Energy and Environmental Engineering
"Finding economically workable energy options that are environmentally acceptable is perhaps the greatest single challenge facing our nation and the world in the 21st century."
(Left) A new thin material developed in an MIT ChemE graduate lab to improve the power output of a type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent. (Hammond Group)
Energy and Environmental Engineering
Making energy available to society requires finding and producing fuel, improving the efficiency of energy use under the ultimate limits imposed by thermodynamics, and reducing the effects of these processes on the environment. Chemical engineers are working to design new processes to produce less waste, as well as developing alternative energy sources and assessing the effects of pollutants on human health.
