Gordon Maskew Fair Award

The Gordon Maskew Fair Award honors one of the pioneers of environmental engineering. Dean Fair, in addition to his own exemplary career, spawned a living legacy during his lifetime -- those that he taught are now teaching us.

In establishing the Fair Award, the Academy sought to identify Board Certified Environmental Engineers and Board Certified Environmental Engineering Members who have contributed to the status of the environmental engineering profession by:

Exemplary professional conduct
Recognized achievements in the practice of engineering
Significant contributions to the control of the quality of the world's environment.

For the full list of eligibility criteria and information on how you can submit nominations for a worthy Environmental Engineer, click here.

2012 Gordon Maskew Fair Award Recipient: C. P. Huang, Ph.D., BCEEM

Dr. C.P. Huang, Donald C. Phillips Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware, began his academic career at Harvard University where he studied aquatic chemistry under the direction of Professor Werner Stumm in 1966. After earning his Ph.D. in 1971, he taught at Wayne State University before joining the University of Delaware in 1974.

His research specialties are: (1) specific chemical interactions at the solid-liquid interfaces, (2) the chemistry and control of heavy metals, and (3) advanced oxidation processes for water and wastewater treatment. Recently, he expanded his research activities into environmental nanotechnology with an emphasis on developing innovative nanomaterials and systems for environmental applications, studying the fate and transport of engineered nanoparticles in the aquatic environment, and investigating the responses of ecological systems to engineered nanoparticles.

He has mentored 8 post-doctors and supervised the thesis research of 100 graduate students (59 M.S. and 41 Ph. D.). The majority of his students and post-doctors are faculty members at major universities in USA, Taiwan, Korea, Germany, Turkey, and Brazil.

Professor Huang has received numerous honors including the Gordon Maskew Fair Medal from Water Environment Federation for worthy accomplishments in the training and development of future engineers in 1999, the Best Theoretical Paper Award from the World Water and Environmental Congress for research in activated carbon adsorption of volatile organic carbon in 2003, and the Wesley W. Horner Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers for research in sonochemical process for the inactivation of Cryptosporidium in water in 2008.

2012 Gordon Maskew Fair Award Recipient: Otis J. Sproul, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE

Dr. Otis J. Sproul is an Emeritus Dean and Professor of Civil Engineering in the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of New Hampshire. He received his B. S. and M. S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Maine in 1952 and 1957, respectively. He received his Doctor of Science in Sanitary Engineering degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1961. Dr. Sproul has taught at the University of Maine, taught and served as chair in the Department of Civil Engineering at The Ohio State University and served as Dean of the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of New Hampshire.

Dr. Sproul and his graduate students were among the earliest engineers to engage in research that developed useful data for the inactivation and removal of viruses and parasites from water, wastewater, and in the natural environment. Among other areas, the work provided data useful in developing engineering criteria for relationships between the contact time, type, and concentration of disinfectants used, temperature, and characteristics of viruses themselves. Chemical adsorbents used or formed through chemical reactions in water treatment processes and on natural adsorbents, such as clays in the natural environment, were also studied to determine and optimize the virus removal mechanisms on these materials. Disinfection models for parasitic cysts were also developed with other graduate students.

Dr. Sproul has been active in ABET, Inc., representing AAEE as a commissioner for five years on the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) and is currently serving another five year term on the Technology Accreditation Commission. During this service Dr. Sproul was active in Academy and EAC discussions leading to changes in ABET’s General Criteria for Masters Level Programs that substantially benefited accreditation practices in master’s level programs with fewer programs, such as environmental engineering.

Dr. Sproul has served as Editor of the Journal of Environmental Engineering (ASCE) and currently serves as the editor of the Environmental Engineer: Applied Research and Practice (AAEE). He co-founded the International Ozone Association with a dozen other directors. His work is published in over 100 referred and unreferred papers, book chapters, and an edited book.

Past Winners

2011 -- Hillel I. Shuval
2010 -- Rao Y. Surampalli
2009 -- Thomas E. Wilson
2008 -- R. Tim Haug
2007 -- Jim F. Stahl
2006 -- Philip C. Singer
2005 -- Robert C. Marini
2004 -- Richard A. Conway
2003 -- Charles C. Johnson, Jr.
2002 -- Theodore M. Schad
2001 -- Cecil Lue-Hing
2000 -- Frederick G. Pohland
1999 -- W. Wesley Eckenfelder
1998 -- Gerald T. Orlob
1997 -- Paul H. Woodruff
1996 -- Raymond J. Loehr
1995 -- Walter J. Weber, Jr.
1994 -- Jerome B. Gilbert
1993 -- Charles A. Sorber
1992 -- William J. Carroll
1991 -- Paul L. Busch
1990 -- Walter E. Garrison
1989 -- John C. Geyer
1988 -- Henry L. Longest, II
1987 -- Robert A. Canham
1986 -- Joseph F. Lagnese, Jr.
1985 -- Vinton W. Bacon
1984 -- Joseph F. Malina, Jr.
1983 -- Arthur C. Stern
1982 -- Earnest F. Gloyna
1981 -- Gerard A. Rohlich
1980 -- William R. Gibbs
1979 -- Joseph C. Lawler
1978 -- Stanley E. Kappe
1977 -- Roy F. Weston
1976 -- Earnest Boyce
1975 -- Wesley E. Gilbertson
1974 -- Frank A. Butrico
1973 -- John H. Ludwig
1972 -- Daniel A. Okun
1971 -- James B. Coulter

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