Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, PhD

Program Description

Our complex world faces many challenges, including contaminated water supplies, hazardous wastes, an increasing population and limited resources. The PhD program in Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences provides students with a comprehensive background in one or more fundamental aspects of environmental engineering, environmental science and/or the earth sciences. The major field of study is generally interdisciplinary in nature, consisting of coursework in several areas of the basic and applied sciences, as well as the engineering sciences, so that a better understanding of our earth and environment is obtained and to develop better solutions for the critical problems that we face now and in the future. Using principles of biology, chemistry, physics, geology, mathematics and engineering, our PhD graduates work to:

• improve and protect air, water and soil quality,
• ensure public safety and health,
• evaluate and design products and processes for a more sustainable future,
• develop sustainable approaches to energy and resource management, and
• better understand the natural processes and human influences that shape our planet.

Each student’s PhD curriculum and research program is tailored to suit his/her personal and professional goals.

For additional information, please visit https://www.clemson.edu/cecas/departments/eees/academics/gradprog/eees/index.html.