Rowan graduate student, undergraduates win top NJWEA poster awards
May 14, 2007

A Rowan University civil and environmental engineering graduate student and three College of Engineering undergraduates earned top awards at the New Jersey Water Environment Association held May 2 in Atlantic City.

Steven Devillasanta, of Deptford, a graduate student studying special civil engineering projects, received second prize for his poster titled "Water Quality Impairment at Edwards Run." This project, funded by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, focuses on the phosphorus and fecal coliform impairment at Edwards Run, located in Mantua Township, Gloucester County. It is a major tributary of Mantua Creek and has a drainage area of 10.6 square miles.

Rowan undergraduates Lauren DiGiovanni, of Seaville, and Kenneth Marshall, of Absecon, both civil and environmental engineering students, and William Weaver, of Woodbury, an electrical and computer engineering student, received first prize for their poster, titled "Pipeline Inspection Technologies for the Wastewater Industry." This project focused on identifying technologies that would allow non-intrusive pipeline inspection for wastewater utilities.

The NJWEA is a member of the Water Environment Federation (WEF). Formed in 1928, the WEF is a not-for-profit technical and educational organization with 32,000 individual members and 80 affiliated member associations representing an additional 50,000 water quality professionals throughout the world, according to the WEF Web site.