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Chris Newton - Research Engineer
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M.S., Chemical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, August 2005
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, December 2002


Research Engineer, CSUS Office of Water Programs, 2006 – present

  • Project Coordinator for litter removal devices and various stormwater BMPs

Research Engineer, Electrochemical Design Associates, Berkeley, 2000 – 2001, 2003

  • Project Manager for the rapid development of a novel bi-polar lead acid battery
  • Developed new sol-gel processes for electrode formation
  • Design of novel bi-polar plating techniques

Student Research Engineer, Silver Space Science Laboratory, Berkeley, 2001-2002

  • Design of acid etching experiments used to investigate the properties of novel microchannel plates
  • Development of analytical techniques capable of detecting rubidium and cesium at low concentrations in acidic solution
Professional Interests: Stormwater runoff modeling, alternative energy research, applied mathematics.