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Appendix: Contributors
Appendix: Contributors
Pages 167-176
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He is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) , the National Science Foundation Career Award, the Siemens Best Paper Award at the 1996 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and the Olympus Prize at the 1998 European Conference of Computer Vision.
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She also holds advisory positions and is an active participant in other prestigious national organizations: trustee of the Brookings Institution; life member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Corporation; member of the Council on Foreign Relations; member of the Executive Committee of the Council on Competitiveness; board member of Georgetown University and Rockefeller University; member of the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange and the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution; and director of several major corporations.
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Kornbluth worked as a design engineer at DEKA Research and Development in Manchester, New Hampshire, on the Stirling Engine Village Power Project, for which he developed a biogas venturi burner for use in developing countries. Previous to that he was director of operations and development engineer at Whirlwind Wheelchair International in San Francisco, where he managed international capacity-building projects,
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Her responsibilities include working with project partners in, and traveling to, developing countries to implement, provide technical assistance and program support, and assess water systems and other point-of-use water treatment projects; answering technical questions, writing informational fact sheets, and maintaining the safe water system website; and providing engineering expertise to the Foodborne and Diarrheal Disease Branch of CDC. Prior positions include principal, Alethia Environmental; lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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During those eight years, she was responsible for managing various research groups of 15 to 50 scientists, engineers, and technicians working on a broad range of chemistry and chemical engineering technologies. She has also conducted research on laser diagnostics for the combustion of chemical warfare agents in the Department of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University and taught chemistry at Vassar College.
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Office of Research and Development National Center for Environmental Research, she manages academic grants for the Technologies for Sustainable Environment research program; coordinates Small Business Innovation Research contracts for clean technologies, pollution prevention, and research on waste minimization; initiated the P3 Award, a national student design competition; and initiated benchmarking of the integration of sustainability into engineering curricula at U.S. institutions of higher education.
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CONTRIBUTORS 175 Education for Sustainable Development and has served on programming committees for the International Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference and the EPA Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference. She is a member of numerous professional associations, including the American Chemical Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society for Engineering Education, and Engineers without Borders.
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