Dr. Joel Ducoste

Dr. Joel Ducoste is the Associate Dean for Faculty Advancement in the College of Engineering and Professor in the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department at North Carolina State University (NCSU).  He has over 25 years of Environmental Engineering experience. Dr. Ducoste is a board-certified environmental engineering member with the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists and is a recognized expert in modeling water and wastewater treatment processes using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).  His current research interests include physico-chemical processes in water treatment, computational fluid dynamics modeling, water/wastewater process optimization, wastewater sewer collection system sustainability, renewable energy, plant biosystems engineering, solid waste process modeling, and disinfection of pathogenic aerosols. He is a respected researcher and productive scholar with over 170 peer reviewed publications and research reports. 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), Association of the Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Distinguished service award, and most recently the Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator Medal WEF. Dr. Ducoste serves on the Editorial Advisory Board Member, Journal of Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, RSC, North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Advisory Board, and participates as a fellow in the NC Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate program. 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 AEESP. Dr. Ducoste also spent 5 years in industry at CH2M Hill as a senior process engineer and as an advance-manufacturing engineer at GE Aircraft Engines.    

Currently: Associate Dean for Faculty Advancement in the College of Engineering and Professor in the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department at North Carolina State University (NCSU). 

Formerly: Assistant Dean, Graduate Student Advancement, College of Engineering North Carolina State University.

Education: (1) 1996 – Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,  (2) 1989 – Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, (3) 1988 – B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute