Wiesner Named Associate Dean of Engineering School

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WIESNER NAMED ASSOCIATE DEAN OF ENGINEERING
SCHOOL

Mark R. Wiesner has been appointed
associate dean in Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering.

Wiesner, a Rice professor of environmental science and
engineering, conducts research and teaching in the area of physical-chemical
processes, particularly for water quality control.

“Mark is a bright and energetic young faculty member whose
background both complement and agree with mine,” says Sidney Burrus, dean of the
George R. Brown School of Engineering. “His interests in both education and
research will serve the Brown School well. Although there will be some division
of responsibilities, we will work together on most important issues.”

Before joining the Rice faculty in 1988, Wiesner worked as a
research engineer in the water treatment research laboratories of the Lyonnaise
des Eaux, Le Pecq, France and completed post-doctoral work at the Chemical
Engineering Sciences Laboratory of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Industries
Chimiques in Nancy, France. Later, as a principal engineer with the
environmental engineering consulting firm of Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., in New York,
he worked on potable water treatment and water quality modeling
projects.

Wiesner earned a B.A. degree from Coe College in 1978 and went
on to earn an M.S. degree from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. from Johns
Hopkins University.

In addition to numerous national and international memberships,
Wiesner is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, International Center for
Water, Nancy, France; he is U.S. director of the European Union/United States
University Consortium on Environmental Engineering Education; and he is chair of
the NASA Advisory Committee on life support systems.

Wiesner has authored over 50 technical papers and book chapters
and currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental
Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers. He received the Charles Duncan
Award for Scholarship and Teaching at Rice in 1998.

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