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The Hazardous Materials Management track provides students with the knowledge
and skills needed to function as professionals and scientists in the management
of hazardous  substances. They gain the basic knowledge
necessary to identify, handle, transport, treat, and dispose of hazardous chemical
substances in compliance with existing laws and regulations. Graduates in this
area find employment opportunities with federal, state, and local governments,
private industry, and consulting firms. Potential employers with the most critical
needs are facilities using hazardous materials, producing hazardous wastes, and
those which specialize in the transport, disposal, destruction, and recovery
of hazardous materials.
By choosing appropriate elective courses and
thesis or dissertation topics, students in hazardous materials management have
the option of pursuing advanced study and research in environmental/human health
protection, use and disposal of hazardous materials on biological systems, migration,
fate and transformation of hazardous materials in the environment, site safety,
multi-media exposure, and environmental regulations.
Faculty research interests span a range of topics related to hazardous substances
including modeling of environmental transport, personal protective equipment,
methods of measurement for atmospheric, aquatic, and terrestrial contamination,
remediation of contaminated sites, biological monitoring of human response to
assess exposure, and possible effects of such exposures.
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