Environmental Engineering

This Environmental Engineering programme from Kaunas University of Technology is joint doctoral studies with Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuanian Energy Institute and Kaunas University of Tehnology (as acoordinating institution). PhD students of this programme have a possibility to acquire a double PhD degree with the University of Bologna (Italy). 

The doctoral studies in Environmental Engineering Environmental Engineering are designed to enable students become first-rate interdisciplinary researchers and acquire the knowledge and skills to succeed in both academic and non-academic career. 

Key facts

• The main objective of the Environmental Engineering programme from Kaunas University of Technology Kaunas University of Technology  is to educate interdisciplinary researchers, who are able to develop systemic innovations to improve and maintain the environment for the protection of human health, for the protection of nature’s beneficial ecosystems, and for the environment-related enhancement of the quality of human life, at the same time maintaining compatibility in business and industry.

Right to doctoral studies acquired in cooperation with Aleksandras Stulginskis University  (Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy – from 2019) and Lithuanian Energy Institute. Right to doctoral studies approved by the order No. V-1124 of the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania of 24 February 2012.

Courses include:

• Biosystems Engineering;

• Modern Environmental Protection Technologies;

• Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy;

• Sustainable Industrial Development;

• Advanced Solid Waste Treatment Technologies;

• Agricultural Waste Decontamination, Processing and Recycling;

• Environmental Geographic Information Systems;

• Life Cycle Assessment;

• Product Ecodesign;

• Production, Usage and Environmental Influence of Biofuel and Biolubricant;

• Sustainable Energy;

• Water Quality Modelling;

• Chemicals Risk Management;

• Environmental Management;

• Environmentally Friendly Technological Processes in Agriculture;

• Nanotechnologies and Environmental Protection;

• Physical – Chemical Analysis Methods of; Environmental Pollution;

• Sustainable Development of Cities;

• Thermodynamic Processes in Biotechnology;

• Vibroacoustic Processes in the System ”Human-Machine-Environment”.