Environmental Engineers

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators (Air incubators)
• Air velocity and temperature monitors (Air velocity meters)
• Air velocity and temperature monitors (Ambient air measurement devices)
• Anaerobic chamber (Anaerobic growth chambers)
• Ionmeters (Argon ionization detectors)
• Atomic absorption AA spectrometers
• Spectrophotometers (Atomic absorption AA spectrophotometers)
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers (Autoclaves)
• Titration equipment (Automatic titrators)
• Laboratory balances (Balances)
• Sample oxidizer (Biological oxidizers)
• Penetrometers (California bearing ratio CBR testing devices)
• Instrumentation for capillary electrophoresis (Capillary electrophoresis systems)
• Benchtop centrifuges (Centrifuges)
• Photo attachments for microscopes (Charge-coupled device CCD cameras)
• Bacteria transformation kits (Chemostats)
• Colorimeters
• Gas detectors (Combustible gas meters)
• Conductivity meters
• Permeability testing apparatus (Consolidometers)
• Core drills (Core drill rigs)
• Desktop computers
• Shear strength testers (Direct shear testing devices)
• Dissolved oxygen meters
• Mud pumps (Electric pumps)
• Electrometers (Electron capture detectors ECD)
• Electronic measuring probes (Environmental probe systems)
• Fluorescent microscopes (Epifluorescence microscopes)
• Flame ionization analyzers (Flame emission detectors)
• Flame ionization analyzers (Flame ionization detectors FID)
• Flowmeters (Flow meters)
• Chemiluminescence or bioluminescence analyzers (Fluorescence detectors)
• Spectrophotometers (Fluorescence spectrophotometers)
• Freeze dryers or lyopholizers (Freeze dryers)
• Fume hoods or cupboards (Fume hoods)
• Gas chromatographs (Gas chromatographs GC)
• Gas gauges (Gas meters)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Geoprobes)
• Global positioning system receivers (Global positioning system GPS devices)
• Isolation glove boxes (Glove box systems)
• Programmable tube furnaces (Graphite furnaces)
• Autosamplers (Headspace autosamplers)
• Open stream current meters (Hydrological current meters)
• Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators (Incubators)
• Electronic measuring probes (Individual burner air measurement IBAM probes)
• Bench refractometers or polarimeters (Interferometeric refractormeters)
• Ion chromatographs
• Photometers (Laser photometers)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Limnological core loggers)
• Core drills (Limnological coring drills)
• Chromatographic detectors (Liquid chromatography detectors)
• Vacuum pumps (Liquid ring pumps)
• Liquid scintillation counters
• Photometers (Luminometers)
• Mass spectrometers
• Atomizers (Mercury/hybrid atomizers)
• Chemiluminescence or bioluminescence analyzers (Microbics toxicity analyzers)
• Laboratory microwave ovens (Microwave digestion instruments)
• Rotary drills (Mud rotary drills)
• Gas detector tubes (Multi gas detector tubes)
• Water analyzers (Multiparameter water quality instruments)
• Air velocity and temperature monitors (Nitrogen oxide burners)
• Notebook computers
• Water analyzers (Nutrient analyzers)
• Organic carbon analyzers
• Laboratory mechanical convection ovens (Ovens)
• Ozone analyzers (Ozonators)
• Electronic counters (Particle counters)
• Filtering machinery (Particulate filters)
• pH meters
• Photometers
• Flowmeters (Pitot tubes)
• Mass spectrometers (Plasma-mass spectrometers)
• Dissolved carbon dioxide analyzers (Respirometers)
• Vacuum or centrifugal concentrators (Sample concentrators)
• Air sampling pumps (Sampling pumps)
• Air samplers or collectors (Sampling trains)
• Potentiometers (Scanning potentiostats)
• Seismic recorders or seismographs (Seismographs)
• Orbital shakers (Shakers)
• Nitrogen or nitrate or nitrite analyzer (Soil carbon-nitrogen CN analyzers)
• Conductivity meters (Soil electrical conductivity measurement devices)
• Dissolution or disintegration testers (Soil modulus failure testing devices)
• Dissolution or disintegration testers (Soil-erodability testing devices)
• Shear strength testers (Solid shear failure testing devices)
• Gas detector tubes (Sorbent tubes)
• Spectrophotometers
• Augers (Stem augers)
• Water samplers (Stormwater samplers)
• Extracting equipment for laboratories (Supercritical fluid extractors)
• Chemical absorption gas analyzers (Surface area analyzers)
• Thermal conductivity analyzers (Thermal conductivity detectors)
• Sample oxidizer (Thermal/catalytic oxidizers TCO)
• Thermocouples
• Organic carbon analyzers (Total organic carbon TOC analyzers)
• Mass spectrometers (Trace metal analyzers)
• Chromatographic detectors (Ultraviolet UV light detectors)
• Ultra violet water purification units (Ultraviolet water purification systems)
• Density gradient fractionators (Universal fractionators)
• Open stream water level recorders (Water level recorders)
• Open stream water level recorders (Wave gauges)
• Sample holders (Whole air canisters)

Technologies Include:

• Analytical or scientific software

• Air dispersion modeling software
• ANSYS software
• Waste management software
• WAM software
• The MathWorks MATLAB
• Site remediation management software
• Stormwater runoff modeling software
• DHI Water and Environment MIKE SHE
• Ecological risk assessment software
• RockWare MODFLOW
• Finite element method FEM software
• Simulation software
• SAS software
• Gas dispersion model software
• Rockwell Automation Arena
• LINDO Systems software
• Maplesoft Maple
• HEC RAS
• Hydrologic simulation program fortan HSPF software
• Image analysis software
• Insightful S-PLUS
• Water flow modeling software
• Wind flow modeling software
• XP Software XPSWMM

• Compliance software

• Continuous emission management software
• Regulatory compliance management software
• Material safety data sheet MSDS software
• Environmental health and safety documentation software
• Greenhouse gas management software
• Hazardous materials management software

• Computer aided design CAD software

• Kubotek CADKEY software
• Computer aided design CAD software
• SofTech CADRA
• Bentley Microstation
• Autodesk AutoCAD software

• Data base user interface and query software

• Microsoft Access

• Development environment software

• Formula translation/translator FORTRAN

• Graphics or photo imaging software

• Photogrammetric software
• Slam software

• Industrial control software

• Fugitive emission leak detection software

• Map creation software

• Oil mapping software
• Geomechanical design analysis GDA software

• Object or component oriented development software

• Python
• C++

• Office suite software

• Microsoft Office software

• Presentation software

• Microsoft PowerPoint

• Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

• Word processing software

• Microsoft Word

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