• Ph.D. in Soil Science (Agronomy) from Ohio State University in March of 1969
• M.S. in Soil Science (Pedology) from the University of Arkansas in June of 1963
• B.S. degree in Agronomy (Pedology) from Tennessee Technological University in March of 1958

• After recieving his Ph.D., he returned to the University of Arkansas as an Assistant Professor in 1968. In 1973 he was promoted to Associate Professor and in 1977 to Professor, the rank he currently holds.
• From July 1962 to November 1968, he worked as an Assistant in Agronomy for the Agronomy Department of Ohio State University. 
  While pursuing his M.S., he worked as a Research Assistant in the Agronomy Department at the University of Arkansas from July 1958 to June 1962.
• Soil Scientist Trainee with the Soil Conservation Service in Sumerville, TN from May to September 1957, and as a Soil Scientist in Cookeville, TN from March to June 1958, also with the SCS.

• ENSC 400 -- SEPTIC SYSTEMS
  This class is taught as one of several topics which are offered under ENSC 400V. Special Problems. Therefore, there is no catalog description. 

• CSES 4253 -- SOIL CLASSIFICATION AND GENESIS
  Lecture and field evaluation of soil properties and their relation to soil genesis and soil classification with emphasis on soils of Arkansas.  

Soil genesis fieldtrip around Arkansas

Dr. Rutledge's areas of research interest are:

• The suitability of soils for various uses, especially for the treatment of wastes by septic systems
• Loess deposits as soil parent materials
• The genesis and classification of soils
• The composition and interpretation of soil map units.

• Jones, L.A., E.M. Rutledge, H.D. Scott, D.C. Wolf, and B.J. Teppen. 1993. Effects of two earthworm species on movement of septic tank effluent through soil columns. J. Environ. Qual. 22:52-57.

• Rutledge, E.M., B.J. Teppen, C.R. Mote, and D.C. Wolf. 1993. Designing septic tank filter fields based on effluent storage during climatic stress. J. Environ. Qual. 22:46-51.

• Rutledge, E.M., M.J. Guccione, H.W. Markewich, D.A. Wysocki, and L.B. Ward. Loess stratigraphy of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Engineering Geology (in review).

• West, L.T., and E.M. Rutledge. 1994. Micromorphological evaluation of loess deposits and paleosols on Crowley'd Ridge, Arkansas, U.S.A. In A.J. Ringrose-Voase and G.S. Humphreys (Editors), Soil Micromorphology: Studies in Management and Genesis. Proceedings IX International Working Meeting on Soil Micromorphology, Townsville, Australia, July, 1992. Developments in Soil Science II, Elsevier, Amsterdam. pp. 265-276.