Tulane Engineering Forum

Harry M. Freeman

Harry Freeman is currently working on various pollution prevention projects as a private consultant. He is affiliated as a Senior Research Associate with the Urban Waste Management and Research Center at the University of New Orleans, and serves as a Senior Fellow to the Institute of Public Affairs at the University of South Carolina.

Prior to his current position Mr. Freeman served for 30 years in various positions with the USEPA's Office of Research and Development including senior staff engineer for thermal processing technologies, and Chief of the Pollution Prevention Research Branch at the National Risk Management Research Laboratory in Cincinnati. In this latter position he was responsible for supervising the technical staff responsible of much of the EPA's pollution prevention research activities.

From 1995-1998 he served as the Executive Director of the Louisiana Environmental Leadership Pollution Prevention Program, a program sponsored by the USEPA, the LaDEQ and several industrial and professional associations to encourage pollution prevention within the Louisiana industrial sector.

He is recognized as an authority on pollution prevention and hazardous waste management technologies, and lectures on those and other environmental technology subjects at conferences and seminars throughout the United States and abroad.

His education includes a BS in Industrial Engineering from Mississippi State University, an MBA from Loyola in New Orleans, and an MS in Political Science from the University of Cincinnati.

Mr. Freeman is a Registered Professional Engineer in Ohio, and a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

He is the Editor of the popular McGraw Hill books, Industrial Pollution Prevention Handbook, Standard Handbook for Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal, and Hazardous Waste Minimization.

Presentation Topic: Engineering for Sustainability: More of Less Than Meets the Eye Here?

By Harry M. Freeman

Summary

Sustainability is a popular term these days. Where does it fit in what we engineers do? At this session, you will have the opportunity to hear what one author thinks about the future of the concept and the opportunity to share your views on the matter.