Environmental Engineering Research
Practical Research
- Donna Lutz, assistant scientist, tracks water quality in the Des Moines River network. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been funding the project since 1967.
Research conducted by environmental engineering faculty is geared toward understanding the fundamental physical, chemical and biological principles of engineered and natural systems. The research has a strong emphasis on practical applications as demonstrated by bench-scale experimentation, pilot- and field-scale demonstration projects, and computer modeling and simulations.
Specifically, the faculty and staff research the following topics (researchers in parentheses):
Environmental Engineering
- Physical-chemical treatment processes for drinking water and water reuse (Van Leeuwen and Ong)
- Municipal wastewater and biosolids treatment, and nutrient removal (Alleman, Ellis, Sung, Van Leeuwen, and Jones)
- Anaerobic treatment of industrial and agribusiness wastewater (Allenman, Sung, and Ellis)
- Physical-chemical and aerobic biological treatment processes for industrial wastewater (Alleman, Van Leeuwen, Ellis, Sung and Ong)
- Resource recovery from waste and wastewater (Van Leeuwen, Ong, Ellis and Sung)
- Energy recovery from animal wastes and agricultural products (Sung, Ellis and van Leeuwen)
- Fate of xenobiotics in engineered and natural systems (Ellis, Ong, and Gaunt)
- Site remediation technologies for contaminated sites (Ong)
- Pollution prevention and waste reduction (Van Leeuwen and Ong)
Water Resources Engineering
- Surface water hydrology, quality monitoring and modeling (Gu, Rehmann, and Lutz)
- Turbulence and mixing in lakes and rivers (Rehmann)
- Environmental hydrodynamics (Rehmann)
Faculty and Staff
- Alleman, James E., Department Chair and Professor
- Bhandari, Alok, Courtesy Associate Professor
- Ellis, Timothy, Associate Professor
- Francois, Brent, Research Associate
- Gaunt, James, Manager, Adjunct Instructor
- Grewell, David, Courtesy Assistant Professor
- Gu, Roy, Associate Professor
- Jones, Stephen, Ext. Civil Engineer
- Khanal, Samir, Research Assistant Professor
- Kim, Sang Hyoun, Postdoc Research Associate
- Koziel, Jacek, Courtesy Associate Professor
- Lutz, Donna, Assistant Scientist
- Ong, Say-Kee, Division Leader and Professor
- Pometto, Tony, Courtesy Professor
- Rehmann, Chris, Assistant Professor
- Schoeller, David, Assistant Scientist
- Sung, Shihwu, Associate Professor
- van Leeuwen, Hans, Professor
Research and Facilities
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