The William H. and Frances S. Ryan Award
for Meritorious Teaching

2009 Ryan Award Recipient

Cliff I. Davidson

Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy

Cliff Davidson received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering Science from California Institute of Technology. He returned to Carnegie Mellon in 1977 and has been on the faculty in the Departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy since then. His main interests are air quality modeling and measurement, engineering education and the role of engineers in shifting society toward more sustainable lifestyles. He took a sabbatical in 1997 – 1998 academic year to serve as the Jubilee Professor of Environmental Science at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. He served as President of the American Association for Aerosol Research during 1999 – 2000. He has written and edited several books, and has over 100 refereed journal publications.  He is also the Founding Director of the Center for Sustainable Engineering at Carnegie Mellon.