The Villanova Center for the Advancement of Sustainability in Engineering (VCASE) was launched in Fall 2009 as a new center for research within Villanova University’s College of Engineering. Faculty and students involved with VCASE perform exciting research by leveraging campus infrastructure in areas like alternative and renewable energy, biomass resources and conversion technologies, environmental engineering, sustainable infrastructure and materials and sustainable stormwater management. In addition to this, VCASE faculty researchers also host industry and community outreach activities to share their knowledge and to give back to the community.
Transforming our Environs through Research Processes, Products, and Infrastructure
Mission
To protect and restore our environment through research on the integration of sustainability principles in engineering practice.
To meet “the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”* mandates an inclusive, interdisciplinary, systems approach to research using the campus infrastructure as a test bed.
VCASE follows Villanova's Sustainability Policy of supporting the concepts of sustainability in its curriculum, research, and activities, to contribute to an environmentally sound and socially just society.
*Brundtland Commission 1987
The five focus areas that constitute VCASE are:
- Alternative and Renewable Energy
- Biomass Resources and Conversion Technologies
- Environmental Engineering
- Sustainable Infrastructure and Materials
- Villanova Urban Stormwater Partnership
