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Patrick D. Eagan

Patrick D. Eagan

Patrick D. Eagan
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    715 Extension Building
    432 North Lake Street
    Madison, WI 53706
    Tel: 608/263-7429
    Fax: 608/263-3160
    E-mail: eagan@engr.wisc.edu

    Program Affiliations

    Courses

    Education

    B.A., Biology, Lawrence University

    M.S., Water Resources Management, University of Wisconsin–Madison

    M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Washington

    Ph.D., Land Resources, University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Fields of Interest

    Publications

    Peer-Reviewed Research and Outreach Papers

    Kurk, Fran and Patrick Eagan, "The Value of Adding Design-for-the-Environment to Pollution Prevention Assistance Options," Journal of Cleaner Production, accepted 2006, in press for 2007.

    Hussey, Dennis and Patrick Eagan, "Using Structural Equation Modeling to test environmental performance in small and medium sized manufacturers," Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol.15, pages 303-312, 2007. Available online March 2006, accepted 2005.

    Eagan, Patrick and Barbara Kaiser, "Can Environmental Purchasing Reduce Mercury in U.S. Health Care?" Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 110, No. 9, pp. 847-851, 2002.

    Finster, Mark, Patrick Eagan and Dennis Hussey, "Creating Value for Product Design by Linking Industrial Ecology to Business Strategy," Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2001.

    Eagan, Patrick, Tanya Cook and Erhard Joeres, "Teaching the Importance of Culture and Inter-disciplinarity for Sustainable Development," The International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 3, No. 1, January 26, 2002.

    Eagan, Patrick and Erhard Joeres, "The Utility of Environmental Consequence Information: A Manufacturing Facility Case Study," Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2002.

    Kaiser, Barbara, Patrick Eagan and Hollie Shaner, "Integrating Environmental Factors into Healthcare Decision-Making," Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 109, No. 3, pp. 205-207, 2001.

    Eagan, Patrick and Larry Weinberg, "An Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process Techniques to Streamlined Life-Cycle Analysis of Two Anodizing Processes," Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 33, No. 9, pp. 1495-1500, supporting appendix published on the Web, 1999.

    Eagan, Patrick, "Industrial Environmental Education, An Enabling Strategy for Design-for-the-Environment (DFE)," International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning, Vol. 8, Nos. 1/2, pp. 21-29, 1998.

    Eagan, Patrick and Wayne Pferdehirt, "Expanding the Benefits of Environmental Management Systems Through Design-for-the-Environment," Environmental Quality Management, Vol. 8, No. 4, Summer, 1998.

    Eagan, Patrick and Erhard Joeres, "Development of a Facility-based Environmental Performance Indicator Related to Sustainable Development," Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 269-278, 1997.

    Weinberg, Laurence and Patrick Eagan, "Introducing Design-for-the-Environment at Boeing Defense and Space Group Through Application of Abridged Life-cycle Analysis," Environmental Quality Management, Vol. 7, No. 1, Autumn 1997.

    Invited and Conference Papers with Selection Process

    Meissen, Ron and Patrick Eagan, "Alignment of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Activities with Business Strategy," Conference proceedings for EcoDesign: Electronics Goes Green, December 12-14, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.

    Meissen, Ron and Patrick Eagan, "Managing Energy-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions: What Are Your Options?" Conference proceedings for Electronics Goes Green, September 6-8, 2004, Berlin, Germany.

    Cors, Rebecca, Sandra Courter and Patrick Eagan, "Promoting Environmental Protection Through Collaborative Learning-based Approaches," published in conference proceedings for the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Nashville, June 22-25, 2003.

    Cors, Rebecca, Patrick Eagan and Sandra Courter, "An Organizational Change Strategy to Improve Environmental Protection," published in proceedings for the Electronics Goes Green Conference, Boston, May 19-21, 2003.

    Eagan, Patrick, Mark Finster and Dennis Hussey, "Creating Business Value and Environmental Performance Through the Use of Customer-Focused Quality Tools," published in proceedings for the Electronics Goes Green Conference, Boston, May 19-21, 2003.

    Hussey, Dennis and Patrick Eagan, "Validating an Environmental Performance Improvement Model for Large and Small Companies," published in proceedings for the Electronics Goes Green Conference, Boston, May 19-21, 2003.

    Eagan, Patrick and Rebecca Cors, "Industrial Ecology: A Partnership that Works," Wisconsin Academy Review, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 58-63, 2003.

    Eagan, Patrick and Barbara Kaiser, "Wunsch und Wirklichkeit: Die Umweltvertraegliche Beschaffung im US-Americkanischen Gesundheitssystem muss sich in einem schwerigen Umfeld behaupten," "Wish and Reality: Environmentally sound purchasing in the US American health system has to compete in a difficult environment," Muellmagazin, No. 1, pp. 33-36, February 2001.

    Invited Book Chapters

    Thrane, Mikkel and Patrick Eagan, Book Chapter 14 "Ecodesign," for Tools for a Sustainable Development, 2006 in press, Denmark.

    Eagan, Patrick and Barbara Kaiser, "Development of Environmental Learning Opportunities Through Health Care Purchasing: A U.S. Pilot Project," in Lernendes Unternehmen-- Koncepte und Instrumente fuer eine Zukunftsfaehige Unternehmens und Organizationsentwicklung, Learning Organizations—Concepts and Instruments for a Future Oriented Business and Organizational Development, for the Wuppertal Institute, Helmut Brentel, Herbert Klemisch and Holger Rohn eds., Westdeutscher Verlag, March 2003.

    Eagan, Patrick, Lynda Wiese and David Liebl, "Public Access to Environmental Information: Enabling Industrial Ecology," in Green Tech-Knowledge-Y: Information and Knowledge Systems for Improving Environmental Efficiency, for National Academy of Engineering, Woodshole, Massachusetts, presented July 20-22, 1997, published May 2001.

    Updated July 2007

    Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

    Service

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    Selected Presentations, Research Interests, Program Director Duties

    Research Interests

    Professor Eagan's research interests lie in exploring frameworks that can move public and private institutions toward "sustainable development." A primary interest is how both public and private institutions will deal with climate change effects and environmental management issues. His focus includes environmental risk management and linking business and environmental decision-making. In 2006 he was on sabbatical at University of Aalborg, Denmark, and Design for Sustainability group at TU Delft, the Netherlands.

    Current Duties as Outreach Program Director

    In addition to his research, Professor Eagan conceives, plans, conducts and evaluates adult professional education programs on industrial environmental engineering and management, and related environmental issues. Responsibilities also include program technical content and presenting selected lectures. He has coordinated over 250 programs since 1988 to over 8,000 professionals from around the world. Professor Eagan has delivered several courses using satellite technology.

    Special Projects

    Professor Eagan was invited to be principal investigator for a pioneering environmental course design and train-the-trainer function at Motorola in 1992-1993. Two courses were developed. The first was an awareness course, "Protecting Our Environment," which is mandatory for all Motorola employees. That course has been translated into seven languages. The second course was entitled, "Design for the Environment 1." He was also principal investigator for course design, train-the-trainer and globalization of educational material for the Design for the Environment course at AMP Inc. in 1994.

    Professor Eagan has also worked with Eastman Kodak, Boeing (1996), Patagonia, United Technologies, and others on design-for-the-environment (DFE) education and tool development. Professor Eagan has worked with Seagate (1999) and Johnson & Johnson (2001), integrating environmental aspects into "Design for Six Sigma" courses. The Johnson & Johnson project included an international roll out of a tailored DFE tool.




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