Biographical Sketches of Committee Members - Occupational Health and Workplace Monitoring at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities - page 37

Appendix B

Biographical Sketches of Committee Members

PETER B. LEDERMAN ( Chair ), retired executive
director of the Hazardous Substances Management
Research Center and executive director of the Office of
Intellectual Property, is a research professor of chemi-
cal engineering and environmental policy at the New
Jersey Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D.
in chemical engineering from the University of Michi-
gan. Dr. Lederman has 47 years of experience in all
facets of environmental management, control, and
policy development; hazardous substance treatment
and management; and process engineering; he has more
than 18 years of experience as an educator. He is a
registered professional engineer and a diplomate of the
American Academy of Environmental Engineers.
Dr. Lederman has worked on environmental policy at
the federal and state levels and has served on several
National Research Council committees, most recently
the Committee on Decontamination and Decommis-
sioning of Gaseous Diffusion Plants.

tion, and maintenance of public works nationwide. He
is a registered professional engineer in Texas and
Missouri.

DAVID H. ARCHER, a member of the National
Academy of Engineering, has a Ph.D. in chemical en-
gineering and mathematics from the University of
Delaware. He is a retired consulting engineer with the
Westinghouse Electric Company and is currently
adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Archer has worked in both industry (at Westinghouse
as an engineer, supervising engineer, department man-
ager, and consulting engineer) and academia (at the
University of Delaware and Carnegie Mellon Univer-
sity for almost 10 years). He has considerable experi-
ence in research and management related to chemical
engineering, as well as experience with combustion and
plant management.

PIERO M. ARMENANTE has a Ph.D. in chemical
engineering from the University of Virginia and is cur-
rently Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineer-
ing at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and di-
rector of the Northeast Hazardous Substance Research
Center, a seven-university center funded by the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency. Dr. Armenante's re-
search interests include multiphase mixing in agitated
systems, the biological treatment of hazardous waste,
industrial sterilization processes, and biomedical engi-
neering. He has an extensive list of peer-reviewed and
other publications and has administered numerous
grants, studies, and projects.

CHARLES I. McGINNIS ( Vice Chair ) has an M.Engr.
from Texas A&M University. After retiring from the
U.S. Army as a major general and former director of
civil works for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, he
served in senior positions at the Construction Industry
Institute in Austin, Texas. He was also director of engi-
neering and construction for the Panama Canal Com-
pany and was subsequently vice president of the
company and lieutenant governor of the Canal Zone.
As director of civil works for the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, he was responsible for a $3 billion per year
budget for the planning, design, construction, opera-

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