Water Resources and Environmental Engineering

Faculty

• Sankar Arumugam (Ph.D. Tufts University), Assistant Professor
  Modeling and forecasting hydrological fluxes at large spatial scales based on land surface and climatic indices, water resources planning and analysis, integrated water management and environmental assessment in developing countries management and environmental assessment in developing countries
  
  
• Morton A. Barlaz, Professor and Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs
  Solid waste management, decomposition in landfills, anaerobic microbiology, biological processes. Teaches: Chemical Principles of Environmental Engineering, Solid Waste Management

• Robert C. Borden, Professor
  Groundwater contamination and remediation, stormwater quality management. Teaches: Groundwater Contaminant Transport, Hydrology and Urban Water Systems, Senior Design Project in Environmental Engineering

• E. Downey Brill Jr., Professor
  Environmental systems analysis, modeling, optimization. Teaches: Modeling and Analysis of Environmental Systems, Water Management Systems Analysis

• Allan C. Chao, Associate Professor
  Unit operations and processes of water and waste treatment. Teaches: Basic Civil Engineering Mechanics, Water and Waste Engineering, Hazardous Waste Management and Treatment

• Francis L. de los Reyes III, Assistant Professor
  Biological wastewater treatment, environmental microbiology, molecular techniques in microbial ecology, biological process engineering

• Joel J. Ducoste, Associate Professor
  Water/wastewater treatment, solid/liquid separation, chemical mixing, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling. Teaches: Physical Principles in Environmental Engineering, Principles of Environmental Engineering

• John S. Fisher, Professor
  Coastal engineering and sediment transport. Teaches: Hydraulics, Coastal Engineering

• H. Christopher Frey, Professor
  Air pollution control, energy and environmental systems, process modeling, exposure assessment, uncertainty analysis. Teaches: Air Pollution Control, Air Quality Engineering, Quantitative Risk Assessment

• Mohammed (Mo) A. Gabr, Professor
  Geoenvironmental engineering, geosynthetics, waste containment and confinement, physicochemical phenomena of soils

• Detlef R. U. Knappe, Associate Professor
  Environmental engineering, drinking water treatment, physicochemical processes, activated carbon adsorption. Teaches: Theory of Water and Waste Treatment, Advanced Water and Waste Treatment, Water Supply and Waste Water Systems

• Sarah K. Liehr, Research Assistant Professor (Biological and Agricultural Engineering Dept.)

• Richard A. Luettich Jr., Associate Professor of Marine Sciences and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC Chapel Hill; Adjunct Appointment in Civil Engineering, NCSU

• G. (Kumar) Mahinthakumar, Assistant Professor
  Computer-aided engineering, high performance computing, parallel processing

• H. Rooney Malcom, Professor Emeritus
  Water resources, civil engineering design. Teaches: Urban Stormwater Management, Engineering Hydrology

• Margery F. Overton, Professor
  Coastal processes, coastal geomorphology, shoreline change modeling, beach and dune erosion. Teaches: Pollutant Transport

• S. Ranji Ranjithan, Associate Professor
  Environmental engineering / systems analysis. Teaches: Civil and Environmental Systems Analysis, Engineering Hydraulics

• Donald R. van der Vaart, Adjunct Assistant Professor
  Teaches: Air Pollution Control, Air Quality Engineering