Logan Honored with Paul L. Busch Award
October 5, 2004
Dr. Bruce Logan, Kappe professor of environmental engineering, was presented with the fourth annual Paul L. Busch Award during special luncheon ceremonies at the annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC) held October 2-6, 2004 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The Paul L. Busch Award is presented each year by the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) Endowment for Innovation in Applied Water Quality Research. The award carries with it a $100,000 research grant and is presented each year to rising stars in the fields of science and engineering. Through the award, the Endowment recognizes outstanding individuals or teams who contribute significantly to water quality research and its practical application. The award seeks to promote work that will blaze new trails and bring new benefits to the water quality community.
Logan received the Paul L. Busch Award from WERF for his research topic:
"Harvesting Energy from Wastewater Treatment" – which details his research on using microbial fuel cells to generate electricity.
Logan is director of the College of Engineering’s Environmental Institute and director of Penn State’s Hydrogen Energy (H2E) Center. In addition to biological wastewater treatment, his research interests include: environmental and chemical transport processes; bioremediation; fractal analysis of particles and coagulation processes; and colloid transport in porous media. Logan earned a B.S. in chemical engineering and an M.S. in environmental engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.