This seminar was given on March 2, 2010 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series, sponsored by IHS-CERA. - About the Speaker - Bruce Logan is the Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering at Penn State University, and Director of the Engineering Energy & Environmental Institute. He has published over 240 journal papers and several books, including one on microbial fuel cells, and works in a variety of research areas including bioenergy production, bioremediation, environmental transport processes, colloidal dynamics, and microbial adhesion. Dr. Logan was recently awarded the Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize for his research to develop an energy sustainable water infrastructure. He is a visiting professor at Newcastle University in England, Harbin Institute of Technology and Dalian University of Technology in China, and an Investigator with the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia.