Environmental Engineering

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1. Environmental Engineering Database
Contact Name: Zikri Ahmed Organization:The Cooper Union

EPA provides guidelines for waste reduction. It does not provide pollution prevention technology. The environmental awareness and designer skills are the cornerstone for pollution prevention technology. Engineering students should learn the skills in order to become environmentally conscious and to avoid costly training after graduation. The lack of reliable, quantifiable information on environmental fate and health data is an impediment to effective class analysis and strategic design policy. Compilation of such information assists in locating potential trouble spots and provide ideas on how to reduce environmental risks and develop safe design. One of the areas that is of most concern to our daily life represents an interesting module is municipal wastewater. A prototype database system has been constructed from the information contained in the annual survey of municipal wastewater in the New York – New Jersey area. The database module developed spans hundreds of pollutants and can project wastewater emissions in urban and suburban regions. It is therefore a useful guide to safe design. Database modules together with case studies that cover other areas such as chemical, pharmaceutical, electronic, electrochemical and oil industries have also been developed. The objectives of this project is to establish an information sharing database system that can be used by students and teachers to estimate comprehensive profiles of domestic and industrial pollution for regions and urban areas and to provide them with a reliable picture and better understanding of the concept of environmental engineering in more details. It can also provide them with the basic training required to enhance their abilities to implement alternative technology. It is also expected that these developed modules will serve as educational tools for integrating environmental factors into other courses.

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