Gain practical hands-on experience to help you understand the fundamentals of environmental and civil engineering. As you progress through your engineering course, you’ll have access to a wide range of equipment including basic water quality meters, balances, drying ovens and furnaces. You’ll also have the opportunity to use more complex equipment, such as spectrophotometers and total organic carbon analysers.
The labs are available to staff, and undergraduate and postgraduate students completing their environmental or civil engineering degrees. Students undertaking their higher degree by research, as well as academic staff, also use the labs for research projects.
Environmental engineering research experts
If you have an idea for a research project but don’t have the equipment, our talented team of technical staff can fabricate a variety of equipment such as forward osmosis systems, low pressure filtration systems, membrane distillation systems and ozone delivery systems.
Check out our mobile water monitoring station that can be left on site to log water quality parameters such as conductivity, turbidity and pH as well as recording rainfall and flow rates. Through this research equipment, water samples can be collected after rainfall or high-flow events depending on the sampling program detected, and regular monitoring data can be accessed remotely.
When you study environmental engineering at Deakin you get real-world experience via project-oriented design-based learning. You’ll undertake team-based projects and develop solutions to current industry needs, so you can hit the ground running when you graduate.
The labs have a variety of equipment including:
We also have a lab scale biogas generation system with gas analyser and air quality equipment, including an optical particle sizer and counter.
Our partners are valued members of the wider Deakin engineering family, not just our school. Opportunities to partner with us include work-integrated learning and industry-based learning and placements, student projects, commercial research projects and services.
If you have further questions about our labs, please get in touch.
