Betz Prof. Environ Eng - Drexel University. #Disinfection, #risk assess.,
#QMRA #COVID19
#water. Class of 2021 (US) National Academy of Engineering.
usual disclaimers.
https://drexel.edu/engineering/about/faculty-staff/H/haas-charles/
Associations:
#AAESP #AAEES #ASCE #AWWA #WEF #ASM #AAAS #ASEE
Engineers, architects, and other technological professionals designed the genocidal death machines of the Third Reich. The death camp operations were highly efficient, so these technological professionals knew what they were doing: they were, so to speak, good engineers. As an educator at a technological university, I need to explain to my students—future engineers and architects—the motivations and ethical reasoning of the technological professionals of the Third Reich. I need to educate my students in the ethical practices of this hellish regime so that they can avoid the kind of ethical justifications used by the Nazi engineers. In their own professional lives, my former students should not only be good engineers in a technical sense, but good engineers in a moral sense. In this essay, I examine several arguments about the ethical judgments of professionals in Nazi Germany, and attempt a synthesis that can provide a lesson for contemporary engineers and other technological professionals. How does an engineer avoid the error of the Nazi engineers in their embrace of an evil ideology underlying their technological creations? How does an engineer know that the values he embodies through his technological products are good values that will lead to a better world? This last question, I believe, is the fundamental issue for the understanding of engineering ethics.
Available in pre-proof - A microbial risk assessor's guide to Valley Fever (Coccidioides spp.): Case study and review of risk factors. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969724002754
Thanks to all co-authors. Our first real foray into #QMRA of #fungi #MicrobialRiskAssessment #ValleyFever #Coccoidiodes
Non-destructive testing for detection of buried #lead #drinkingwater #serviceline . Using propogation of #stresswaves in #pipe.
Just out - with coauthors including Ivan Bartoli, Kurt Sjoblom
https://trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/73850055-94b3-4739-9c2a-bee408a5aef4
#DrinkingWater #Drexel_university
Abstract in image:
“Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment of Contracting COVID-19 Derived from Measured and Simulated Aerosol Particle Transmission in #Aircraft Cabins”
#QMRA #COVID19 #IAQ
A reminder to my SoCal friends. Highways can flood and be very dangerous. Here is what happened from T/S Ida in 2021 in Center City Philadelphia:
