Faculty
Mel Anderson, Ph.D., P.E. (Carnegie-Mellon University), Professor Emeritus. Hydraulics;
water resources; system analysis; fluid mechanics.
Robert Carnahan, Ph.D., P.E. (Clemson University), Retired Professor.
Biological, physical, and chemical treatment of wastewater; recycling and reuse of industrial waste;
desalination.
Jeff Cunningham, Ph.D. (Stanford University), Assistant Professor. Contaminant
fate and transport in the environment; physical, chemical and biological processes for water
treatment; water resources and water re-use; remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater.
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(University of Michigan) Professor-Retired. Environmental
engineering; environmental quality planning and management; water pollution control; water supply engineering;
solid and hazardous waste management; industrial waste management; public works administration and environmental
health and sanitation.
Stanley Kranc, Ph.D., P.E. (Northwestern University), Professor. Experimental and theoretical
fluid mechanics; numerical analysis; corrosion of reinforcing steel in concrete; magnetofluidmechanics
and electrohydrodynamics; transport processes; multiphase flow and heat transfer; chemically reacting
flow and combustion; physics of high temperature gases.
Mahmood Nachabe, Ph.D., P.E. (Colorado State University), Associate Professor. Subsurface
hydrology; fate and transport of chemicals in the vadose zone; stochastic hydrology; uncertainty in
distributed models.
Noreen Poor, Ph.D., P.E. (Virginia Tech), Associate Professor. Associate Professor. Air quality,
air pollution control and atmospheric chemistry; fate and transport of biologically-available atmospheric
nitrogen, metals, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
Mark Ross, Ph.D., P.E. (University of Florida), Associate Professor. Water resources; hydrologic,
hydraulic, and water quality modeling; surface and groundwater interaction, GIS applications in hydrology;
lake and estuary water quality management; estuary sediment dynamics.
Peter Stroot, Ph.D. (University of Cincinnati), Assistant Professor. Use of traditional engineering
design, microbiology, and molecular biology to develop low-cost bioreactors. Development of molecular biology
based methods for measuring the specific growth rate of distinct microbial populations in bioreactors.
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Amy Stuart, Ph.D. (Stanford University), Assistant Professor. Transport and transformation of
pollutants in the atmospheric environment; environmental computational modeling; human exposures to air
pollutants.
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Andres Tejada-Martinez, Ph.D.
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Assistant Professor. Finite element methods for fluids, Subgrid-scale
parameterizations for large-eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent flows, Novel LES methodologies, Numerical
simulations of turbulence in the ocean and integration with field observations.
Maya Trotz, Ph.D. (Stanford University), Assistant Professor. A pplication of chemical principles
to the study and manipulation of pollutant behavior (e.g. arsenic) in natural aquatic systems and in
engineered processes.
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Daniel Yeh, Ph.D., P.E. (Georgia Institute of Technology), Assistant Professor. Membrane and
biological processes for water purification and wastewater reclamation, industrial wastes minimization,
and the remediation of contaminated soils and sediments; sustainable energy sources and processes;
ecological engineering.
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