Environmental Engineering MSc

This course equips you with the knowledge and skills to solve a wide range of environmental engineering challenges. The course covers municipal and hazardous waste management, process emissions, contaminated land, water, wastewater and waste disposal. The programme also addresses energy and resource recovery from waste materials.

• Study a course with accreditation by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) and the Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE)
• Benefit from Cranfield’s applied focus by working on real problems faced in industry during your studies.
• Participate in individual and group projects focused on your personal interests and career aspirations.
• Learn from lecturers with extensive, current experience of working with industry on solving real world environmental challenges.
• Technical modules incorporate a range of industry relevant topics including Pollution and Prevention and Remediation Technologies and land Engineering Principles.
• Management modules cover essential topics such as Waste Management in a Circular Economy and Environmental Risks: Hazard, Assessment and Management.

The Environmental Engineering MSc is closely aligned with industry to ensure that you are fully prepared for your new career:

• An Industrial Advisory Board for the programme scrutinises course content and ensures its relevance to the needs of global employers.
• Industry practitioners contribute directly to the course by teaching alongside academics from Cranfield ensuring the relevance of course content to the professional world. For example;Tarmac contributes to the Land Engineering Principles Practices module is a lecture on Quarry Restoration: case study. This also includes a site visit to Tarmac's Broom Quarry site to look at the on-going site restoration.
• Sixty percent of the course is focused on applied research projects including group projects (20%) and an individual thesis project (40%); both also supported by industry and environmental sector organisations.