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Appendix C
Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Peter B. Lederman, Chair, graduated with a Ph.D. in
chemical engineering from the University of Michigan.
He recently retired as executive director, Hazardous
Substance Management Research Center, and execu-
tive director, Office of Intellectual Property, New Jer-
sey Institute of Technology. Dr. Lederman has over 50
years of broad experience in all facets of environmen-
tal management, control, and policy development; con-
siderable experience in hazardous substance treatment
and management; and over 18 years of experience as
an educator. He is a registered professional engineer, a
diplomate in environmental engineering, and a national
associate of the National Academies. Dr. Lederman has
also worked at the federal (EPA) and state levels with
particular emphasis on environmental policy. His ex-
pertise is in chemical engineering, hazardous waste
treatment, and educational and corporate leadership.
Charles I. McGinnis, Vice-Chair, with an M.Engr. in
civil engineering from Texas A&M University, retired
from the U.S. Army as a major general and was former
director of civil works for the U.S. Army Corps of En-
gineers and more recently served in senior positions at
the Construction Industry Institute in Austin, Texas.
He has also served as the director of engineering and
construction for the Panama Canal Company and later
as vice president of the company and lieutenant gover-
nor of the Canal Zone. As director of civil works, he
was responsible for a $3 billion per year planning, de-
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sign, construction, operation, and maintenance program
of water-resource-oriented public works on a nation-
wide basis. He has considerable experience with engi-
neering and construction. He is a registered profes-
sional engineer in Texas and Missouri.
David H. Archer, a member of the National Academy
of Engineering, graduated with a Ph.D. in chemical
engineering and mathematics from the University of
Delaware. He is a retired consulting engineer with the
Westinghouse Electric Company and is currently an
adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr.
Archer has performed substantial work both in indus-
try (working at Westinghouse as an engineer, supervis-
ing engineer, department manager, and consulting en-
gineer) and in academia (teaching at both the
University of Delaware and Carnegie Mellon Univer-
sity for almost 10 years). He has considerable experi-
ence in research and management related to chemical
engineering, as well as experience with combustion and
plant management.
John ,J. Costolnick graduated from Northwestern Uni-
versity with an M.S. degree in chemical engineering
and is a registered professional engineer. He retired as
vice president for engineering of Exxon Chemical
Company. He worked for Exxon for more than 35
years, serving in positions of increasing responsibility,
from manufacturing manager and plant manager, to
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APPENDIX C
vice president for agricultural chemicals and vice presi-
dent for basic chemical technology. Mr. Costolnick has
considerable experience in chemical operations and
manufacturing.
Elisabeth M. Drake, a member of the National Acad-
emy of Engineering, graduated from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Ph.D. in chemi-
cal engineering. She retired in 2000 as the associate
director of the MIT Energy Laboratory. She has had
considerable experience in risk management and com-
munication; in technology associated with the trans-
port, processing, storage, and disposal of hazardous
materials; and in chemical engineering process design
and control systems. Dr. Drake has also served on sev-
eral National Research Council committees relating to
chemical demilitarization. Dr. Drake has a special in-
terest in the interactions between technology and the
environment. She belongs to a number of environmen-
tal organizations, including the Audubon Society, the
Sierra Club, and the National Wildlife Federation.
Deborah L. Grubbe graduated from Purdue Univer-
sity with a B.S. in chemical engineering with highest
distinction and received a Winston Churchill Fellow-
ship to attend Cambridge University in England, where
she received a certificate of postgraduate study in
chemical engineering. She is a registered professional
engineer and engineer of record for DuPont. She is cur-
rently corporate director for safety and health for
DuPont. Previously, she was operations and engineer-
ing director for DuPont Nonwovens, accountable for
manufacturing, engineering, safety, environmental, and
information systems. Ms. Grubbe is a board member of
the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Engi-
neering and Construction Contracting Division and has
held committee leadership positions with the Construc-
tion Industry Institute. She has considerable expertise
in safety, chemical manufacturing technology, and
project management and execution.
David A. Hoecke graduated from Cooper Union with
a B.S.M.E. He is currently president and CEO of
Enercon Systems, Inc. His expertise is in the fields of
waste combustion, pyrolysis, heat transfer CFD mod-
eling, and gas cleaning. In 1960, he began working for
Midland-Ross Corporation as a project engineer, rising
to the position of chief engineer for incineration by
1972. In 1974, he founded his own company and has
since been responsible for the design and construction
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of numerous combustion systems, including solid
waste incinerators, thermal oxidizers, heat recovery
systems, and gas-to-air heat exchangers.
David H. Johnson graduated from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology with a Sc.D. in nuclear engi-
neering. He currently serves as vice president and gen-
eral manager of ABS Consulting in Irvine, California.
He has more than 20 years of experience in risk-based
analysis for industry and government applications. He
has considerable expertise in and knowledge of all fac-
ets of probabilistic risk assessments, including proba-
bilistic modeling and investigation of the impacts of
industrial endeavors. His primary expertise is in risk
assessment and management.
John L. Margrave, a member of the National Acad-
emy of Sciences, graduated from the University of
Kansas with a B.S. in engineering physics and a Ph.D.
in physical chemistry. Dr. Margrave is currently the
chief scientific officer at the Houston Advanced Re-
search Center and the E.D. Butcher Professor of Chem-
istry at Rice University. His expertise is in high-tem-
perature chemistry, materials science, and
environmental chemistry. His research interests include
various areas of physical/inorganic chemistry, includ-
ing matrix-isolation spectroscopy/metal atom chemis-
try; high-temperature chemistry, including mass spec-
trometry; high-pressure chemistry; environmental
chemistry; and nanoscience/technology. Dr. Margrave
previously served on two National Research Council
committees in the chemical demilitarization area.
flames F. Mathis, a member of the National Academy
of Engineering, graduated from the University of Wis-
consin with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering. Dr.
Mathis was vice president of science and technology
for Exxon Corporation, where he was responsible for
oversight of $700 million in worldwide research and
development programs, and was chair of the New Jer-
sey Commission on Science and Technology until his
retirement in 1997.
Frederick G. Pohland, a member of the National
Academy of Engineering, graduated from Purdue Uni-
versity with a Ph.D. in environmental engineering. He
is currently a professor and the Edward R. Weidlein
Chair of Environmental Engineering at the University
of Pittsburgh, as well as director of the Engineering
Center for Environment and Energy and codirector of
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the Groundwater Remediation Technologies Analysis
Center. He is a registered professional engineer and a
diplomate in environmental engineering. He has taught
and written extensively in the areas of solid and haz-
ardous waste management, environmental impact as-
sessment, and innovative technologies for waste mini-
mization, treatment, and environmental remediation.
Robert B. Puyear graduated from Purdue University
with an M.S. degree in industrial administration and
from the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy
with a B.S. in chemical engineering. Currently he is a
consultant specializing in corrosion prevention and
control, failure analysis, and materials selection. Previ-
ously he worked for Union Carbide for 16 years, devel-
oping high-performance materials for chemical and
aerospace applications, and for Monsanto for 21 years
as a corrosion specialist, including managing its Me-
chanical and Materials Engineering Section.
Charles F. Reinhardt, who holds an M.D. from Indi-
ana University School of Medicine and an M.Sc. in
occupational medicine from Ohio State University
School of Medicine, retired after more than 30 years
with the DuPont Company. Working at DuPont ini-
tially as a plant physician, Dr. Reinhardt joined its
Haskell Laboratory in 1966 and served first as a physi-
ologist, rose to chief of the physiology section, and then
became a research manager for environmental sciences.
In 1971, he became assistant director of the laboratory
and in 1976 was named its director, a position he held
until his retirement in 1996. An expert in occupational
medicine and toxicology, he has served on numerous
National Research Council panels and committees, in-
cluding the Committee on Toxicology.
W. Leigh Short, with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering
from the University of Michigan, was a principal and
vice president of Woodward-Clyde responsible for the
management and business development activities as-
sociated with the company's hazardous waste services
in Wayne, New Jersey. Dr. Short has expertise in air
pollution, chemical process engineering, hazardous
waste services, feasibility studies and site remediation,
and project management. He has taught courses in con-
trol technologies, both to graduate students and as a
part of EPA's national training programs. He has
served as chairman of the NOx control technology re-
view panel for the EPA.
Jeffrey I. Steinfeld graduated from Harvard Univer-
sity with a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. He is currently
a professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. He has taught and written extensively
for 37 years at MIT, specializing in high-sensitivity
monitoring techniques, pollution prevention, and envi-
ronmental research and education. His interests include
applying scientific knowledge to environmental deci-
sion making and ensuring stakeholder involvement in
issues that have political, economic, social, scientific,
and technical impact.
Rae Zimmerman, with an A.B. in chemistry from the
University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. in city
planning from the University of Pennsylvania, and a
Ph.D. in planning from Columbia University, is currently
a professor of planning and public administration and
director of the Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems
(ICIS) at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Pub-
lic Service of New York University. She has directed
and/or advised federal, state, and local government agen-
cies on planning and implementation of environmental
policies, programs, and plans. Active in the areas of en-
vironmental impact assessment; socioeconomic, com-
munity, and land use impact evaluations; risk assess-
ment; institutional analysis (legal, financial, and
administrative); permitting and regulatory support; and
public participation and/or public perception studies, she
has been involved in extensive development and imple-
mentation of public participation and communication
programs for government-sponsored water resources
projects and hazardous waste cleanup in connection with
environmental permits, plans, and environmental impact
statements. She is a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science and a past president of
the Society for Risk Analysis.
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