Summary of Outcomes from a Scientific Village Learning Community Implementation

Abstract

is an avid teacher who believes everybody can learn, so far as they approach it with discipline and dedication.A trained engineer in the fields of chemical [Universidad de Oriente, Cuba] and environmental engineering [University of South Carolina, Columbia], Samuel is interested and focuses on Waste-to-Wealth Initiatives, where waste is reused or converted into usable resources through hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) of waste biomass, thus, creating a sustainable environment, and the remediation of contaminated systems via Advance Oxidation Processes such as photocatalysis.His current research is on the conversion of waste biomass into nanocomposites for environmental and industrial applications. Samuel has been with Benedict College since the Fall Semester of 2004 and teaches both Environmental Science and Engineering courses