Who's Doing What

Dr. Jin Wen gave a seminar on “Energy Conservation in Laboratory HVAC Systems” at the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers 2007 Winter Meeting in Dallas. Dr. Wen and T. F. Smith, professor emeritus at the Univesity of Iowa Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, published “Development and Validation of Online Models with Parameter Estimatio for Building Zone with VAV System,” in Energy and Buildings, vol. 39, no.1 pp. 13-22.

Charles N. Haas, Betz Professor of Environmental Engineering and Head of the Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering has been appointed by the US EPA Administrator to be a member of its Board of Scientific Counselors.  This Board advises EPA on research policy and implementation.

Dr. Joseph Wartman co-chaired four sessions of a mini-symposium on the effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans during the recent GeoDenver conference held in Colorado.  He co-authored of three papers presented at the conference on geotechnical aspects and overall lessons learned from the Hurricane.  He also co-authored the paper “Investigation of 1-G similitude laws by ‘modeling-of-models exercise,” which was presented at the conference by Drexel graduate student Fatma Ozkahriman.

Dr. Patricia Gallagher was selected to attend a workshop titled “Frontier Research Directions and International Collaborations in Sustainability Engineering and Science” in Auckland, New Zealand.  The workshop is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the International Centre for Sustainability Engineering and Research and will be held after the 2nd International Conference on Sustainability Engineering and Science in February 2007.  The purpose of the workshop is to bring together international researchers to establish priorities for frontier research directions in sustainability engineering and science, as well as to initiate collaborative research into sustainability engineering and science.

Joseph Wartman, Associate Professor of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering was named "Geotechnical Engineer of the Year" by the Philadelphia Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers.  The award will be formally presented to Dr. Wartman at a reception to be held at the Constitution Center in May.

Dr. Charles N. Haas, L.D. Betz Professor of Environmental Engineering and civil, architectural and environmental engineering department head, was named to the board of directors of the Water Environment Research Foundation.

Professor James Mitchell, associate professor, presented, “Looking at Buildings – Usability Issues” as an invited guest speaker at Philadelphia’s Second Annual World Usability Day event, “User experiences Beyond the Web.”

Dr. Joseph Wartman and graduate engineering students Patrick Strenk and Mark Natale published, “Immediate and Time Dependent Compression of Tire Derived Aggregate,” in the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering and “Variability and Scale-Dependency of Tire Derived Aggregate” in the Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering.

Dr. Charles N. Haas has been appointed by the US EPA administrator to be member of its Board of Scientific Counselors. This board advises on research policy and implementation.