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The Michael Overcash Papers contain materials, 1928-2007, documenting Overcash's career as a North Carolina State University faculty member in chemical, biological and agricultural engineering, who studied industrial pollution prevention, waste minimization, life cycle inventory research, and sustainability. Included are reports, research files, computer data and disks, correspondence, and field studies. Also included are scientific literature, catalogs, journals, laboratory notebooks, and published papers.
Michael R. Overcash was assistant professor, 1972-1976, and associate professor, 1976-1981, of chemical engineering and biological and agricultural enginnering, and professor, 1981-2007, of chemical engineering at North Carolina State University. Since 2007, Overcash has been a vsiting scholar in industrial and manufaturing engineering at Wichita State University. Overcash has developed an in-depth national research program in two distinctive areas--life cycle inventory research and sustainability research. He has published books on techniques for industrial pollution prevention, organics in municipal sludge land treatment systems, livestock waste management systems, and related subjects.
Michael R. Overcash was assistant professor, 1972-1976, and associate professor, 1976-1981, of chemical engineering and biological and agricultural enginnering, and professor, 1981-2007, of chemical engineering at North Carolina State University. Since 2007, Overcash has been a vsiting scholar in industrial and manufaturing engineering at Wichita State University. Overcash has developed an in-depth national research program in two distinctive areas, life cycle inventory research and sustainability research. He has published books on techniques for industrial pollution prevention, organics in municipal sludge land treatment systems, livestock waste management systems, and related subjects.
Michael R. Overcash was born on July 17, 1944. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1966, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering while on a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of New South Wales in 1967, and then a Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from University of Minnesota in 1972.
In 1971-1972, Overcash was appointed to the faculty of North Carolina State University as a joint appointment with the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department. He was promoted to full professor at NC State University in 1981 and remained at NC State until 2007. Dr. Overcash's father, Ray Leonard Overcash, also worked in the Chemical Engineering Department at North Carolina State College (later University) and was appointed instructor in 1942.
In 1990-1991, Overcash won the Lawrence K. Cecil Award of the AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers), for achievements in waste minimization research. He has also received the Young Researcher Award from the American Society of Agricultural Engineers in 1984, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Distinguished Visiting Scientist Award in 1986, and the National Wastewater Management Excellence Award from EPA in 1990.
Overcash was the first professor to move into the new home of chemical and biomolecular engineering on North Carolina State University's Centennial Campus, Engineering Building I, on November 12, 2004.
The Michael Overcash Papers contain materials, 1928-2007, documenting Overcash's career as a North Carolina State University faculty member in chemical, biological and agricultural engineering, who studied industrial pollution prevention, waste minimization, life cycle inventory research, and sustainability. Included are ncluding reports, research files, computer data and disks, correspondence, and field studies. Also included are scientific literature, catalogs, journals, laboratory notebooks, and published papers.
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[Identification of item], Michael R. Overcash Papers, MC 00254, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Gift from Michael R. Overcash, 2010 (Accession no. 2010-0039).
Initial processing completed by Judy Allen Dodson, 2010 June; Final finding aid created by Bennett Chapman, 2016 December.
The collection is organized into eight principal series:
Collection is open for research; access requires at least 48 hours advance notice.
Collection is open for research; access requires at least 48 hours advance notice. Because of the nature of certain archival formats, including digital and audio-visual materials, access will require additional advanced notice. Copies of digital files will be provided for use in the SCRC Reading Room upon request.
Two folders containing material related to student work have restricted access.
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[Identification of item], Michael R. Overcash Papers, MC 00254, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.