February 24, 2006
Philip C. Singer has been selected to receive the Gordon Maskew Fair Award for 2006 from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE). This award is presented to a Board certified Environmental Engineer of the Academy who is judged to have contributed substantially to the status of the environmental engineering profession by exemplary professional conduct, recognized achievements in the practice of environmental engineering, and significant contributions to the control of the quality of the world’s environment.Singer was recognized at the Academy’s Awards Luncheon held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Wednesday, May 3, 2006.

From the aaee website:

2006 Award Recipient: Philip C. Singer, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE

Dr. Philip C. Singer is the Dan Okun Distinguished Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He directed the Water Resources Engineering Program for 19 years and currently directs UNC’s Drinking Water Research Center. He has conducted research on the chemical aspects of water and wastewater treatment and on aquatic chemistry for the past 40 years, and has published more than 180 papers and reports in these areas. In 1993, Dr Singer was selected for the Freese Lecture by the American Society of Civil Engineers, in 1995 he was given the A.P. Black Research Award by the American Water Works Association, in 1999 he received the Fuller Award from the NC section of the American Water Works Association, and in 2003 he was selected as the distinguished visiting lecturer of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors. In 1995, Dr. Singer was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.

He has been active in the American Water Works Association, serving as a past Chair and Trustee of the Research Division, and has served on the Research Advisory Council of the American Water Works Association Research Foundation. He was an associate editor of Environmental Science and Technology, and is a past member of the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Research Council, the Board of Directors of the Water Environment Research Foundation, and the National Research Council’s Committee on Drinking Water Contaminants. He currently serves on the EPA Science Advisory Board’s Drinking Water Committee, the National Drinking Water Advisory Council, and is President-Elect of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors.

For further information please contact Rebecca Riggsbee Lloyd by email at Rebecca_Lloyd@unc.edu

 

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