Is there any Department of Environmental Science/Environmental Engineering in University of Cambridge?
As a Bachelor of Science in Physics, I want to continue my study in Cambridge. I am not an Englishman, though. I come from Indonesia, a third-world country in South East Asia.
I am interested in research area of drinking water quality, air quality, or clean energy. I have first visited Cambrige homepage, but I found little clue about Environmental Science/Environmental Engineering. The closest is in Department of Earth Science. Is this really the right Faculty/Department for my Area of Interest in environment and energy?
Is there anyone from Cambridge could help me here? Yes, I also ask Cambridge Graduate admission already, but I would really appreciate if any student/ staff/ faculty/ professor from University of Cambridge here in Y!Answers could give me some pieces of advice or guidance.
I’m not anywhere near Cambridge. . . but I’m an environmental engineering grad student who does research in drinking water. So I’ll try to help you on that front?
You are probably in the right area with environmental science/engineering, at least. The difference between the “science” and “engineering” branches is that science might be studying the systems, seeing how things are related, etc. whereas engineering would be more like figuring out how to use what the scientists have figured out to solve some problems. They’re fairly similar in broad goals, but engineering tends to focus more on designing things and math than the science side does, at least as I’ve seen it.
f you are trying to get in with a physics background, you *may* need to take some biology, chemistry, and perhaps math courses first if you don’t have a big enough background in any of those areas from your BS for what they want. . . although I have no idea what the graduation requirements you had were. However, most schools seem to be pretty okay with letting you study those after you come in rather than making you take them ahead of time.