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Faculty
 SMITH, EDWARD
Associate Professor of Construction Engineering
Office: Science 605
Phone #: 797-5524
Email: [email protected]
Education
| B.Sc. |
1977, University of Delaware |
| M.Sc. |
1980, University of Delaware |
| Ph.D. |
1987, University of Michigan. |
Courses Taught
- ENGR 101 - Introduction to Engineering
- CENG 417 - Environmental and Sanitary Engineering
- ENGR 516 - Engineering for a Sustainable Environment
- ENGR 561 - Water Quality and Control
- ENGR 562 - Unit Operations in Environmental Engineering
- ENGR 566 - Environmental Chemistry
- ENGR 567 - Groundwater Hydrology and Contamination
Current Research
- Experimental evaluation and modeling of adsorption processes in
natural and treatment systems. This focuses on the sorption of organic
and inorganic pollutants on mineral surfaces as well as commercial
adsorbents such as oxides and activated carbon. Modeling work includes
simulation and prediction of equilibrium and rate phenomenon for
use in transport models or adsorber design.
- Experimental evaluation and modeling of fate and transport of
pollutants in natural waters. Recent work has been devoted to statistical
assessment of pollutant loads for nutrients in surface reservoirs,
and development of an efficient numerical solution scheme for pollutant
transport in multiphase, fractured, subsurface flow.
- Industrial waste minimization, with emphasis on metal finishing
operations. This includes developing low-cost methods for removal
of heavy metals from wastewater and modeling of rinsing operations
for design of waste minimization alternatives.
- Optimization of physical-chemical processes for water and wastewater
treatment.
- Biological denitrification of wastewater, with emphasis on evaluating
the toxicity of denitrifying organisms to target organic and inorganic
pollutants.
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