The department is engaged in education and research within hydraulic engineering, hydropower development, hydrology, urban water systems, environmental engineering and solid waste management.
Our ambition:
To be the undisputedly most important centre of competence with in the area of hydraulic and environmental engineering in Norway-as well as being at level with the best centres internationally. We have a very comprehensive research activity of high quality, and internationally oriented in good cooperation with SINTEF.
Our greatest challenge:
To recruit as many students to our study program as is required by those engineering areas that we serve in society
Our short-time goal:
To get better cooperation with other departments and study programs in our new faculty of Engineering Science and Technology