Helene Hilger
Associate Professor,Civil Engineering Life Sciences
266 CARC, UNC Charlotte Website: view website
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Phone: 704-687-4373
Overview Academic/Research Interest Areas Professional Affiliations - Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honor Society
- Pi Mu Epsilon, National Honorary Mathematical Society
Professional Associations - Editor, International Solid Waste Association (ISWA)
- Director, Environmental Assistance Office (EAO)
- Chair, Sustainable Water Pollution Engineering (SWPE)
- Member of ASCE, EWRI, WEF, SWANA, AWMA, SWE, WEPAN, ASEE, and AEESP
Recent Publications - Hilger, H.A., M.A. Barlaz, and A. G. Wollum, 1998. Landfill methane oxidation response to vegetation, fertilization, and liming. Submitted to the Journal of Environmental Quality, January 1999.
- Hilger, H.A., M.A. Barlaz, and S.K. Liehr, 1998. A mathematical model of multicomponent gas diffusion and biofilm gas exchange associated with methane oxidation in landfill cover soil. Submitted to the Journal of Environmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, November, 1998.
- Hilger, H.A., M.A. Barlaz and D. F. Cranford, 1998. Exopolymer production in landfill cover soil. Submitted to the Journal of Soil Biology and Biochemistry, October 1998.
- Wu, J.S., H.A. Hilger, and M. McDaniel, 1985. Waste Management for Small Quantity Generators: North Carolina Survey, Technical Report, N.C. Board of Science and Technology.
- Hilger, H.A. and Huisingh, D., 1985. Profits of Pollution Prevention: A Compendium of North Carolina Case Studies in Resource Conservation and Waste Reduction, North Carolina Board of Science and Technology.
Research Grants - PI- Spring 04 Flammability Testing, Wellman Inc. ($1,000.00 FY 2003-2004).
- PI- Investigation Into Ignition Temperatures of Landscaping Mulch, The Warren Group ($1,200.00 FY 2002-2003).
- PI- Spring 03 Flammability Testing, Wellman Inc. ($1,000.00 FY 2002-2003).
- PI- Development of Fire Data Management Systems Tools to generate Data for Fire Safety Engineering and Modeling.
- National Institute of Standards and Technology ($65,000.00 FY 2001-2002).
- Co-PI Low Flammability of Non-Halogenated Vinyl Ester Resin Containing Nanofillers for Production of RTM Composite Structures Office of Naval research ($31,000.00 FY 2001-2002).
Educational Background - B.A., Biology, Rutgers, The State University - New Jersey, 1970
- B.S., Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1980
- M.S., Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1983
- Ph.D., Civil Engineering , North Carolina State University, 1998
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