Environmental Engineering Cluster

About the Department

First established in 1950 as Public Health Engineering, the Environmental Engineering MSc course at Imperial College provides advanced training for engineers and scientists concerned with the control of pollution in the environment and the protection of public health through the provision of services such as water supply, wastewater treatment and municipal solid waste and hazardous waste management. The multidisciplinary nature of the subject is reflected in the staff involved in the course, whose backgrounds include chemistry, biology, statistics, geology, materials, and medicine, as well as civil engineering.

Building on the existing Environmental Engineering MSc, we now offer a tailored track with a special focus on Data Science applications in Environmental Engineering. The aim of this add-on option of our degree is to provide a concise and comprehensive introduction to key scientific methods for data analysis and mathematical optimization from both a theoretical and an applied viewpoint.

Aims and Objective

The Environmental Engineering MSc Cluster programs provide both engineers and scientists with a rigorous treatment of the fundamental principles and practices of assessing and protecting the environment and human health.   The program deals with major topics in the provision of environmental services such as water supply, wastewater treatment, municipal solid waste and hazardous waste management, and resource conservation and recovery as applied to both developed and developing countries.  The multidisciplinary nature of Environmental Engineering is reflected in the staff involved in the course, whose backgrounds include chemistry, biology, statistics, geology, materials, and medicine, as well as civil engineering.

Distinctive features of this program include its broad coverage of problems and issues concerned with the supply of clean water, sustainable waste management, and pollution control; clear focus on providing the underlying science and technology to develop and understand engineering solutions to these problems; and opportunities to carry out research in key areas of environmental engineering as part of national and international research projects. 

The MSc Cluster programs aim  to:

1. Equip graduates with the skill base for careers in industry, the public sector, and non-governmental organizations;

2. Provide, through taught modules and a research-based dissertation, the basis for understanding  the major challenges, features, and opportunities within environmental engineering or the protection of the environment and public health;

3. Develop an understanding of how this knowledge may be applied in practice in an economic and environmentally sustainable manner;

4. Foster the acquisition and implementation of broad research and analytical skills related to environmental engineering;

5. Attract highly motivated students irrespective of race, gender, background, and physical disability, from the UK and overseas;

6. Develop new areas of teaching in response to the advance of scholarship and the needs of the community including vocational training;

7. Provide an introduction to the subject for students from other relevant disciplines.