FACULTY NEWS
Professor
Larry Bank and former CEE graduate student Eric
Fink received an award for Best Pultrusion Technical Paper at
the COMPOSITES 2004 Convention and Trade Show of the American Composites
Manufacturers Association. The paper was titled,
“Pultruded Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastic and Paperboard Composite
Tubes.” It was the result of research supported by the
UW-Madison Industrial and Economic Development Grant Program, with industry
partners Sonoco Products Co., Hartsville, S.C., and Teel Plastics of
Baraboo. Fink currently works for STS Consultants in Green Bay.
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CEE IN THE NEWS
Associate
Professor Greg Harrington was quoted in the August 26 edition
of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
on efforts in Whitefish Bay, a suburb of Milwaukee, to use an
ultraviolet treatment process to remove Cryptosporidium and other
potential disease-carrying pathogens. Harrington is director of
the Wisconsin
Consortium for Applied Water Quality Research. Several northern
Milwaukee suburbs served by the North Shore Water Department will
take part in the treatment process, and have worked with Harrington
on how to prevent a potential outbreak of Cryptosporidium like
the kind that killed 100 people in Milwaukee in 1993.
Professor
John Hoopes was quoted in the July 3 edition of the Milwaukee-Journal
Sentinel regarding dumping of sewage into Lake Michigan
by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.
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Professor
Peter Bosscher has been appointed to the Board of Directors
of Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA). He also serves as the faculty
advisor to the UW-Madison EWB student group. The mission of EWB-USA
is to help disadvantaged communities improve their quality of life through
implementation of environmentally and economically sustainable engineering
projects, while developing internationally responsible engineering students.
EWB-USA’s outward vision is of a world where all people have access
to adequate sanitation, safe drinking water, and the resources to meet
their other self-identified engineering and economic development needs.
Bosscher will again travel to Rwanda this coming January, the third
time in less than 12 months, to further this mission. For more information
on EWB, see www.engineerswithoutborders.org/about.html.
Associate
Professor Dan Noguera, along with former student S.K.
Chaparro, have been named recipients of the Harrison Prescott
Eddy Medal from the Water Environment Federation (WEF). Noguera and
Chaparro were selected for their paper, “Controlling
Biosolids Phosphorus Content in Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal
Reactors.”
The paper was originally published in the May/June
2003 issue of “Water Environment Research.”The
paper highlights new methods and conditions for reducing the phosphorus
content of biosolids from enhanced biological phosphorus reactors, a
key consideration in the use of land-applied biosolids.
The Eddy medal recognizes research that makes a vital contribution to
the existing knowledge of wastewater treatment principles or processes.
Noguera and Chapparo received the medal at the WEF’s annual technical
conference in New Orleans in October.
Several civil and environmental department faculty members met in October
to hear a presentation on ways in which department graduates can improve
skills needed in the civil engineering workplace. Stanford University
Professor Renate Fruchter, director of the Center for Integrated Facilities
Engineering, led a discussion on her research that suggests civil engineering
departments need to do a better job of integrating their classroom teaching
and lab research with the skills demanded by contractors, engineering
firms, and governments working in civil engineering. In addition, Fruchter’s
research suggests departments can do a better job integrating skills
learned by students in different civil engineering disciplines, so that
students don’t focus too narrowly on a particular set of skills.
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