Faculty Profile

Charles C. Glass, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Education

B.S. (1992), Civil Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University.
M.S. (1994), Civil Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Ph.D. (1997), Civil Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Specialty

Microbiological Research
Environmental Engineering
Storm Water Management
Environmental Security
Efficiency of Engineered Biological Systems

Research

Nitrification and De-nitrification in Wastewater Treatment
Nutrient Removal in Wastewater Treatment
Environmental Security
Best Management Practices for Storm Water Treatment
Nutrient Recycling in Advanced Life Support.

Publications

Charles Glass, JoAnn Silverstein, and Jeihll Oh. “Inhibition of Denitrification in Activated Sludge by Nitrite” Water Environment Research, September, 69, No.6 (1997):1086-1093.
Charles Glass and JoAnn Silverstein. “Denitrification Kinetics of High Nitrate Concentration Water: pH Effect on Inhibition and Nitrite Accumulation” Water Research, 1998, 32, No.3 (Mar 1998): 831-839.
Charles Glass and JoAnn Silverstein. “Denitrification of High-Nitrate, High Salinity Wastewater” Water Research, 33, No.1 (Jan 1999): 223-229.
Charles Glass and JoAnn Silverstein, “Equal Opportunity and Equality in Environmental Engineering”, Journal of Environmental Engineering, 124, No.7 (Jul 1998): 580. (ASCE, Editorial)
Charles Glass and Ressa Chee Wah, “Nitrogen Recovery during Solid Waste Treatment for Advanced Life Support”, SAE International, July, 2004, 01-2914.
Charles Glass, “Biogas Production from Steam-Treated Muncipal Solid Waste Wastewater”, Environmental Engineering Science, 22, No.4 (Apr 2005): 510.
Charles Glass and Saquiequois Jean-Jacque Bissouma, “Evaluation of a Parking Lot Bioretention Cell for Removal of Storm-water Pollutants”, WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 81 (May 2005): 699.
Neil Weinstein, Charles Glass, James Heaney, Wayne Huber, Philip Jones, Christopher Kloss, Marcus Quigley, Kim Stephens, and Eric Strecker, “Decentralized Storm-water Controls for Urban Retrofit and Combined Sewer Overflow Reduction.” Water Environment Research Foundation, 2005 .

Subjects Taught

Environmental Engineering, Wastewater Treatment, Environmental Microbiology, Engineering Economics, and Hazardous Waste Treatment.