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James M. Symons

Professor Emeritus
UH Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
N107 Engineering Builiding 1, Houston, TX 77204-4003
dr.water@alum.mit.edu

Education
Sc.D. Sanitary Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1957
S.M. Sanitary Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1955
B.C.E. (with Distinction) Civil Engineering, Cornell University, 1954
Certificate of Advanced Engineering, Civil Engineering, Cornell University, 1954

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Professional Experience
1997 – Present Retired, Cullen Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering
1995 – 1997 Cullen Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering
1982 – 1995 Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
1970 – 1982

Chief, Physical and Chemical Contaminants Removal Branch, Drinking Water Research Division, Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio

Formerly, Chief, Control Technology Branch, Division of Criteria and Standards, Bureau of Water Hygiene, U.S. Public Health Service

1967 – 1969 Chief, Surface Water Protection Section, Control Technology Branch, Division of Criteria and Standards, Bureau of Water Hygiene, U.S. Public Health Service, Cincinnati, Ohio
1962 – 1967 Research Public Health Engineer, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service and U.S. Department of Interior, Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, Cincinnati, Ohio
1958 – 1962 Assistant Professor of Sanitary Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1957 – 1961 Associate, Rolf Eliassen Associates, Inc., Industrial waste consulting engineering firm, Arlington, Massachusetts
1956 – 1958 Instructor of Sanitary Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1955 – 1957 Research Assistant to Dr. Ross E. McKinney

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Classes Taught
CIVE 4333 Water and Wastewater Treatment
CIVE 4311 Civil Engineering Design
CIVE 7397/6390 Municipal Drinking Water Treatment
CIVE 7379/7330 Control of Organic Contaminants
CIVE 6111 Graduate Seminar

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Supervision of Research
PhD Dissertation Students (2)
MS Thesis Students (13)
MS Project Students (9)

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