Frey Wins Educator Award

Dr. H. Christopher Frey, a professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, has won a national environmental education award for teaching with “rigor, humor, humility and pride.”

Frey will accept the Lyman A. Ripperton Environmental Educator Award from the Air and Waste Management Association in June. The award, based primarily on students’ achievements, is given annually to an influential educator in an air pollution control field.

Frey has made significant research and teaching contributions in air pollution emissions, exposure and risk assessment, and systems analysis of energy technologies. His classes include Air Quality, Principles of Air Quality Engineering, and Environmental Exposure and Risk Analysis. He serves on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and on the National Research Council’s Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology.

Frey joined the NC State faculty in 1994. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia. He earned both a master’s in mechanical engineering and a doctorate in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University.