Dr. Vernon L. Snoeyink

UCOWR is proud to announce two recipients for the 2000 Warren A. Hall Award. Dr. Daniel Peter Loucks, Cornell University, and Dr. Vernon L. Snoeyink, University of Illinois.  

Dr. Vernon L. Snoeyink

Dr. Snoeyink was appointed to the Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty at the University of Illinois in 1969, shortly after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Water Resources Engineering, He was made a full professor in 1977, and Ivan Racheff Professor of Environmental Engineering in 1989. He served as Coordinator of the Environmental Engineering and Science Program for 14 years.

Professor Snoeyink teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental engineering. He has received the ASCE Outstanding Civil Engineering Teacher Award, the Everitt Undergraduate Teaching Award from the College of Engineering twice, the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the Halliburton Award for Engineering Education Leadership, and the Tau Beta Pi-Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award. He has supervised the M.S. research of 81 students and the Ph.D. research of 22 students. In 1980 he coauthored the textbook Water Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons.

Snoeyink's primary research area, drinking water quality improvement, has been supported by federal agencies, private companies, municipalities, and foundations. The City of Chicago, Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux (France), the US Environmental Protection Agency, and The American Water Works Association Research Foundation now support his research. He has received several awards for his research, including the Nalco-AEEP Award, the Greeley Award from ASCE, the AEESP Founders Award, and the Research Award from the American Water Works Association. He has published over 240 papers and reports dealing with various aspects of water quality control, especially with the removal of organic compounds from water by activated carbon and corrosion control.

Snoeyink's representative activities include membership in several professional societies and committees, Trustee of American Water Works Association Research Foundation (1984-90), President of the Association of Environmental Engineering Professors (1984), membership on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of the American Water Works Association (1994-00), member of the Editorial Advisory Board of AQUA (current), and Vice-Chair of the Drinking Water Committee of the USEPA Science Advisory Board. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has been a member of several National Research Council committees. Most recently he chaired its Committee on Small Water Supply Systems, and he now serves on the Committee on USGS Water Resources Research. Since 1998 he has been a member of the Board of Natural Resources and Conservation, Department of Natural Resources, State of Illinois. He consults regularly for private industry and public agencies throughout the USA and Canada.