JöRG E. DREWES, Assistant Professor
Environmental Science & Engineering
Colorado School of Mines
Coolbaugh Hall
Golden, CO 80401-1887

Phone:303-273-3401 Fax: 303-273-3413 Email: jdrewes@mines.edu

Other Web Page: http://www.mines.edu/~jdrewes/

Education

• Dr. Ing., Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Berlin 1997
• Dipl. Ing. (M.S.), Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Berlin 1992

Professional Experience

• Associate Director, 4/1999-7/2001, National Center for Sustainable Water Supply
  (NCSWS), Arizona State University. Project coordinator of AWWARF/U.S. EPA
  research project entitled „Investigation on soil-aquifer treatment for a sustainable water
  reuse". Teaching graduate levels in Environmental Engineering Chemistry (CEE 563).
• Visiting Professor, 9/1997-8/1999, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
  Arizona State University.
• Research Associate, 7/1992 - 7/1997, Dept. of Water Quality Control,
  Technical University of Berlin, Teaching graduate levels in water treatment, water
  chemistry, water analysis, and environmental law.
• Research Engineer, 11/1992-8/1995, Technical University of Berlin/
  Berliner Wasserbetriebe, Conducting research on advanced wastewater treatment using
  powdered activated carbon to remove AOX from domestic effluents used
  for subsequent groundwater recharge.

Research Interests

• Water reclamation leading to indirect potable reuse

  Developing analytical, experimental, and modeling tools to design and optimize
  engineered systems for potable reuse. Assessing treatment technologies for water reuse.

• Operation of water treatment systems using membrane technology

  Potential of membrane technologies in improving conventional water and wastewater
  treatment; membrane efficiencies; pre- and post-treatment; new fields of
  membrane application.

• Developing tools to describe contaminant transfer among
  environmental media

  This approach considers analytical tools and interpretative models in the field of
  assessing and predicting the transfer of chemicals of concern in natural and engineered
  water systems.

• Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) and
  endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) in the Environment

  Growing concerns are arisen from pharmaceutical active chemicals and endocrine
  disrupting chemicals present in domestic effluents. Endocrine disrupting
  chemicals have been defined as agents that interfere with the natural hormone
  system. This research addresses fate and transport of EDCs and PPCPs during
  groundwater recharge and their behavior during advanced water treatment.

Teaching

ESGN454: WATER SUPPLY ENGINEERING
Water supply availability and quality. Theory and design of conventional potable
water treatment unit processes. Design of distribution systems. Also includes
regulatory analysis under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
Prerequisite: EGGN353.
3 hours lecture; 3 semester hours.

Teaching Philosophy

Selected Publications

• Papers in peer-reviewed journals
• Communications and book contributions
• Conference proceedings
  

Last Updated: January 9, 2002