TU-Crete

The Technical University of Crete, founded in 1977, is the second Technical University in Greece and – besides the Department of Sciences – there are five engineering departments that grant degrees to their graduates after completion of a five-year cycle of study.

The Department of Environmental Engineering accepted the first undergraduates in October 1997 and the first graduate students in february 1998 and soon became a major research centre on environmental engineering. Presently, the Department has 19 faculty memebers and another 3 faculty positions are under review. Besides, there are about 350 undergraduates and about 90 graduate students pursuing Msc and PhD degrees.

Despite the facet that the Department is rather new, it is equipped, thanks to National and University grants, with all necessary laboratory equipment for undergraduate teaching and graduate research. In addition to the nine specialized laboratories, there is a central analytical laboratory equipped with expensive analytical national and EU research programs over the last 8 years. These include two LIFE-environment programs (Life04/env/gr/110, Life05/env/gr/245), several FP-5 and FP-6 programs and may National research programs funded by the Greek Secretariat for Science and Technology. In addition, over the past 8 years, the department has succeeded in being awarded major grants by the Ministry of Education for fostering research and scholarship at the graduate level.

The Department offers the most popular environmental engineering program at the graduate level in Greece, where less than the top 10% of the applicants is accepted.

Contact:

TU-Crete
Technical University of Crete
Research Committee
Plaza Agiou Titou
Chania 73132 

www.tuc.gr

Prof. Nicolas Kalogerakis
on sabbatical at
Dept of Environmental Management
Cyprus University of Technology
Tel.: +357-2500-2451
Fax: +357-2500-2636
nicolas.kalogerakis@enveng.tuc.gr