Francis J. Hopcroft, has been teaching civil and environmental engineering at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA, since January of 1994. He has written several books on various topics such as hazardous waste management, wastewater treatment, and engineering economics. He has served as the collection editor for the environmental engineering collection at Momentum Press since 2013, and has published or reviewed dozens of professional papers, articles, and presentations. Dr Ugur Akinci has worked since 1998 as a senior technical writer for Fortune 100 corporations like ADP, Fannie Mae, and Honeywell. His career includes working as a senior English-Turkish translator for NATO and serving as the Washington Bureau Chief of the English-language daily Turkish Daily News. A graduate of University of Texas at Austin, Dr Akinci has received his MA and PhD in sociology from Brown University.