Cindy McComas

Cindy McComas
Adjunct Associate Professor
[email protected]
+1 651 231 2868
Kaufert Laboratory

2004 Folwell Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
United States

Education
  • M.S. Environmental Sciences, 1980, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
  • B.S. Environmental Sciences, 1978, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
  • M.S. Civil Engineering, 1991, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
External Affiliations

She is a lifetime member of the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (NPPR) since 1985, and has served on the Board of Directors, the Membership Committee, and the NPPR Research, Technology, and Energy Workgroup. In addition to membership in the Minnesota Wastewater Operators Association, she has been involved with the Air and Waste Management Association since 1980 as Upper Midwest Section Past Chair, Membership Chair, and faculty contact for the U of M student group.

Areas of Interest

Sustainable business practices, pollution prevention, energy efficiency, water conservation, renewable energy, and industrial energy efficiency

Biography

Cindy McComas is a an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Cindy served as Director of the Minnesota Technical Assistance Program (MnTAP) at the University of Minnesota from 1985 through 2010 which provides pollution prevention and energy efficiency technical assistance to Minnesota industry.

She also served as co-project manager for the Safer Chemistry Challenge Program, a program of the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable, and a researcher for the Institute on the Environment’s NorthStar Initiative for Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Minnesota, focusing on a project to increase business investments in industrial energy efficiency.

During 1980-1984, Ms. McComas worked as a program manager with the Gas Research Institute in Chicago on technologies to convert biomass and wastes to methane.

Teaching

  • SSM 4407W/5407 Sustainable Manufacturing
  • SSM 1004 SSM Orientation