Research Focus Areas
The Center for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering (CSE3) brings together faculty and affiliates committed to supporting local, regional, and national industries by addressing their most pressing challenges. Our team of subject-matter experts spans diverse fields, including environmental engineering, economics, electrical engineering, industrial technology, STEM education, and construction management, among others. Our faculty have a strong track record of securing research funding from local, state, and federal agencies. Their research covers a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
- Additive construction and manufacturing
- Biofuels
- Coastal hydrology
- Ecosystem restoration and services
- Environmental engineering
- Energy efficiency
- Energy and lean assessments
- Environmental and green bioethics
- Grid-scale energy storage
- Life-cycle cost analysis (LCA)
- Operations research and applied statistics
- Sustainable and renewable energy
- Sustainability and resilience planning
- Sustainable materials
- Solar-assisted devices and processes
- Ocean energy
- Textile recycling
- Thermo-fluid systems
- Nature-based solutions
- Flood reduction
- Watershed and field-scale modeling
- Water quality