Dear ENVSE alums,
Enrollment in the Environmental Systems Engineering (ENVSE) program remains strong with a total of 117 students as of fall 2023, including thirty-seven students currently in the major and another eighty students who have indicated ENVSE as their preference across all campuses. Although down from the peak enrollments of five to six years ago, the number of ENVSE B.S. degrees conferred has remained relatively constant with approximately thirty graduates per year.
At the end of the fall 2022 semester, Dr. Ljubisa Radovic announced his retirement. Department Head Sanjay Srinivasan expressed his sincere thanks to Ljubisa for his dedicated and effective service to the department at the Spring 2023 Awards Luncheon. We are in the process of identifying instructors for core-courses previously taught by Dr. Radovic including EGEE 470 Air Pollutants from Combustion Sources, which our alumni frequently identify as being particularly relevant in their work.
The student Society of Environmental Systems Engineers (SESE) has been very active holding meetings, organizing social events such as the October Halloween outing to Harner Farms, coordinating events with other student societies, and promoting the major to prospective students at the Earth and Mineral Sciences Exposition (EMEX). The student society has also continued the tradition of inviting program graduates back as speakers and has found the SESE Group on LinkedIn to be very useful for maintaining ties with ENVSE alumni. The LinkedIn SESE Group currently has eighty-one members, and all current and former students are encouraged to join and network with their fellow ENVSE students and grads.
The ENVSE program continues to benefit from the generous donations of industry stakeholders. Funding provided by Chevron allows the program to maintain and upgrade equipment that is critical to our teaching laboratories. In addition, Baker Hughes previously donated a field mobile X-ray Fluorescence (XRF)instrument (Thermo-Scientific Niton FXL) for elemental analysis. It is anticipated that this instrument will find use in the laboratories of both program options. The support of Chevron and other industry partners over the years is greatly appreciated.
Sincerley,
Bill Groves
Associate Professor of Industrial Health and Safety
Program Chair of Environmental Systems Engineering