The Master of Engineering program is a nine-month advanced engineering degree, combined with project experience in sustainable international development.
The Environmental Engineering graduate program at Cornell is designed to enable students to enhance professional skills in the areas of Environmental Fluid Mechanics & Hydrology, Environmental Processes, and Environmental & Water Resources Systems. The AguaClara Project provides a context to use those skills to create innovative designs for water treatment technologies that will help meet the millennium goal of providing safe drinking water. The program prepares students for careers in environmental engineering with an international perspective.
The AguaClara team is creating simple, efficient, scalable, municipal drinking water treatment plants for particle and pathogen removal. The multiyear project provides well defined goals and a rich network of collaborating organizations.
Since 2004 we have been designing and testing technologies at laboratory scale and at full scale in Honduran communities to develop and implement the best water treatment technologies. The goal of creating sustainable systems in communities that lack reliable electricity has constrained us to develop technologies that can be gravity powered. The project scope includes state of the art research, creation of innovative automated design tools, and full scale implementation in Honduran communities with the goal of scaling up to build water treatment plants throughout the Global South.
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The project team will travel to the project sites in Honduras during the January intersession. The two week January inter-session in Honduras provides an opportunity to present the first semester design work to our partner organizations and to receive their suggestions for refinements during the spring semester. We are also able to evaluate the performance and sustainability of the AguaClara designed water treatment plants that have been built over the past several years in Honduras.
The Environmental Engineering M.Eng degree requires a minimum of 30 credits (typically 10 courses)
Within Environmental Engineering, three specializations are offered:
The supporting courses allow further breadth or depth. It is recommended that students take courses relevant to their career goals in engineering, sciences, foreign language, and international development.
Many students in the M.Eng program receive financial aid to partially offset tuition and living expenses. A competitive fellowship program offers awards covering full tuition and stipend offers awards to top-ranked students across the College of Engineering. In addition, a larger number of half-time assistantships are available to M.Eng students. Students with assistantships typically serve as graders, hold office hours, or perform other duties for 8 hours per week. Applicants wishing to apply for financial aid for the Fall semester must submit their applications by the 1st of February in the same year.
Applications are available online through the Cornell University Graduate School
"Working on the Ojojona water treat-ment project this sem-ester has been a crash course, both in terms of the breadth of material learned, and the skills aquired in working as part of a large team. The week-ly meetings ... have continued to fuel my enthusiasm for this project, and my hopes for a long term greater good that can result from it." -Shada El-Sharif
"...the class work that we've done on technology and society,
and working with such a dynamic and varied group of teammates
has improved my understanding, but continuing to work on this
project in the future, visiting Honduras, constructing the
plant, and implementing the system will bring the understanding
to a deeper level, probably for all of us." -Tammi
Aiken, PE
For more information about the Master of Engineering program, please contact:
Graduate Program Coordinator
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Phone: 607.255.7560
Fax: 607.255.9004
Email:
cee_grad@cornell.edu
221 Hollister Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
For more information about the Honduras Water Supply Project, please contact:
Monroe Weber-Shirk
Phone: 607.255.8445
Fax: 607.255.9004
Email:
mw24@cornell.edu
115 Hollister Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Webmaster:
J. Capurso & M. Weber-Shirk
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