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Pittsbiugh PA, until 1950. He was in parallel active for the Miami Conservancy District, Dayton OH, in 1918, later was a hydraulic engineer for Pittsburgh, or worked for the US Navy at David Taylor Model Basin, Bethesda MD. The Harold A. Thomas Award consists of an honorarium and a certificate, intended to recognize graduating seniors who have provided exemplary services to the Department, the College, the University of the civil and environmental engineering profession at Columbia University. 

Particle Transport. Because many organic chemicals bind with aquatic particulate matter, particle transport can determine the fate of compounds. Sediment transport has been of interest to the engineering profession for many years. Many discussions of the dynamics of fluvial sediment transport have appeared in the literature (11, 12). As with hydrodynamic transport, one strategy for environmental modeling is to "piggy-back the transport of sorbed chemicals on a model of transport of the sediment phase. 

Mackay, D., 1995, Environmental Engineering A Profession in Transition In 50th Purdue Industrial Waste Conference Proceedings, Ann Arbor Press, Chelsea, MI, pp. 1-6. 

The information in this book was obtained from every imaginable source within the environmental science and engineering profession. They include virtually every peer-reviewed journal in the field, every government-issued report, the proceedings of every related conference in the past two decades, as well as publications of commercial companies working in this field. Ultimately the providers of every technology were contacted personally for interviews involving their work. Only top-quality services and products survived the search for information and eventual publication in this handbook. 

It has thus become difficult to understand the many options and their efficacy under a variety of conditions relating to concentrations, media, confounding conditions, and environmental sensitivity. One always has to wonder if there might not be a better solution. Now one need wonder no longer. This handbook presents the most comprehensive collection of technologies that have proven successful in field conditions since environmental engineering became one of our nation s most important technological professions. 

The question then becomes how can the engineering profession effectively respond to these three challenges, that is, to the challenge of peace, of poverty and underdevelopment, and of environmental sustainability As responses will depend upon the underlying ethical foundation for the engineering profession as described in the ethical codes, the next section of this work will examine engineering codes of conduct and seek to place them in an historical context. 

My sincere hope in writing the present work is to provide a mechanism whereby issues related to the three great challenges that confront us today -security, poverty and under-development, and environmental sustainability - can be discussed in the context of the engineering profession. 

Leonard, Kathleen M. Brief History of Environmental Engineering The World s Second Oldest Profession. ASCE Conference Proceedings 265, no. 47 (2001) 389-393. Describes the evolntion of environmental engineering from its earliest beginnings. 

To introduce the chemical engineering profession. Students learn about chemical engineering by designing and analyzing chemical processes and process units to assess product quality, economics, safety, and environmental impact. 

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