Michael Benza, Jr., member since 1964, Ohio Water Environment Association. Walter Bowen, member since 1977, New Jersey Water Environment Association and Pennsylvania Water Environment Association.
Archive | May, 2019
PERL: This gem of an educational partnership is helping build Indiana’s water workforce
May 21, 2019
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![PERL: This gem of an educational partnership is helping build Indiana’s water workforce Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology civil engineering students toured several Citizens projects through PERL last spring. Photo courtesy of Citizens Energy Group.](https://news.wef.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RHIT-tour-75x75.jpg)
While known for top-rated university science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs that are educating the next generation of water professionals, the state of Indiana has a problem: convincing graduating students to stay. Half of the 2014-to-2016 bachelor’s-level STEM graduates of Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind.), for example, found employment out of state, according to […]
Columbia, S.C.’s atypical apprenticeship program is working, and here’s proof
May 14, 2019
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![Columbia, S.C.’s atypical apprenticeship program is working, and here’s proof Operator apprentices at Columbia Water complete walk-through practicals as part of their training and evaluation. Photo courtesy of Hickman.](https://news.wef.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DSC_0065-75x75.jpg)
When it rains, it doesn’t always pour — at least not at the City of Columbia (S.C.) Metropolitan Wastewater Treatment Plant. Even after a historic 1,000-year flood in 2015 and the wettest December on record 3 years later, the 227-ML/d (60-mgd) facility remained well within its regulatory limits every day, according to superintendent David Wiman. […]
May 29, 2019
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