’92 Civil Engineering alumnus Lance Malburg was the recipient of the Asphalt Recycling & Reclaiming Association’s 2016 Award for Excellence in Hot In-Place Recycling (HIR) category. Malburg is an engineer for the Dickinson County Road Commission. For the full article, visit: http://www.ironmountaindailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/576343/Malburg-receives-award.html
Cladophora is a filamentous, green alga that grows to nuisance levels in areas of the Great Lakes receiving phosphorus enrichment. Anika Kuczynski, a Ph.D. candidate in environmental engineering working under Dr. Marty Auer, recently received an Editor’s Choice Award for her paper entitled, “The Cladophora resurgence in Lake Ontario: Characterization and implications for management” published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. Anika is back on Lake Ontario this summer seeking engineering solutions to this problem plaguing the Great Toronto waterfront. Anika was accompanied by environmental engineering undergrads Hayden Henderson and Michelle Nitz on her most recent trip to Lake Ontario in July. Results from the field and laboratory studies performed there will be input to a 3D model developed by Anika, Chenfu Huang (also a Ph.D. student in environmental engineering) and CEE’s Dr. Pengfei Xue to test management strategies to reduce nuisance growth of the alga.
The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering will host a ‘Beer & Brat’ Social during the Alumni Reunion on Friday, August 5th from 1:30-3:00 PM in the Courtyard in front of the Dow Building.
RSVP appreciated – rdsandel@mtu.edu
Students from grades first through sixth are taking part in two summer science camps being offered this week at Michigan Tech. The camps are being put on by the Western Upper Peninsula Center for Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education. To see the TV6 News story on the camp, visit: http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/content/news/Students-take-part-in-science-camp-during-summer-break-383007411.html
Tacoma city engineer and ’02 Environmental Engineer alumna, Jessica Knickerbocker, was the project manager on the $2.4 million Point Defiance Regional Storm Water Treatment Facility. The facility was designed to improve the quality of storm water flowing into Commencement Bay by funneling storm water and filtering it before it enters the Puget Sound. To watch Knickerbocker discuss the project, visit:
http://www.king5.com/mb/news/local/tacoma-stormwater-treatment-facility/225304212
For more information on the Green Infrastructure Bill that Washington Congressmen Danny Heck and Derek Kilmer are proposing, visit:
http://www.tacomaweekly.com/news/article/heck-kilmer-cut-ribbon-on-new-storm-water-treatment-plant
Josephine Zurica has been named the 2016 American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC New York) New Principal of the Year. She is only the second woman to receive this award given to an ACEC New York member who has been a principal for less than five years.
Zurica received a Peace Corps International MS from Michigan Tech in Environmental Engineering in 2006 and joined Dagher Engineering in 2007 after serving in the Peace Corps in Panama. She became principal for Dagher in 2013 at the age of 34.
For more information, visit: https://dagherengineering.wordpress.com/2016/06/09/dagher-engineerings-josephine-zurica-named-acec-new-york-new-principal-of-the-year/
See schedule:
LLH EnvCareer Tour Schedule 06.01.16 FINAL
For more information, contact:
MTU Center for Science & Environmental Outreach
jchadde@mtu.edu or 906-487-3341
Made possible with funding from the Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative and coordinated by the MTU Center for Science & Environmental Outreach and Western U.P. Center for Science, Math and Environmental Education.
Professor David Watkins has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, effective March 2016. The Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management is a leading journal in the field of water resources and has the highest impact factor of all ASCE journals. As the EIC, Dr. Watkins works with 20 associate editors to process 400 to 500 manuscripts submitted annually to the journal. Approximately 120 papers are published each year, examining social, economic, environmental, and administrative concerns relating to the conservation and use of water. Dr. Watkins previously served as an associate editor for the journal.
Professor of Practice, Mike Drewyor, has been reappointed by the governor to the Michigan Board of Professional Engineers. The nine-member board serve four-year terms in which they regulate the practice of professional engineers.
http://www.michigan.gov/snyder/0,4668,7-277-57577_57657_59871-382899–,00.htmlhttp://
Senior Design Colloquium
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department is pleased to invite the University community to attend the spring 2016 senior design team presentations. This semester students have undertaken a wide range of interesting projects to fulfill the Department’s design project requirement. Refreshments will be served.
April 29, 2016
8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Presentations will be in Chem Sci 101 & 102
