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Undergraduate Programs

WPI students who want to make a difference in the world through their technical, engineering, and scientific expertise find in the Environmental Engineering (EVE) program a suitable convergence. These studies bring opportunities for course work and projects that can make practical, useful, and visionary changes in current practices from water processing to housing design.

Students, working closely with pioneers in fields of environmental, civil, chemical, and mechanical engineering on solutions to environmental imperatives, gain experience applicable in a wide range of careers that will improve quality of life.

With demands for humanity’s needs increasing globally and exponentially, WPI’s Environmental Engineering program prepares graduates for rewarding, groundbreaking careers in consulting, industry, research, policy-making, and business areas, such as: helping keep water supplies safe, designing processes to reduce chemical toxicity, developing new capabilities for energy production, and restoring ecosystems for future generations.

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Faculty Profile

Name: Jeanine Plummer
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Title: Associate Professor

Plummer, director of the Environmental Engineering program, was installed as the first Schwaber Professor of Environmental Engineering.

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Faculty Profile

Name: John Bergendahl
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Title: Associate Professor

My current research interests focus on increasing our knowledge of physical and chemical processes for enabling sustainable design of engineered systems.

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Faculty Profile

Name: Terri Camesano
Department: Chemical Engineering
Title: Professor

Camesano studies how cranberry juice can block staph infections from developing in the body, as well as topics in environmental engineering.

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Faculty Profile

Name: William Clark
Department: Chemical Engineering
Title: Associate Professor

Clark holds a PhD from Rice University. His interests include industrial and environmental separation processes, particularly those with applications in biotechnology.

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Faculty Profile

Name: David DiBiasio
Department: Chemical Engineering
Title: Associate Professor

DiBiasio has been head of the Chemical Engineering Department since 2006. He was elected a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education in 2009.

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Faculty Profile

Name: Frederick Hart
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Title: Professor

I have been teaching at WPI for more than 30 years and still feel young and enthusiastic about what I do, mainly because the young people at WPI are enthusiastic about what they do.

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Faculty Profile

Name: Nikolaos Kazantzis
Department: Chemical Engineering
Title: Professor

Kazantzis became a full professor of chemical engineering in 2011 and is an internationally recognized authority on the nonlinear control of dynamical systems.

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Faculty Profile

Name: Paul Mathisen
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Title: Associate Professor

My teaching and research concentrate in the areas of water resources and environmental engineering. I enjoy challenging myself to learn new ideas and concepts.

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Faculty Profile

Name: Brian Savilonis
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Title: Professor

For Professor Savilonis, the project mode of education is a significant tenet of WPI; project based courses are common, along with the required IQP and MQP.

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Faculty Profile

Name: John Sullivan
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Title: Professor

Sullivan’s emphasis on engineering diversity lends itself well to the multiple aspects of environmental engineering.

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Faculty Profile

Name: Robert Thompson
Department: Chemical Engineering
Title: Professor

Thompson’s interests include applied kinetics and reactor analysis, especially as applied to analysis of particulate systems.

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