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Margaret Busse

Assistant Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • Mechanical Engineering

327 Reber Building

mmbusse@psu.edu

814-865-2761

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Education

  • Bachelor of Science, Biological Engineering, Purdue University, 2013
  • Master of Science in Engineering, Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 2016
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 2021

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Kushal Seth, Margaret Busse, Gyoung Jang, Sanket Joag, Kyungho Kim, Thomas Pankratz, Divyansh Sahu, Ramesh Sharma, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Costas Tsouris and Shankararaman Chellam, 2023, "Electrocoagulation of high-salinity produced water: lessons learned from its early applications in unconventional reservoir plays", Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, 42
  • Margaret M Busse, Jason K Hawes and Ernest R Blatchley III, 2022, "Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Direct and Indirect Solar Water Disinfection Processes for Application in Low-income Settings", Environmental Science & Technology
  • Margaret M Busse, Matouš Becker, Bruce M Applegate, Joseph W Camp and Ernest R Blatchley III, 2019, "Responses of Salmonella typhimurium LT2, Vibrio harveyi, and Cryptosporidium parvum to UVB and UVA radiation", Chemical Engineering Journal, 371, pp. 10
  • Melissa Brindise, Margaret Busse and Pavlos Vlachos, 2018, "Density- and viscosity-matched Newtonian and non-Newtonian blood-analog solutions with PDMS refractive index", Experiments in Fluids, 59, (11)
  • Albert Alwang, Margaret Busse, Audrey Caprio, Marieke Fenton, Jason Hawes, Andrew Kanach and Autumn Mcelfresh-Sutton, 2017, "Water Supply in Developing Countries: Student Experiences in the Dominican Republic", Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement, 4, (1), pp. 7

Conference Proceedings

  • Margaret Busse, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Mary Kay Camarillo, Dev Millstein, Margaret Slattery, Michael McKibben, Patrick Dobson and William Stringfellow, , "Environmental Impact Assessment of Lithium Recovery from Geothermal Brines in the SS-KGRA: An Overview", Geothermal Rising Conference

Other

  • Patrick Dobson, Naod Araya, Maryjo Brounce, Margaret Busse, Mary Kay Camarillo, Lauren English, Jennifer Humphreys, Boriana Kalderon-Asael, Michael A. McKibben, Dev Millstein, Nori Nakata, John O’Sullivan, Noah Planavsky, Joris Popineau, Theo Renaud, Jérémy Riffault, Margaret Slattery, Eric Sonnenthal, Nicolas Spycher, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, William T. Stringfellow and Malcolm C.A. White, 2023, "Characterizing the Geothermal Lithium Resource at the Salton Sea", pp. 350
  • Joseph Sinfield, Romika Kotian and Margaret Busse, 2019, "Application of Comprehensive Issue Analysis to Inform Development Research in East Africa, Part 1: Basic Education (BE), Maternal/Child Healthcare (MCH)"
  • Joseph Sinfield, Romika Kotian and Margaret Busse, 2019, "Application of Comprehensive Issue Analysis to Inform Development Research in East Africa, Part 2: Food Security (FS); Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH)"

Research Projects

Honors and Awards

Service

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About

With more than 60 faculty members, 330 graduate students, and 1,000 undergraduate students, the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering embraces a culture that welcomes individuals with a diversity of backgrounds and expertise. Our faculty and students are innovating today what will impact tomorrow’s solutions to meeting our energy needs, homeland security, biomedical devices, and transportation systems. We offer B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering as well as resident (M.S., Ph.D.) and online (M.S.) graduate degrees in mechanical engineering. See how we’re inspiring change and impacting tomorrow at me.psu.edu.

Department of Mechanical Engineering

137 Reber Building

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802-4400

Phone: 814-865-2519