Massimino
Wins Staff Award
In
January 2002, EPP's graduate coordinator, Vicki Massimino,
along with Matt Cline (ChemE), received the College of
Engineering Staff Recognition Award, given to acknowledge
exceptional job performance, dedication, positive attitude
and contributions as a team player. Vicki was particularly
lauded for her work with students. As graduate coordinator
for EPP, she acts as support for graduate students from
the application process through the end of their studies.
She joins other EPP staff members, Patti Steranchak and
Mike Berkenpas, as recipients of this award.
Asundi -
continued from pg. 6
Additionally,
the architectural design activity is carried out by a
small number of senior developers who work alone or with
other co-located developers. These findings show that
OSS projects are indeed not significantly different from
commercial projects in terms of their software development
practices.
Work
supported by The Sloan Foundation and The Software Engineering
Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Where Are
They Now?
| EPP
- Ph.D. Graduate - 1998
Vicky
Hartonas-Garmhausen
Systems Engineer
Quality Engineering - Military Aircraft
European Aeronautics Defense & Space Company (EADS)
81663 Munich Germany
vicky.hartonas-garmhausen@m.eads.net
Vicky
Hartonas-Garmhausen works at EADS European Aeronautic
Defense & Space Company. EADS is No. 2 worldwide
in the defense and aerospace industry producing
Airbus passenger aircraft, Eurocopter helicopters,
military aircraft, satellites and Ariane launcher
rockets. Vicky is a member of the quality management
group within the Military Aircraft Division of EADS.
She is working in the development of new software
quality management standards for European aerospace
companies. |
| ChemE/EPP
BS - 1990
Sara
Wadia-Fascetti
Associate Professor
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Northeastern University
400 Snell Engineering Center, Boston, MA 02115
(617) 373-4248; (617) 373-4419 (fax); swf@neu.edu
http://sca.coe.neu.edu
After
leaving Carnegie Mellon, Sara completed her graduate
degrees in Structural Engineering at Stanford University.
More recently Sara has been a member of the faculty
at Northeastern University and received tenure in
2000. She runs an active research program in the
area of structural condition assessment and diagnostics
and leads the Connections Program, which is an initiative
to attract more women into engineering and science
majors. |
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EPP Faculty
Key Players in EPA "Supersite"
Three
EPP faculty members, Spyros Pandis (ChemE/EPP), Cliff Davidson
(CEE/EPP), and Allen Robinson (MechE/EPP) are the prime
movers behind an intensive field program to study particulate
air pollution in south-western Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh
Air Quality Study is one of the EPA's "super-sites" a nationwide
program of intensive air pollution research designed to
understand the formation, fate, transport and consequences
of particulate air pollution. In addition to almost $3.5-million
of support from EPA, the Carnegie Mellon facility has also
received a similar amount of support from the U.S. Department
of Energy for additional instrumentation.
The
principal observing station, which contains a large collection
of state-of-the-art pollution monitoring equipment, is located
in Schenley Park near the golf course, just up the hill
from the Carnegie Mellon campus.
Several
research questions are being investigated in this program.
For example, the group is studying the role of water in
affecting the size and chemical composition of particles,
as well as the formation of new particles by chemical reactions.
The group is also investigating which particles in Pittsburgh
air are from local pollution sources and which are from
distant sources.
Carnegie Mellon's supersite field station collects a wide
range of data on air pollution.
Gurian - continued
from pg. 5
ance costs are
shown to result primarily from differences in the treatment
process cost estimates used by the different studies. An
evaluation of alternative regulatory approaches for arsenic
indicates that point-of-use treatment has the potential
to be a low-cost means of compliance for smaller water systems
but would most likely provide less uniform water quality
than centralized treatment, with costs and performance highly
dependent on the frequency of monitoring and service.
The
simulation model is then applied to consider jointly standards
for three contaminants: arsenic, nitrate, and uranium. The
costs and benefits of imposing the three standards simultaneously
are smaller than the sum of the costs and benefits of the
individual standards. The difference is fairly small, but
the effects of joint regulation may be larger for contaminants
with more highly correlated occurrence distributions.
Work
supported by Cooperative Agreement CR825188- 01-3 between
the U.S. EPA Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation and
Carnegie Mellon University, and by U.S. EPA ORD award No.
R826890-01-0 for research in environmental statistics. Additional
support was provided by the Heinz Family Foundation through
the grant of a Teresa Heinz Scholarship for Environmental
Research to Patrick Gurian for the 1999-2000 academic year.
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