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F. Michael Saunders

Professor Emeritus

Affinity Group: Environmental Engineering
Phone: 404-894-2265 or 404-985-3130
Email: saunders@gatech.edu

Biography

F. Michael Saunders is currently Professor Emeritus. He joined the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Georgia Tech in 1974 and over a period of 34 years held positions of assistant professor (1974-1980), associate professor (1980-1989), professor (1989-2008), and associate chair of the School (2005-2007). He held three tours as Environmental Engineering Group Leader [Read More]

Research Interests

  • Water and wastewater reclamation and reuse; potable-water treatment unit operations & processes; transformation, transport and fate of organic and inorganic contaminants in coastal-zone waters and sediments; transformations and fate of mercury in marine and freshwater sediments;
  • Aquatic-plant assimilation of persistent organic compounds; fate of persistent organics in natural-environment systems of plants, microbes and sediments; phytoremediation and bioremediation of hazardous substances; storm-water characterization and reclamation; characterization and treatment of natural organic matter in surface-waters and wastewater reclamation systems; hazardous substances in sediments, soils and residues; membrane separations;
  • Activated sludge modeling and removal of recalcitrant organics and nutrients in biological reactor systems; membrane separations within and following bioprocess systems; industrial and municipal residue characterization, treatment and reclamation;
  • Industrial ecology; sustainable urban systems; water reclamation and reuse in buildings and urban systems.

Education

  • PhD, Environmental Engineering in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1975
  • MS, Civil Engineering (Sanitary Engineering), Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1969
  • BSCE, Civil Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1967