Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
Enabling the sustainable and equitable use of Earth's resources is the dominant challenge of our time. The Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering is a small, diverse, and outwardly facing team actively researching and developing solutions to these complex and multidisciplinary problems. We reconcile a deep concern for the environment with the needs of a global industrialized society, pioneering crucial new environmental initiatives.
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Engineering a Sustainable Future
Designing sophisticated energy markets to harness the potential of renewable sources like wind and solar. Crafting water management policies to meet the needs of a rapidly growing urban population. Conceptualizing mines of the future that pair greater efficiency with a lower environmental impact. Researchers within Earth and Environmental Engineering forge practical solutions to global-scale ecological challenges.
Image: Professor J. Lamar Worzel is part of a team using AI and machine learning to develop more accurate models to predict extreme weather events and mitigate their impacts.
Earth and Environmental Engineering Department
Henry Krumb School of Mines
918 S. W. Mudd, MC 4711, New York, NY 10027