Departmental Unit № 1
Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering (CAEE)
PhD in Environmental Engineering
100% Full Funding Guaranteed (Research / Teaching Assistantships)
Funding Package: Full tuition scholarship + monthly living stipend (~$28,000–$32,000/yr) + health insurance provided to all admitted doctoral students through departmental GRA/GTA appointments.
Fall Priority Deadline: January 15 (Fall Priority)
GRE Policy: Optional / Not strictly required
English Minimums: TOEFL iBT 80 or IELTS 6.5
MS in Environmental Engineering (Thesis Option)
GRA Funding Potential with Funded PI
Funding Reality: Exceptional MS thesis candidates with wet-lab and computational skills may receive research assistantship funding.
Application Deadline: February 1
Admissions Advisory: If full funding is required and MS is self-funded, students are strongly advised to apply directly to the PhD track.
Vetted Matched Scholars (1 Profiles)
Prof. David Lampert
Associate Professor of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
In Plain Terms · What This Scholar Does:
He places digital water-quality sensors inside stormwater sewers and farm ditches to measure fertilizer and chemical spikes during heavy rainstorms, designing rain gardens to filter the pollution out.
Core Research Topics: Water resources engineering, nonpoint source nutrient pollution, urban stormwater hydrology, sensor-based environmental monitoring, hydrodynamic contaminant modeling.
Recent 2024–2026 Works & Grants: Deploying real-time nitrate and phosphorus sensor networks in agricultural drainage ditches and urban storm runoff to evaluate green infrastructure effectiveness and model runoff peak attenuation (EPA / Illinois Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy 2024–2026).
Laboratory Instruments & Methods: EPA SWMM (Storm Water Management Model), real-time optical water quality probes (EXO sondes), GIS watershed delineation, laboratory spectrophotometry, Python.
Recruiting Context: Focuses on applied urban stormwater runoff and agricultural nutrient containment.
Candidate Match:
HydrologyFlood StudiesWater QualityEnvironmental PollutionGIS
Tailored Cold-Email Opening Hook:
"Discussing your interest in urban stormwater management, real-time nutrient runoff sensing, and SWMM hydrological modeling in the Lampert Lab."