Please join us for lunch with Dr. Joel Ducoste, Professor in the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department and the Associate Dean for Faculty Advancement at North Carolina State University. Dr. Ducoste will engage in conversation over lunch about people of color in STEM. What are the opportunities? What are the visible and invisible barriers and hurdles? What are some good strategies for leveling the playing field in the ever-expanding and influential STEM industries?
Space is limited, please RSVP below.
After this event, Dr. Ducoste will speak as part of the Thinking Out Loud Lecture Series. For more information on that event, including registration details, please visit this link.
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About the Speaker
Dr. Joel Ducoste is a Professor in the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department and the Associate Dean for Faculty Advancement at North Carolina State University. He holds a B.S. (1988) and M.Eng. (1989) in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (1996) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a board-certified environmental engineering member through eminence with the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AAEES). Dr. Ducoste is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in modeling water and wastewater treatment processes using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). His research interests include physico-chemical processes in water treatment, computational fluid dynamics modeling, solid/liquid separation processes, chemical and UV disinfection, advance oxidation, water/wastewater process optimization, wastewater sewer collection system sustainability, biofuels production from microalgae, energy recovery from wastewater, plant biosystems engineering, and solid waste systems modeling. Dr. Ducoste has received a number of awards including: an NSF Career Award, a Fulbright fellowship, Visiting Professorships at Ghent University, South East University, and Yangzhou University, NC State mentoring awards, elected Fellow of the Water Environment Federation (WEF), and the Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator Medal. He has served on EPA Science Advisory Boards (2009-2018) and the EPA Board of Scientific Counselors Safe and Sustainable Water Resources committee (2018-2022). He was also the 2020-2021 President of the Association of the Environmental Engineering and Science Professors. Dr. Ducoste spent over 5 years in industry at CH2M Hill as a senior process engineer and as an advance-manufacturing engineer at GE Aircraft Engines.