 2010-11 Roy G. Post Foundation Graduate Student Scholarship in the amount of $5,000.

April Gillens was awarded the 2011 Department of Homeland Security Nuclear Forensics Fellow.  She is currently characterizing organic solvents associated with nuclear reprocessing via stable isotopes.

Kay Millerick and Francisco Barajas attended the US-EC Course in Environmental Biotechnology is Lausanne, Switzerland.

Glenn Skawski studied in Japan this summer as part of a prestigious 2011 National Science Foundation Summer Travel Fellowship.