Prof. Kristen Underwood received the Richard W. Carbin Community Conservation Award. Named after the land trust’s founder, this award recognizes those who demonstrate a commitment to conservation in their communities.
Prof. John Lens was selected for UVM’s Outstanding New Service-Learning Faculty Award. Among other practice-oriented courses, John teaches our two-semester capstone design course sequence.
Prof. Matt Scarborough was awarded an Early Career Award from the American Society of Engineering Education for his paper entitled "Overcoming affective and cognitive chemistry challenges in an introductory environmental engineering course using a Flint Water Crisis case study." The study examined how a case study related to the Flint Water Crisis improved both performance on chemistry problems and attitudes towards chemistry. The award is given by the Environmental Engineering Division for the best paper from an early-career engineering educator.
Six great new CEE faculty joined the department in 2020-21 - Matthew Scarborough (Assistant Professor - Biological wastewater treatment, anaerobic bioprocessing of wastes, microbiome engineering, modeling of microbiomes); Gregory Rowangould (Associate Professor and Director of Transportation Research Center - Transportation system and land-use modeling, mobile source emissions and air quality analysis, regional transportation planning, transportation policy analysis); and three Research Assistant Professors (Dana Rowangould - Transportation and land use planning and policy, environmental justice, active travel, accessibility, health, and air pollution; Scott Hamshaw - Water resources, geomatics, machine learning, environmental sensing; and Elizabeth Doran - Urban climate, land use and land cover change, social-ecological systems, systems modeling, and sustainability); and Co-Director of Curricular Enrichment Courtney Giles - Biogeochemistry, rhizosphere processes, agricultural biotechnology, nutrient transport, innovative pedagogy, instructional research.
Professors George Pinder and William Gray, both members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), introduced a new sophomore-level course for the Honors College in Spring 2020. The course was designed to reach students who did not have an engineering background, especially those that lacked knowledge of college physics or mathematics beyond algebra. To access such students Pinder and Gray wrote and provided to the students a draft textbook. The book presented in algebraic form the physically based equations that describe water flow and contaminant transport in the subsurface. Learn how their class culminated in solving