Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Florida International University (FIU), 10555 West Flagler Street, Miami, Florida tangz@fiu.edu Telephone: 305-348-3046 Fax: 305-348-2802Experience
08/01-present Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
09/09-05/10 Fulbright Fellow, Fulbright award from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, The Fulbright lectureship supported one academic year teaching at Tallinn Technology University in Estonia.
01/06-05/06 Associate Director, Applied Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
06/08-08/08 Visiting Faculty, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
06/05-08/05 Visiting Professor, Department of Urban and Civil Engineering, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China.
06/04-08/04 Research Fellow, sponsored by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) from and hosted by the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
12/92-08/01 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
08/91-12/92 Visiting Instructor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,FloridaInternationalUniversity,Miami,Florida.
Education
PhD Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, 1993
MS Environmental Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, 1988
MS Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1986
BS Sanitary Engineering, Chongqing Jianzhu University, Chongqing, China, 1983
Area of Specialization
- Physico-chemical treatment processes
- Advanced oxidation processes
- Environmental applications of aquatic, organic, catalytic, and colloidal chemistry
- Environmental Molecular Structure and Activity Relationship
- Environmental impact assessment