Closing the Knowing/Doing Gap
Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering and The Olin Corporation present:
The John McClanahan Henske Distinguished Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Glen T. Daigger
Distinguished Fellow, IWA
Distinguished Member, ASCE
Fellow, WEF
Professor of Engineering Practice
University of Michigan
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
"Closing the Knowing/Doing Gap"
Abstract:
Factors such as population and economic growth, increasing resource scarcity, and climate change have created a time of "reinvention" for urban water management. Responses include the "One Water" concept where water is thought to be managing in an integrated fashion within the urban area, rather than as separate "stove pipes", and the blossoming interest in resource recovery from the used water stream. This is leading to dramatic changes in approaches to urban water management, and rapid advances in new and improved technologies to advance the objectives underlying these over-arching trends. These dramatic changes also necessitate changes in professional practice to recognize the developmental nature of technologies which must be evaluated and either implemented today or allowed for in plans and designs, and the significant changes in the supporting infrastructure which will enable these new approaches. Understanding the life-cycle of technology development, including the importance of learning curves, when evaluating evolving technologies; using risk and opportunity analysis as a formal step in options analysis; and including visioning and scenario analysis as regularly used components of professional practice become essential components of professional practice if we are to seize the potential opportunities before us. Right now a significant gap exists between what we "know" we can do and what we are actually "doing". This gap is created by the fact that historic approaches to urban water management planning are ill-suited to the rapid changes now occurring and need to be updated with proven techniques and approaches adopted from other areas of professional practice. These changes in professional practice needed to propel our profession forward will be the subject of this presentation.
Bio:
Dr. Daigger is currently Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan and President and Founder of One Water Solutions, LLC, a water engineering and innovation firm. He previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for CH2M HILL where he was employed for 35 years, as well as Professor and Chair of Environmental Systems Engineering at Clemson University. Actively engaged in the water profession through major projects, and as author or co-author of more than 100 technical papers, four books, and several technical manuals, he contributes to significantly advance practice within the water profession. Deeply involved in professional activities, he is currently Immediate Past President of the International Water Association (IWA). The recipient of numerous awards, including the Kappe, Freese, and Feng lectures and the Harrison Prescott Eddy, Morgan, and the Gascoigne Awards, he is a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), a Distinguished Fellow of IWA, and a Fellow of the Water Environment Federation (WEF). A member of a number of professional societies, Dr. Daigger is also a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineers.
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
10 Hillhouse Avenue New Haven, CT 06511
10:30AM
Becton Seminar Room MC035
John M. Henske
This series of lectures is named in honor of John M. Henske. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on June 3, 1923. After spending two years at Yale University, he served in the army with the Corps of Engineers from 1943 to 1946 and then returned to Yale to graduate in 1948 with degrees in both Chemical Engineering and Industrial Administration. He joined Dow Chemical Company in 1948 as a research engineer and became a vice-president in 1968. In 1969 Mr. Henske joined Olin Corporation as group vice president for chemicals and later served as a director and as president (1973-1980 and 1983-1985) and chief executive officer (1978-1987).
In addition to his leadership roles in Dow and Olin he left a legacy of constructive activity in professional societies, higher education and community service. Under his chairmanship in 1979-1980 the Chemical Manufacturers Association embarked on new directions. He served as chairman of the United Negro College Fund and served his alma mater in numerous ways. He was a trustee of Stamford Hospital and Yale-New Haven Hospital and was the creative force behind the innovative Science Park in New Haven.
The John McClanahan Henske Distinguished Lectures in Chemical Engineering are made possible by a fund established by Olin Corporation. They are administered by the Department of Chemical Engineering, Yale University. The series was launched in September, 1989, when Rutherford Aris, (Regents Professor, University of Minnesota), and Frederick J. Krambeck, (Manager of Process Development, Mobil Research and Development Corporation), presented lectures on "Reactions in Continuous Mixtures."
The John M. Henske lectures are made possible by a gift from the Olin Corporation administered by the School of Engineering & Applied Science, the Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Yale University.