Faculty Expertise Guide - College of Engineering - Virginia Tech

College of engineering faCulty expertise listing 2010-2012
aquacultural systems
Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Sea Grant, Commercial
Fish and Shellfish Technology Program, Virginia Department
of Environmental Quality, Virginia Department of Health, U.S.
Department of Agriculture
ENVIRONMENT
Environmental Engineering, Indoor Air Pollution
Name: John C. Little
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office Phone: 540-231-8737
FAX: 540-231-7916
E-mail: jcl@vt.edu
URL: www.cee.vt.edu/people/little.html
Specialty: Environmental Transport Processes
Applications: Lake and reservoir management; treatment process
technologies; indoor air pollution; environmental exposure
and risk assessment
Expertise: Evaluating performance and costs of environmental
technologies including aeration oxygenation devices, air stripping
towers, and aerated biological filters; quantifying exposure
to chemical contaminants in drinking water; evaluating
sediment oxygen demand; developing a mechanistic understanding
of sources of indoor air pollution
Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Energy,
U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, National Science Foundation, Tennessee Valley
Authority
ENVIRONMENT
Water and Wastewater Treatment
Name: William R. Knocke
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office Phone: 540-231-6635
FAX: 540-231-7532
E-mail: knocke@vt.edu
Specialty: Environmental Engineering (Water and Wastewater
Treatment, Sludge Dewatering and Disposal)
Applications: Research and consulting aimed at improving the
treatment technologies used to purify waters for drinking; provide
treatment of municipal and industrial wastewaters prior to
their release to the environment; and development of methods
for treating waste residues prior to their ultimate disposal
Expertise: Emphasis areas include coagulation and flocculation
of waters; applications of alternative oxidants for trace metal
removal (Fe and Mn); characterization of water distributions
present in water and wastewater sludges
Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of the
Interior, DuPont Chemical, General Chemical, NALCO Chemical
Company, Union Camp
ENVIRONMENT AND FLUVIAL HYDRAULICS
Name: Panos Diplas
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office Phone: 540-231-6069
FAX: 540-231-7532
E-mail: pdiplas@vt.edu
URL: www.cee.vt.edu/people/diplas.html; www.hydraulicslab.cee.
vt.edu/index.html
Specialty: Experimental, Field, and Numerical Studies in Environmental
and Fluvial Hydraulics; Stream Restoration; River
Mechanics and Morphology; Ecological Hydraulics; Wetland
Hydrodynamics; Turbulent Flows over Rough Boundaries;
Mechanics of Two-Phase, Solid-Fluid Flow, Watershed Man-
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