Signature of A uthor .................................................................. ................... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering May 28, 2013 Certified by ............................................................................----Moshe E. Ben-Akiva Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Thesis Supervisor Certified by ....................

E nvironmental engineering education has a traditional engineering foundation that includes a heavy emphasis on the physical sciences. In contrast, the disciplines of chemical engineering and bioengineering are founded on a strong combination of the physical, chemical, and biological sciences. We believe that the environmental engineering profession needs to address whether to shift from the tr...

3 AHMED SAID*, DAVID K. STEVENS and GERALD SEHLKE 4 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA; 5 2 Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA; 6 3 Integrated Environmental Analysis Department, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental 7 Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA 8 (*author for correspond...

Signature of A uthor........ ......................r.. . ........ .................................................... Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering May 11 th, 2012 C ertificated by............. . ........................... Joseph M. Sussman JR East Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems 11 11 A ccepted by .........................................

Pedro LOPES, Ph.DCandidate (Corresponding author) 3 Department of Civil Engineering & MARE Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, 4 University of Coimbra, [email protected] 5 Jorge LEANDRO, Ph.D 6 Department of Civil Engineering & MARE Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, 7 University of Coimbra, [email protected] 8 Rita F. CARVALHO, Ph.D 9 Department of Civil ...