Michael Waring, PhD will begin the 2015 fall term as a newly appointed tenured Associate Professor, effective September 1st, 2015. Waring’s teaching, research, and leadership have been invaluable to the Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Department and to the Architectural and Environmental Engineering Programs.
Waring’s research investigates indoor air and environmental quality specifically as it pertains to indoor chemistry and aerosol formation and mitigation practices; low energy, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)-enhancing sustainable ventilation strategies for buildings; and indoor microbial community response to environmental stimuli.
He has received significant research awards such as a National Science Foundation CAREER Award titled “Time and Size Resolved Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosol in Indoor Air”; The American Society for Heating, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) New Investigator Award; The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania GRID Award: “Using Biowalls to Sustainably Reduce Human Exposure to Indoor Volatile Organic Compounds”; the Sloan Foundation funded project: “Microbial community response to water damage in residential buildings”; and was a Co-PI for the Department of Energy award for Drexel’s participation with the Energy Efficient Building Hub at the Naval Yard in Philadelphia. The objective of Waring’s most recent NSF award titled “Intelligent Multi-Criteria Building Ventilation Control within Dynamic Urban Environments," is to develop and evaluate ventilation strategies that move beyond the current minimum ventilation rate standards to improve IAQ and identify the next-generation of ventilation strategies for high performance green buildings.
In addition to Waring’s research and publication efforts, he has helped navigate the success of the Architectural Engineering Program. He assisted with the creation of the CAEE Department’s new Architectural Engineering MS and PhD degrees as well as the new undergraduate Digital Building concentration. Waring sits on numerous committees within the Department that focus on undergraduate and graduate student curriculum development, new faculty hiring, as well as steering committees intended to guide the future of the Department in an innovative and efficacious direction. He is also the Research Chair of ASHRAE’s Technical Committee 2.4 on indoor aerosol filtration and control. He teaches many undergraduate and graduate level courses in Architectural, Environmental, and Civil engineering and has served as a senior design advisor for several multi-disciplinary projects.