Overview Academic/Research Interest Areas

Solid Waste

Anaerobic Digestion

Wastewater Reclamation

Wastewater Treatment

Professional Affiliations

Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honor Society

Pi Mu Epsilon, National Honorary Mathematical Society

Professional Associations

Editor, International Solid Waste Association (ISWA)

Director, Environmental Assistance Office (EAO)

Chair, Sustainable Water Pollution Engineering (SWPE)

Member of ASCE, EWRI, WEF, SWANA, AWMA, SWE, WEPAN, ASEE, and AEESP

Recent Publications

Hilger, H.A., M.A. Barlaz, and A. G. Wollum, 1998. Landfill methane oxidation response to vegetation, fertilization, and liming. Submitted to the Journal of Environmental Quality, January 1999.

Hilger, H.A., M.A. Barlaz, and S.K. Liehr, 1998. A mathematical model of multicomponent gas diffusion and biofilm gas exchange associated with methane oxidation in landfill cover soil. Submitted to the Journal of Environmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, November, 1998.

Hilger, H.A., M.A. Barlaz and D. F. Cranford, 1998. Exopolymer production in landfill cover soil. Submitted to the Journal of Soil Biology and Biochemistry, October 1998.

Wu, J.S., H.A. Hilger, and M. McDaniel, 1985. Waste Management for Small Quantity Generators: North Carolina Survey, Technical Report, N.C. Board of Science and Technology.

Hilger, H.A. and Huisingh, D., 1985. Profits of Pollution Prevention: A Compendium of North Carolina Case Studies in Resource Conservation and Waste Reduction, North Carolina Board of Science and Technology.

Educational Background

B.A., Biology, Rutgers, The State University - New Jersey, 1970

B.S., Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1980

M.S., Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1983

Ph.D., Civil Engineering , North Carolina State University, 1998