Michigan Technological University

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Engineering a Better World

Working as an engineer in the upcoming decades, you will have the chance to play a critical role in making the world a better place. In fact, students at Michigan Tech are getting a head start—by helping to facilitate sustainable development, appropriate technology, beneficial infrastructure, and social change—while they are still in school.

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David Hand

David Hand

PhD, Engineering, Michigan Technological University

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906-487-2777
dwhand@mtu.edu

Department Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering

David Hand began his professional affiliation with Michigan Tech in 1982 as an assistant research engineer at the Environmental Engineering Center for Water and Waste Management. In 1984 he became a research engineer, and in 1987 a senior research engineer. In 1992 Hand became an assistant professor in the Department of . . .

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Kurt Paterson

Kurt Paterson

PhD, The University of Iowa

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906-487-3495
paterson@mtu.edu

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Kurt Paterson has been on the environmental engineering faculty at Michigan Technological University since 1993. He currently serves as Director of Michigan Tech’s D80 Center (www.d80.mtu.edu), a consortium of 20 research, education, and service programs dedicated to creating sustainable development solutions with the poorest 80% of humanity. Within the D80 Center he is Director or Co-Director of five international programs, including the Peace Corps Master’s International program in civil and environmental engineering. His research, teaching and service interests focus on . . .

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Jennifer Becker

Jennifer Becker

PhD, Northwestern University

Contact

906-487-2942
jgbecker@mtu.edu

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr. Jennifer Becker joined the Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty as an Associate Professor in January, 2010.  Her area of research and teaching interests focus on biological treatment processes in environmental engineering.  Specifically, her research interests include: the biodegradation, microbial ecology, and bioremediation of chlorinated organic groundwater contaminants; bioenergy production using microbial processes; and the recovery and reuse of agricultural, municipal, and industrial waste products.  Dr. Becker will teach classes in the . . .

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Veronica W. Griffis

Veronica W. Griffis

PhD, Civil Engineering, Cornell University

Contact

906-487-1079
vgriffis@mtu.edu

Donald and Rose Ann Tomasini Assistant Professor of Water Resources Engineering

Dr. Griffis has degrees from the University of Vermont and Cornell University. Her teaching interests include probability and statistics, stochastic hydrology, numerical methods, water resources, and risk analysis and management. Her research interests include flood frequency analysis and the analysis of other extreme events, uncertainty analysis, and impacts of climate variability, climate change, and land use changes. Dr. Griffis is currently active in the ASCE task committee on statistical distributions. She has published in Water Resources . . .

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Amlan Mukherjee

Amlan Mukherjee

PhD, University of Washington

Contact

906-487-1952
amlan@mtu.edu

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr.Mukherjee's interests are in the areas of Construction Management and Transportation Infrastructure Management Systems. He is currently teaching a course in Construction Estimation, Planning and Control. His research interests lie in developing interactive and adaptive process simulation platforms that can be used as decision making aids, in training decision makers and also to better understand human cognitive and decision-making processes in construction. The broader goal of the research is to study the construction management (CM) domain as a . . .

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