Dr. Charles N. Haas

L.D. Betz Professor of Environmental Engineering
Interim Department Head
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Background: Ph.D. - Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
                         M.S. - Environmental Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
                         B.S. - Biology, Illinois Institute of Technology
         
Faculty experience: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1978-81), IIT  (1981-1990), Drexel (since 1990)

Research Interests:

Environmental engineering, water treatment, disinfection processes, human exposure to pathogens and assessment of risk, bioterrorism, indoor air contamination, hazardous waste treatment, wastewater treatment

Current or Pending Research Grants:

NSF - modelling of indoor air biodecontamination processes (current)
 
EPA - Evaluating Protective Immunity to Waterborne Microbials in College Students (pending)
 
EPA - Development of Predictive Approaches for Assessing Aquatic Fate of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanofibers (pending)

Courses Taught:

Advanced Environmental Chemistry
Biostatistics
Bioterrorism
Environmental Transport & Kinetics
Environmental Chemistry I
Environmental Impacts
Hazardous Waste & GW Treatment
Intro. To Environmental Eng
Professional Practice in Envirnomental Engineering
Reaction Kinetics and Mass Transport
Risk Assessment
Topics in Environmetrics
Unit Ops. Laboratory
Unit Ops: Physical-Chemical
Unit Ops: Biological