Technical products are during their entire life-cycle, subject to many varying influences (vibration, shock, sound, EMC, climate changes, humidity, chemicals,..) from their environment. These affect their functional ability, durability, quality and reliability. It is therefore, technically and economically, critical that the design and manufacture of the product should meet both the operational and functional requirements.
Environmental Engineering (EE) is defined as a science and technique for studying the interactions between an exposed object and its environment by environmental simulation (specific physical simulation and numerical modelling).