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Robert K. Ham
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After retiring from a 29-year career in the college's Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Professor Robert K. Ham says he is most proud of the influence he's had on hundreds of former students. Many of them are now in positions of leadership and helping others start their careers, he notes.
Ham began his career with a chemical engineering focus, earning BS and MS degrees from the Universities of Minnesota and Washington, respectively. He then earned his PhD in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Washington.
After working three years as a process engineer at 3M Co., in St. Paul, he began his career at UW-Madison. His teaching interests emphasized solid and hazardous waste management and his research topics included industrial solid wastes, landfill decomposition, gas movement in and around landfills, leachate generation, recycling and productive use of specific wastes.
Ham has written more than 150 papers on these subjects and serves on
the editorial boards of The Journal of Environmental Polymer
Degradation and Resources, Conservation and Recycling. He currently
chairs the Sanitary Landfill Working Group of the International Solid
Wastes Association.
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