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Contributors
SIAMAK ~ ARDEKANI is assistant professor of civil engineering at
the University of Texas in Arlington. His current research is in transporta-
tion management issues in the aftermath of major urban disasters such
as earthquakes and floods. He has coauthored numerous journal articles
on urban traffic management and operation, and is associate editor of the
ltansportaiion Science Joumal. He serves on the Committee on Traffic
Flow Theory and Characteristics organized by the Transportation Research
Board of the National Research Council. Dr. Ardekani received his Ph.D.
degree in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
JESSE H. AUSUBEL is a fellow in science and public policy at The
Rockefeller University in New York Cibr and director of studies for the
Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government From
1983 through 1988 Mr. Ausubel served as director of the Program Office
of the National Academy of Engineering. Mr. Ausubel first came to
the Academy complex as a resident fellow of the National Academy of
Sciences in 1977. He then served for two years as a research scholar
in the resources and environment area at the International Institute for
Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. From 1981 to 1983 he
served as a National Research Council staff officer principally responsible
for studies of the greenhouse effect. Mr. Ausubel is author or editor of
numerous publications in the field of climatic change. Among his current
areas of research are calculation of industrial emissions to the atmosphere,
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long-ten interactions of environment and technology, and comparative
diffusion of technologies in different countries.
ROBERT U. ACRES is professor of Engineering and Public Poligy at
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and deputy leader
of the Technologr-Economy-Society Program at the International Institute
of Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria. He is author or coauthor
of nine boolo; and many journal articles, as well as numerous book chapters,
symposium papers, and technical reports on a variety of subjects. He is
a "futurist" as well as a systems analyst His current research is focused
on technological change, with special emphasis on computer-integrated
manufacturing and "industrial metabolism." Dr. Ayres received his B.S.
degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago, an M.S. in physics
from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. in mathematical physics from
Kings College, University of London.
RICHARD E. BALZHISER is president and chief executive officer
of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) located in Palo Alto,
California. Dr. Balzhiser joined EPRI in 1973 as the director of the Fossil
Fuel and Advanced Systems Division and served in several senior executive
positions before becoming EPRI's executive vice president in 1987. From
1971 to 1973 he served as an assistant director of the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy, where he led energy, environment, and
natural resource activities. Previously, Dr. Balzhiser was chairman of the
Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann
Arbor, except for 1967-1968 when he served as a White House Fellow in
the office of the Secretary of Defense. Dr. Balzhiser currently serves on
the advisory boards of the Institute for Energy Analysis, the University
of Michigan College of Engineenng National Advisory Committee, and
the Academy Industry Program of the National Academy of Sciences,
National Academy of Engineenng, and Institute of Medicine. He was
recently appointed to the U.S. Department of Energy's Innovative Control
Technology Advisory Panel. Dr. Balzhiser received his B.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in chemical engineering, and his M.S. degree in nuclear engineering
from the University of Michigan.
SHELDON K FRIEDLANDER is Parsons Professor of Chemical
Engineering and director of the newly established Engineering Research
Center for Hazardous Substance Control at the University of California, Los
Angeles. Dr. Friedlander's research has involved air qualifier engineering
and aerosol technology, the behavior and characterization of particulate
matter in gases and liquids, and air quality/emission source relationships for
particulate pollution. From 1984 to 1988 he chased the UCLA Chemical
Engineering department, and before that he was professor of chemical
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engineering and environmental engineering at the California Institute of
Technology. He has consulted for the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control
District, and served as chairman of the National Research Council Panel
on the Abatement of Particulate Emissions from Stationary Sources as
well as the subcommittee on Photochemical Oxidants and Ozone. He
was also chairman of the Environmental Protection Agency Clean Air
Scientific Advisory Committee and is a member of its Science Advisory
Board Executive Committee and of the National Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Friedlander received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from
Columbia University and Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois.
ROBERT ~ FROSCH is vice-president in charge of General Motors
research laboratories. Dr. Frosch's career combines varied research and
administrative experience in industry and in government service. He has
been involved in global environmental research and policy issues at both
the national and the international level. From 1951 to 1963 he was e-m-
ployed at Hudson Laboratories of Columbia Univeristy, first as a research
scientist and then as director from 1956 to 1963. In 1963 he became direc-
tor for Nuclear Test Detection in the Advanced Research Projects Agengy
(ARPA) of the Department of Defense, and deputy director of ARPA in
1965. In 1966 he was appointed assistant secretary of the Navy for research
and development. He served in this position until January 1973, when he
became assistant executive director of the United Nations Environment
Program. In 1975 he became associate director for applied oceanography
at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and from 1977 to 1981 he
served as administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion. He served as president of the American Association of Engineering
Societies from 1981 to 1982. Dr. Frosch is a member of the National
Academy of Engineenng. He received his NB., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees
in theoretical physics from Columbia University in New York
JOSEPH P. GLAS is director of the Freon Products Division for
the Chemicals and Pigments Department at the Du Pont Company. He
joined Du Pont in 1964 as a research engineer at the company's Circleville,
Ohio, research and development laboratory. He became product manager
of Kapton polyimide and metallized Mylar polyester in 1974, manager
of packaging market development at the Chestnut Run Technical Service
Laboratory in 1975, and research manager for the commercial resins division
in 1976. Dr. Glas became research director of the Atomic Energy Division
of the Petrochemicals Department at its Savannah River Laboratory in
1979, and Mom 1980 to 1982 he served as research director for Remington
Arms Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Du Pont. He became director
of research and development for the Chemicals and Pigments Department
in 1982, and assumed his present position in 1985. Dr. Glas received a
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B.^ in chemistry from Rockhurst College in Missouri and M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois.
PAUL E. GRAY is president of Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy. Before becoming president, he served on the faculty and in the
academic administration, notably as associate provost, dean of engineering,
and chancellor. The author or coauthor of numerous basic texts in elec-
trical engineering, Dr. Gray's professional interests are in semiconductor
electronics and circuit theory. As a member of the faculty, Dr. Gray won
recognition for his teaching and for his contributions to the revitalization
of engineering education. In recent years, he has been a leader in the
continuing development and reshaping of the undergraduate curriculum.
Under Dr. Gray's administration, the university has expanded its relations
with industry, both in this county, and abroad, and is developing major
research and education programs in such areas as microelectronics, health
sciences and technology, communications, the brain and cognitive sciences,
and the management of technology. Dr. Gray is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering. He earned his S.B., S.M., and Sc.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
ROBERT HERMAN is UP. Gilvin Centennial Professor, Emeritus, in
civil engineering and sometime professor of physics at the University of
Texas at Austin. Before assuming his present position in 1979, Dr. Herman
was with the General Motors Research Laboratories and headed the De-
partment of Theoretical Physics from 1959 to 1972 and the Traffic Science
Department from 1972 to 1979. Dr. Herman's research has covered a wide
range of both theoretical and experimental investigations, including molec-
ular and solid-state physics, high-energy electron scattering, astrophysics
and cosmology, as well as operations research, especially vehicular traffic
science and transportation. With Ralph Alpher in 1948, Dr. Herman made
the first theoretical prediction that the universe should now be filled with
a cosmic microwave background radiation, which is key evidence for the
validity of the Big Bang model of the origin of the universe. Dr. Herman is
a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received his B.S.
degree in physics at City College, New York, and his master's and Ph.D.
degrees in physics from Princeton University.
THOMAS H. LEE is professor of electrical engineering at the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology. His interests include electric power
systems engineering and physical electronics, energy technology and policy,
and technology assessment and strategic planning. In 1948 he began work
bath General Electric where, over the course of 32 years, he held numer-
ous posts from senior research engineer (1955-1959) to staff executive and
chief technologist (197~1980~. In 1980 he left General Electric to become
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director of the Electric Power Systems Engineering Laboratory and Philip
Sporn Professor of Energy Processing at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. In 1984 he became director of the International Institute for
Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, for a three-year term. He
Is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Lee received his
doctorate in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
WALTER R. LYNN is professor of civil and environmental engineer-
mg and dean of the university faculty at Cornell University. His teaching
and research have focused on applying analytical methods to public policy
decisions composed of technical, political, social, and economic elements.
In 1961 he joined the Civil Engineering Department at Cornell to develop
a graduate program in environmental systems engineering. He served for
eight years as director of the Cornell Program on Science, Technology, and
Society. Before that he was Director of Cornell's Center for Environmental
Research and director of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineer-
ing. Dr. Lynn has served as associate editor of the Journal of Operations and
Research and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. He
was the first chairman of the Water Science and Technology Board of the
National Research Council, and is currently a member of its Committee on
Water Resources Research. He also serves as Governor Cuomo's appointee
as chairman of the New York State Water Resources Planning Council. Dr.
Lynn received his B.S. degree in civil engineering from the University of
Miami, an M.S. in sanitary engineering from the School of Public Health
at the University of North Carolina, and a Ph.D. in systems analysis and
civil engineering at Northwestern University.
HEDY E. SLADOVICH is research associate at the National Academy
of Engineenng Program Office. Before joining the Academy in 1988,
she worked at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Ecosystems Center, in
Woods Hole Massachusetts; in industry; and as a free-lance researcher in
science education and policy. Ms. Sladovich's interests revolve around the
interactions of technology, society, and environment. Ms. Sladovich holds
a bachelor's degree in biology from Oakland University.
VICTORIA J. TSCHINKEL is senior consultant with the law firm
of Landers and Parsons in Tallahassee, Florida, where she marriages con-
sultant teams to solve complex environmental problems and works with
clients to resolve issues of concern to regulators and the public. From 1981
to 1987 Ms. Tichinkel served as Secretary of the Florida Department of
Environmental Regulation. Under her leadership, the state's water quality
standards were completely rewritten and a state water policy was adopted,
including passage of a wetlands bill and substantial improvement in laws
and agency programs to protect Florida's aquifers from contamination. The
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state also adopted a comprehensive growth management plan in 1985, and
in 1986 adopted legislation to pay for cleanup of water supplies contami-
nated by leaking underground petroleum storage tanks. Ms. Chinked held
positrons in teaching and research prior to joining Flonda's state govern-
ment in 1974. She has served on numerous state and national advisory
boards and committees, including appointments to the U.S. Deparunent of
Energy Research Advisory Board, the NRC Space Applications Board, the
Environmental Protection Agency's Ibxic Substances Advisory Committee,
and the Department of Energy's Advisory Committee on Nuclear Facility
Safetr. Ms. I§chinkel is a zoology graduate of the University of California
at Berkeley.
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