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Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of South Carolina
301 Main St.
Columbia, SC 29208
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Kenneth Harrison
Assistant Professor
Dr. Harrison oversees and maintains a research program in the areas of environmental
and water resources systems analysis. His research team is carrying out several
projects funded by both government and private sources. Broadly stated, his research
interests are: 1) Testing new methods for uncertainty analysis; 2) Testing new methods
for decision-making under uncertainty in engineering and environmental and water
resources management; 3) Developing practical decision support tools for environmental
and water resources management; 4) Improving the quality of environmental life-cycle
analysis. Areas of active research include: 1) Application of Bayesian methods for
threat management in water distribution systems, part of an NSF collaborative research
project investigating data-driven infrastructure management; 2) Economic input-output
methods for environmental life-cycle analysis; 3) Integration of Bayesian methods
in optimal decision-making frameworks, and 4) Decision support tools for Watershed
Best Management Practices (BMPs).
Professor Harrison works closely with two PhD students (Isaac Amponsah and Wang
Hui). Isaac Amponsah conducts research on environmental life-cycle analysis of newly
proposed technologies for civil infrastructure. Wang Hui is researching the application
of Bayesian methods for contaminant source identification in water distribution
systems.
Education
- Ph.D., Environmental Engineering (Civil), North Carolina State University, 2002
- M.S., Environmental Engineering (Civil), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
1991
- B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990
Research
- Specialization: Environmental
and Water Resources Systems Engineering and Policy-Making
- Research interests: Mathematical
modeling and optimization, decision support systems, uncertainty analysis, decision-making
under uncertainty, life-cycle analysis
Selected Publications
- Amponsah, I., Harrison, K.W., Rizos, D., and Ziehl, P. H. “Estimating Net Changes
in Life-Cycle Emissions from Adoption of Emerging Civil Infrastructure Technologies”,
Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, vol. 58, pp. 55-64. 2008.
- Harrison, K.W. “Two-Stage Decision-Making under Uncertainty and Stochasticity: Bayesian
Programming.” Advances in Water Resources, vol. 30, no. 3. p. 641-664. 2007.
- Harrison, K.W. “Test Application of Bayesian Programming: Adaptive Water Quality
Management Under Uncertainty.” Advances in Water Resources, vol. 30, no. 3. p. 606-622.
2007.
- Harrison, K. W., R D. Dumas, E. Solano, M.A. Barlaz, E. D. Brill Jr., and S. Ranjithan.
“A Decision Support Tool for Life-Cycle-Based Solid Waste Management.” Journal of
Computing in Civil Engineering. vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 44-58. 2001.
- Burtraw, D., K.W. Harrison and P. Turner. “Improving Efficiency in Bilateral Emission
Trading.” Environmental and Resource Economics. vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 19-33. 1998.
- Krupnick, A., K. Harrison and M. Toman. “The Value of Health Benefits from Ambient
Air Quality Improvements in Central and Eastern Europe.” Environmental and Resource
Economics. vol. 7, no. 4, p. 307-332. 1996.
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