CEE Faculty Profile

Honors

1. Georgia Engineer of the Year in Education, 2011.
2. American Epidemiological Society 26th Annual Feldman Lecture, 2009.
3. CH2MHill Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, as Advisor, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, 2007.
4. John McClanahan Henske Distinguished Lecture in Chemical/Environmental Engineering, Yale University, 2007.
5. McKee Medal, for Achievement in Groundwater Protection, Restoration and Reuse from the Water Environment Federation, 2007.
6. American Academy of Environmental Engineering, elected as Diplomat by Eminence 2007.
7. AIChE's Best Applied Paper Award, South Texas Section, 2005.
8. Georgia Institute of Technology Advanced Leadership Program, 2005.
9. Walter P. Huber Research Prize, for Seminal Research in Environmental Biotechnology from the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005.
10. Organizer, National Academy of Engineering 9th Annual Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, 2003.
11. Charles Duncan Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement from Rice University (given to one member of the faculty annually to recognize contributions in scholarship and teaching), 2002.
12. ASCE Outstanding Professor Award, Rice University Chapter, 1997 and 2002.
13. Invited Speaker, National Academy of Engineering and Van Humbolt Foundation 4th Annual German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, 2001.
14. Distinguished Alumnus Address, Institute for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing, University of Iowa, 2000.
15. Invited Speaker, National Academy of Engineering 1st Annual Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, 1995.
16. Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing Graduate Fellow, University of Iowa, 1990-1992.
17. Iowa Water Pollution Control Association: William Kirstin Scholarship, 1989.
18. Chi Epsilon