Joseph FitzPatrick

Associate Professor

A224 Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

E-mail address: j-fitzpatrick@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 491-4033
Fax: (847) 491-4011

Curriculum Vitae:

Education

• B.S., University of Notre Dame, Civil Engineering
• M.S., Harvard University, Environmental Engineering
• Ph.D., Harvard University, Environmental Engineering

Research

Professor FitzPatrick's research uses concepts from chemical and environmental engineering, colloid science, systems analysis, wastewater treatment, and resource recovery processes to develop cost-effective integrated environmental-management systems. He is well known for his developments of theory for filtration, flotation, sedimentation, and aggregation and for their applications to a broad range of pollution control/resource recovery systems.

Teaching Activities

• CIV_ENG-340 Fluid Mechanics
• CIV_ENG-359 Hazardous Waste Management
• CIV_ENG-364 Sanitary Engineering
• CIV_ENG-516 Seminar in Health Engineering
• GEN_ENG 205-2 Engineering Analysis II
• CIV_ENG 395 Ethics/Engineering/Environment