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Dr. H. Keith Moo-Young is Dean of the College of Engineering, Computer Science and Technology at California State University-Los Angeles. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in civil-environmental engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Masters of Technology Management from the University Pennsylvania, and is a licensed professional engineer (Environmental Engineering) in Pennsylvania. He was formerly the Interim Dean and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at Villanova University, and has served as a Professor at Lehigh University and Villanova University.
The emphasis of his research is on hazardous and solid waste management and technologies, such as the remediation of inorganic contaminants in acid mine drainage and groundwater, manufactured gas plant and coal tar, recycling and reuse of industrial co-product materials, and corrective strategies for contaminated sediments.
He has served as a member of the Water Environmental Research Foundation Exploratory Team on Solids Reduction, National Science Foundation Committee of Visitors for Civil and Mechanical Systems Division from 2001-2003, the Department of Energy's Workshop on Monitoring of Metals and Radionuclide Contaminated Sites in 2004 and Workshop on Containment Technologies in 2002. He also served as the session leader on Sediment Stability for the Department of Defense's SERDP-ESTCP Workshop on Contaminated Sediment in 2004. He co-chaired of the First International Conference on Environmental Research, Technology, and Policy on Africa in Accra, Ghana in 2007.
Dr. Moo-Young has received numerous national awards including service as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Policy Fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2001-2002 and Black Engineer of the Year in 2001. He has published over 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals, books and conference proceedings, and has delivered over 80 presentations at conferences, workshops and invited lectures. He is also the co-inventor of one patent. |