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Helene A.
Hilger, Ph.D., P.E. |
| Interests | - Solid Waste - Anaerobic Digestion - Wastewater Reclamation - Wastewater Treatment |
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| Courses | - CEGR 3141 Introduction to Environmental
Engineering - CEGR 3155 Environmental Engineering Laboratory - CEGR 4141 Process Engineering - CEGR 4144 Solid Waste Management |
| Education | - Ph.D., Civil Engineering , North Carolina
State University, 1998 - M.S., Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1983 - B.S., Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1980 - B.A., Biology, Rutgers, The State University - New Jersey, 1970 |
| Recent Publications | - Hilger, H.A., M.A. Barlaz, and A. G. Wollum,
1998. Landfill methane oxidation response to vegetation,
fertilization, and liming. Submitted to the Journal of Environmental
Quality, January 1999. - Hilger, H.A., M.A. Barlaz, and S.K. Liehr, 1998. A mathematical model of multicomponent gas diffusion and biofilm gas exchange associated with methane oxidation in landfill cover soil. Submitted to the Journal of Environmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, November, 1998. - Hilger, H.A., M.A. Barlaz and D. F. Cranford, 1998. Exopolymer production in landfill cover soil. Submitted to the Journal of Soil Biology and Biochemistry, October 1998. - Wu, J.S., H.A. Hilger, and M. McDaniel, 1985. Waste Management for Small Quantity Generators: North Carolina Survey, Technical Report, N.C. Board of Science and Technology. - Hilger, H.A. and Huisingh, D., 1985. Profits of Pollution Prevention: A Compendium of North Carolina Case Studies in Resource Conservation and Waste Reduction, North Carolina Board of Science and Technology. - Wu, J.S. and H.A. Hilger, 1985. Chemodynamics of mercury in wastewater treatment systems, AICHE Symposium Series, No. 243, Vol. 81, pp. 109-118. - Wu, J.S. and H.A. Hilger, 1984. Evaluation of EPA’s hazard ranking system, Journal of Environmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers 110: 797-807. |
| Awards and Honors | - Recipient of the Joe A. Williams Award,
Outstanding Civil Engineering Student, UNC-Charlotte (1980) - Recipient of the Outstanding Senior at UNC-Charlotte Award from the N.C. Section of ASCE - Invited to join Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honor Society - Invited to join Pi Mu Epsilon, National Honorary Mathematical Society |