Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste ...

Chair of Waste Management and Emissions
International Master Programme „WASTE“ (Established
in 2002):
• Sanitary Engineering, course Solid Waste Management
• Mechanical and Biological Waste Treatment
• Design of Solid Waste Treatment Plants
• Industrial waste and contaminated sites
• Independent Study
• Biological Waste air purification and adsorption
• International Waste Management
• Sanitary Engineering: Practical class
• Ressourcenmanagement
• Environmental relevance
• Biogas
• Waste management systems
Seminars, laboratory work, design exercises, and excursions
supplement the lectures.
International
Cooperation agreements in research and education
have established with the Institute of Environmental
Engineering and Biotechnology at the Tampere University
of Technology (Finland) as well as the Dokuz
Eylül University at Izmir (Turkey), the University of Salerno
(Italy), the University of Thessaloniki (Greece),
the Technical University of Temesvar (Romania), the
Universitesi Saints Malaysia (Malaysia), the Guangxi -
University (China), the Universidad Católica Boliviana „
San Pablo“ /Bolivia, the Universidad Costa Rica (Costa
Rica), the Universidade Federal do Parana (Brazil), and
the Universidade Federal do Santa Catarina (Brazil).
Furthermore, several staff members of the Chair are
active as associated lecturers at other institutions
worldwide.
Conferences
Ingenieure für Wasserwirtschaft, Abfallwirtschaft und
Kulturbau (BWK)); as well as lectures in the field of
waste management within the scope of the distance
education programme “Water and Environment” offered
by the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Finally, in
collaboration with the Turkish Environmental Ministry,
the tradition of the German-Turkish Conferences has
been revived.
Committees
Staff members are also involved in several committees,
including academic councils, professional associations
and advisory boards. Since the 1 st , April 2009
Prof. Kranert has been Chairman of the Joint Commission
of Environmental Engineering, and manager of
this master program is Dipl-Biol. Andreas Sihler. These
include the German Institute of Stadardization (DIN),
the Association of German Engineers (VDI e.V.), the
Society of Engineers for Water Management, Waste
Management and Agricultural Infrastructure (Bund der
Ingenieure für Wasserwirtschaft, Abfallwirtschaft und
Kulturbau (BWK)), Working Group for the Valorization
of Municipal Solid Waste (Arbeitskreis zur Nutzbarmachung
von Siedlungsabfällen (ANS e.V.)), German
Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA
e.V.), Association for Quality Control of Compost derived
from Sewage Sludge , Association for Quality Assurance
of Fertilization and Substrates (VQSD eV), the
ORBIT Association, the European Compost Network
(ECN), and the Federal Compost Quality Association
(Bundesgütegemeinschaft Kompost (BGK)). Prof. Kranert
is a member of the Quality Committee of the BGK,
the Chair of the Trustees of the Professors of Waste
Disposal Community for the German waste disposal industry,
spokesman for the Group of Professors in Solid
Waste Management in RETech under the initiative of
the Federal Environment Ministry and a member of the
Sustainability Advisory Board of the State of Baden-
Wuerttemberg
Beyond research and academic activities, the Chair
is involved in the continuing education and advanced
training of professionals. Conferences organized
by the Chair include the “Baden-Wuerttembergischen
Waste Days”, hosted together with the Environmental
Ministry of the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg;
the waste management colloquia; the landfill seminars,
in association with the Environmental Protection
Agency of the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg;
continuing education courses in cooperation with the
Society of Engineers for Water Management, Waste
Management and Agricultural Infrastructure (Bund der
Additionally, the chairholder serves as referee for several
research funding institutions, scholarship foundations
and accreditation agencies. Furthermore, several
staff members play a leading role in the Competence
Centre “Environmental Engineering” (Kompetenzzentrum
für Umweltschutz Region Stuttgart (KURS e.V.)).
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