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. INTRODUCTION TO THE DIRECTORY I

The Pollution Prevention Consortium of New England Universities (P2 Consortium) is group of universities that are actively conducting research and educational activities on pollution prevention. e The purpose of this Directory is to identify what degree programs are offered; what programs and projects have been established, and what types of research activities 'are underway at the member univerities. The Directory lists the contact people for each of the .

programs and/or projects. The university programs are listed by state.

Table of Contents

The P2 Consortium ........................................................................... .2 The P2 Consortium Mission ................................ : ............................ 3 What is Pollution Prevention ............................................................ 4 EPA Contacts ............................ ; ........................................................ 5

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Brown University ........................................................ : .................... 21 Dartmouth College ................................. : ........................................ 18

.Tufts University ............................ ............................................... .... 14 University of Connecticut.. ........................................................... 6

University of New Hampshire ....................................................... 19

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ........................................ 10 Merrimack College .......................................................................... 12

. . University of Maine ....................................... '. .................................. 8 University of Massachusetts .at Lowell..; ..................................... 16

University of Rhode Island ........................................................... 23 University of Vermont ................................................................... 24 . .

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The Pollution Prevention Consortium of New England Universities

New England Universities are leaders in developing undergraduate and graduate pollution prevention (P2) curriculum, undertaking a variety of P2. research initiatives, and conducting educational activities to promote pollution prevention in the wider community--government, industry, and in the home.

Due to the diversity of university-based P2 activities in the region, the idea of creating a forum for encouraging the sharing of information among universities, the Environmental Protection Agency, the states, and the community took hold. After an initial brainstorming meeting sponsored by EPA and the Northeast Waste Management Officials' Association (NEWMOA) in February, 1993, the Pollution Prevention Consortium of New England Universities ("P2 Consortium") was launched in late spring with eleven member universities.

The P2 Consortium defines pollution prevention in accordance with the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990. The federal definition is provided on page 4.

The P2 Consortium is sponsored by the EPA and by the member Universities. The group generally meets quarter€y. . During 1993, the groups focused on developing the mission of the P2 Consortium, setting out the framework for operation, and developing a workplan for the upcoming year. Activities for 1994 will include a meeting between the P2 Consortium members and the Northeast Pollution Preventian Roundtable and a student-faculty pollution prevention conference in the fall. The P2 Consortium is managed by NEWMOA.and . coordinated by a part-time staff person.

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. ?he Mission of the Prevention Consortium of New England Universities is to facilitate joint pollution' . . prevention research and educationlmining projects among New England univem'ties and colleges.. .

The specific goals are: . To promote the incorporation of a pollution prevention ideology at all

. To identify industry problem areas and . ' develop results-oriented research projects. . To collaborate with state pollution

prevention programs in developing . pollution prevention research and

education/training programs;

To develop multidisciplinary ties among academic disciplines and professions involved in pollution prevention.

To promote networking among member university programs and referrals to those programs with specific areas of expertise.

WHAT'IS' POLLUTION PREVENTION?

The term "pollution prevention" is defined by the National Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 and U.S. EPA Administrator Carol Browner's 1993 Pollution Prevention Policy Statement. Pollution prevention means eliminating or reducing the geiteratioii of pollutants at the source, and coiisewil.tg resources. Pollution preverztioit occupies the top rung of a hierarchy of environmental protection methods.

POLLUTION PREVENTION: Pollution should be prevented or reduced at the source whenever feasible. Source reduction includes closed-loop or within-process reuse/recycling.

ion that cannot be prevented RECYCLING Po should be recycled in an environmentally safe manner whenever fea

TREATMENT Pollution that cannot be prevented or recycled should be treated in an environmentally safe manner whenever feasib€e.

DISPOSAL Disposal or other release to the environment should be employed only as a last resort and should be

in an environmentally save

Intrinsic to pollution prevention are two other concepts: . A multimedia, holistic view of the environment, to avoid transferring pollutants from one me m to another.

' . Comprehensive nmental impacts and activities over the entire life cycle.

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For further information an the P2 Consortium, please *

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Ilze Gotelli or Terri Goldberg NEWMOA 129 Portland St., Suite 502 Boston, MA 02114-2014 . Telephone: 617-367-855 8 Fa: 617-367-0449

The P2 Consortium is sponsored by the EPA and member Universities. The following is a list of EPA Region I contacts involved in the P2 Consortium:

Pdlution Prevention Coordinators Mark Mahoney: 617-565-1155 Abigail Swaine: 617-565-4523

Toxics Release Inventory Coordinators Linda Darveau: 617-565-4993 Dwight Peavey 617-565-3230

Solid Waste Pollution Prevention Coordinator Sally Mansur: 617-223-5529

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University of Connecticut . The Schoot of Engineering Environmental Research Institute [ERI] Pollution Prevention Research and Development Cente The Longley Building, Storrs, CT 06269-3210

Phone: 203-486-4015 Fax: 203-486-2269

John E. Dresty, Jr.

Activities:

Basic and Amlied Research into Pollution Prevention and Recvclinq Research focuses on both fundamental changes in manufacturing processes to reflect pollution prevention as well as more short range practical P2 solutions.

Practice-Oriented Master's Depree in Environmental Engineering, Degree program retrains displaced engineers from defense related activities in either Environmental Engineering or in their own field with a core concentration in pollution prevention. Emphasis is to facilitate rapid reentry into industry.

Short Courses in Environmental Technolom Focus of program is to transfer immediately useful state-of-the-art technology to government and industry. Regional campuses and other special locations are used for accessibility.

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Efficient and dean combustion processes/alternative fuels . High performance polymeric coatings and plastic recycling

'a Toxic Substitutions iq chemical and material processing 1 Alternative non-polluting energy systems (e.g. batteries and

fuel cells) Detinning post consumer tin cans for improved recyclability

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Recovery and reuse of zinc from tire-burning-for-energy ashes Recycling of nickel cadmium batteries Utilization of utility and waste-to-energy ashes in construction

' materials - Eliminationof ludge from metal finishing and ion exchange

water treatment International project in Eastern Europe, including research and educational projects and. publishing guides to environmental laws and regulations '

Capstone student projects that assisf industry in pollution prevention

Key Researchers:

Baki M. Cetegen Pollutant minimization through process .modifications and internal combustion engine studies using alternate fuels.

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Owen Devereux Heavy metal substitution in metallurgical '

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John E. Dresty, Jr. Mechanical and electronic separation of waste materials for recycling and reuse.

Characterizations of polymers for reuse and recychg .

Electrochemistry relating to pollution prevention using advdnced batteries, fuel cells and recycling of metal bearing aqueous solutions from metal finishing.

Myer Ezrin

James M. Fenton

George E. Hoag In-process recycling of volafile organic chemicals.

Steven L. Suib Catalysis as a means to toxic substitution.

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University of Maine Chemicals in the Environment Information Center 105 Jenness Hall Orono, ME 04469-5737

Phone: 207-581-2301 I

Fax: 207-581-2323

Contact: Marquita Hill e-mail: hassIer@maine.maine'.edu

Activities:

Educational Introducing pollution prevention to teachers through both for-credit courses and presentations to teachers' groups'and to their classes.

Holding general conferences on pollution prevention for teachers, government personnel, non-profit organizations and businesses.

Incorporating pollution prevention concepts into environmental education courses such as:

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Issues in Environniental Pollution, which emphasized P2 concepts.

Pollution Prevention - changing ourselves and changing society, a tutorial for honorsstudents.

s of Environmental Management seminars being . ' developed for Chemical Engineering Seniors 'will emphasize

P2 and Toxics Use Reduction (TUR).

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Developing educational materials for educators:

Educational leaflets for teachers, What is Pollution Prevention, and EPA'S Waste Management Hierarchy.

Notebook of materials for educators on useful concepts, alternatives to hazardous substances used in the home and school, reducing indoor air pollution, etc.

Brochure foi low-literacy individuals, Protect Yourself and Your Fanti& froni Hazardous Products.

Kit of materials for use in Middle and High School, Moving Toward Pollution Prevention (combination of slides and materials that can be loaned out to teachers)

Proposed Projects:

Working with janitors, maintenance personnel and teachers to. emphasize the interface between hazardous materials used in the home and those found in the workplace. The idea is to give a person more than just access to MSDSs by providing them. with an understanding of how substances can be hazardous and enabling them to reduce exposure to hazardous materials both in the home and workplace. This approach will be further developed as a simple training program for the small business workplace and for educators.

Other Key People:

Nick Houtman Director, Office of Water Resources 207-581-1491 University of Maine '

Coburn Hall Orono, ME 04469-5715

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MASSACHUSETTS

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development Building E40-242 1 Amherst Street Cambridge, MA 02139

Phone: See "Key People" below Fax: 617-253-7140

Contacts: See "Key People" below

ActivitiedProjects:

creation, adaptation, and dissemination of cleaner production techniques for pollution and accident prevention. Current projects include: an evaluation of EPA's policy to include pollution prevention in enforcement agreements and the development of a cleaner production strategy for developing country agreements for OECD and UNEP.

Key People:

Nicholas Ashford . 617-253-1664 . klonica Becker 617-253-6470 . Robert Stone 617-253-8621

Chlorine Proiect This project addresses the threat or hazard that the most persistent chlorinated compounds present and the implications of policies to reduce the use of such compounds, including initiatives to phase-out or eliminate chlorine. The first stage is a n attempt to defme the chlorine system, its uses, and different environmental effects. Four uses of chlorine are being studied: chlorofluorocarbons,chlorine bleachi,ng of paper pulp, chlori pesticides and PVC.

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' John Ehrenfeld 61 7-253-1694 David Marks 617-253-1992.

Program on Technolow. Business and the Environment Through education, research and the promotion of public discourse, this program seeks .to elucidate principles of preventative environmental management, centered on business practices, linking technological change with sustainable development and environmental soundness, The program conducts research and sponsors conferences and workshops on corporate environmental policy, pollution prevention, industrial ecology and on specific corporate decision-making tools and strategies, such assessment and full-cost accounting.

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John Ehrenfeld 617-253-1694 Jennifer Nash 617-253-3586

Program in Environmental Eneineerine Education and Research PEEER is an initiative designed to coordinate and expand the Institute's activities in environmentally oriented education and research in order to explore the relationship between technology and sustainable environment. The program will focus, in part, on pollution prevention, clean technology and industrial ecology.

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Merrimack College Chemistry Department

. North Andover, MA 01854

Phone: 508-837-5000 Fax: 508-837-5222

Contacts: Ronald Pike ‘

508-837-5 137 e-mail pike@merrimack.edu

Zvi Szafran

e-mail: szafran@merrimack.edu 508-837-5328

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National Microscale Chemistrv Center (NMC2) The mission of the Center is to implement the ideas of chemical-use reduction, air-quality improvement, exposure limitation, recycling, and waste reduction into every worker’s and every student’s thinking. The program seeks to introduce the microscale concept in the educational curriculum at all levels to familiarize future generations of scientists

. including chemists and engineers with the techniques and equipment necessary to work with microquantities of chemicals, and undergo a cultural change in the way they view the use of cheanieals. The Center has been established at Merrimack College in cooperation with the EPA, the Toxics Use Reduction Institute and the National Science Foundation.

Projects:

Training workshops for elementary, high school, community college and college/university instructors in microscale techniques. For the community cbllegecollege/university area this includes programs in the general, organic and inorganic disciplines.

. Providing information, training and visitations to the scientific. community abroad, especially in second and third world countries.

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Preparation of microscale +laboratoIy experiments and texts for use in the elementary and high school area.

Instituting a turn-key operation at selected high schooVcommunity college sites where all equipment and training is provided at no cost to the host institution. .

itation to elementaryhigh school sites to present chemical demonstrations to the students. Carried out with the cooperation of the chemistry majors at Merrimack College.

Proposed Projects:

An outreach to chemical companies and government laboratories in terms of training their employees in microscale techniques at the Center and on site. Policy training far Total Quality Management from a chemical point of view (safety and waste minimization) will be developed. We are in the process of setting up a national microscale network, which is turning out to be international. To join our internet mailing list send a one word message saying "subscribe" to microscale-L-request@Merrimack.edu.

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Tufts University Medford, MA 02155

Phone: 617-628-5000 (for direct access to the extensions listed below, dial 627- extension)

Fax: 617-627-3084:(Center for Environmental Management)

Environmental Degree Programs Offered at Tufts:

. MA in Urban and Environmental Policy (~3394) MS in Hazardous Materials Management, Environmental Science, Environmental Health, Water Resources, and Geotechnology (~3211) MALD in International Environmental Policy (~3329) MD-MPH with an environmental health concentration (~3211) BS in Environmental Studies (~3195)

Pollution prevention is a central theme throughout the above programs. Courses in pollution prevention in industrial processes and pollution prevention technologies a re offered in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Activities\Programs:

Environmental Literacy The Tufts Environmental Literacy Institute is designed to develop the capability of faculty in a wide range of disciplines to incorporate the teaching of environmental issues and pollution prevention principles within their teaching specialties. Contact: Tom Kelly (~3486)

Continuing Education The Environmental Management Institute is a four-week institute providing a selection of 10 accredited, graduate-level courses including environmental management strategies for a sustainable future.

In cooperation with the Northeast Waste Management Officials’ . Association, the Center for Environmenkl Management (CEM) has developed pollution prevention case studies and training modules for air, water and waste inspectors and managers from across the region. These have been used as a one-day intensive pollution prevention seminar in Massachusetts. Contact: Anne Chabot (~3531)

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Pollution.Prevention Technoloeies A number of pollution prevention technologies have been developed a t Tufts. Examples include:

Novel Catalytic Converter Preheater for Emission Reduction During Vehicle Cold Starts. Contact: Iaonnis Miaoulis

Energy Density Room Temperature "Super" Battery. . Contacts: Ronald Goldner, Terry Haas Crystallization of Calcium Magnesium Acetate for Environmental Applications. Contact: Gregory 'Botaris

Research on a High Energy Density Thin Film Cathode for a High

Corporate Environmental Manaeement The Center €or Environmental Management (~3486) conducts research on business and the environment. The program focuses on how companies make decisions, strategies for improving corporate environmental performance, and the influence of public policies on business behavior. Some current project areas include: m Practices of multinational corporations

Contacts: Ann Rappaport and Margaret Flaherty Pollution prevention measurement issues Contacts: Ann Rappaport and Margaret Flaherty '. Corporate product stewardship and design for the environment Contacts: Patricia S. Dillon

m Talliores Seminars on International Environmental Issues Contact: Robert Hollister

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Demonstration Tufts CLEAN! is a pollution prevention demonstration project to understand and reduce the universityrs environmental impact by action in food services, purchasing, and facilities. to develop and execute policy, improve energy efficiency and reduce waste. Contact: Sarah Hammond Creighton (~3486)

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University of Massachusetts Lowell The Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute One University Avenue Lowell, MA 01854-2881

Phone: 508-934-3275 Fax: 508-453-2332 .

Contacts: Jack Luskin Ken Geiser Mark Rossi

Activi ties/Projects:

Education & Training s individuals who wish to become state certified Toxics Up) Planners. This 48-hour professional level course is times a year at various sites throughout the state. The

Institute also develops grade school and higher education curricula, delivers educational programs for teachers, and offers conferences and workshops on pollution prevention, clean(er) production, design for the environment, and TUR.

Research The Institute conducts and sponsors research. Technical research include program, a University Research Fe Lab. The lab will evaluate the effe f different aqueous-based cleanhig chemistries and technologies on a variety of substrates and contaminants. Policy research projects have included ah examination of toxic chemical management in Massachusetts, Toxic Release Inventory data, and Massachusetts’TUR data.

Technical Sumort The Institute works closely with Massachusetts industrial sectors such as metal plating, dry cleaning, commercial cleaning, and printed circuit board companies. Input from industry is encouraged through a standing advisory . committee as well as industrial focus groups. Information Is actively collected and disseminated to industry thropgh a subscription information service and telephone response line by a special Technologg Transfer Center. .

ical, methods, and policy dustry Matching Grants gram, and a Surface Cleaning

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1. The Institute sponsors a large number of research and technology development projects. Examples of these include:

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"Alternative Aqueous Cleaning Techniques Evaluation" . "A Biological Process to Make Environmentally Friendly Water

Soluble Ionic Polymers: Gamma poly (Glutamic Acid) Production and Isolation"

"Non-Volatile Precursors To Olefinic Bromofluorocarbons as Alternative Fire Extinguishing Agents with Reduced Global Environmental Impacts" "Replacement of Lubricants for Metal Forming with Non-Toxic, Environmentally Safe Alternatives" "Supercritical Fluid Extraction Cleaner Evaluation" "The Use of Supercritical Fluids as Substitutes for Cleaning Solvents: Evaluation of the Interaction of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide and &-solvents with Polymeric Materials and Adhesives" "Pollution Prevention in the Dry Cleaning Industry" "Pollution Prevention in the Printing Industry."

"Elimination of Ozone Depleting Chemicals" . .

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Richard Gross (508-934-3676) Carl Lawton (508-934-3158) Stephan McCarthy (508-934-3417)

Development of chemical intermediates and polymers from biological feedstocks such as starch, bacteria, and agricultural products.

Development of supercritical fluid extraction as an alternative to solvent-based cleaning systems.

Samuel Sawan (508-934-3680)

Patrick Demers (508-934-3294) Patrick Demers (508-934-3294) Work with EPA on Pollution Prevention in the Printing and Dry Cleaning industries.

Work with EPA on Pollution Prevention in the Printing and Dry Cleaning industries.

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NEW HAMPSHIRE

Dartmouth College 'Hanover, NH 03755

Phone: 603-646-1 110 Fax: 603-646-1308 (Tuck School)

Contact: Kenneth Baker Amos Tuck School of Management

* e-mail: ken.baker@dartmouth.edu 603-646-2064

Activities:

Research and Education The, role of legislation, such as CERCLA, in motivating business to . minimize hazardous waste production.

m The optimal form of legislation/public policy in addressing pollution in various media.

Pollution prevention in manufacturing, purchasing, and product design.

Proposed projects:

Design of economically efficient environmental liability laws.

Analysis and optimization of operating systems with respect to

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Other Key People:

Thayer School of Engineering 603-646-2230 i

Daniel Lynch, Water Resource Engineering 603-646-2308

L Lee Lyhd, Biotechnology 603-646-2231

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. . University of New Hampshire .. Depairtment of Chemical Engineering

.255 Kingsbury Hall 33 College Road Durham;NH 03824-3591

’ Phone: 603-862-2313 Fax: 603-862-3747

Contact: Ihab H. Farag ’ e-maik ihab@unh.edu

Activities:

Education Giving talks at schools and other organizations.

Education/TechnolomTransfer Working closely with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES) to establish the DES-UNH Pollution Prevention Partnership.

Developing industrial workshop and curriculum €or pollution prevention.

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Proposed Projects:

: Pollution prevention in the chemical industry.

Student projects in pollution prevention.

Curriculum development.

Other Key People:

Dr. Rdbert Harris ~ Morse Hall, UNH

Phone: 603-862-3875

e-mail: R-Harris@unhh.unh.edu .

Research and policy development on mitigation of greenhouse gxs emissions from energy use and waste management activities.

Professor John E. Carroll Department of Natural Resources 221 James Hall, UNH Phone: 603-862.1020 Fax: 603-862-4976

Applications of ethics, values, and moral choice to the environment. Ethics of sustainability, sustainable development.

Professor Paul Jones

Fax: 603-862-9188

Chemistry Department . . Parsons Hall, UNH . . Phone; 603-862-1550 Fax: 603-862-4278

Hazardous waste disposal and safety in the chemistry lab.

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Brown University Center for Environmental Studies Box 1943 135 Angel1 Street

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Phone:. 401-863-3449 Fax: 401-863-3503

Contact: Harold R. Ward, Director e-mail: halward@brownvm.brown.edu

Environmental Degree Programs:

AB. in Environmental Studies SC.B. in Cnvironmental Sciences Master of Arts in Environmental Studies

Activities:

Involved in various pollution prevention and recycling projects State of Rhode Island and on the Brown University Campus - "Brown is Green."

Brown University Division of Engineering Box D Providence, RI 02912

Phone: 40 1-863-142 1 Fax: 401-863-1157

Contact: J.M. Calo e-mail: calo@en255.engin.brown.edu

Environmental Degree Programs:

Sc.B. in Chemical .Engineering Sc.B. in Civil .Engineering (Environmental Option) AB. in Environmental Engineering Ph.D. and Master's programs in these areas.

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University of Rhode Island Rhode Island Center for Pollution Prevention Chemical Engineering Department Crawford Hall Kingston, RI 02881

Phone: 401-792-2443 Fax: 40 1-782- 1 180

Contact: Stanley M. Barnett e-mail: barnett@egr.uri.edu

Activities:

Education Pollution prevention course for graduate engineers and scientists. Training program for pretreatment coordinators. .

4 Provide undergraduate engineers with pollution prevention experience. Course materials for undergraduate programs. Demonstrations for high school students. General public presentations.

Projects:

Research on nanofiltration, diffusion dialysis, pervaporation and other membrane processes. Solvent recovery and reuse.

h Evaluation of a diecasting operation to clase-loop operatioh. Effluent reduced to zero.

4 New processes for source reduction.

Proposed Projects:

International Center for an exchange program Develop a high school program Research the preparation and reuse of high purity water.

Other Key People

Martin Bide Developing model pollution prevention programs for the . textile industry.

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The University of Vermont Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering . 213 Votey Building Burlington, VT 05405-0156

Phone: 802-656-1924 Fax: 802-656-8446

Contact: Nancy J. Hayden e-mail: nhayden@emba.uvm.edu

Enyironmental Degree Programs:

B.S. in Civil Engineering (Environmental Option) M.S. in Environmental Engineering Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering .

Activities:

Education The department currently offers a 3 credit course entitled "Hazardous Waste Management Engineering" which strongly emphasizes pollution prevention. Students team up with local manufacturkg facilities for a semester-long project dealing With waste minimization and toxics use reduction within the plant. Examples of past projects include: investigating alternatives to 1,1,1 TCA vapor degreasing; alternative paints and spray technology; and management of machining oils.

Contact: Nancy J. Hayden e-mail: nhayden@emba.uvm.edu

Enyironmental Degree Programs:

B.S. in Civil Engineering (Environmental Option) M.S. in Environmental Engineering Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering .

Activities:

Education The department currently offers a 3 credit course entitled "Hazardous Waste Management Engineering" which strongly emphasizes pollution prevention. Students team up with local manufacturkg facilities for a semester-long project dealing With waste minimization and toxics use reduction within the plant. Examples of past projects include: investigating alternatives to 1,1,1 TCA vapor degreasing; alternative paints and spray technology; and management of machining oils.

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Applied research directed toward local industrial problems such as waste . oils, including minimization opportunities and alternative cutting oils.

Other Key P,eople:

Mechanical Engineering

Delcie burham Machining oil alternatives 802-656-1926

- Mahendra Hundal nufacturing Design for the Environment 802-656-1930

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