Urban environmental engineering involves a diversity of disciplines working cooperatively to determine sustainable ways of addressing the problems brought about by the growing rate of urbanization. The presented research examines the cyber infrastructure’s function in assisting cross-disciplinary research and education in these areas. Cyber-infrastructure has the fundamentals of specialized computing systems and data analytics tools, making research collaborations and data-driven problem-solving in various fields interdisciplinary and dynamic. Besides sample projects like Urban Climate Change Research Network and Sustainable WATER Center, the article is meant to explain how cyber-infrastructure promotes interdisciplinary cooperation in the fight against complex urban environmental questions. While obstacles like administrative silos and variations of methodologies exist, one can appreciate the benefits in terms of the effectiveness of multidisciplinary collaboration in solving urban sustainability puzzles efficiently. Demographic characteristics determine the variety of respondents and the diversity of professionals who work in urban environmental engineering, as they come from several fields and occupations and are drawn from regional differences. Overall, it is highlighted that cyber-infrastructure-based multidisciplinary collaboration is a driver of the development of research and education in providing sustainable and resilient environments for communities.

Urban environmental engineering, Cyber-infrastructure, Multidisciplinary collaboration, Sustainable solutions, Urbanization