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Air Quality

Research and coursework in the Air Quality track encompass a broad range of topics from air quality monitoring, climate change, atmospheric chemistry and dynamics, and health impacts, to air pollution engineering, control and policy. Research addresses monitoring and impact assessment on scales spanning from local (building-scale) to regional and global; from fundamental science to applied social science and community-driven research; and from computational studies to field-based experiments in remote locations. The University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder is uniquely situated amongst one of the world’s greatest ecosystems of academic institutions and national labs engaged in atmospheric research. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are located within 30 minutes of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder.

Clean Technology

Using the existing strengths at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ to train professional engineers that will be at the forefront of the interface between technology and the environment. Our students receive preparation to become the energy leaders of the future by studying in a world-leading venue for energy education. You will be developing novel environmental sensors and models, software, and data analytics that will be used for everything from reducing traffic to enhancing crop growth, from improving infrastructure safety to greenhouse gas emissions assessment.

ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder is a world leader in environmental science and engineering as evidenced by being #1 in EPA-funded science and engineering research. The Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering is a big driver of technology development and assessment and leads the way in renewable energy research, such as energy storage for sustainability, wind energy and solar cell materials. Close partnerships with national research laboratories in the Boulder area further strengthen our research programs. 

Energy & Environment 

Energy and environment research in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering is focused on a wide range of both fundamental and applied problems related to energy conversion, heat and mass transfer, combustion, and fluid mechanics. Experimental, theoretical, and computational approaches are used to study thermalfluids phenomena covering an enormous range of scales, from heat transport at micro and nano scales to the properties of the atmosphere and ocean over many kilometers.