Water & Environmental Engineering
Introduction
The graduate program in Water and Environmental Engineering at UNB provides education and research opportunities in a variety of areas related to water and environmental issues. The following areas are particular strengths: hydrology; water supply; contaminant fate and transport in surface water, soil and groundwater; environmental hydraulics; water quality management; numerical modelling of groundwater and surface water quality; contaminated soils and aquatic sediments; biological and physico-chemical wastewater treatment; solid waste and hazardous waste management; and environmental engineering design.
Research Topics
Some of the specific research topics being pursued include:
- Physical and chemical processes related to the transport and fate of subsurface contaminants, especially reactive solutes
- Finite-element and analytical modelling of groundwater flow and solute transport
- Impact of nitrate and pesticides on groundwater quality
- Surface water/groundwater interactions
- Numerical modelling in environmental hydraulics
- Lake and river hydrodynamics and water quality
- Contaminated sediments
- High-rate anaerobic bioreactors
- Biofouling and biocorrosion
- Biochemical oxygen demand forecasting systems
- Centrifuge modeling of multiphase flow
- Hydraulic conductivity of clay liners
Graduate Courses in Water and Environmental Engineering
CE 6153 (3 ch) Environmental Geotechnics
CE 6155 (3 ch) Environmental Geotechnics II
CE 6413 (3 ch) Physical and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering
CE 6416 (3 ch) Industrial Wastewater Treatment
CE 6423 (3 ch) Biological Processes in Environmental Engineering
CE 6443 (3 ch) Water Quality Modelling
CE 6451 (3 ch) Environmental Engineering Lab I
CE 6452 (3 ch) Environmental Engineering Lab II
CE 6463 (3 ch) Solid Waste Management Systems
CE 6483 (3 ch) Environmental Engineering
CE 6713 (3 ch) Advanced Hydraulics and Sediment Transport
CE 6763 (3 ch) Numerical Modelling of Groundwater Flow and Solute Transport
CE 6773 (3 ch) Contaminant Hydrogeology
CE 69XY (3 ch) Special Studies in Environmental Engineering
Complete List and Description of Civil Engineering Graduate Courses
Other Courses:
TME 6003 (3 ch) Environmental Management
Note: Not all the above courses are offered in any one year. Courses related to Water and Environmental Engineering offered by other departments at UNB may be considered for graduate credit with the permission of the Director of Graduate Studies of the Department of Civil Engineering.
Faculty:
A. Brian Cooke, BSc (Dal), Dipl Eng (SMU), BEng (TUNS), PhD (Queen's)
Senior Teaching Associate
Katy A. Haralampides, BA Biology, BScE (Queen's), MScE (Windsor), PhD (New Orleans)
Associate Professor
Kerry T. B. MacQuarrie, BScE (UNB), MSc, PhD (Waterloo), PEng
Associate Professor
Kripa S. Singh, BE (Birla), ME (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand), PhD (Regina), PEng
Associate Professor
Bruce G. Wilson, BASc, MASc (Toronto), PhD (McMaster), PEng
Associate Professor
