Steven P.K. Sternberg

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Background

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Research

Students

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Courses

Chemical Engineering

• Air Pollution Control
• Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Engineering
• Flow Phenomena in Porous Media (Graduate)
• Fluid Dynamics
• Heat and Mass Transfer
• Mass Transfer and Equilibrium Staged Separations (Undergraduate)
• Mass Transfer and Equilibrium Staged Separations (Graduate)
• Material Science and Engineering
• Thermodynamics (Undergraduate)
• Thermodynamics (Graduate)
• Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Unit Operations Laboratory (II)

Environmental Engineering

• Air Pollution Control
• Solid Waste Management

Research Interests

• Contaminant movement in heterogeneous porous media
• Heavy metal bioremoval using living aquatic plants.

Students

Graduate Students

• Rumman Sohban -- "Cadmium Removal Using Living Aquatic Plants", MS Thesis, December, 1997.
• Nazmul Haq -- "In-Situ Bioremediation Process for Removal of Lead and Cadmium Using Lemna Minor," MS Thesis, May, 1998.
• Dwayne Kolodka -- "Experimental Investigation of Dispersion at Permeability Transitions in Heterogeneous Porous Media," MS Thesis August, 1998.
• Ryan Dorn -- "Cadmium Removal Using Cladaphora in a Flow Reactor," MS Thesis, December, 1998.
• Kaleb Kuether - Biological Removal of Mercury from Air [EERC Funding], MS Thesis, Summer 1999.
• Charles Adou -- "Nickel and Zinc Bioremediation Using Cladaphora," MS Thesis, August, 2000.
• Nan Shao -- "Numerical Simulation of Tracer Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media", MS Mathematics, Expected Graduation August 2003.

Undergraduate Students

• Pat Weydt - TAGnite process optimization. [Industrial Funding] 1995 - 1996.
• Paula Fuhrman - Advection-Dispersion Measurements in the Laboratory. Summer, 1996
• Ryan Dorn - Cadmium Removal Using Living Cladaphora. [EPSCoR funded Undergraduate Research] Summer 1997.
• Jennifer Schulte - Measurement of Cladaphora growth rates. Summer 1998.
• Susan Anderson - Bioremediation with Cladaphora, Fall, 1998 and Spring 1999.
• Ryan Knutson - Bioremediation with Cladaphora, Fall, 1998 and Spring 1999.
• Kerryanne Leroux - Microbiological Air Purifaction, Fall 1998 and Spring 1999.
• Cheryl Sylvester - Permeability in Heterogeneous Porous Media, Spring 1999.
• Mary Gress - Science Bound Students [EPSCoR funded Undergraduate Research], 1998-1999.
• Peter Beagler - Contaminant Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media [EPSCoR funded Undergraduate Research], 1999.
• Katie Claussen - Bioremoval using Cladophora (Ind. Study) 1999 - 2000.
• Nick Axtell - Bioremoval using Lemna minor (UROP) 2000-2001
• Damian Bjerketvedt - Contaminant transport in heterogeneous porous media.(UROP, GIA)2001 -2002
• Eric Rausenbaum - Contaminant transport literature review.(Ind Study) 2001
• Ray Wickam - Examination of Northern Minnesota aquatic plants for bioremoval potential. (UROP, GIA) 2001- 2003
• Ray Moore - Numerical Simulation of Transport in 1-D Heterogeneous Porous Media (UROP) 2002
• Nicole Raitz - Transport in porous media. 2002 - 2003
• Mike Svensk - Copper bioremoval using Lemna minor.(UROP) 2002 - 2003
• Yumi Truong - Arsenic competative bioremoval using Lemna minor and Microspora.(UROP) 2002 - 2003
• Derek Prebek - Laboratory Scale Mixing - Data Aquisition (Ind. Study) 2002.
• Marsha Pernat - Cadmium and Lead Removal Using Microspora and Lemna Minor (UROP) 2003
• Bill Snellman - Physics of Fluid Flow in Hierarchical Porous Media (UROP, Independent Study) 2003 - 2004
• Matt Potter - Dispersion Measurements in Highly Heterogeneous Laboratory Scale Porous Media (UROP) 2003 - 2004
• Nick Hurd - Bioremoval of Lead in Aquatic Environments - Water and Sediment (UROP) 2004
• Jason Monroe - Bioremoval of Lead in Aquatic Environments - Micro-organisms (UROP) 2004
• Leah Neimand - Bioremoval of Copper and Zinc in Aquatic Environments Using Lemna minor (UROP) 2005
• Kevin Bergh - Bioremoval of Lead from a Synthetic Wastewater Using Lemna minor in a Continuous Flow Reactor (UROP) 2006
• Elizabeth Miller - Fluid Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media (UROP) 2006
• Rachel Gass - Bioremoval of Chromium and Arsenic Using Lemna minor (UROP) 2007
• Aaron Boothe - Optimization of Coffee Roast Profiles, Independent Study, 2007.
• Mohammad Ahmed - Transport Phenomenon in Porous Media, Independent Study, 2007

Background

• Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Duluth 2003 -
• Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Duluth 1999 - 2003
  • UMD Chemical Engineering
• Assistant Professor, University North Dakota 1995 - 1999
  • UND Chemical Engineering
• Visiting Professor, University of Detroit Mercy, 1994-1995
• Ph.D. Purdue University, 1994
• M.S. Purdue University, 1992
• Process Engineer, McNamee Porter and Seeley, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1985-1989.
• B.S. Cum Laude University of Michigan, 1985

Other

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