Safe and Sustainable Innovation of Water Treatment Technology
The Westerhoff Research Group, as part of our NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (newtcenter.org) is searching for a motivated environmental or chemical engineering PhD student to contribute and help lead our safety and sustainable cross-cutting theme in our center. NEWT offers opportunities for collaboration, travel, graduate level industrial / national lab internships, and outreach activities across all four partner institutions (Arizona State University, Rice University, Yale University and University of Texas – El Paso). Prior PhD students working on this safety and sustainability theme have contributed to lifecycle assessment, techno-economic analysis, nanomaterial detection to quantify release of nanomaterials from nano-enabled water technologies, social surveys and policy development. NEWT focuses on drinking water and industrial wastewater treatment technologies from early stage patenting through start-up and partnering with over 25 industrial partners.
More information is available at our groups website (https://westerhoff.engineering.asu.edu/). Please contact me by email (p.westerhoff@asu.edu) along with your resume, and we can arrange a time to SKYPE and visit our group at Arizona State University.
Water Information Technology for Predicting Water Quality in 2020s and Beyond
Over the past 10 years the Westerhoff research group develop a number of large unique GIS based datasets that contain information on every wastewater treatment plant and surface water intake for drinking water treatment plants across the USA and parts of other countries. These databases contain millions of values on their precise location, treatment capacity, treatment units, water quality, socio-economic data of communities and hydrologic data for the rivers that link our modern natural-anthropogenic water world. We use a combination of ArcGIS, Python, MATLAB and other platforms to manage, model and simulate data.
I am seeking a motivated and creative graduate student from any background interested in expanding our models to include groundwater supplies, agricultural systems, etc. and/or integrating visualization capabilities (augmented reality) and expanding the functionality of the models to understand emerging water quality challenges and links with public health.
More information is available at our groups website (https://westerhoff.engineering.asu.edu/). Please contact me by email (p.westerhoff@asu.edu) along with your resume, and we can arrange a time to SKYPE and visit our group at Arizona State University.