Research
Interest
Dr. Kumar has interests in air pollution, risk analysis and
environmental information technology. His recent accomplishments
include the development and evaluation of air quality models for
point sources, area sources, volume sources, accidental releases,
forecasting, and downwash; and development of radon database for
Ohio and air pollution software. He is also continuing his
research on radon, air quality monitoring data, emission rate
modeling and risk assessment.
Education
Ph.D., Environmental Fluid Mechanics, University of Waterloo; 1977
M.A.Sc. (Master of Applied Science), Mechanical Engineering,
University of Ottawa; 1972
B.Sc.Eng.(Hons.), Mechanical Engineering, Aligarh University,
India; 1970
Appointment
Assistant Professor of Civil
Engineering, 1980
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, 1983
Professor, 1989-present
Chairman,
2004-present
Related
Experience - Teaching and Industrial
- Part-time
faculty member at The University of Alberta, Division of
Meteorology (1979)
- Teaching
Assistant at
The University of Waterloo (1974-76)
The University of Calgary (1972-73)
The University of Ottawa (1970-72)
- Research
Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory; Summer 1987
- Environmental
Consultant, Toledo Edison Co., Toledo, OH; Summer 1981 and
Summer 1982
- Atmospheric
Physicist (Special Studies), Environmental Affairs Dept.,
Syncrude Canada Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta; February 1977 -
October 1980
- Part-time
Consultant, Envirodyne Ltd., Waterloo, Ontario; November
1974 - May 1976
- Assistant
Analyst, Office of Institutional Research, The University of
Calgary, Calgary, Alberta; April 1973 - June 1974
- Engineer
Trainee at an engineering workshop and at a processing
plant, Aligarh, India; Summer 1968, 1969, 1970
- Adjunct Faculty Member, Industrial Health, Medical College
of Ohio, Toledo; 1988-89, 1995-2006
- Adjunct Professor, Public Health and Homeland security,
University of Toledo Health Science Campus,2007-07
Consulting
- NOVA/PETRO
- Canada
- Toledo
Edison
- Detroit
Edison
- General
Electric
- Ontario
Hydro
- Technical
Advisory Services
- Libbey-Owens-Ford
- Illinois
Pollution Control Board
- Sun
Oil
- OI-NEG
- PNA
State
in which registered
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Alberta |
Professional
Affiliations
- Registered
Professional Engineer in the Province of Alberta
- Member,
American Meteorological Society (upto 19**)
- Member,
Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA)
- Member,
Sigma Xi
- Member,
Planning Committee, APCA Northern Ohio Chapter 1987-89
- Member,
Indoor Radon Scientific Advisory Panel for Ohio, 1987-88
- Technical
Program Chairman, 1988 International Specialty Conference on
Environmental Challenges in Energy Utilization, Oct. 10-12,
APCA
- hairman,
University Education Committee, APCA, 1988-92
- Secretary,
Radon Interest Group, APCA, 1988-89
- Software
section editor, Environmental Progress (AIChE Journal) 1989
- to present
- Diplomate,
American Academy of Environmental Engineers, 1989-cont.
- Member,
Conference Organizing Committee on "The Impact of Free
Trade and Environmental Issues", UT Business College
and the Canadian Consulate, Sept. 1989
- Technical
Program Chairman, 1-day conference on "Waste
Minimization and Pollution Prevention", Oct. 1990, NOC,
AWMA
- Academic
Representative on East Central Section Board, AWMA, 1990 to
date
- Founder,
Student Chapter, AWMA at University of Toledo, 1991
- Vice
Chairman, Higher Education Division, AWMA 1991-1993.
- Guest
Editor, Special issue on "Modeling Studies on Hazardous
Releases", Journal of Hazardous Material, 1992
- Member,
Editorial Board, JHM (April 1992 to continue)
- Member,
Air Quality Task Force, TMACOG, 1992-continue
- Chairman,
Higher Education Division, AWMA, 1994-1998
- Chairman,
Education Council, AWMA, 1998-2001
- Chairman, Web Publishing Sub-Committee, A&WMA, 2001-2005
- Chairman,
Task Force on Online Library, AWMA, 2002
-
Member, Scholarship Campaign Committee, AWMA, June 2003-
continue
- Member, Program Committee, GLRPPR Conference, 2004
- Chairman, Web publishing Sub-Committee,AWMA ,2001-2006
- Member, EM Editorial Advisory Committee (EAC), Air and Waste
Management Association. 2005-2008
- Session co-chair, Dispersion Modeling, ISTEP 2006, India.
-
Special issue of Environmental Automation
and Control edited by Dr. Meenakashi and Dr. A. Kumar (in
preparation).
-
Reviewed over 25 papers and participated in
the management issues.
Publications
Honors
and awards
- Best
student of the Year, 1969-70, President Shield
- University
Gold Medal for Standing First, 1970
- Dean's
Scholarship, University of Waterloo, 1976-77
- Invited
as an expert by AES, Environment Canada for
"Systematization of Plume Sigmas for Canada", 1980
- Competent
toastmaster, Toastmasters International, 1984
- Passed
certification examination for asbestos abatement work, 1986
- Able
Toastmaster, Toastmasters International, 1988
- Invited
by HIT, Tool and Nessling Foundation (Finland) to speak on
Env. Education and Clean Air Act (1991)
- Fellow
member, Air and Waste Management Association (1997)
- The Civil Engineering teacher of the Year, ASCE Student
Chapter and CE Dept., 2001
- Outstanding Researcher Award, College of Engineering, Univ.
of Toledo, May 2002
- L.A. Ripperton Award for distinguished achievement as an
educator in the field of air pollution control, Air and
Waste Management Association, June 2003
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