Advisory Board

Background

Professor Vogel is a professor of civil and environmental engineering and has been at Tufts since 1984. His primary expertise is in the areas of hydrology and water resource engineering with emphasis on hydrologic, hydraulic and statistical methods for analyzing water resource systems.

His current research program focuses upon the areas of watershed modeling and management, water quality, regional hydrology, environmental statistics and the new field of hydromorphology. Hydromorphology deals with improving our understanding of how hydrologic systems have evolved due to anthropogenic influences including climate change, water infrastructure and urbanization. His consulting experiences have included: world water resources assessment, reservoir systems analysis, hydropower feasibility analyses, water supply investigations, floodplain delineations, stormwater management modeling, reservoir design, dam safety analyses and ice jam control. He is currently the contributing editor of the ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.

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Education

• 1985 Ph.D. Water Resource Systems, Cornell University
• 1979 M.S. Environmental Science and Hydrology, University of Virginia
• 1977 B.S. Engineering Science and Systems, University Of Virginia

Education

• 1982 B.Tech., Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
• 1983 M.S., Engineering Science (Chemical Engineering), University of California, San Diego, California
• 1986 Ph.D., Biochemical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, California

Professional Positions

Administrative

• 2002-2005 Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering Architecture and Computer Science (CEACS), Howard University.
• 2002–Present Chair, Educational Programs and Policies Assessment Committee, Department of Chemical Engineering (CEACS), Howard University
• 1994-2002 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Chemical Engineering
• 2005-Present Howard University, Washington, DC
• 1990-Present Director, Biochemical and Bioenvironmental Engineering Research Laboratory, Howard University

Brief Statement on Job Creation

Empowering people and communities to take charge of their environments and their livelihoods should be the critical policy goal of any government that purports to be of the people, for the people and by the people.

The implementation of that policy goal should be structured around substantive and broad government support for the research, development and implementation of technologies that are sustainable and contribute to reducing overall resource use and degradation. The development and implementation phases should be tied closely to public education and training in “green” technologies that will prepare individuals and communities to engage in the transitioning of the economy from the current fossil-fuel resource-depletive configuration to a forward looking 21st century approach that focuses on sustainability and long term effectiveness.

Green jobs can only be created by supporting and subsidizing green technologies as they emerge to replace currently existing technologies that are damaging to the environment and that do not address the critical policy goal of creating sustainable jobs in renwable energy technologies, in the renovation of the nations infrastructure and the retrofit of our society’s technology base to enable us to transition into a new, truly green economy.

— J.Tharakan, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Howard University

Kenneth Gold MBA

Brief Statement on Job Creation

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Job Creation is essential to the survival of America as we know it. Currency fluctuations and the global forces all coupled with depleting resources could change America's position as a leader in the world at anytime.