The dissertation on "Colloidal Fouling Mechanisms in Reverse
Osmosis and Nanofiltration" by Eric M.V. Hoek, recipient of
the first Yale Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, December 2001,
has won one of the two Association of Environmental Engineering
and Science Professors (AEESP) 2002 Doctoral Dissertation Awards.
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award consists of a plaque and $1,000 for the advisee and $500 for
the faculty advisor. Dr. Hoek and Prof. Menachem Elimelech, Chemical
Engineering/Environmental Engineering, his faculty advisor,
attended the awards ceremony in Chicago Sept. 30.
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- Dr.
Hoek is presently an assistant professor in the Department of
Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of
California, Riverside.
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