James C. Rock

Senior Lecturer, Industrial Hygiene
Director, Texas Occupational Health and Safety Institute, Texas Engineering Experiment Station

Date of Appointment: 1992
Office: 58H Zachry Engineering Center
Phone: 979/862-4409
Fax: 979/845-6443
E-mail: j-rock@tamu.edu

Mailing Address: Texas A&M University
Department of Nuclear Engineering
3133 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3133

Education
Ph.D., Biomedical Electronics, Ohio State University, 1972
M.S., Biomedical Electronics, Ohio State University, 1967
B.S., Electronic Engineering, Syracuse University, 1965

Courses
SENG 310, Industrial Hygiene Engineering
SENG 683, Evaluation & Control of the Occupational Environment
SENG 687, Industrial Ventilation

Areas of Interest
Occupational exposure assessment
Industrial ventilation
Acoustics and noise control
Non-ionizing radiation
Hazardous material transportation
Material substitution

Curriculum Vita

Publications

L.L. Smith, J.P. Wagner and J.C. Rock: Smoke and Toxic Species Analyses from Controlled Combustion of Wood Impregnated with Guayule Resin. Polym.-Plast. Technol. Eng., 35(6), 877-904 (1996).

J. C. Rock and S. Anderson: Design Principles for Self-amortizing Variable-air-volume Integrated Lab Ventilation and Fume Hood Systems. Appl. Occup. Environ. Hyg., 11(10): 1226-1232 (1996).

J. C. Rock and S. Anderson: Benefits of Designing for Ventilation Diversity in a Large Industrial Research Laboratory ñ A Case Study. Appl. Occup. Environ. Hyg., 11(10): 1233- 1237 (1996).

J. C. Rock: Occupational Air Sampling Strategies: Chapter 2 in Air Sampling Instruments, 8th edition. B.S. Cohen and S.V. Herring, ed. ACGIH, Cincinnati OH (1995).

N. Hawkins, S. Norwood and J. C. Rock: A Strategy for Occupational Exposure Assessment, American Industrial Hygiene Association, Akron OH (1991).