The Clark School Engineering Sustainability Workshop 2010

This Year's Webcasts

• Speakers Galloway and Hoffman: 8:45 to 9:50 a.m.

• Speakers Conrad and Cline:
10:10 to 11:10 a.m.

• Panel Discussion:
11:20a.m. to 12:20 p.m.

• Keynote: 12:50 to 1:30 p.m.

• Parallel Speakers in Kay Boardroom West plus conclusion of workshop:
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

• Parallel Speakers in Kay Boardroom East:
1:30 to 2:45 p.m.

• Workshop Conclusion:
3 to 3:30 p.m.

Sustainability

Focus 2010: Water

April 22, 8:45 to 3:00
Kay Boardrooms and Rotunda
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, College Park, MD
Co-sponsored by the University of Maryland Office of Sustainability

This year’s event will explore opportunities and challenges in water sustainability at the national and regional levels (including availability, management, purity, and wastewater management) and the roles engineers and others can play.

The agenda for the workshop is:

Morning Session: Unified Kay Boardrooms

“National Perspectives on Water Sustainability”

8:45-8:50	Welcome: by Dean Darryll Pines
8:50-9:20	“Facing Hard Choices: 21st Century U.S. Water Challenges” by Gerald Galloway, Research Professor, Clark School Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
9:20-9:50	“Building Collaborative Relationships for a Sustainable Water Resources Future” by Joseph Hoffman, Executive Director, Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin
9:50-10:10	Break
10:10-10:40	“Sustainability and Natural Resources” by Richard Cole, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources
10:40-11:10	“Collaboration at the Agency Level: NOAA’s Information and Services Initiative” by Don Cline, Director, National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
11:10-11:20	Break

“How Engineers Can Help Improve Water Sustainability in the Chesapeake Bay Region”

11:20-12:20

Panel Discussion: moderated by Kaye Brubaker, Associate Professor, Clark School Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Panelists are:

• Cherie Schultz, Director for CO-OP Operations,
Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin

• Don Boesch, Professor of Marine Science and
President, University of Maryland Center for
Environmental Science

• Robert Summers, Deputy Secretary, Maryland
Department of the Environment

• Roland Steiner, Regional Water and Wastewater
Manager, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission

12:20-12:50

Lunch: Rotunda
Poster session opens and continues until the close of the workshop

12:50 -1:30

Keynote: “Four, Five and More Pillars of Sustainable Water Infrastructure” by Hon. G. Tracy Mehan, III, Principal, The Cadmus Group, Inc., assistant administrator for water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2001 to 2003

Afternoon Session I: Parallel Speakers: Divided Kay Boardrooms:

Kay Boardroom West

1:30-1:45	"Tolerable Risk for Coastal Flood Protection" by Greg Baecher, The Water Collaborative at UM
1:45-2:00	"The Role of Water and Sanitation Engineers in Achieving the Millenium Development Goals" by Sebastian Smoot, Student, master of Engineering and Public Policy Program
2:00-2:15	"Sustainable Water Infrastructure and International Community Development" by Dylan Rebois, Student, Engineers Without Borders
2:15-2:30	"Re-Use of Wastewater Effluents: Benefits and Concerns" by Alba Torrents, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2:30-2:45	"Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Wastewater and Resulting Occupational Exposures" by Rachel Rosenberg Goldstein, Student, Master of Public Health Program
2:45-3:00	Break

Kay Boardroom East

1:30-1:45	"Sustainable Rainwater Engineering" by Allen Davis, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
1:45-2:00	"Research Needs for Sustainable Management of Urban Watersheds" by Karen Prestegaard, Associate Professor, Department of Geology
2:00-2:15	"Water Resources in Food Protection" by Carol Collins, CEO, Spiralcat
2:15-2:30	"Greening the University: An Overview of Sustainability at the University of Maryland" by Mark Stewart, UM Office of Sustainability
2:30-2:45	"Water-Wise Through Living Systems for the Built Environment" by David Tilley, Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
2:45-3:00	Break

Afternoon Session II: Unified Kay Boardrooms

3:00-3:30

Dean Pines:

• Announces the winners of the student video
competition and presents the videos.

• Solicits water research, education, entrepreneurship,
service project ideas from the audience.

• Concludes the workshop.

Special Event Sponsored by the Master of Engineering and Public policy Program:

4:00-4:30	Reception
4:30-5:30	"Flood Risk Management and the Responsibility of the Professional Engineer" by Leonard Shabman, Resident Scholar, Resources for the Future.