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Tryg has taken on the development of the water and wastewater control work in ENVE. He also co taught the senior project design series with Sam Vigil. His special areas of interest include municipal wastewater treatment, treatment of dairy wastes, and the use of algae to produce biodiesel fuels and other biofuels.
Sam Vigil retired in 2010 and continued to teach half time until 2015 and then part time after that.
41 Sam continued his research work involving the use of greenhouse gas emissions from landfills using data from satellites. In addition, he worked on the Air and Waste Management Association’s technical programs on solid waste management. Rebekah Oulton was hired in 2013 to strengthen the water quality program and hydrology.
Dr. Rebekah Oulton.
Rebekah, an expert in advanced water treatment and water quality, is developing an undergraduate research program for students interested in water and environmental chemistry, materials science, hydraulics, and water and waste treatment. She also took on the responsibility of codirecting the work in the senior project design series.
When asked about why she came to Cal Poly she shared, “I came to Cal Poly for several reasons, but mostly because I love interacting with students. I pursued a PhD after 15 years in industry and consulting, because I wanted to teach at a primarily Undergraduate Institution like Cal Poly, where I would have the opportunity to interact extensively with students. My favorite parts of my job are helping students understand tricky concepts (and sharing their sense of pride and accomplishment when they "get" it), and talking to them about what's next after they finish school. I also enjoy sharing my research into Clean Water Technologies with them, and helping them explore their own ideas about how to expand the limits of our knowledge in this field. Cal Poly challenges me to be the best instructor, mentor, researcher, and engineer I can be, and I love rising to that challenge every day.”
She has taken an active interest in encouraging students to attend professional meetings and to mentor in their competitions at these meeting with other Universities.
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Dr. Oulton with ENVE team as PSWC (where they placed first in their category, helping Cal Poly win first overall!)
Faculty remain active
All the faculty in recent years have continued to work closely with our students. Tryg Lundquist, received patents for a Field Water Purification System. It was designed for disaster relief zones when water accessibility and safety is critical. Three stages of the purification process are improved; transport, treatment and safe storage of water. One bag can treat enough water to supply a family of five for up to 10 days. His graduate student, Tricia Compas, won a Clinton Global Initiative award for her work testing the
effectiveness of the purification system. She was honored with the Creativity Foundation's 2011 Legacy Medal.
43 The Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management presented Cal Poly
environmental engineering professor Sam Vigil with the Iraj Zandi Award for his efforts in educating students about solid waste management in 2011. The Zandi Award is given annually to someone who has significantly contributed to the field of solid waste
management and honors inspiring educator
Dr. Vigil.
In 2012, Sam was elected a Fellow of the Air & Waste Management Association. He was recognized for his leadership in applied research in the recovery of energy from wastes with gasification processes, the computer optimization of waste management systems, the development of sustainable waste management techniques, and the modeling and remote sensing of greenhouse gas emissions. A&WMA presented the Richard I. Stessel Waste Management Award to Sam in 2015.
He was also recognized for his co-authorship of the most widely used textbook in the solid waste management field, "Integrated Solid Waste Management: Engineering Principles and Management Issues." Published by McGraw-Hill, the book has been translated into Spanish, Japanese, and Korean and is used by universities throughout the world as well as by practicing environmental engineers.
In 2014 Yarrow Nelson, continued his study of the effectiveness of algae to treat NO2 and
NO in simulated flue gas.
Dr. Nelson algae studies.
In 2015 Yarrow Nelson was appointed Chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department by the Dean of Engineering Debra Larson. During his 18 years at Cal Poly as
44 a faculty member he was able to get funding for research projects which supported about 40 graduate students and numerous undergraduate students. These students pursued research projects in bioremediation, phytoremediation, waste minimization, algae-based fuels, storm water treatment and many other topics.
In 2017, Dr. Cota continues to serve as Chairman of the California Air Recourses Board, Research Screening Committee and to serve on the Board of the West Coast Section of the Air and Waste Management Association and their Student Affairs Committee. In addition to the tenured faculty, the Environmental Engineering Program is indebted to our many lecturers over the years. In 2016-2017 lecturers included Amro El Badawy (full time) and Mladen Bandov (part time). Mladen graduated from Cal Poly’s Environmental Engineering program and a principal engineer at Rigi Engineering working on water reuse and recycling projects for nine years. Prior to that he spent five years at both large and small Environmental consulting firms getting experience with various remediation projects.
As of the Fall quarter 2017, Yarrow Nelson joined the teaching faculty half time as part of the early retirement program. Professor Charles Chadwell was named Department Head. Currently there is a search for a new faculty member for the Environmental Engineering Program.
In 2017, Cal Poly’s Environmental Engineering Program was named the best undergraduate program in the nation by the US News and World Report.
During the in 2018, Dr. Amro ( or Amr ) El Badawy was appointed as the newest faculty member in the Environmental Engineering Program.
Dr. Amro El Badawy Amro received his PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of
Cincinnati and BS and MS from Mansoura University in Egypt. He joined Cal Poly as a Research Scholar and Lecture in 2016 after five years as a Post Doc with the
Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati Ohio.
Amro’s research is focused in several areas of Environmental Engineering, Analytical Chemistry and Atmospheric Chemistry and on assessment of the environmental implications of engineered nanomaterials. He served as the W.M. Keck Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Global Waste Research Institute at Cal Poly in 2016.
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Collectively, the faculty has experience and training in all the classical environmental engineering fields including air pollution control, noise control, solid and hazardous waste management, and water and wastewater treatment. They participate in research in emerging areas of sustainability engineering, bioremediation, biotechnology, biofuels production, and indoor air pollution. Currently five are registered professional engineers and two are Board Certified Environmental Engineers. The faculty are active participants in professional societies, involved in teaching, consulting and research.
ENVE faculty have long been recognized for their accessibility, guidance and mentoring, they have gone the extra mile to help students succeed. (6)
In summary, the ENVE major started with the indoor thermal environment and noise. Concern about outdoor environment and public health was added. Currently this includes: air pollution issues, total exposure including the indoor environment, water-wastewater system design, solid waste-hazardous waste management, remediation, and sustainability.
Many contributors.
It is important to remember that the success of the program depended on the contributions of many people over the years. In the early days, support from those within the
University came from Dr. Billy Mounts, Director of the Cal Poly Health Center and Dr. Harry Fierstein who taught human anatomy at Cal Poly who gave lectures about the respiratory system in our introductory classes. Also Dr. Russell Tice assisted us will
47 analytical chemistry and Dr. V.L. Holland provide access to Biological Sciences
microscope labs. Today that collegiality continues to make the program strong. For many years, Dr. Harry White a worldwide expert in Electrostatic Precipitation travelled to Cal Poly and spent a week giving his international lecture series to our senior class at no cost. Many companies contributed equipment and services to help build the program as well.
The Environmental Protection Agency through Cal Poly’s Areawide Training Center and staff of the Air Resources Board – Peter Ouchida, Dave Todd, and Cindy Castranova helped develop our Air Pollution Laboratory. Staff of the Bay Area Air Quality
Management District, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the San Diego Air Pollution Control District were also a big resource. The local San Luis Obispo Air Pollution Control District staff including Bob Carr, Larry Allan and Brian Aunger and many others were always ready to help in any way they could.
The Central Coast Region of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board executive officers; Ken Jones, Bill Leonard and Roger Briggs served as guest lectures and initiated and continued to hire our students to work as interns. Barry Hickenbottom, Dave Carpenter, and others with the Navy’s NEESA source monitoring team, located at Point Hueneme, assisted our laboratory classes.
Other part time instructors over the years included former students Katie Anderson Disimone, Laura Nuzzo, Donna DiGangi, Jim Anderson, Brian Aunger, Mike Borger, Clay Bradfield, Oscar Daza, Helene Finger, Mladen Bandov, Michael Lehrer , Cherl Lenhardt, David Morrow, Veronika Pesinova , Adam Poll, Blaine Reely, Christopher Ringer, Ruth Spierling, Charles Virden II, Ian Woertz and Doug Wolf . Many of these also worked as local consultants at the same time.
Unfortunately, the records before 2001 are not complete so if your name should be included I am sorry. Please contact our Department Secretary so we can set the record straight.
We have had Post Doc researchers help the program such as Amro El Badawy (mentioned above). Just as important were good support staff over the years. All our department administrative assistants and secretaries have made my job fun. They have typed reports, papers, exams, new curriculum proposals, and helped students in numerous ways. That support exists today through Amy Sinclair and Kay Kibbe.
Because we have had state of the art equipment and sometime little if any funding, our equipment technicians made our outstanding labs possible. Tom Ward learned what he needed to know to build and maintain our lab. The same thing applied to Doug Allen who replaced Tom when he retired. Xi Shen and Ron Leverett carry on that tradition.
The Departments Industrial Advisor Committee has been an important resource in recent years. Several ENVE alumni have served on that Committee including John Blasius, Craig Anderson and Tim O’Connor.
48 Over the years the Air & Waste Management Association [formerly the Air Pollution Control Association], particularly the West Coast Section has supported students in our program in many ways. They have provided scholarships, encouraged them to write technical papers, invited them to meetings and dinners and helped them attend the Annual Meeting and Exhibition since 1978. This provided students the opportunity to get
involved with those active in the profession.
My wife Judy Cota, was a constant supporter of our students at home and through the West Coast Section.
at A&WMA - Hal and Judy Cota and students. at APCA
Alumni
You [our alumni] are a big part of this picture. You helped make the program one of the most respected in the country. We have and continue to benefit from your feedback on the Profession, our Curriculum, Lab development and Opportunities for Cal Poly students. Special thanks go to Doug Wolf and Laura Cremer.
You [ our alumni] have helped to improve the environment in industry and in
communities across the Nation and have been champions for the public’s health. We have not solved all the environmental challenges and there are new challenges on the horizon. These are opportunities to continue to work together. Our mission at Cal Poly continues to be to insure graduates are ready to make informed decisions that will improve the environment and lead to better health both in industry and in our communities and lead to a strong economy.
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Logos over the years created by Doug Wolf
Some final thoughts
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Over the years like other engineering disciplines there have been ups and down in employment opportunities. It is always a challenge when our political leaders forget the long-term benefits of protecting our environment and the health of our most sensitive (the very young and old). The Cal Poly Environmental Engineering program has always stood for protecting the environment and supporting the industry our society requires. This is done by providing cost effective technology and using professionals to design, build and use it. We can have clean air and water, deal with climate change in an economical and sustainable way through good science and engineering.
Sending polluting industries elsewhere, rather than cleaning them up, is like kicking the can down the road. The short term economic gain is unstainable. It costs jobs in this country now and ultimately effects the health and welfare of other countries.
As we consider future opportunities, I would like to share some thoughts from two of our long-time alumni who have had many years’ experience.
The first come from Richard Smith who served many years as Air Pollution Control Officer of San Diego County. As previously mentioned Richard helped the Cal Poly EPA Areawide Training Center as well as the ENVE program. When asked to reflect on the opportunities and challenges facing the profession, he wrote,
“For the foreseeable future, environmental engineers will play a significant role in addressing the nation’s air pollution, water pollution, hazardous waste, solid waste and other environmental problems. Environmental engineers will be asked to provide
technical input and recommendations to federal, state and local decision makers who will establish environmental standards that businesses and governmental agencies will have to meet to reduce their pollution footprint. Those industries and governmental agencies will need to rely on environmental engineers to comply with those standards in a cost-
effective manner. They will most likely do so by employing in-house environmental engineers and/or hiring environmental engineering consulting firms to do the engineering evaluations necessary to comply with applicable pollution control standards. Similarly, environmental engineers will be needed to help define and implement strategies to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses.”
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through organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, International Relief Team and Project Mercy. He has worked on over 50 homes that have gone to low income families and is building houses in the poor sections of Tijuana one Saturday a month.
The second comment is from Victoria Conway, Departmental Engineer, Wastewater Management Department at the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles. Victoria and husband Bob both received their BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Cal Poly and
returned to complete the Master degree in Environmental Engineering. Victoria wrote the following:
“Although both air and water quality conditions have improved over the past few
decades, there are still many environmental issues needing to be addressed. For instance, trends in solid waste disposal and recycling have been dynamic. As society moves away from landfilling organics and increased recycling efforts new challenges have emerged, such as establishing reliable uses for biogas production and identifying reliable markets for recycled materials. Historic uses of biogas, such as use in internal combustion engines, has proven more difficult with more restrictive air quality regulations. An attractive option, such as direct injection of biogas into natural gas distribution systems has been met with resistance from pipeline owners and operators. In terms of recycled materials extracted from solid waste streams, market stability plays an important role in reliable recycling of materials. Just recently China, which was a major consumer of recycled materials, has placed restrictions on imported recycled materials. As a result revenues for major Material Recycling Facilities (MRFs) have dropped nearly 60% and left no outlet to place recycled materials, which are now being redirected back to landfills, contrary to solid waste diversion goals.
Similar regulatory and market drivers create challenges for wastewater recycling. After nearly a decade of drought conditions, wastewater recycling is still a challenge in terms of costs and in some cases water quality regulations. Even in the most densely populated areas, non-potable reuse is a challenge due to the costly infrastructure needed to distribute the commodity. More and more water and wastewater agencies are looking at potable reuse options whether they are direct (injected into water distribution systems) or indirect (GWR or surface water augmentation). The cost of advanced treatment, namely
MF/RO/UV, and then brine disposal, is still significantly more costly than local or imported water supplies. However, the investment is still being considered since
wastewater recycling provides a guaranteed water source that is essentially drought proof. Living in highly urbanized areas does concentrate impacts of human and industrial
activities. One such impact is air quality as a result of the use of fossil fuels. Ever increasing restrictive air quality regulations create significant challenges in keeping essential public services, such as wastewater treatment facilities, operating reliably. In the last 30 years there has not been a reduction of challenges facing environmental engineers and nor is there one in the foreseeable future. Once solutions to environmental issues/problems are found they are typically temporary in nature as regulations and public expectations continue to evolve. There is a strong need for environmental engineers now
51 and into the future as more focus is also put on increasing resiliency of public utilities. Consequently, more holistic solutions will be required to meet challenges. Solutions will be needed to address current environmental problems and future challenges/problems as a result of changing manmade and natural environmental conditions.”
The University Catalog reflects how the objectives and course of study has changed to meet the challenges of the day ( Appendix A). This is a result of continued input from faculty, research, professional societies, alumni, and the department’s industrial advisory committee. This has led to a dynamic and successful program.
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References1. History of Environmental Engineering at Cal Poly, Private Communication from Rod Keif (1998).
2. http://www.ee.calpoly.edu/history/11/
3. http://archive.kitsapsun.com/news/local/a-survivors-story-ep-423174464- 359043691.html
4. Best Colleges 2017 Edition, U.S. News & World Report, usnews.com 5. Appendix Cal Poly Catalog archives and Cal Poly On-line Catalogs
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