Author: Sadyrbek Djighitekov( Садырбек Джигитеков)
Title: НАШЕ ПРОШЛОЕ, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ, БУДУЩЕЕ ( OUR PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
Born: 22 December, 1950
Dates: 22 December, 2008
Bio: EDUCATION

Certificate, Higher School of Managers, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1991, Manager on     
Economics.
Ph.D (Technology), Water supply, Sewerage, Hydro technical Buildings and Engineering Hydro Geology of the All-Union Research Institute, Moscow, 1985, Candidate of Technical Sciences.
Title of Thesis: Increasing of the Desalination Effectiveness in the Straightforward Electro dialysis Apparatus of Big Productivity.
Diploma, Frunze Polytechnic Institute, Bishkek (Frunze), Kyrgyz SSR, 1973, 
Water Supply and Sewerage, Certificate of Engineer-builder.

                                           WORK  EXPERIENCE
 
06.2002 – present   -    Independent Scientist, Dayton, OH, USA, 
Field of scientific interest: Water treatment research, as a result 
it was devised the New Calculation Method for Settling Basins 
Design on basis Alternative Sedimentation Theory.
09.1992 - 03.2002  -   Associate Professor of the “Dastan" and 
International Universities of Kyrgyzstan. Themes of lecture: 
Contemporary Water Treatment: Desalination Methods and 
Sedimentation Basins.         
09. 1989 - 09.1992 -   Deputy Director of the Ecological Center 
of the Kyrgyz Republic Environmental Protection Committee.
03.1984 - 09.1989 - Senior Lecturer, Water Supply and Sewerage
 Department, Frunze Polytechnic Institute, Frunze. Lectures: Water 
Supply and Distribution, Water Treatment  Methods, Water and 
Sewerage Pump Stations.
05.1978 - 12.1980	Senior Engineer, Information and Calculation 
Center, Kyrgyz SSR Ministry of Construction, Frunze. 
01.1975 - 05.1978	Desalination Engineer of Frunze Antibiotic’s Plant,  Bishkek.
08.1973 - 12.1974	Construction - Engineer of Water Supply Enterprise, 
the Kyrgyz SSR Ministry of Water Economy, Jalal-Abad. 
                                                                                                                                                                      
           PROFESSIONAL HONORS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Visiting Scholar (April 22-May 23, 2002) - Awarded Short-Term Grant 
for research project: The Trans Boundary Rivers International Policy. 
Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Centre for Scholars, Washington D.C.
Small Grant’s Winner (February-June, 2001) - Awarded by the USA 
Civic Education Project to prepare a course: Environmental Security and 
Management. International University of Kyrgyz tan, Bishkek.
Travel Grant’s Winner (December 11-18, 1999) - Awarded by the USA 
Civilian Research and Development Foundation to meetings with Water 
Supply and Water Treatment business officials of Manassas, VA; Kansas 
City, KS; Santa Fe, NM.
Visiting Scholar (January 28 – September 30, 1996), - Awarded by selection
panel of USIA and IREX to conduct independent research in the USA, University 
of Washington, Seattle,WA
State Scholarship (1980-1983), Water supply, Sewerage, Hydro technical 
Buildings and Engineering Hydro Geology of the All-Union Research Institute, 
Moscow, Awarded by Government of the USSR for during Candidate thesis work
             
                PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

             Member of the Kyrgyz Republic Engineering Academy

                                 OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Salzburg, Austria, November 14-21, 2001, Seminar Session 393: 
Environment,  Energy and Economics in Asia, sponsored by Salzburg  Seminar. 
Boise, Idaho, USA, April 2-7, 2001, NATO Advanced Research Workshop: 
New Paradigms in River and Estuarine Management, sponsored by NATO Program. 
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, June 5-7, 2000, International research conference: the 
Aral Sea Basin Water Resources Management Problems, sponsored by International 
Research &Exchange Board(IREX) Program, USA.
Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, February 11-12, 1999, International Conference: 
National Program of the Kyrgyz Republic “Drinking Water”.
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, May 17-21, 1999, Civilian Research and Development 
Foundation’s (CRDF) Technology Development and Marketing Workshop, 
sponsored by CRDF, USA.    
Shymkent, Kazakhstan, April 2-4, 1997, International Scientific Conference 
in the framework of the Central Asian Forum Program, sponsored by 
Soros-Kyrgyzstan Foundation.
Warsaw, Poland, December 10-17, 1996, Economic Seminar: The Transition 
Process from a Centrally Planned to a Market Economy, Program, sponsored 
by Soros-Kyrgyzstan Foundation.
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, November 22-23, 1996, USA Alumni Seminar, 
sponsored by IREX.

Two books, more than 150 articles are written by Dr. Sadyrbek Djighitekov  
in English, Russian, and Kyrgyz. 

P.S.:   Sadyrbek Djighitekov, Ph.D is a well known scientist in the field of 
Water and Waste Water Treatment. He developed Alternative Sedimentation 
Theory for Settling Tanks Design. That theory published in the book: 
" TEXНОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ОСНОВЫ РАСЧЁТА ОТСТОЙНИКОВ" (SETTLING 
TANKS TECHNOLOGICAL CALCULATION PRINCIPLES). The book is written 
in Russian and was published in 1991. 
Except, Dr. S. Djighitekov is a well known political writer too. He was contributed 
in  Kyrgyzstan opposition weekly "ResPublica" (1992 - 2001) ; the USA political 
magazine Jamestown Foundation.Prism(1997 - 2002); Radio Free Europe/Radio 
Liberty in Kyrgyzstan - "Azattyk" (1998 - 2000) as a freelance journalist.
Above books: "НАШЕ ПРОШЛОЕ, НАСТОЯЩЕЕ, БУДУЩЕЕ" and 
"TEXНОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ОСНОВЫ РАСЧЁТА ОТСТОЙНИКОВ" are located in 
the USA Library of Congress since 1996 (Russian Department). Anybody who is 
interested more information about Dr. Sadyrbek Djighitekov can write his name 
in www.google.com