Rouge River Project Wins Superior Achievement Award From American Academy of Environmental Engineers

The American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE) has awarded the Rouge River Project its prestigious Superior Achievement Award in the Academy's 2002 Excellence in Environmental Engineering competition. The award was in recognition of the projectÕs achievements since 1992. CDM was the Engineer of Record for the award.

The AAEE Excellence in Environmental Engineering Award Program
The purpose of the Academy's Excellence in Environmental Engineering competition is to recognize and promote quality environmental engineering. The following is AAEEÕs description of their award program:

Excellence in Environmental Engineering

The Excellence in Environmental Engineering competition singles out those projects or programs which testify to the genius of mankind for recognition. Its criteria define what it takes to be THE BEST: a holistic environmental perspective; innovation; performance and client satisfaction; and contribution to an improved quality of life and economic efficiency.

Superior Achievement for Excellence in Environmental Engineering is the ultimate accolade; it is awarded to the best of all entries. Awards can be garnered in any of six categories --- Research, University Research, Planning, Design, Operations/Management, and Small Projects --- and are determined by an independent judging panel of nationally-recognized experts. Grand Prizes are awarded to the best entry in each category and the Honor Awards are provided to other projects meriting recognition consistent with the competition rules.

The competition is open to all companies, agencies, institutions, and individuals. The individual in responsible charge of the engineering effort entered must be a licensed professional engineer.

Each entry is evaluated by an independent panel of judges based on the following criteria:

• Demonstration of a comprehensive, integrated approach that considers all environmental media, i.e., air, water, and land.
• Quality as evidenced by the degree of user satisfaction and proven performance.
• Originality and innovation, representing the application of new knowledge, a new application of existing knowledge, or an innovative mix of existing knowledge.
• The complexity of the problem or situation addressed.
• The extent to which the project contributes to or offers the prospect of contributing to social and economic advancement.

The American Academy of Environmental Engineers
The AAEE is a group of highly qualified professional engineers who are dedicated to excellence in the practice of environmental engineering to ensure the public health, safety, and welfare to enable humankind to co-exist in harmony with nature. The AAEE works to improve the environmental engineering practice, elevating the standards and advancing the cause of environmental engineering. Each Diplomate, or member, has not only the standard prerequisites for specialty engineering certification, but also has passed a written and oral testing procedure by an admission panel of the Academy. The Academy's certification program is accredited by the Council of Engineering and Scientific Specialty Boards.

The Academy is an active participant in the accreditation of environmental engineering curricula. Through this process, the Academy ensures that educational standards are responsive to the needs of the professional; and, that tomorrow's engineers will meet the needs of the profession.

The Academy further organizes multi-disciplinary teams of Diplomates to participate in concept study groups. These groups seek solutions to major environmental problems. Once developed, the Academy provides these solutions to key policy makers in industry and government.

The Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration Project
The Rouge Project is described in detail in the various sections of this Web site.

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The Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration Project is funded, in part, by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Grants #XP995743-01, -02, -03, -04, -05, -06, -08 and C-264000-01.