Environment
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The increasing demand in our society for environmental engineering expertise and innovative solutions to problems has been met at the University of Kassel and in various departments, including the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, through a future-oriented appointment strategy and an increased environmental focus in teaching and research activities. This has enabled the Institute of Water, Waste and Environment to fundamentally revise and expand the environmental engineering major introduced in the civil engineering course in 1993, with the result that an undergraduate course in environmental engineering has been offered for Bachelor's and Master's courses since the winter semester 2008 / 2009 and has been very well received.
The focus is supported by the following specialist areas of the department:
- Hydrology and Materials Management
- Resource management and waste technology
- Urban water management
- Transport planning and transport systems
- Hydraulic engineering and water management
Since October 2011, the Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR) has also been home to the Chair of
- Sustainable Resource Management.
The profile in the environmental field includes the areas of
- Climate protection and climate adaptation in the areas of transportation and water
- Energy from waste
- Nanotechnology for water and wastewater
- Sensor array technology
- New sanitation concepts
- Renewable energies: Water, biogas
- Environmentally compatible flood protection
- Watercourse development
- Environmentally friendly passenger and freight transportation
- Post-fossil mobility
- Material flows
- Chemicals in the aquatic environment
- Anthropogenic interventions in the water balance
- Sustainable resource management
- Components for the ecological improvement of hydropower plants
The mostly interdisciplinary research approaches are not only represented within the subject areas - for example through the wide-ranging training profiles of the research staff - but there are also diverse and concrete collaborations in joint research projects or events within the university across subject area and departmental boundaries, but also with external partners in the region, in Germany and abroad.