Stormwater, Water Supply and Wastewater

The Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment

Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences

Preserving Surface Water and Groundwater Quality Improving Drinking Water Quality Improving Stormwater Collection and Treatment Improving Wastewater Treatment Developing more sustainable urban water systems

Education for Leadership Roles

Research Outcomes Research Benefits

Sustainable solutions to water quantity and quality problems. Improved surface and groundwater quality Improved drinking water quality Beneficial water reuse Balanced development of supply and demand management systems

Research Focus Areas

Fundamental characterization of aqueous and particulate-phase contaminants including emerging contaminants: representative ambient monitoring, methodology and load quantification. Sourcing and generation of aqueous and particulate phase contaminants, physics and chemistry of contaminant transport and fate. Water contaminant control: systems, unit operation and processes, and materials development, in particular innovative mass transfer materials and low impact development materials. Water reuse as part of the urban water cycle: volumetric and contaminant load impacts, Unit operation and process modeling: scalable physical models and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Integrated physical, chemical, biological and thermal treatment phenomena for water cycle components. Coupling fundamental monitoring and material balance testing with urban water modeling. Fundamental and applied studies of physical-chemical water treatment processes, such as adsorption, coagulation, ion exchange, and oxidation, for a wide range of water qualities including surface water, groundwater, membrane concentrate, landfill leachate, and human urine. Innovative applications of ion exchange for water treatment. Fundamental studies in aquatic chemistry with a focus on the role of natural organic matter. Fundamental and applied studies of adsorption and photocatalysis, including surface optimization Bottom up integrated urban water system simulation and optimization

Facilities

Environmental Engineering Science Unit Operations and Process (UOP) Testing facilities, Water Treatment Process Labs and associated state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation. Water Reclamation and Reuse Laboratory.

Research Opportunities

Federal, state and industry contracts and grants provide support for graduate and undergraduate research. Graduate fellowships and assistantships with full tuition waiver and competitive stipends.

Employment Opportunities

Graduates are contributing to solving water contamination problems in academia, consulting engineering firms, governmental regulatory agencies, water utilities, and industry (petroleum, mining, energy)

Faculty
Treavor H. Boyer , Ph.D. John J Sansalone , Ph.D. , P.E.

Courses
Professor Physical and computational coupling of unit operations and processes subject to unsteady episodic and long-term hydrologic and wastewater loadings. Sustainable infrastructure material systems and components such as reactive permeable pavements and engineered soils. Physical and chemical monitoring of aqueous, PM transport and geotechnical/ soil phenonema. Anthropogenic alteration and coupling of hydrology, chemistry, particulate transport and thermal loads of the built environment, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for unit operations and processes, and restoration and reuse of stormwater and wastewater.
John Zoltek , Jr. , Ph.D. , P.E.

Assistant Professor Physical-chemical water treatment processes, anion exchange technology, formation and control of disinfection byproducts, aquatic chemistry and water quality, characterization and removal of natural organic matter.
Paul A. Chadik , Ph.D. , P.E.

Associate Professor; Department Head Water treatment, disinfection byproduct formation and control.
James P. Heaney , Ph.D. , P.E.

Phase Partitioning in the Environment Principles of Water Chemistry Activated Carbon: Environmental Design and Application Wastewater Treatment Hydraulic Systems Design Advanced Water Treatment Process Design Advanced Wastewater System Design Advanced Potable Water Systems Design Biological Wastewater Treatment Advanced Stormwater Control Systems Advanced Waste Treatment Operations

Professor Urban water infrastructure, simulation and optimization, decision support systems
Ben Koopman , Ph.D.

Professor; Undergraduate Coordinator Removal of microorganisms by surfacemodified filter media and biofilms, one-dimensional modeling of activated sludge secondary settling tanks, biological nutrient removal.
David W. Mazyck , Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Graduate Study Programs

Masters Program

Contact information

Professor; Graduate Coordinator Thermal reactivation of granular activated carbon (GAC), tailoring GAC for the removal of specific compounds, GAC surface chemistry, photocatalytic processes for water and air treatment.

The 30-credit program can be completed with either a thesis or a courseworkonly option. There is an online Masters program in Stormwater, Water Supply and Wastewater that can be completed by distance learning through the College of Engineering EDGE program (www. ufedge.ufl.edu).
Doctoral Program

For information on graduate admissions requirements, research opportunities and funding information, please visit the web site for the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment at www.essie.ufl.edu.
gradinfo@essie.ufl.edu

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The 90-credit program is research oriented and carried out under the supervision of experienced faculty members who have a record of high quality research and excellent publication records.

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