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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome New Dean...........................1
Senior Design Projects.......................2
Alumni Career Night...........................3
Capstone Projects..............................4
Faculty Highlights..............................5
Engineering Course Redesign.............6
Business Plan Competition................7
Commencement 2013........................8
Dr. Hadjimichael Elected to CASE......9
Fairfield’s Emergency
Operations center ............................10
Google Computer Science
Summer Program..............................11
Dean’s Letter....................................12
www.fairfield.edu/engineering
Summer 2013
Welcome to our New Dean
Bruce W. Berdanier, Ph.D., currently professor and department head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at South Dakota State University (SDSU), has been selected to lead the Fairfield University School of Engineering. He fills a position so ably held for three years by dean Dr. Jack Beal, who is stepping down and returning to the faculty.
“We are all quite excited at the prospect of Dean Berdanier building on the solid foundation laid by Deans Beal and Hadjimichael and all of our engineering faculty over the past decades,” said Rev. Paul Fitzgerald, S.J., senior vice president for academic affairs. “Engineering education in a Jesuit context offers something quite unique: academic excellence in discipline-specific programs coupled with a broad-based liberal arts education. This leads to graduates who are not only professionally competent but who are also persons of integrity who look for opportunities to help those most in need. Dean Berdanier models all of these qualities, so he will be able to lead by example.”
Dr. Berdanier brings to Fairfield an impressive history of leadership, research, and management. He has been instrumental in furthering SDSU’s efforts to increase its grant funded research at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and he has recently led successful re-accreditation efforts for the university’s Civil Engineering program with the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). In addition to having spent the past 17 years in academia, Dr. Berdanier managed his own consulting engineering company from 1983 - 2007. The focus of his research and consulting relates to the distribution and interactions of various chemical compounds in studies of surface water quality and in municipal wastewater treatment. His list of publications and presentations on those subjects and others is extensive.
Keenly aware of the power of engineers to transform a society, Dr. Berdanier has a history of putting his talents to work in service to others. For 15 years, he has worked on engineering research and service projects in Haiti, and he was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Jordan. Over the past three years, Dr. Berdanier has been funded by the National Science Foundation to assist the Oglala Lakota College, a Native American Land Grant university in South Dakota, in developing their capacity to offer the first
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
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A PUBLICATION OF THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Object Description
| Title | Owl - Summer 2013 |
| Originating Office | School of Engineering |
| Date as Text | Summer 2013 |
| Date | June 2013 |
| Description | The Owl is published once a year by Fairfield University for alumni, students, benefactors, and friends of the School of Engineering, as well as selected corporations. |
| Notes | Editorial Board: Dr. Jack W. Beal, Dean, School of Engineering; Nina M. Riccio, Owl editor; Roberta Reynolds, Designer, Printing & Graphics Services; Meg McCaffrey, contributing writer. |
| Type of Document | Newsletter |
| Original Format | Digital document (PDF) produced using Adobe PDF Library 10.0; color; ill.; 17 x 11 in.; 7 pages; 3.60 MB |
| Digital Specifications | This digital file exists as an archived PDF available for general use. |
| Publisher | Fairfield University |
| Place of Publication | Fairfield, Conn. |
| Source | Fairfield University Archives and Special Collections |
| Copyright Information | Fairfield University reserves all rights to this resource which is provided here for educational and/or non-commercial purposes only. |
| Identifier | OWLSUMMER2013 |
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| SearchData | TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome New Dean...........................1 Senior Design Projects.......................2 Alumni Career Night...........................3 Capstone Projects..............................4 Faculty Highlights..............................5 Engineering Course Redesign.............6 Business Plan Competition................7 Commencement 2013........................8 Dr. Hadjimichael Elected to CASE......9 Fairfield’s Emergency Operations center ............................10 Google Computer Science Summer Program..............................11 Dean’s Letter....................................12 www.fairfield.edu/engineering Summer 2013 Welcome to our New Dean Bruce W. Berdanier, Ph.D., currently professor and department head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at South Dakota State University (SDSU), has been selected to lead the Fairfield University School of Engineering. He fills a position so ably held for three years by dean Dr. Jack Beal, who is stepping down and returning to the faculty. “We are all quite excited at the prospect of Dean Berdanier building on the solid foundation laid by Deans Beal and Hadjimichael and all of our engineering faculty over the past decades,” said Rev. Paul Fitzgerald, S.J., senior vice president for academic affairs. “Engineering education in a Jesuit context offers something quite unique: academic excellence in discipline-specific programs coupled with a broad-based liberal arts education. This leads to graduates who are not only professionally competent but who are also persons of integrity who look for opportunities to help those most in need. Dean Berdanier models all of these qualities, so he will be able to lead by example.” Dr. Berdanier brings to Fairfield an impressive history of leadership, research, and management. He has been instrumental in furthering SDSU’s efforts to increase its grant funded research at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and he has recently led successful re-accreditation efforts for the university’s Civil Engineering program with the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). In addition to having spent the past 17 years in academia, Dr. Berdanier managed his own consulting engineering company from 1983 - 2007. The focus of his research and consulting relates to the distribution and interactions of various chemical compounds in studies of surface water quality and in municipal wastewater treatment. His list of publications and presentations on those subjects and others is extensive. Keenly aware of the power of engineers to transform a society, Dr. Berdanier has a history of putting his talents to work in service to others. For 15 years, he has worked on engineering research and service projects in Haiti, and he was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Jordan. Over the past three years, Dr. Berdanier has been funded by the National Science Foundation to assist the Oglala Lakota College, a Native American Land Grant university in South Dakota, in developing their capacity to offer the first FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY continued on page 4 A PUBLICATION OF THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING |
