Student Team Receives Honorable Mention from Metcalf & Eddy

A student team from the Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences was awarded an honorable mention for finishing second in the Academic Design Competition for 2004-05 sponsored by Metcalf & Eddy, Inc.. Margaret Martin, Maryanne McElwee, Derek Ray, Nicholas Shultz, and Manuel Urcuyo were acknowledged for their design report and poster submission, “Development of a Biological Treatment Process for Cost Effectively Achieving Low Nitrogen Effluents from Domestic Wastewater Treatment Anaerobic Sludge Digestion Centrate/Filtrate.”

Each student team in the competition was responsible for developing an engineering solution to a real-life problem faced by City of New York wastewater treatment plants. The Notre Dame projects were carried out as part of CE443: Wastewater Disposal, a class taught by Assistant Professor Robert Nerenberg. The graduate teaching assistant for the course was Leon Downing, who also helped advise the students.

The design competition provides environmental engineering students with the opportunity to expand their horizons in a team atmosphere while focusing on an environmental challenge. According to James Anderson, chief engineer and senior vice president of Metcalf & Eddy, the company’s hope is that “this experience will further motivate students to pursue a career in environmental engineering.”

An AECOM company, Metcalf & Eddy provides planning, design, construction, and operations services for water, wastewater, wet weather, and hazardous waste management facilities and programs. Metcalf & Eddy publishes the classic wastewater textbook Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse.

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