DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

The prime goal of the department is to promote education, research, and outreach the needy society.

Provide practical education in the fields of environmental management, climate change and sustainable development and a mending it as a destination of choice for higher learning in the country.

Making it as a distinctive research and development institution with committed faculty and researchers to benefit the economy, society and the environment

Collaborate with academic, governmental, non-governmental, business, industry and non-profit organizations that have similar objectives as the department to create synergy to address the issues and challenges in the natural resource and environmental management, climate change and sustainable development.

Emerging as a preferred partner for creating technological solutions and policy innovations

Contributing to the knowledge base for the government initiatives in the field of environment, climate change and sustainable development

Search for multidisciplinary approach to the possible challenges to the public health and hygiene

Development of various suitable programs in the field of environment, climate change and sustainability

Act as an urban observatory for the improvement of the functioning of urban and local bodies.

Taking up R & D activities in the thrust areas of Environment, climate change and sustainable development

Instrumental in designing and development of skill development programs

Disseminating the knowledge to the society through community development programs

Interaction with national and international institutions of repute for collaboration, sharing of knowledge in a mutually beneficial way

Addressing the issues of government organizations / department and local industries for better environmental management

Taking up projects for the development of innovative research and incubation with outcomes to the benefit of the environment and society

Adopting leading edge technologies and excellent best practices to achieve the goals

PROFILE

The Honorable Vice-Chancellor Prof. P.V.G.D. Prasad Reddy garu inaugurated the Department of Environmental Science, Engineering and Management (DESAM) on 2nd April, 2022 as a constituent department of the A.U. College of Engineering. The Andhra University, all the times, took several initiatives to focus on the emerging and important faculties in engineering and started an undergraduate program in Environmental Engineering (B.Tech. (Civil Environmental Engineering)) in 1980s. It made the Andhra University as the lead university to the other institutions in south India in recognizing the importance of the environmental engineering. It helped the university to take the lead in providing Environmental Engineers to the national and international organizations. Continuing the traditions, it will always necessary to position the university to embark on the new frontier areas of social, economical, cultural, scientific and technological challenges.

Hence, the department started the B.Tech. (Environmental Engineering) program from the academic year 2021-2022. The department is offering doctoral programs (Ph.D.) in the Environmental science, Engineering and Management. In addition to these programs department envisages to offer post graduate programs, continuing education programs, professional training programs in the field of environmental engineering and management.

The Department is actively participating actively in the National Clean Air Program (NCAP), which is taken up by the Andhra University through an MoU with five major urban local bodies of the state of Andhra Pradesh. The department got projects to the tune of 5 crores during these two academic years.

The department has active industry interaction enabling the students to have better exposure to the current environmental engineering and management practices in the industry. It also helps in extending the internships in various industrial organizations.