Dr. Kumar's Water Chemistry Class Field trip: students are busy taking dissolved oxygen readings in the middle of the Mad river, Ohio
22 September 2010

Event: CBI Dean's Assembly
CBI Dean's List 2010: ICWRM Students receiving the Certificates
Venue: Smith Hall, Central State University
Time: 22 September, 2010 Wednesday 11:00 AM

William Cook Water Resources
Quan Lewis Environmental Engineering
Kamau Mbalia Environmental Engineering
Leslie Moss Environmental Engineering
Bryan Smith Environmental Engineering

Dr. Kumar Presenting Paper at ASCE-EWRI
India 2010 - 3rd International Perspective on Current & Future State of Water Resources & the Environment
January 5-7, 2010, Chennai, India.
http://content.asce.org/conferences/india2010/index.html

Dr. Nedunuri presented a paper on modeling of lead transport in phosphorus amended soils. Metal contamination of ground water is still a major environmental concern even though mining for metals has been abandoned in several places across the world. The leaching of lead to groundwater from the vadose zone was modeled as part of the study. The overall modeling involved solving multi-component transport equations for lead with the background ions in soil pore water when multiple solid phases of lead and phosphorus are either precipitating or dissolving. The choice of convergence algorithms to solve the resulting PDE, non-linear AE systems based on soil chemistry was found to be critical in solving these problems, particularly so when stability issues are confronted due to the presence of multiple solid phases controlling the composition of the pore water.

Environmental Engineering


Kamau Nbalia - Northeastern Sewer District, Cleveland

Keith Farrow - US EPA National Risk Management Research Lab, Cincinnati

Bryan Smith - Xenia Township and City of Xenia

Quan Lewis - USDA Natural Resources and Conservation Service, Cincinnati

Crystal Stewart - Wright State University Pharmacology and Toxicology lab

Nick Corbin - Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati



Water Resources Managment

Yolanda Millender - Northeastern Sewer District

KeAusha Brown - Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (graduated)

Andre Morton - Ohio Transportation Consortium (Grant work)

Dontae Dorsey - Ohio Transportation Consortium (Grant work)

Mark Hatfied - United States Bureau of Reclamation (Grant work)

John Davenport - United States Bureau of Reclamation (Grant work)



Geography


Mercedes K. Woods : ATK CAPEP (Pre-Engineering ATK summer Program)

B.A.(Honors) – Rutgers University,
M.Sc. – Virginia Tech,
Ph.D. – Rutgers University and New Jersey Institute of Technology,
Diploma Management Studies – Jamaican Institute of Management 1998


Dr. DeBonne Wishart is hydrogeophysicist and hydrogeologist whose research interests are near surface geophysical exploration, fracture characterization, azimuthal self potential, azimuthal resistivity, induced polarization, ground penetrating radar, pneumatic fracturing. Her expertise incorporates environmental hydrogeophysics, electric geophysical fracture anisotropy characterization, groundwater and contaminant transport modeling, GIS, and environmental chemical analysis. She has thirteen years of university academic teaching experience in Geology and has previously worked as a Project Hydrogeologist with a major environmental consulting corporation various groundwater projects that include groundwater modeling and remediation design for the FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey. Her research work has been presented extensively at international and US professional meetings and published in ‘Geophysics Research Letters’ and ‘Journal of Hydrology’.

2010 Ohio Transportation Consortium
Undergraduate Paper Competition Results
Winner: Andre’ Morton, WRM, CSU

"Classification of Urban Districts based on Mobile Carbon Monoxide Exposure Using Self Organizing Maps"

Central State University (CSU) and National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) participated in a recent TechFest 2010 event held on February 13-14, 2010 at the David H. Poyntz Center in Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. TechFest is a fun filled family event with about 70 exhibits providing hands-on experiences in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for K-12 students. The exhibits were contributed by local universities, historical societies, parks and centers, museums, small technology businesses, and WPAFB. The event attracted almost every youth between age groups 5 through 20 in the Miami Valley region.

CSU Manufacturing engineering (MFE) and Environmental engineering (ENE)departments organized a special booth showcasing their programs during this event. MFE students attracted every school going child by letting him/her build a musical instrument of an old African American tradition popular as “kazoo”. ENE students demonstrated how to visualize flow of water around gates, dams, spillways, and bridge piers using colorful dyes and aluminum filings.

Several faculty members from these departments Professors Augustus Morris, Alexander Rengan, Abayomi Ajayi-Majebi, Krishna Kumar Nedunuri and Ramanitharan Kandiah were in attendance, while students D’Anthony Ward (MFE), Kamau Nbalia (ENE), Robyn Bradford (MFE), and Clarance Woodson (Geology) led the demonstrations. Dr. Kandiah & Kamau Nbalia also participated in an exhibit hosted by the Dayton Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers where children enjoyed building models of bridges and domes using toothpicks and gumdrops.

Few Photos are here. More photos and video will be added soon