Kenneth W. Harrison. Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Carolina

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1 Kenneth W. Harrison Title Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Carolina Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Civil Engineering B.S University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Civil Engineering M.S North Carolina State University Civil Engineering Ph.D U.S. EPA Postdoctoral Research Program Participant Professional experience 2003-present University of South Carolina (USC), Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Assistant Professor U.S. EPA Postdoctoral Research Program, Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina North Carolina State University (NCSU), Research Assistant Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington, DC, Research Associate Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington, DC, Research Assistant Research Specialization: Environmental and Water Resources Systems Engineering, Management, and Policy-Making Research interests: Mathematical modeling and optimization, decision support systems, uncertainty analysis, decision-making under uncertainty Courses taught ECIV 201 Programming and Graphics for Civil Engineering ECIV 405 Systems Applications in Civil Engineering ECIV 555 Principles of Municipal Solid Waste Engineering (beginning Fall 2007) ECIV 705 Deterministic Civil and Environmental Systems Engineering ECIV 706 Probabilistic Civil and Environmental Systems Engineering Professional Affiliations Member, Environmental and Water Resources Systems Committee of the ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI Systems Committee) Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Member, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Member, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

2002-2003 Professional experience 2003-present University of So

2 Publications in peer-reviewed journals 1. Chen, Y., P.H. Ziehl, and K.W. Harrison. Experimental Characterization and Optimization of Hybrid FRP/RC Bridge Superstructure System. ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering. (Accepted pending revisions) 2. Amponsah, I., K.W. Harrison, D.C. Rizos, and P.H. Ziehl. Estimating Net Changes in Life-Cycle Emissions from Adoption of Emerging Civil Infrastructure Technologies, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, vol. 58, pp Harrison, K.W. Comparative Review of Environmental and Water Resources Decision- Making under Uncertainty. Advances in Water Resources, (moderate revisions requested, AWR-06-70). 4. Harrison, K.W. Two-Stage Decision-Making under Uncertainty and Stochasticity: Bayesian Programming. Advances in Water Resources, vol. 30, no (Click to view). 5. Harrison, K.W. Test Application of Bayesian Programming: Adaptive Water Quality Management Under Uncertainty. Advances in Water Resources, vol. 30, no (Click to view). 6. Harrison, K. W. If You've Ever Used Engineering Judgment, You Just Might Be a Bayesian. Journal of Environmental Engineering. vol. 131, no. 3, pp Solano, E., R. D. Dumas, K. W. Harrison, S. Ranjithan, M.A. Barlaz, and E. D. Brill. Life-Cycle-Based Solid Waste Management. II: Illustrative Applications. ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering, vol. 128, no. 10, pp Harrison, K. W., R D. Dumas, E. Solano, M.A. Barlaz, E. D. Brill Jr., and S. Ranjithan. A Decision Support Tool for Life-Cycle-Based Solid Waste Management. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. vol. 15, no. 1, pp Harrison, K.W., R.D. Dumas, S.R. Nishtala and M.A. Barlaz. A Life-Cycle Inventory Model of Municipal Solid Waste Combustion. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. vol. 50, pp Burtraw, D., K.W. Harrison and P. Turner. Improving Efficiency in Bilateral Emission Trading. Environmental and Resource Economics. vol. 11, no. 1, pp Harrison, K.W. Letter to the editor: Comments upon the paper Solid Waste Management System Analysis with Air Pollution and Leachate Impact Limitations, Waste Management & Research (1996), 14, , by Ni-Bin Chang, Christine Shoemaker and Richard E. Schuler. Waste Management & Research. vol. 15, p Krupnick, A., K. Harrison and M. Toman. The Value of Health Benefits from Ambient Air Quality Improvements in Central and Eastern Europe. Environmental and Resource Economics. vol. 7, no. 4, p Other publications 1. Harrison, K.W. Environmental and Water Resources Decision-Making Under Uncertainty. Doctoral Dissertation. August, Adviser: Ranji Ranjithan, Department of Civil Engineering, North Carolina State University.

Estimating Net Changes in Life-Cycle Emissions from Adoption of Emerging Civil Infrastructure Technologies, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, vol. 58, pp. 55-64. 2008. 3. Harrison, K.

3 2. ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and RFF (Resources for the Future) External Costs and Benefits of Fuel Cycles: A Study by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Commission of the European Communities (ORNL/M-2500)., Report Numbers 2-8. Washington, D.C.: McGraw Hill/Utility Data Institute. (Contributor) 3. Palmer, K.L. H. Sigman, M. A. Walls, K. Harrison, and S. Puller. The Cost of Reducing Municipal Solid Waste: Comparing Deposit-Refunds, Advance Disposal Fees, Recycling Subsidies, and Recycling Rate Standards. RFF Discussion Paper Krupnick, A.J., K.W. Harrison, E.J. Nickell, and M. Toman. Assessing the Health Benefits of Improved Air Quality in Central and Eastern Europe, Chapter in Pollution Abatement Strategies in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by M. Toman, published by Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C., Burtraw, D., K. Harrison, and J. Pawlowski. Coal Transportation Road Damage, Paper no. 15 in Estimating Fuel Cycle Externalities: Analytical Methods and Issues, Prepared by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Resources for the Future, Report No. 2 on the External Costs and Benefits of Fuel Cycles: A Study by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Commission of the European Communities, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Harrison, K.W. The Allocation of Flowing Water in Humid Regions. Master's thesis. October, Advisers: J. Wayland Eheart and Jon C. Liebman, Department of Environmental Engineering in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Conference presentations/papers 1. Harrison, Kenneth W. Optimal Adaptive Water Quality Management Under Uncertainty, World Water and Environmental Resources Congress 2007, Tampa, Florida, May 15 19, (Presentation, Paper). 2. Mahinthakumar, K., Von Laszewski, G., Ranjithan, R, Brill, D., Uber, J., Harrison, K., Sreepathi, S., and Zechman, E. "An Adaptive Cyberinfrastructure for Threat Management in Urban Water Distribution Systems", proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) 2006: Advancing Science through Computation, University of Reading, UK, May 28-31, V.N. Alexandrov et al. (Eds.): ICCS 2006, Part III, LNCS 3993, pp , Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg Harrison, Kenneth W. Pervious Impervious Surface Tradeoffs in Parking Lot Design, World Water and Environmental Resources Congress 2005, Anchorage, Alaska, May 15 19, (Presentation). 4. Harrison, Kenneth W. Adaptive Management of Water Quality Under Uncertainty, World Water and Environmental Resources Congress 2005, Anchorage, Alaska, May 15 19, (Presentation). 5. Harrison, Kenneth W. Hydrogen Infrastructure Modeling in USEPA-MARKAL. Annual Meeting of the International Energy Workshop June 2003, Laxenburg, Austria. (Presentation). 6. Harrison, Kenneth W. U.S. EPA Regional MARKAL Model & Modeling to Generate Alternatives, Energy Technologies Systems Analysis Programme (ETSAP) semi-annual Workshop, IIASA Laxenburg, Austria June (Presentation).

Palmer, K.L. H. Sigman, M. A. Walls, K. Harrison, and S. Puller.

4 7. Eheart, J.W. and K.W. Harrison. "Economic Efficiency of Regulations for Allocation and Control of Surface Water Withdrawals in Humid Regions", pp of proceedings of the ASCE North American Water and Environment Congress 96, held in Anaheim, California, June 22-28, (Paper and Presentation) (Invited) Research projects currently funded PI, DDDAS-TMRP (Collaborative Research): An adaptive cyberinfrastructure for threat management in urban water distribution systems, National Science Foundation (NSF) Award ($100,378 from 1/06-12/08). Application of Bayesian methods to adaptive sampling for contaminant source identification. (Click for overview). Research projects recently funded Co-PI, Advanced Technology Institute, Vanadium Steel Non-Standard (not a standard military bridge set) Fixed Bridge Case Study. ($487,687 from 03/05-02/08) Evaluation of life-cycle emissions and life-cycle costs associated with switch to high performance military bridges. Co-PI, Pervious Concrete Research, Center for Manufacturing and Technology ($120,000, 08/04-08/05). Development of a decision support tool to make pervious-impervious surface decisions for parking lot applications with consideration of cost, environmental, and groundwater recharge. Co-PI, Market Mechanisms and Incentives for Water Quality Management. ($14,000, 4/04 6/05). Considering uncertainty in the development of market mechanisms for regional water quality management.

(Paper and Presentation) (Invited) Research projects currently funded PI, DDDAS-TMRP (Collaborative Research): An adaptive cyberinfrastructure for threat management in urban water distribution

5 Honors &Awards Share of 2004 Editor s Award, Reviewer for Journal of Environmental Engineering Reviewer for Journal of Water Resources Planning & Management, Journal of Environmental Management, Water Resources Research, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, Environmental Science and Technology, Water Resources Management Hewlett Initiative Fellow (04/98) Computational Sciences and Engineering Fellowship (05/96) North Carolina State University College of Engineering Dean's Fellowship (08/95) Certificate of Appreciation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1994) for work on External Costs and Benefits of Fuel Cycles: A Study by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Commission of the European Communities, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. William John Mackay Award (4/90)- for scholastic achievement in Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign Racheff Fellowship (1/90)-providing funding for Master's degree, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Member: Chi Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi Students for Environmental Concerns, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Copresident,

Fellow (04/98) Computational Sciences and Engineering Fellowship (05/96) North Carolina State University College of Engineering Dean's Fellowship (08/95) Certificate of Appreciation, Oak Ridge

CURRICULUM VITAE. Administrative duties, including faculty governance and as Founding Department Chair (2000-2004);

CURRICULUM VITAE. Administrative duties, including faculty governance and as Founding Department Chair (2000-2004); 1/07 CURRICULUM VITAE NAME AND TITLE: YUPO CHAN PHD PE, FELLOW (ASCE) OFFICIAL ADDRESS: HOME ADDRESS: Department of Systems Engineering 5313 Scenic Drive Donaghey College of Engineering & Information Technology