People/AwardsKen Hackett retired in November 2015 as wastewater treatment operations manager for the Town of Mansfield, Massachusetts. He worked for the town for 30 years.Michigan Technological University researchers Jennifer Becker and Eric Seagren received a $37,000 award from the Water Environment Research Federation for their project “High-Tech Analysis of Low-Tech Methods for Sustainable Class A Biosolids Production.” Becker, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Seagren, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, will lead a team to establish a pilot-scale field test at the Portage Lake Water and Sewer Authority in Houghton, Michigan.The American Public Works Association
