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RPI’s Role in the

Academic Genesisof Environmental Engineering

Jim AllemanProfessor of Civil EngineeringSchool of Civil Engineering

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

29 March 2005

Bruce HuntProject Manager

Woodard & Curran, Portland, Maine

Slide RuleWall-of-Fame

Jim HowlandCH2M-HILL

John Maniotis

Last slide-rule patent - 1970

Public HealthSanitation

Medicine

Edwin Chadwick – 1820s1840s

Public HealthSanitation

Biology

Medicine

Thomas Huxley – 1860s

Edwin Chadwick – 1820s1840s

Biology

Public HealthSanitation

Biology

Medicine

Thomas Huxley – 1860sEdward Frankland – 1870s

Edwin Chadwick – 1820s1840s

Biology/Chemistry

Public HealthSanitation

William Thompson Sedgwick – 1900s

Biology

Medicine

Thomas Huxley – 1860sEdward Frankland – 1870s

Edwin Chadwick – 1820s1840s

Biology/Chemistry

SanitaryEngineering

Engineering Biology

Medicine

BiologyChemistry

William Thompson Sedgwick – 1900s

Public HealthSanitation

1899 The APHA, holds a meeting in Minneapolis to appoint a committee which would extend their ‘standard procedures’ (developed previously by W.H. Welch) to “all other lines of investigation involved in the analysis of water.” This committee was called, the “Committee on Standard Methods of Water Analysis” and was charged with the extension of standard procedures to all methods involved in the analysis of water.

1899 William Pitt Mason writes the seminal, “Examination of Water” 1900 - 1st progress report by 1899 APHA committee 1901 - 2nd progress report by 1899 APHA committee 1902 - 3rd progress report by 1899 APHA committee 1905 A ‘Report’ (representing the 4th and final APHA committee report)

entitled, “Standard Methods of Water Analysis,” was published as a supplement to the Journal of Infectious Diseases. This report, which had been previously presented to the Laboratory Section of the APHA in Havana in January 1905, was developed by G.W. Fuller, Sec-G.C. Whipple, Sec-H.W. Clark, E.O. Jordan, H.L. Russell, J.W. Ellms, and R.S. Weston.

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1st National ‘Water Pollution’ Act - 1948

1st National ‘Water Pollution’ Act - 1948

1st National ‘Water Pollution’ Act - 1948

US Public Health Service

1st National ‘Water Pollution’ Act - 1948

US Public Health Service

19202 – 1950sTraditional Academic Emphasis on

Sanitary Engineering

BiologyChemistr

y

SanitaryEngineering

Engineering

Biology

Medicine

- Water treatment

- Wastewater treatment

- Air pollution treatment

- Solid waste treatment

Public HealthSanitation

1st National ‘Water Pollution’ Act - 1948

US Public Health Service

19202 – 1950sTraditional Academic Emphasis on

Sanitary Engineering

Academic Shift toEnvironmental

Engineering

BS Civil Engineering (‘Sanitary Engrg’ minor)MS Sanitary Engineering

PhD Sanitary Engineering

1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970

BS Environmental Engineering

RPIProfessor E.J. Kilcawley

Civil Engineering

Joe Touhill

2004

EnvironmentalEngineering

Engineering Biology

Medicine

BiologyChemistry

Public HealthSanitation

CivilRights

Movement

AntiWar

Movement

BS Civil Engineering (‘Sanitary Engrg’ minor)MS Sanitary Engineering

PhD Sanitary Engineering

1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970

BS Civil Engineering (Environmental Engrg minor)MS Environmental Engineering

PhD Environmental Engineering

BS Environmental Engineering

OccupationalSafety

Movement

Environmental Movement

RPIProfessor E.J. Kilcawley

Civil Engineering

CivilRights

Movement

AntiWar

Movement

BS Civil Engineering (‘Sanitary Engrg’ minor)MS Sanitary Engineering

PhD Sanitary Engineering

1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970

BS Civil Engineering (Environmental Engrg minor)MS Environmental Engineering

PhD Environmental Engineering

BS Environmental Engineering

OccupationalSafety

Movement

Environmental Movement

RPIProfessor E.J. Kilcawley

Civil Engineering

AEEPcreation!

Michigan TechStanford

ClemsonFlorida

UNC-Chapel HillEtc, etc, etc!

“The 1960s: The Dawn of Environmental Awareness”

Bruce HuntProject Manager

Woodard & Curran (Portland, Maine)

Water Environment & Technology, 15, 5, 54-57, May 2003.

Environmental Engineering (RPI)

Environmental Engineering (RPI)

Environmental Engineering Sciences (Florida)

Environmental Engineering (RPI)

Environmental Engineering Sciences (Florida)

Environmental Engineering and Science (Clemson)

Environmental Engineering (RPI)

Environmental Engineering Sciences (Florida)

Environmental Engineering and Science (Clemson)

Environmental Science and Engineering (Cal-Tech)

Environmental Engineering (RPI)

Environmental Engineering Sciences (Florida)

Environmental Engineering and Science (Clemson)

Environmental Science and Engineering (Cal-Tech)

Environmental Sciences and Engineering (UNC - Chapel Hill)

Environmental Engineering (RPI)

Environmental Engineering Sciences (Florida)

Environmental Engineering and Science (Clemson)

Environmental Science and Engineering (Cal-Tech)

Environmental Sciences and Engineering (UNC - Chapel Hill)

Geography and Environmental Engineering (The Johns Hopkins)

EnvironmentalEngineering

Engineering Biology

Medicine

BiologyChemistry

Public HealthSanitation

…and we’re still evolving!

Environmental and Ecological Engineering ?

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

Sustainable Environmental Engineering

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Environmental and Ecological Engineering

Sustainable Environmental Engineering

Sustainable Environmental and Ecological Engineering

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Environmental and Ecological Engineering

Sustainable Environmental Engineering

Sustainable Environmental and Ecological Engineering

…stay tuned!

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EnvironmentalEngineering

Engineering Biology

Medicine

BiologyChemistry

RPI Leadership via Prof E.J. Kilcawley!

Public HealthSanitation

SanitaryEngineering

Engineering Biology

Medicine

BiologyChemistry

William Thompson Sedgwick – 1900s

Public HealthSanitation

BiologyChemistry

SanitaryEngineering

Engineering

Biology

Medicine

- Water treatment

- Wastewater treatment

- Air pollution treatment

- Solid waste treatment

Public HealthSanitation

SedgwickKilcawley

EnvironmentalEngineering

Engineering Biology

Medicine

BiologyChemistry

RPI Leadership via Prof E.J. Kilcawley!

Public HealthSanitation

RPI’s Role in the

Academic Genesisof Environmental Engineering

Jim AllemanProfessor of Civil Engineering

Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)

29 March 2005

Bruce HuntProject Manager

Woodard & Curran (Portland, Maine)