The U.S. News & World Report has released its national rankings of graduate programs and Environmental and Ecological Engineering jumped to 17th in the country, up from 25th the year prior.

Two graduate students with Environmental and Ecological Engineering (EEE) recently attended the 2018 Critical Materials Institute (CMI) winter meeting at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO.

EEE Ph.D. candidate Ehsan Vahidi, and Ph.D. candidate Hongyue Jin both presented their research at the event which focuses on improving technologies that make better use of materials that are essential for American competitiveness in clean energy.

Ehsan Vahidi, a Ph. D. candidate in Environmental and Ecological Engineering has been selected as a recipient of the A.H. Ismail Interdisciplinary Graduate School Grant.

This award is designed to provide travel support for doctoral students in interdisciplinary programs who are presenting their doctoral research at a national or international conference.

Going from textbooks and exams to pom poms and backhand springs is the typical daily routine for Environmental and Ecological Engineering (EEE) senior, Nina Deligio who is also a member of the Purdue cheerleading squad.

When babies crawl, their movement across floors, especially carpeted surfaces, kicks up high levels of dirt, skin cells, bacteria, pollen, and fungal spores, a new study has found. The infants inhale a dose of bio bits in their lungs that is four times (per kilogram of body mass) what an adult would breathe walking across the same floor.

As alarming as that sounds, lead researcher Brandon Boor of Purdue University is quick to add that this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Pedro Alvarez, the George R. Brown Professor of Civil Environmental Engineering at Rice University, will give the keynote address Feb. 2 at the 2018 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Distinguished Lecturer Conference.

The conference will work to bring researchers in the field of environmental engineering together to share their research findings through poster sessions and presentations. It is free and open to the public.

EEE graduate student Andres Valero has been announced as the recipient of an International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) grant totaling over $10,000.

A group of Purdue students in partnership with the Rotary Club of Lafayette are preparing to go Wednesday (Dec. 13) to the Dominican Republic to work on a project implementing water treatment systems.

This trip marks the second stage of a three-year collaboration that began in August.

A class in Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University is stepping outside the typical classroom setting to provide a real-world, client-based design experience for students. EEE 49500, Urban Water Projects was launched in 2013 by the Director of Service Learning, Dr. Lindsay Payne in an effort to provide best-management practices when dealing with items like stormwater.

Environmental and Ecological Engineering (EEE) Professor Larry Nies recently delivered a presentation entitled “Watershed Scale Management of Water Resources: Finding Answers in Large Heterogeneous Data Sets,” as part of the Indiana Water Environment Association (IWEA) annual conference.