Bruce Ernest Logan is an American civil and environmental engineer who serves as the Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering and the

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University Professor in Engineering at

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(Penn State). He is also the director of Penn State's Engineering Energy and Environmental Institute and their Hydrogen Energy Center. His main research interest is in the development of

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technology, and his lab has developed devices that can produce electricity from

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. He is also known for his work developing

microbial fuel cell Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a type of bioelectrochemical fuel cell system also known as micro fuel cell that generates electric current by diverting electrons produced from the microbial oxidation of reduced compounds (also known as fuel or ele ...

s. Since 2013, he has been the

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of ''

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'', and a fellow of the

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. He is also an elected member of the

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(2013) for microbial electrochemical technologies for wastewater treatment and sustainable energy generation.

References

External links

Logan Lab Page
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'' Living people Pennsylvania State University faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering American civil engineers Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni American academic journal editors American environmental engineers Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors {{US-engineer-stub