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Tuesday, 16 February 2010

PhD in Industrial Ecology in United States

Dear all,

I am a master student in Sweden in Environmental Management field and want to continue my education (Phd) in the field of Industrial Ecology in the United States. I have yet another year to finish my master, but I have to think from now about my thesis work.

United States is so huge and among thousands of web pages and college and university links I am a bit lost. I want to know where are the focal points of research in this field in the US and try to know the main trends so that I can choose my master thesis topic in such a way that increase my chances to continue my Phd in a very credible academic environment.

I am generally interested in Industrial Ecology, however I like to focus more in topics like Industrial Symbiosis, Crade-to-Cradle, Eco-Effectiveness and so on.


Can you please advise me about this. What schools in the United States are the leaders of research in this field?

If they are several (which surely they are) what are their focus areas (their strong fields) related to the mentioned topics?

I really appreciate your hints and advices.

(master student in Linkoping University, Sweden)

posted by Roozbeh at 22:19

2 Comments:

  • Hi, there are three universities in the US that have research groups directly involved with Industrial Ecology. These are the university of Maine, Cornell and Yale. The most famous one is Yale and you can find there prominent professors of Industrial Ecology like Tom Graedel, Reid Lifset and Marian Chertow. For info and links to these research groups you can visit ieportal.wordpress.com and go to "academia"

    By Blogger Yorgos, At 18 February 2010 01:40  

  • There are many other programs in the US where you can focus on IE for a PhD with leading IE scholars, here are a few:

    Arizona State University
    Carnegie-Mellon Univ - LCA/engineering focus
    Clarkson Univ
    Rochester Inst. Technology
    U. of California, Berkeley (energy focus)
    U. of California, Santa Barbara
    U. of Michigan
    U. of Minnesota

    By Blogger Weslynne, At 5 April 2010 23:14  

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