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title: Environmental Engineering
description: Environmental engineering applies scientific and engineering principles to protect human health and ecosystems. Students analyze water quality, design waste treatment systems, model air pollution, and develop sustainable solutions for soil remediation and resource management.
category: engineering
subcategory: civil-and-environmental-engineering
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/environmental-engineering
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# Environmental Engineering

Environmental engineering applies scientific and engineering principles to protect human health and ecosystems. Students analyze water quality, design waste treatment systems, model air pollution, and develop sustainable solutions for soil remediation and resource management.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 1 Courses • 1 Websites

## Courses

### 1. Transport Processes in the Environment (MIT 1.061)

**Author:** Heidi Nepf

Mass transport in rivers and lakes: deriving and solving differential mass conservation equations for molecular and turbulent diffusion, boundary layers, dissolution, bed-water and air-water exchange, and particle transport. Provides 84 lecture note files, problem sets and simulation videos for modeling pollutant fate in natural waters.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/1-061-transport-processes-in-the-environment-fall-2008/

**Tags:** environmental-fluid-mechanics, mass-transport, turbulent-diffusion, advection-diffusion, contaminant-transport

## Books

### 1. Introduction to Environmental Engineering

**Author:** Mackenzie L. Davis, David A. Cornwell

A sophomore-level textbook grounding the field in mass balances, hydrology, water and wastewater treatment, air and noise pollution, and solid waste, with worked problems throughout. It gives the quantitative basis later environmental engineering courses assume.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0070159181?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, engineering-manufacturing, civil-engineering

### 2. Water and Wastewater

**Author:** Mark J. Hammer, Mark J. Hammer Jr.

Hammer's undergraduate text on municipal water and wastewater systems, covering treatment chemistry and biology, hydraulics, distribution networks, sewage collection, sludge processing, and reuse. Readers finish able to describe how a treatment plant works unit by unit.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0131745425?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, engineering-manufacturing, civil-engineering

## Websites

### 1. wef.org

WEF (Water Environment Federation) is a nonprofit professional association for water-quality professionals. The site provides technical resources, standards and guidelines, publications, training and education (webinars and online courses), event information (including the annual WEFTEC conference), and career resources for water treatment and wastewater professionals.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://wef.org

**Tags:** websites, engineering-manufacturing, civil-engineering

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